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Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

  • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway

    Close but no cigar.

    While some people do take their tech-friend’s help, majority of people just buy PCs/laptops with Windows preinstalled. THAT is the reason people are just used to Windows.

    • IAmNotACat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      That doesn’t preclude what I said, though. When there is installing to be done, it’s usually the tech friend that’s called in to do it. I know this by virtue of being that person and having been called on to do it several times.

    • kuneho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      PCs/laptops with Windows preinstalled

      or even pay extra to install it, if the machine would have FreeDOS by default.