My sister turned on her Windows 11 laptop that she bought a month ago and I got flashbacks to picrel.>packed full of update and security messages>advertising popups from autostarting bloatware programs>premium upgrade popups for Mcafee antivirus>sketchy preinstalled games and 'content recommendations'>random news notifications and algorithmic content feeds plastered on the taskbar>bing searchbar>obnoxious animated buttons to 'Try AI now!' on every screen>copilot buttons in every app>5 different preinstalled AI services uploading god knows what data in the background>fan spinning up and cpu throttling with no programs open>onedrive, dropbox, icloud, creative cloud and AI services all trying to sync her personal files at the same time and generating a ton of notificationsShe didn't see any problem until I told her that her photos were probably used to train AI. It felt like looking at a news website without adblock. How do normies live like this?
>>107000239i miss browser toolbars.did you know that they're just xml files with some javascript functonalities? the more you know.
>>107000239that's just the windows experiencethe people dumb enough to use windows don't seem to mind it
>>107000260Meh, once I switched to LTSC I stopped looking into linux.
>>107000291all comes down to where your standards are at
>>107000239>My sister
>>107000239Based Bonzi enjoyer. I love that guy.
>>107000239Why didn't you install Mint for her and avoid this situation entirely? >>107000260(You) >>107000305The only correct choice is all of the above.
>>107000291It's still bloated. LTSC is my daily driver but I'm using Linux more and more.
>>107000239>I got flashbacksquit microdosing
>>107000239And to think my 4th grade self was annoyed at seeing PC Optimizer Pro on the school's Windows XP Thinkpads in 2012...
>>107000260what in the Memphis hell
