Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar
02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now
05:20 What’s the job of an OS?
06:51 Updates break systems. Often.
10:53 You have to adapt to it
15:14 It’s highly intrusive
17:44 Debloating tools don’t make it good
20:19 Windows fails at being an OS
21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect
27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS
Annoyingly, as of a couple of months ago I now have to use Win11 at work, and it really is fucking horrible compared to every other machine I use. And the version I’m using is corporate as fuck, so has very little of the bloatier shit.
It’s just so sluggish on the low spec hardware I have to use (a Dell desktop with 8gb RAM and an i3). I have Debian running on an older machine with the same specs which is SO MUCH faster in every way.
I used Macs for 20 years, so like to be able to click the mouse wheel to expose all windows. It’s a fiddle to set up in Linux, but works well once it’s set up. It’s also a fiddle to set up in Win11, but it also feels like it’s going to crash the machine every time I use it.
Similarly, I’m used to tapping the Win key, then immediately typing in the menu for the app I want. Every time I do it in Windows I end up dismissing the Start menu because I’ve begun typing too soon. Every. Time. I want to put the fucking thing through the window.
OH, and because it’s a bloated mess that can’t run on 8gb of RAM, it’s taken up 22gb of the 250gb SSD as a sysfile.
I fucking hate Windows.