Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:
* Show my installed programs
* Search my local files
* Provide access to system settings
Here is a list of things I do *not* want the Start Menu to do:
* Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
* Show tabloid headlines
* Show programs I *don't* have installed
* Search the web via Bing
* Show adverts(!)
* Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM
Thanks.
I moved to Ubuntu the day Bill Gates decided my version of Windows needed to be upgraded. He chose to upgrade the very moment the webinar I was leading started, leading 30+ participants hanging there, wondering what was happening.
I have never regretted deciding that my laptop belongs to me and not to that multi-billionaire.
@NovaNaturalist I moved to Linux approaching three decades ago, back when it was *really* important you knew the refresh rates of your CRT monitor or you'd risk blowing the flyback transformer with a bad X config entry...
I don't miss Windows, but I also don't miss that!
Gareth Halfacree
@ NovaNaturalist HAS ALSO MOVED
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