Friend I convinced to switch to Linux (popos) is happy they made the switch.

They was so annoyed with windows and every update made it worse.

Then installed Linux and everything worked out of the box.

#SuccessStory #Linux

@kura true, true...

Had the same with everyone I migrated to #Linux ...

Stuff just works!!!

@kkarhan nowadays its very true. Wasnt so much a few years ago.

Now only the mindset of people needs to change. (it's not windows is bad - the worst mindset)

But ms did a lot for Linux on the desktop.

@kura Yeah, #Microsoft enshittified #Windows continously beginning with #WindowsVista.

And in fact I think that if people had to pay for that #Govware and weren't forced to pay a #MicrosoftTax aka. #OEM's margins for a #Preinstall they would not even think about using #Linux instead.

I'd rather help people and migrate their files for a small fee once than exploit #TechIlliterates that bought a dysfunctional crapware on a semiannual basis because Windows constantly breaks shite!

@kkarhan honestly I liked 7, 8.1 and 10. Though 10 had a lot of tracking by default
@kura XP was good. 7 should've been Vista, 8 was loved by people who hate #Windows's UI, like @fuchsiii and #Windows10 was just #Enshittification "lite" before #Windows11 forced #CensorBoot upon OEMs and basically doesn't even try to comply with #GDPR & #BDSG...

@kkarhan @kura

I never had any problem with Windows on a technical level. It's a perfectly fine system. Has its annoyances, but so does any other OS. What made me finally overcome my apathy and switch to Linux was the ever progressing #enshittification.

@Yeekasoose @kura How can anyone have never had technical issues with Windows???

@kkarhan @kura

I didn't say that. I've had plenty. I once spent weeks trying to set up three separate devices to work simultaneously through parallel ports. You whippersnappers won't remember those. But that was not the reason that made me switch. And I've had plenty of technical issues with Linux too.

@Yeekasoose @kura

Well, congrats it was just something that "legacy" and not like "I can't legally use
#Windows because #Microsoft refuses to comply with #GDPR & #BDSG!" or "#AlwaysOnlineDRM bricks #MicrosoftOffice!"
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But then again, some folks refuse to accept that switching to #Linux & @libreoffice is the only way to make #change happen...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999319383917957121.html

Thread by @frank_rieger: The number of network connections required to @Microsoft and @Skype servers, to get Word just to start, is now 31. You can no longer say "I…

Thread by @frank_rieger: The number of network connections required to @Microsoft and @Skype servers, to get Word just to start, is now 31. Yonger say "I don´t want to send diagnostic data", then Word just quits silently. (Please spare me the Open/LibreO…

@kkarhan @kura #windows enshitification is WAY older then that. For one, I still remember "Microsoft Network" in Windows 95.