@aral I use a Windows machine for the sole purpose of gaming, so I don’t have to get any real work done with that OS but I can “enjoy” the continued enshittification from the sidelines.

There’s definitely a pattern:

Windows 11 started as a kinda nice evolution of Windows 10, but then the marketing folks stapled one useless feature after the next onto the OS.

Same with Edge. Started as an interesting Chrome alternative without all the Google stuff and ended up even more bloated.

@aral Rather good marketing and general accessibility.

My dad once attended a presentation for a big Windows rival in the 80-90's. It was better in practically every ways, but it was far more geared toward professional use than the average user, and it heavily marketed itself as such. My father, himself a programmer, pointed it, out but they ignored him and the others who said it as well.

I think you can guess what happened.

@aral Windows is randomly automatic. It breaks itself sometimes and it fixes itself sometimes. Almost no matter what's wrong, a reboot is 50% "good enough" and 50% bafflingly ineffective.

Years ago, I was just trying to be a responsible gamer and updated my graphics driver. This was enough to take Windows down past the point of a recovery disk's ability to fix it.

Without being able to tell whether I broke it or it broke itself, how do people take this platform seriously!?

@aral

Windows gets better the further you go back in time. 👍 🙃