@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.

@mvsde @aral Uuuggghhh.

I hate that as soon as you don't use the paid or OS-native version of a service, you get bugged to death about it.

c.f. YouTube, Amazon Prime, Spotify, MS 365...

See, I'm all in, I use MS 365 family. It's cheap, you can get it for 50€ a year, you can share office apps and 1TB of storage per user, for up to 6 people... I also use Edge. So I don't get all this nagging, but it sounds like it's terrible.