RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115878252757179900
Microsoft keeps giving folks so many reasons to ditch Windows, its hard to keep up. A short but incomplete thread
"Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why"
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
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"Each new update (which will eventually be forced upon you) seems to bring more bugs than fixes. Personally, I encountered 2-3 full system crashes a week when I ran Windows 11 ... After a Windows update (that I didn't choose to do) wiped [my Linux] partition ... I deleted Windows 11 and used the entire drive for Linux"
https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html
With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).
"Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost
"That's 11 outages spread across seven months, averaging more than one outage a month. That's a lot"
https://www.neowin.net/editorials/microsoft-365-more-like-microsoft-404
"Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues [and] admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature ... like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings"
"Windows 11 won't allow me to open notepad.exe because of.. some error linked to my Microsoft account? It's getting harder to defend the weird choices this company makes ... My PC should be entirely functional without an Internet connection — especially when I need a few scribbles from Notepad"
Federal cyber experts called Microsoft’s cloud a “pile of shit,” approved it anyway
“This is not a happy story in terms of the security of the US,” said Tony Sager, who spent more than three decades as a computer scientist at the [N.S.A.]
"Even Microsoft’s own engineers had struggled over the years to map the architecture of its products ...
One FedRAMP reviewer compared it to a “pile of spaghetti pies.”
@adamsaidsomething I have to use Windows for work, and man MS has --really-- been pushing OneDrive and Edge.
I think MS sees big $$$ with OneDrive as SAS for files. BUT Users really resent endlessly being forced/pushed into it.
Yeah their working hard to take control and agency away from users. I read that even if you disable OneDrive, MS sometimes enables it again when it does a big system update
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