Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Nightfox
From : esc
Date : Tue Nov 01 2022 21:49:15

 Ni> I've been running Windows 10 since it came out (and now 11), and I don't
 Ni> recall seeing ads in Windows.  Also I've turned off the settings it has
 Ni> in regards to watching my usage habits etc..

Every update I've had to elect /not/ to have ads in my start menu, or personalized ads in platform in general. It's really just an annoyance. I also got frustrated with the constant effort to make me use Edge. So, in linux, I manage everything explicitly and don't have any commercial organization trying to change my behavior or experience when I don't intentionally opt in. It's just a preference.

 Ni> Do you feel like you've been negatively impacted by anything in Windows
 Ni> 10 or 11?  I've thought about switching to Linux myself at some point,
 Ni> but since I started using Windows 10, I can't think of anything that has
 Ni> really changed or any way I've been negatively impacted by anything
 Ni> since I started using Windows 10.

I prefer doing my dev work in a linux environment and while I appreciate WSL (and now WSL2), it was always at the end of the day just a linux VM eating up resources. And it was temperamental. More than once, my WSL install needed to get blown away and restarted from scratch.

In linux, this is all just native. Honestly the sole thing I miss from Windows is better native game support, but with this laptop's intel GPU I'm not missing much.

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