[LarryDarrell]

Windows users have no negotiating power. Windows will continued to be monetized in user-hostile ways. Call it enshittification, call it the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, call it what ever you want. It won't reach a breaking point. It'll just get worse and worse, steadily and slowly.

I'm trapped because I'm a C#/WPF developer. But, the day after I retire will see a reformat and installation of Debian.

The only thing I'll miss is Directory Opus.

[yndoendo]

Also currently a C#/WPF and Windows is permanently segregated to a VM for development. At the end of the day I don't have to use their terrible OS. Retirement is not having to deal with IT that latches onto Microsoft like a parasite.

[nix0n]

> Windows is permanently segregated to a VM for development

Have you been able to get a debugger working for this? Last time I tried to develop C++ this way, the Visual Studio debugger would not work from within a VM.