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by fuzzfactor 53 days ago
Well for decades Windows was adequate-to-excellent for small business and individual consumer use in major ways that Windows 11 is recently continuing to disrespect more and more, as it migrates away from how worthwhile Windows formerly used to be.

All this fluff about the insider program seems to be very ignorantly missing the point.

What's needed more than ever is No BS instead of more BS.

Namely get Microsoft Accounts back out of the picture unless opted in.

Along with curtailing Bitlocker, One Drive, Copilot, and things like that.

Now to make it really good again, there needs to be no further disk activity after Windows has booted, other than user-initiated saving & loading. Plus of course no network traffic other than user-directed bandwidth usage.

Along those lines I think it goes without saying that as soon as Microsoft has any legitimate commitment to open-source efforts, we'll know by the way they document & release everything they know about NTFS.