[skissane]

> Proton, Copilot, and literally this single issue are what pushed people to Linux.

This isn't the only issue. I think another big issue is pushing more and more integration with Microsoft cloud services (e.g. Microsoft accounts), advertising, etc, which Microsoft has made increasingly difficult to opt-out of. They could fix every single technical limitation anyone has ever complained about, but if they don't change their corporate culture on forced cloud/advertising/etc, many won't care about those fixes.

[thewebguyd]

That their solution is a few winget scripts on github to turn a vanilla Windows install into a "developer optimized" install is telling.

They could have, instead, made a standalone ISO of Windows with all the crap already stripped out. Instead, they are still treating the crap-filled version as the default with an option to strip it down.

If they wanted to correct their reputation, it needs to be the other way around. Ship the stripped down version as standard, and make the crap opt-in.

[overgard]

Yeah, my switch to Linux and Mac for most things is more about just finding Microsoft's policies so obnoxious and hostile that I just won't deal with them anymore, even if I have to deal with more technological hassles. The only reason I haven't completely nuked my Windows partition is because I can at least use Rufus to turn off the worst stuff. But frankly, the amount of software that keeps me on Windows is dwindling fast, and every time Windows update resets my browser to fucking Edge or signs me into a Microsoft account system wide without my consent I just get that much closer. It feels like malware at this point.