Recently I had a hiccup with my main SSD drive. I have a dual boot Win/Kubuntu setup. Linux was crashing hard and Windows was giving me blue screens. After I resolved the issue (cooling/loose connection, idk) my Linux was doing fine, but Windows was giving me blue screens. I think it was doing an update when it crashed.
After a couple of hours messing with my recovery USB and booting in safe mode, I was able to fix the bad update and reboot normally.
I tried to open Firefox and it couldn't find the executable. Looking into the Program Files Mozilla folder, I found the .exe files had been renamed to .exe.sig??????
Then looking for the Edge browser, I suddenly found out that Microsoft Copilot AI had been installed!?!?!?!?!?!?
What the actual fuck???
I never wanted that trash on my PC! That's one of the reasons out of the many that I didn't want to use Windows 11.
And it's a weird fucking coincidence that Firefox was fucked. I couldn't even rename the files to .exe because they wouldn't execute. Looks like they were encrypted or some shit? What the fuck is Microsoft pulling?
It's a happy coincidence because you know what? I've been thinking about going full Linux install since all my games and Windows applications work with Steam, Proton and Bottles now.
I really don't see any fucking reason to keep using Windows. Fuck this shit and fuck Microsoft.
Edit: Oh and that's on top of all the other bullshit like forcing users to create a MS account to install Windows 10 now and having to jump through hoops to have an offline installation. And also defaulting to having all your user folder documents into their fucking One Drive cloud.
I'm done.
Embrace it. Most of us used to use Windows at some point. But I think it's really nice here on the other side. Hope you find your nice and bullshit-free way to use your computer.
My only fond memories of Windows is as the Backyard Baseball machine when I was a kid... It probably won't even run that game anymore
If there's one thing windows does well, it's maintaining backwards compatibility.
Most of my childhood games from that era run with little issue. Biggest issue is going to be 16bit stuff, but IME, it's mostly been the installers that are 16bit only and the actual executable was 32bit and ran fine
I saw a post a while ago that made the point that wine might end up being the stable Linux abi, we might come full circle
Awesome and good to hear. Gotta find a torremt next time I'm feeling nostalgic. Bet my crappy 10 yr old laptop can run it at the highest settings 🤣
I have not had issue running any old game on both Ubuntu and arch, there are emulators for dogs and 3d0 and all sorts of stuff.
My wife wanted to play one of those myst-for-kids games with cartoon graphics, kings quest 7. Works great so far, can't speak for every game of course. Theres a cool app called Emubox I think tries to make it easy to make an all-in-one emulator launcher, I made one of my machines essentially dedicated to it with like 2 tb of games from the 80s to the 2010s.