it was vastly easier to install linux mint than it is to figure out registry editing or whatever the fuck i’d need to avoid this

This is absolutely insane
My condolences to all Windows 11 users.

It’s becoming common knowledge that:

• It’s not a matter of if but when will xyz service/application be breached and what are the potential damages it could do to me and others?

"I assume every online service is not if; it’s when is it going to be breached? Right? So I operate under that assumption, that everything is going to be breached at some point. And so that’s why Recall was so scary to me where it’s like, I don’t care how secure they say it is, like you look at Spectre and Meltdown no one thought these things were going to affect millions of CPUs and here we are, right?

• Steve from Gamers Nexus

[Level1Techs] Microsoft Is KILLING Windows | ft. Steve @GamersNexus

Linux is here to welcome you

For years… well pretty much since I had a PC, I had a Windows partition. Why? Well because I (sadly) paid for the damn thing (damn OEM deals). Plus, I admit, sometimes they were things that only ran on Windows.

For few years now though, everything, literally, from the latest tech gadget to playing games to VR, works on Linux.

Few weeks ago I deleted the Windows partition. I didn’t have to. I didn’t boot on it for months. It didn’t affect me.

Still, I now feel … safer, more relaxed, coherent.

When I see shit like that, I feel even better!

Microsoft has been the single most effective marketing asset for GNU/Linux distributions in recent years.

I remember them doing this with Internet Explorer back in the 90s.

“We can’t remove this thing we don’t want to remove! Look! It’s hastily integrated with the OS! We can’t remove it ever!”