Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar
02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now
05:20 What’s the job of an OS?
06:51 Updates break systems. Often.
10:53 You have to adapt to it
15:14 It’s highly intrusive
17:44 Debloating tools don’t make it good
20:19 Windows fails at being an OS
21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect
27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS



The easiest example that comes to mind without having it in front of me is the giant “recommended” section when you open the start menu or file explorer. It’s just bullshit I have to scroll past every time. It wouldn’t be as bad but someone decided having a indecipherable picture of whatever is in the document or a big word icon was somehow useful. And it shouldn’t be in the start menu at all, who’s opening documents from their start menu? The fact that these things made it to prod without someone testing it and being like “wait a minute, this sucks actually” is infuriating to me. They’re a billion dollar corporation, they can easily afford to test shit. Just about everything they turn out should be gold. The fact that they don’t is just rubbing their disdain for their users in our faces.
The constant shoving OneDrive in my face is another issue. I don’t use it, I don’t need it, I have a backup of my data, I’m not going to set this up, I don’t need to be reminded in three weeks, just fuck off.
That is true, but it is also a setting easily changed with a one time update. I have zero problem with options. I don’t like the recommended section, but maybe some folks do. Same as Onedrive. Just google ‘how to use Windows without Onedrive’ and you’ll have it gone in a minute or two.
https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2024/04/01/what-you-can-do-if-you-do-not-want-to-use-onedrive