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
A slight difference from my perspective. I value my autonomy. Especially in this era of enshittification.
Windows, Mac, various *nix flavors; they all offer mostly the same features. But the first two claim ownership of the layer between you as a user and the hardware you own.
With Linux, I have to own that layer too, which is sometimes complicated, but /I/ own it.
No company tells me my computer is too old because it can’t verify the boot device. Maybe it’s a personal desktop and I don’t care, and it’ll still run fast if it doesn’t send screenshots to telemetry servers all the time.