Same. They’ve always done this shit, but installing windows - and then uninstalling or disabling all the cooked-in bloat and spyware - has become so ridiculously tiresome that I just said fuck it and went Linux full-time.

Every update or service pack, it starts all over. There’s no such thing as a clean windows install.

Nobara was up and running in like ten minutes with no fuckery at all, and it’s no nice not having to fight my OS on everything.

Nvidia just requires a driver install on most distros, and the newer drivers for Linux run rather well. All but one of my games runs better on Linux than on Windows (MK1 has slowdown issues on cinematics)

It’s a lot easier than it used to be. I moved to Nobara (gaming-centric fedora distro that does all the install work for you) maybe two months ago and haven’t been back.

While a few things have required some tweaking, almost everything runs fine out the box and I’ve only had to use the console to troubleshoot one issue so far.

Throw a couple distros on a thumb drive and give one a try

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But I was already planning on leaving mine to my son.

Guess he just gets my username and password.

Note to self, turn off 2fa before I die

Bypass Paywall extension on Firefox

Firefox, Bypass Paywall Clean extension

Oh so even if you do the registry workaround it’s worthless? Lol amazing, good to know.

So you technically can move the task bar to the edge in Windows 11, but it requires a registry change. Ludicrous, but if you’re a home user you can do it.

If you’re stuck on an IT-managed install for work like I am, however, you’re out of luck