I’ve had my share of interesting experiences with windows.

XP was entirely for playing games.

Then throughout high school, I became pretty solid with 7, an actual upgrade over Vista for weaker hardware.

One of my cousins was working for Microslop at the time and convinced me to update to 8 before heading off to undergrad.

I see the vision, terrible execution. Windows Mobile was shit but I stan Windows Phone. RIP.

Luckily 8.1 was a fast follow.

Familiarity with the spread came in handy the following year when I was part timing at the IT shop.

Though it didn’t prepare me for junior year when I had to climb in through an unlocked window because my fraternity brother forgot his keys.

Turns out doing it once came in handy because senior year I had to repeat the experience when I did the same.

Probably the closest I’ve been to being a pen-tester. Got some laughs at the DEF CON meetups back in Austin with the story.

Now all I use Windows for is the occasional game of Civ and moving files between drives.

I’m a grownup and stopped using the copy Pitt IT gave out during orientation week.

I’ve been paying for both Windows 10 Pro and now forcibly Windows 11 Pro.

WSL is okay.

But in general, how has Satya-uncle’s stewardship been this terrible.

I’ve had y’all’s cloud storage since SkyDrive, haven’t forgot what happened to the 25gb “free” storage.

I know how to edit the registry and use diskpart to delete stubborn partitions

Anyone can complain about the ads in the start menu and the fact I now need to annually reinstall and debloat my operating system to keep a system with 64 gigs of ddr4 and a Ryzen 9 processor running smoothly.

This is more personal.

Moving files around over the network slows things down. I like to ingest on windows, and then transfer out when it makes its way from the portable drive to the system’s storage.

Let’s ignore the fact that a one man team has been running laps around File Explorer on their own platform for now.

I like to run these overnight.

I’m already pissed y’all don’t respect my boundaries with forced updates.

Who raised y’all to think it’s okay to restart my machine overnight while something is running.

I have used the Operating System for this long because I know how to use it.

I’ve had the same DeWalt drill and impact driver for almost ten years now. If the tool does the job well enough, I don’t want to swap it unless I have a reason to.

Meanwhile Gabe-ji has been knocking it out of the park with Proton. I preordered the SteamDeck and despite not having an OLED screen, I have been quite happy with it.

It is genuinely impressive how committed the company is to decreasing their user count.