this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
684 points (97.1% liked)

Technology

59323 readers
5426 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
684
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
219 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using Windows 10 at home and 11 at work. I've already turned an old gaming laptop into a Linux machine, and I don't think I'll ever switch to Windows 11. The straw that broke the camel's back was the moment I read an article about Microsoft's vision to make Windows entirely cloud based.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's so they can run everything as SaaS and bill you monthly to use the computer you already paid for.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Eventually everyone's going to reach a breaking point where they feel subscriptioned out. I've already reached that point, but it appears the threshold for most people is much greater than mine, unfortunately.