Is it possible that Microsoft Windows is not a very good computer program

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@mcc

Copilot said no.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@sasanb @mcc came here scrolling the replies to find this exact pedantry in action

[rsada@mastodon.social]

@mcc Windows 10 is probably the worst version in my experience. I recall windows XP and 2000 as the best ones. Windows Vista was also terrible.

[lerxst@az.social]

@mcc I do believe I’ve heard that before.

[snazzee@tooot.im]

@mcc honestly Windows has fallen so far back in the last few years, I prefer ChromeOS or Fedora over it.

[Guest]

@mcc I feel like we would have heard something about this before now

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@mcc bless their hearts, they try their best.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@mcc It's just one program in the sea of many 'not very good' programs.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@groxx @mcc

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@Tock @mcc they certainly have deteriorated, is it not the case that copilot has been designated as "just for gaming" due to its abysmal quality?

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc <insert 'never was' meme>

(or maybe 2.0 was? I just started my Windoze career with 3.0)

[pomi@social.tchncs.de]

@mcc@mastodon.soc'rename win.exe linux.sh' was very helpful

[barbra@social.vivaldi.net]

@rsada @mcc well, after getting rid of the built-in spyware and ending all Windows updates, and refusing extended support,10 is finally stable. No more crashes since October 24th of last year.

Which is what a lot of us who didn't bother with extended support kind of expected to happen.

[keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca]

@mahadevank @mcc Windows was born into a world that already had inodes, but it's damned if any of its filesystems will ever support such Unixian devilry

[everton137@social.vivaldi.net]

@mcc on a scale from 1 (really bad) to 10 (really good), how likely bad is it? I haven't used it since 1997.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mcc can't be. It's installed on nearly every computer so it must be good. Why would anyone use anything but the very best program.

[sfphotogrphr@mastodon.social]

Sure, that’s possible — Windows is basically a pile of 512 kB memoirs that never learned how to clean up after themselves.

[lefoyenlibre@mastodon.social]

@mcc It can't be "not very good"...
It's a dreadfull, horrible crap. No less...

[skedarwarrior@techhub.social]

@mcc your asking the wrong question.

The right question is, is it possible windows is the worst OS in history due to being a giant black box.

[niavy@masto.bike]

@mcc
It is.

I went to see a good friend yesterday, I had to use his computer and I felt dirty using Windows 10.

...oh, wait, is it a flat square Windows logo ? That's Windows 11 ...

...at least he has Firefox.

...oh, a taskbar ad ?

I showed him Kubuntu on Distrosea.
I asked him if his computer worked well or was "muddy driving". I told him I could change his OS within 20 minutes with a spare USB key .

Planning to put this pre-pandemic Acer on @fedora @kde 🥰.

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