Well you can just some windows is always unsafe.
I’d argue it’s literally the worst virus, tbh. It’s terrible at literally EVERYTHING, annnnd (for activated versions that didn’t come with your hardware) costs money.
And after all that, you still gotta deal with the Windows virus itself.
I was just having a discussion about theming in a different chat where a friend of mine was reminiscing about the win95/98 look and getting xfce to look like it.
I get it and appreciate the nostalgia, but I’m my opinion, I feel the same way I do about when I lost religion. I do have nostalgia for the period when I was learning computers in the beginning, but I don’t want my current computer to resemble Windows at all, much like I don’t decorate my place with crucifixes or pictures of white Jesus.
My hatred of the “before times” is much stronger than a theme preference, but I treat the two visual preferences similarly.
I hate apple just as much as I hate windows, but I do like having the stoplight colored buttons for close/maximize/minimize. But nothing else is precious OS-flavored.
I’ve been out on medical disability since '21.
I dread this possibility when I try going back to work soon.
I knew as soon as I heard about Win10 having candy crush on the start menu that it would be the last Windows I ever installed. I had been meaning to switch for years before that (actually dabbled with a dual boot of Ubuntu back on whatever version number “Edgy Eft” was-- 5? 6?). I stayed mainly on Windows because I don’t really think Wine or Proton was around yet (who knows maybe I just hadn’t heard of it yet), but I did really like how non-Windows it was.
It was always in the back of my head and I knew my time was coming. Just had to get my system cleaned up (file wise) and ready to move over.
Then I ended up making a new build first so instead of moving I just never put Windows on this machine at all.
Anyway the last time I worked I still use Windows at home. So other than attempting to set up a printer on my sister’s computer one time (which didn’t work out because I was only there for about 20 minutes total and it had some wireless pairing to do but just wouldn’t find whatever it was trying to find), I’ve never even touched 11. But the tiny bit I did see have me the same ick that moving from Win7 to 10 gave me. Things like how they fucked with the control panel and made a new, half-redundant settings app, had built-in cortana in the task bar, etc all bothered me.
But given that the awfulness that was 10 is longed for now, I really hope whatever job I get doesn’t have to use Win11.
That’s not a good enough reason to use it, even disposably, even as a throwaway, ever. Unless your producing music or video and can’t adapt to the alternatives, or something like that, there’s no reason to use Windows at all.
No matter how many different layers of virtualization you use, then just different fistros. Never Windows.