What am I even paying for?
  • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    866·
    3 months ago

    I just got a new laptop and was genuinely gonna try windows 11 and wsl for my coding needs. But in first boot, it demands internet to do updates. Ok, I connect to coffee shop wifi. Nope, won’t do it because it can’t handle the click through screen to accept wifi ToS. Fine. I take it home, where my Internet is great but has a glitch where it drops out for a few seconds now and then. Turns out that windows will literally cancel updating and demand I reconnect and restart for the kind of drop that I barely notice day to day. So I gave up, plugged in my ArchLinux thumb drive, and mkfs.ext4 before rsyncing my entire old computer to it

          • JockerEnglish
            202·
            3 months ago

            There is a difference between asking nicely and shoving down the throat.

            • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
              44·
              3 months ago

              Microsoft tried nicely during the XP era. We all know how it ended. The average user shall never be trusted with security.

      • Captain AggravatedEnglish
        21·
        3 months ago

        the fact the install media can’t provide a working desktop by itself is pathetic.

      • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        The fact that it’s a requirement - and moreover automatically creates and integrates with MS cloud services - is what people don’t like.

        Nobody is arguing that it’s a bad idea to let your chosen distro installer automatically pull the most up-to-date packages.