Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar

02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now

05:20 What’s the job of an OS?

06:51 Updates break systems. Often.

10:53 You have to adapt to it

15:14 It’s highly intrusive

17:44 Debloating tools don’t make it good

20:19 Windows fails at being an OS

21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect

27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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      17•1 day ago

      About a year and a half ago I got a laptop to prepare for moving countries. Figured “I’ll probably distro hop a bit see what I like so let’s start pretty plain with Arch”. I’ve uh never distro hopped, Arch my beloved, great daily driver does exactly what I tell it to

      • @[email protected]
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        2•1 day ago

        My issue with Arch is all the other stuff it installs when installing packages. It is annoying.

        • ruby
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          8•1 day ago

          the dependencies? all distros have those, unless everything is statically compiled (bad idea) or you could potentially have less of them if you run gentoo and unset a lot of USE flags.