Recently I had a hiccup with my main SSD drive. I have a dual boot Win/Kubuntu setup. Linux was crashing hard and Windows was giving me blue screens. After I resolved the issue (cooling/loose connection, idk) my Linux was doing fine, but Windows was giving me blue screens. I think it was doing an update when it crashed.
After a couple of hours messing with my recovery USB and booting in safe mode, I was able to fix the bad update and reboot normally.
I tried to open Firefox and it couldn't find the executable. Looking into the Program Files Mozilla folder, I found the .exe files had been renamed to .exe.sig??????
Then looking for the Edge browser, I suddenly found out that Microsoft Copilot AI had been installed!?!?!?!?!?!?
What the actual fuck???
I never wanted that trash on my PC! That's one of the reasons out of the many that I didn't want to use Windows 11.
And it's a weird fucking coincidence that Firefox was fucked. I couldn't even rename the files to .exe because they wouldn't execute. Looks like they were encrypted or some shit? What the fuck is Microsoft pulling?
It's a happy coincidence because you know what? I've been thinking about going full Linux install since all my games and Windows applications work with Steam, Proton and Bottles now.
I really don't see any fucking reason to keep using Windows. Fuck this shit and fuck Microsoft.
Edit: Oh and that's on top of all the other bullshit like forcing users to create a MS account to install Windows 10 now and having to jump through hoops to have an offline installation. And also defaulting to having all your user folder documents into their fucking One Drive cloud.
I'm done.
Understandable. I want to tell you a little story for the lolz too.
A few years back, I was dual booting with Ubuntu and Windows 10 to play certain games. 2016 released a highly anticipated game for me, Civilization 6. I think that I purchased it in its release period on Windows and ... it did not start. I've researched and tried to find a solution, but nothing worked. After a few days later contacting the support in Steam, we found out it was because the Skype installer. Go figure.
So I removed the Skype installer and the game run! How**?!** I didn't even had the Skype installer before. Windows got me it without asking me through some updates. That's pretty spicy, but not all! See, I'm saying "Skype installer", because this is not even the application itself, its just the installer for Skype. I'm asking again, How**!?** (Notice this time the exclamation mark has priority over question mark...)
At that time, I already had enough of Windows for years. But purchased a license and installed it after years without Windows, because I couldn't play some of my favorite games otherwise (Overwatch wasn't playable on Linux in the beginning, Street Fighter 5, Civilization 6 and many other games...). Someday I nuked that Windows installation too, as it was just not worth it anymore.
That's so weird.
And yeah, wasn't Skype another software pushed onto users in Windows?