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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It’s like the Microsoft anti-trust trial in 2001 never happened.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using W11 today, that's my first thought too...It's just ad after ad for Microsoft services. You will fucking install O365 or Microsoft will kill a kitten.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Must buy OneDrive or X doesn't work anymore

Need to buy a subscription for fcking MS Solitaire or you get inundated with ads

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I swear I now can't tell whether people mean twitter or an arbitrary variable when they say X now...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weyland's taking forever, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wayland's been pretty nice the 3-4 years I've been using sway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Can't you install Windows 7 games package ? I did it with win 10 and I got all the solitaire, free cell, minesweeper, etc... without ads

It is not an official Microsoft package but you can find it easily on Internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't see any of this. It's probably because I ran https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ right after install.

I think it disables all the annoying parts of windows and you just get left with a stable OS.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

A lot if things have changed since 2001. For example, the legal definition of "trust" when concerning giant corporations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tbf I think it would be hard to win an antitrust case when they have like 1% browser share with edge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mobile stole so many users from MS In the last 10 years that there is nothing the government could do about this.