Eeeehm… this is ragebait, right?

The last REALLY good Windows was Windows 2000… and i am going to defend this hill until you take this yellowed out PS/2 keyboard out of my cold dead hands.

I think to fill a cavity THIS big you need something like THAT

And if people are going constantly back to the red outhouse this will never change.

If the abominable intelligence is killing every corner of things we consider good its time to start killing the “AI”…

I just don’t like that Cthulhu like creature of unimaginable horrors called Systemd that thrusts its tentacles into every subsystem.

Fuck Systemd

Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?

May your optimism last.

If they would produce a super stable, backward compatible system without “AI”, without tons of dark patterns and with a traditional UI… let’s say, a Windows 7 reboot with compatibility to modern software and released under a Free license… then I would honestly take a look.

Just to be a bit heretical: Its absolutely possible to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, look up Rufus, download the ISO from Microsoft and on you go.

I have managed to get it running on a NUC with a two core and 2 GB RAM after also running a debloat script.

edit: Completed post after my 3 year old crashed into me sending the phone into the neitherworld under the couch

Ah… you mean its better at providing a more potent form of a digital drug? Ok…

The Iphone entered the marked in 2007, before that is what entirely possible to connect a PDA to the internet via you dumbphone (using IRC from my palm pilot in the 90s surely felt cool…)

This is fine, and one of the strong points of a diverse software ecosystem: Chose what works best for you.

Just to mention it: I still don’t like Systemd.

Well, depends on how… well… “motivated” the person who swings the cane is…

Yes PLEASE! The Internet is so, so much more than the Web, it existed before it and it will exist long after the Web has been gone.

The INTERNET as a whole also has still many places that are still healthy and far away from enshittification.