Comment by pathartl | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pathartl | Hacker News Reader

I like Windows 11. Windows 10 feels old in comparison, especially with many system settings living in Control Panel. I use a dev drive, I like my dark mode notepad and taskman, I love having a modern Terminal and winget, and frnakly I pay for Microsoft 365 because it's a pretty good value for the 5 other family members I've got on it.

RE: any arguments about ads and such... I don't see what's an ad? I disable copilot in my taskbar. It takes all of 10 seconds to remove the LinkedIn and other crappy shortcut (just shortcut, not full software mind you) from my start menu the one time a year (at best) I reinstall Windows. Yeah, there's OneDrive, but you can uninstall it unlike something similar on another platform like iCloud. And you know what? I can run applications from 25 years ago with practically no issue.

Let's assume that Microsoft continues their path, and eventually makes it impossible to disable ads (or at least plays whack a mole as a game of attrition, increasing the necessary effort to the point the commjnity gives up). Would you continue to like it?

As long as enterprise exists, I don't know that what you're proposing is an eventuality. Regardless, if it truly gets to the point where you can't disable it, no, I would look for options to switch. Not because of ads, but because that is a fundamental shift in the design of the product. Windows is very much designed to be poked and prodded and modified. Not being able to run your own software or heavily customize your OS makes it not Windows anymore.

Yes I am aware of RT. There's a reason it didn't survive. Yes, I understand what S mode is. It's also not the default install method for many devices, and you can disable it.

> Windows 10 feels old in comparison

Having a proper "copy" and "paste" in the right click menu in Explorer (or whatever is left of it) is "old". /s

I didn't like it when they first changed it, but I'm used to it now. Is it better? Nope. Is it worse? A bit. Worth writing off an entire OS? Nope.

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