the other week I found a Windows 11 install USB I had in the back of a drawer. I decided “meh let me install this on a separate 250gb drive and see how it is, it’s been awhile since I used windows” massive. mistake.
I created a MS account and was immediately slammed with microsoft spam. sign up for this ,sign up for that, buy this, buy that, etc etc etc. immediately, i hadn’t even finished the install. next the updates. constant and slow. reboot after reboot as certain updates wouldn’t work unless a previous one was installed. drivers that wouldn’t install unless an MS update was installed first. AND then to top off the pain of it all Windows decided “hey i’m gonna update your bios while I’m here” and borked that to the point where now the FN keys on the laptop I used are now “backwards” affecting my other linux installs on the machine.
never again. it was an awful experience and once it had finished updating everything I immediately nuked the drive.
the other week I found a Windows 11 install USB I had in the back of a drawer. I decided “meh let me install this on a separate 250gb drive and see how it is, it’s been awhile since I used windows” massive. mistake.
I created a MS account and was immediately slammed with microsoft spam. sign up for this ,sign up for that, buy this, buy that, etc etc etc. immediately, i hadn’t even finished the install. next the updates. constant and slow. reboot after reboot as certain updates wouldn’t work unless a previous one was installed. drivers that wouldn’t install unless an MS update was installed first. AND then to top off the pain of it all Windows decided “hey i’m gonna update your bios while I’m here” and borked that to the point where now the FN keys on the laptop I used are now “backwards” affecting my other linux installs on the machine.
never again. it was an awful experience and once it had finished updating everything I immediately nuked the drive.
I mean, you kinda did that to yourself…
Obligatory Windows 11 is absolute trash.