> Windows users probably gained the reputation for being update-adverse when Windows decided it owned the computer
It is also possible to argue that Microsoft became more aggressive with updates because people were not updating their systems.
I do not agree with many of the decisions that Microsoft made with Windows updates. For example: I am of the opinion that they should have made security updates mandatory and let people decide whether they will accept feature updates. Yes, there would still be issues with that model but at least they can legitimize it. They can legitimize it since we live in a networked world that has to be treated as hostile.
As for your transition to Linux, I would highly suggest finding reasons to embrace Linux rather than treating it as a means for ditching Windows. One of those reasons includes the FLOSS "kool-aid" since the less restrictive licensing model has many benefits that trickle down to the end user. Having positive reasons for using Linux will also make it easier to stick with it when you do come across aspects that you do not like, because you will come across things that you do not like.
And please stop bad mouthing Windows. Quite frankly, a lot of Linux user look like idiots since they spout outdated information. Just as Linux has improved over time, Windows has done the same. Within a few months, there is a solid possibility that critiques of the platform will become irrelevant. Within a few years, it is virtually certain that the critiques will be irrelevant.
>Within a few years, it is virtually certain that the critiques will be irrelevant.
Really? So you're saying Driver Signature Enforcement will suddenly disappear I can run unblessed by Microsoft drivers again so I can maintain the capability to keep my out-of-support hardware configurations running?
Oh wait, that's not going away... That fix wasn't even really for me. That was so the media distribution industry could sleep well at night, and who cares if it makes a bunch of User's hardware unsupportable?
Windows will stop running reams of telemetry, and stop pushing all their Cloud offerings on my users so that they actually know where their things are? They'll stop with their user hostile UXconfiguration so I can just present them an interface that mostly workswithout having to rejigger things after every update?
Windows will stop taking a sledge hammer to my EFI partition every damn time I let it update, resetting itself as the primary boot option until I go in and reset things manually?
It is so difficult nowadays for me to get across to kids just how different computing is now and how even if you do have more "stable" or "resilient" systems, how much more difficult it is to actually be able to figure out what is going on beneath the hood because of the encroachment into the computing industry of every special interest industry or some programmer looking to obfuscate their shitty software because those sniveling lusers should be happy they're getting a machine that does anything at all!
It's no surprise at all to me that encouraging computational literacy is such a challenge, because the entire industry has gotten so bewitched by capitalization and innovation (not of computing itself but) of applying computers to enable previously practically infeasible business models that I've grown to hate the behemoth the tech industry has become.
Half the time anymore, I can't even justify to myself going to the latest, greatest, computer hardware anymore, or checking out that new game, because every damn time I look into it, the majority of the damn thing isn't about doing anything better for the user, but providing some hook through which to monetize the user.
Sorry, but I can't take these sorts of "it's not that bad.
" posts seriously. Excessive compute has largely just enabled the vices of those who build things in the first place. I see programs that fulfill the same end user use cases as programs we had 20+ years ago, less efficiently, with greater bloat, more 3rd party info leaks, superfluousnetwork connectivity, anti-user nannies/safe-guards which are less about the user's safety than aboutenabling someone else to extract rent.
Frankly, the same thing goes for most tech companies nowadays. Even some of the notable FOSS ones, who insteadofrentseeking in the traditional sense, fight over "developer mindshare".
Might have overshot my intended message, but God bless, it needed to be said.
Get off my LAN, and never darken my ports with your packets ever again!
It is also possible to argue that Microsoft became more aggressive with updates because people were not updating their systems.
I do not agree with many of the decisions that Microsoft made with Windows updates. For example: I am of the opinion that they should have made security updates mandatory and let people decide whether they will accept feature updates. Yes, there would still be issues with that model but at least they can legitimize it. They can legitimize it since we live in a networked world that has to be treated as hostile.
As for your transition to Linux, I would highly suggest finding reasons to embrace Linux rather than treating it as a means for ditching Windows. One of those reasons includes the FLOSS "kool-aid" since the less restrictive licensing model has many benefits that trickle down to the end user. Having positive reasons for using Linux will also make it easier to stick with it when you do come across aspects that you do not like, because you will come across things that you do not like.
And please stop bad mouthing Windows. Quite frankly, a lot of Linux user look like idiots since they spout outdated information. Just as Linux has improved over time, Windows has done the same. Within a few months, there is a solid possibility that critiques of the platform will become irrelevant. Within a few years, it is virtually certain that the critiques will be irrelevant.