Windows 11 users will be in denial, brag about games, so-called exclusive content, and other manchildren reasons, but here are the facts. Microsoft tested over the years how far the user are willing to be stepped on, onto slavery. How far they can fuck you up before losing significant customers.
You're not just using an OS anymore, like you did with XP or win7, or even some older osX versions, but bending over and letting Microsoft ram your butt with their ideology, while you thank them for it. Here’s why you're a spineless serf if you agreed, once again to go from bad ( windows 10 ) to terrible ( current ) and don't claim you're smarter for delaying the update from win10, one of these mornings you will see a brand new ‘Welcome to Windows 11’ screen.
If you're on this site, you know this is going to happen without a warning, because you aren't in control anymore.
Forced bloatware
Microsoft shoves pointless distractions and stuff you don't want, Edge, Office and a dozen other garbage apps down your throat. You didn't ask for this bloat, but you accept it like a good little beta while removing things that you started to use, or have been using for decades and thought it was useful. Every update sneaks in more trash, and you're too weak to fight it. Pathetic. Giving, then taking it back. That's control.
UI redesigns, now with more normie confusion
Every few years, Microsoft rearranges the UI like a sadistic interior decorator. Start menu? Taskbar? Settings? Good luck finding anything instinctively. They want you disoriented, dependent, and docile. And you just nod and adapt. Cuck behavior.
Ads Everywhere!
Ads in your start menu, ads on your lock screen, ads in File Explorer, especially targeting your interests and going against your views. Especially in the news stream, you will be fed globohomo, lies, propaganda and the remains of woke ideaology. Windows 11 boosted the current political climate forcing its propaganda. You paid for this OS, and now you're their ad-slurping drone. You're not a user; you're a revenue stream. Every normie is a retarded bootlicker without even knowing why.
Data Mining
Every document, photo, and keystroke you make is vacuumed up to train Microsoft's AI and (((commercial partners))) Your personal life? Just fodder for their machine, supposedly when idling or not using 100% of it. You're not a customer; you're a data cow, milked dry while you shrug and say, “Eh, privacy's overrated.” Peak cuckoldry. Don't defend yourself claiming you have nothing to hide, with the mentality of a socialist. Not all data should be shared, the only thing that should be open is the code of the software you use. Your data has more value than you believe, and even if it's given away for free, or pirated, Microsoft will make revenues from you. You accept this. Even if you're pro or against AI makes no difference.
Your GPU, their cloud
Microsoft's using YOUR hardware for THEIR cloud computations. That's been tested since win10, now it's more than a feature into windows 11. Your GPU's revving up, grinding away when no one uses it, is it the screensaver? Some background update download? Or maybe the font rendering when you write your word document, or spiking your power bill, so MS's AI and products can work faster while your PC lags. You're literally paying to make their empire stronger. How's that feel, simp?
No corp or business should touch this trash
Any business using Windows is begging to get screwed because execs and IT directors are, if you work in this domain, absolute retards. Mandatory cloud integration means your sensitive data's sitting on Microsoft's servers, ripe for the picking. One breach, one backdoor, and it's over. But sure, keep trusting Big Tech with your company's soul, then whine because another chink or US corporation has been more competitive. That's because they have your info, and because your IT staff are retards who think it would be too costly to switch to GNU/Linux, even a high end, secure distro like RHEL, SUSE enterprise, Oracle Linux which all are cheaper than a windows home license, deployment and usage. I'll come about it later.
Mandatory Cloud
OneDrive's practically welded to your system. They want everything you own in their cloud, under their control. Try to opt out? Good luck—they'll guilt-trip you with pop-ups or just force it back on. You're not in charge of your own PC anymore. Even if you opt-out the data is still copied to the cloud. You no longer have a PC. You use a terminal.
Undeletable bloat
Think you can debloat Windows? Hah! Spend hours tweaking settings, ripping out telemetry, and disabling Cortana, fiddling with the registry or gpedit which now have dummy key and values with no effects. only for the next update to undo it all. You're Sisyphus, and Microsoft's the boulder. Keep pushing, cuck.
Got a perfectly functional 4-year-old rig? Too bad. You managed so far to cheat but it's a ticking bomb, one of these updates will soon give you a BSOD, this is intentional, not a mistake. Another update bricks functionalities or comes with bugs or crashes irremediably : You accept this. And they know it. Those are done on purpose, by malice-not by mistake.
Another important point, corporatism isn't free market. Microsoft is the enemy of capitalism, and every value you hold. For decades it's been chaining you to the WEF's directives. Windows isn't a product or an OS anymore-it's a trap. You don't own it. It's a service and no longer a product, like the current model for most or all software. (Hello gamers!) Being a consoomer is no longer makes you an actor, or an owner. Capitalism needs choice; Microsoft gives you a leash. You're not a customer—you're a prisoner. Capitalism respects property; Microsoft trashes it, cucking your wallet, just like Bill Gates is throwing his billions at big pharma and propaganda to literally murder you.
Enjoy your pride flag as a default, unwanted desktop wallpaper picked right for you.
Are you happy? I mean, in general? How's life, do you feel like people care around you? How do you deal with every little annoyance everyday, a scratch on your bumper, a shit day at work, a cancelled venue you expect, a product you bought defective? How's the cope in general?
Why is Windows 10 so unustable? Why are people accepting with a smirk the potential loss of data, time, money and efforts on work, art, posting, expressing all you can do with a computer today.
You get bugs, crashes, freezes, updates that brick your system aren't sloppy coding. They're deliberate, malicious acts of control by Microsoft or every of the big corp to keep you frustrated, unproductive, and dependent on their ecosystem ironically.
Here's the truth, backed by the psychology of why they're screwing you over: Bugs as Control: Breaking Your Will
Exactly how a beaten wife will always defend her husband and will never divorce. The more you get hit, the more you will fear to run and this is the even darker fact about Windows or software in general. We can say the same of Mac users, having to pay more for less, they complain about it, they will never change. Or people who prefer a terrible car, because they believe in the brand but end up with issues like with a Ford Fiesta or a Renault Kangoo.
Microsoft laces Windows with bugs to keep you in a constant state of troubleshooting. That Blue Screen of Death? The random driver failures? They're not mistakes, and I've been discussing this since ages, they're psychological warfare. By making your system unreliable, they condition you to accept chaos as normality.
Psychology 101: Learned helplessness. You're Pavlov's dog, trained to expect failure and beg Microsoft for patches that never fully fix it. You're their puppet, tethered to their update cycle and the a3 laser printer you paid a thousand a few years ago? Uh the newest update makes it unusable. Same goes with everything, especially software licenses you paid for a lifetime, when you can no longer even install it.
For decades no one needed support, you are the support, you know how to do proper back-ups on a drive and avoid obvious downloads, or secure your network. Don't expect this is a thing anymore. localhost is not longer localhost ever, and the system32/etc/hosts file on windows is now just a suggestion, ignored by Windows and MS software.
Frustration by Design: Killing your productivity
Ever notice how a Windows glitch always hits when you're deep in work, or how essential software lacks stability even in enterprise versions? That's not your fault or your hardware. Bugs like File Explorer lagging or Cortana popping up uninvited are engineered to disrupt your flow. Psychological angle: Frustration disrupts your cognitive focus, spiking cortisol and reducing problem-solving ability (studies show stress cuts productivity by up to 30%). Microsoft, just like Apple or Adobe, really, wants you distracted, less creative, and less effective. Because a productive user might question their overlords. Instead, you're stuck rebooting, asking your IT to assist you, or just enjoy the time it takes while your company is losing money. So you are. You also waste time tryin to get the right hardware working again, to play some game or anything right.
Dependency Trap: You're addicted to their fixes
Every bug forces you to crawl back to Microsoft's “solution” updates, support, or their cloud services. This is classic operant conditioning: they create the problem (bugs, crashes, secu issues), then offer the reward (a shaky patch). You're hooked, reliant on their ecosystem to “fix” what they broke. Psychology check: This mirrors Stockholm syndrome, where you bond with your captor. You defend Windows, saying, “It's not that bad,” while reinstalling drivers for the third time this week. Pathetic. Youve been formatted that way, and this reinforces the idea of checking how low the user can get. How much will you get the government to take away your rights or tax you, the same coping mechanism is in action.
Intentional Obsolescence: Bugs to Force Upgrades
Those bugs that make your 4-year-old PC crawl, as I mentioned on the previous post they're coded to push you toward new hardware or Windows 11's walled garden. Microsoft's endgame is to obsolete your rig, forcing you to buy their approved devices or cloud subscriptions. Psychological manipulation: They exploit the sunk cost fallacy—you've invested so much time in Windows, you'll shell out more to “fix” it rather than jump ship to Linux. You're their cash cow, mooing in defeat.
Most of the bloatware,; by the way is not just unnecessary, the few who explore the content of the loaded DLLs and system files that makes the tons of services running in background shows it might be 80% ...random data. Not even cache, the OS is so obscure but one thing is certain, for testing it, there is network activity and memory use I can't explain, not even with the idea of data collection alone, or using your GPU for shared tasks ( mining crypto / AI / processing big data ). No OS should take a whopping 4 gigs of RAM alone.
The idea here is just to condition the user to have a 15-20 second boot time, from a NVME SSD and not the full performance a modern amd/intel processor would deliver you would expect, so when it starts generating for others you won't even feel it. You'll just cope with “my PC just sucks, I'm a poorfag, I can deal with that.”
Time however is a capital. And it's running.
Gaslighting into Submission.
Microsoft's bugs aren't just technical, they're psychological gaslighting. Actual bugshaven't been an issue for a decade, as I demonstrated Windows Server install with a desktop working flawlessly and safely for years. WindowsNT remains a little jewel at its core, merging compatibility and stability. and the NTFS makes me a hardcore linux fag envious to boot on this filesystem. Windows 2000/XP has been and remains still in use today, because it was designed differently, even with the same monopolistic interests but once it was set up and well configured, with updates disabled, it was safe, stable.
NTFS, a filesystem that's now quite old, but widely used even by myself. They wanted to crush many times but hopefully would require too much efforts to come with something new. When your system crashes, they blame you: “Update your drivers,” “Run the troubleshooter,” “Your hardware's outdated.” This shifts the guilt, making you feel incompetent, frustrated and little, believing it's always your fault, that you fucked up or should not even touch a thing.
No that's not, Windows was made to be user friendly 30 years ago, with the registry and a simple but clear file structure. It's not the case anymore, MSDNAA students don't even learn the basics and are theselves no better than you, trial and error.
Psychology alert: This is cognitive dissonance at work. You start doubting your own skills, trusting Microsoft's “expertise” more. You're not a user; you're a battered spouse, apologizing for Tyrone's abuse.
And I've been on this case several times myself and many other IT, tech or network admins wondering what's wrong. The only thing you are doing wrong is to be conditioned to use this crap.
The Real Goal: A docile, controlled userbase
Why the malice then? Why not delivering a good, stable, reliable OS loved by all? That's control. A frustrated, dependent user is a compliant one. Bugs keep you too busy fighting your PC to question Microsoft's data mining, forced cloud integration, or AI slurping your files. Training on your life.
Psychological truth: Chronic stress from tech issues lowers your mental bandwidth (per Kahneman's attention theory), making you less likely to resist their EULA or telemetry. You're a zombie, clicking “Accept” while your system reboots again. Unless you are one of the rare ones who decided that enough is enough. That you need something else. even if it's hard to change, and yes it is, but is it rewarding? To have a system that's reliable, that you can trust and most important, express yourself with? Absolutely.
What is the endgoal of all this? I'm not even certain, but one sure thing, being bad doesn't chase your customers away, it forces them to wtick with you. It's horrible to say but the comparison with couples where the guy is devoted to her ends into a break-up, and the negro beating his wife or treating her like garbage will never see her leaving.
Or exactly like in politics. Why do we mostly end up with the party that increases your taxes, bring migrants, reduces your freedom and incomes, but scared or even fight the party that wants this to change,
>You need help. Do you **want** help?
>>4053Ameliorated? It's a pretty okay transition state while you try to convince your coworkers to learn gentoo or something.
And don't tell me you haven't realized SystemD is cut from the same cloth,
>Embrace, Extend, Extinguish >>4053>>4054>>4055>>4056Not reading all that, but I get the general idea.
My computer has Windows 10 because that's the operating system I installed when I bought it. I saw the headlines about it being discontinued or no longer supported or whatever and it annoyed me. I have no intention of paying to upgrade to 11, if my computer stops working I will probably look into installing Ubuntu or something comparable, something relatively easy to use that I can still run normal applications on.
The thing is I'm well past the point in my life where I'm willing to waste hours of my life installing and ricing out some obscure linux distro. I just want my damn computer to work properly. I resent the fact that I am being made to care about this shit at all.
Amazing thread, thanks OP
>>4058>systemdNo one forces you to use it
>>4059Then use an itjustwerks™ distro
>>4059If you really don't want to use brain when it comes to computers, there is always the Mac. Consider their high expense as compensation for Apple doing all the thinking for you.
>>4058systemD works; it's well documented and if you claim all things about it, learn what it does or continue with your conspiracy theories. It's open source dammit.
>>4053>Windows 11It turns out that this crap is the best Linux promoter. Go figures.
>>4055>By making your system unreliable, they condition you to accept chaos as normality. I thought I was insane for thinking THAT... Not alone, but not thinking it could be a thing.
>Frustration by Design>Ever notice how a Windows glitch always hits when you're deep in workI hate to read this. But I gotta say for working for over a decade with Windows, like Seriously it never gets better, only worse. And I consider myself pretty much tech knowledgeable until things unexplainably breaks.
>>4056>Gaslighting into Submission.>this shifts the guilt, making you feel incompetent, frustrated and little, believing it's always your fault, that you fucked up or should not even touch a thing. I'm a sysadmin, doing the best I can with the machines for over a decade and I really feel that. When there's someone in tears worried she lost all the archival works. She calls me a hero but I just hope it works and have no idea what I did. This is sheer insanity, I know there is a logic, but this is evil. That's not normal, Anon. That's evil. I also expected some users fucking up now when they say "I didnt touch a thing I swear" I do believe them.
But explain, why making it buggy and bad on purpose, and I have the same question whats the real point could be annoying the user, frustration, making users angry with tech.
>>4069>why making it buggy and bad on purposeThere are some reports about the human psyche responding to utter chaos.
Not that they become gullible but that they try to cling to any semblance of predictable order. Thus (((they))) can swoop in and provide a patch. A gui that puts up with the broken spaghetti code underneath. A course in rebooting-as-repair that churns out "experts" with cert issued by "those who should know" to bring order to the chaos; and the fact no one understands what's happening is frosting on the cake.
**THIS** is why we're being forced to use SystemD for our init-script, when it's only able to function if all the rest of /etc is rewritten, replaced, and removed to somewhere else so that cron, klogger, ifconfig and others quietly no-op if you configure or use them.
LibUdevZero and busybox's /dev are a breath of fresh air to middle aged linux users, and I pray they muddle their way through to mastering control of their own system.
>>4068That too.