Windows 11 installation is dystopian as fuck

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+title: Windows 11 installation is dystopian as fuck
+author: 寮
+date: 2023-01-25
+tags: technology,computer,windows,dystopia,spyware
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+So at the client I'm currently working for, a bunch of new PCs arrived, and I was watching their employees install them.\
+The entire installation process, from first boot all the way to installing an alternative browser, got me facepalming myself so many times, my head is now gone.
+
+With Linux and BSD, most distro's and variants come with either a command line installer or a Calamaris installer, either way it's often pretty straight forward.\
+If Calamaris, you pick a language, keyboard layout, timezone, partition layout, username and password, and you're done.\
+In comparison, Windblows 11 is not only overly complicated and slow, most of the options are rather bullshit too.
+
+The first thing I noticed is how extremely slow the UI is, you often have to wait an entire minute to go from 1 page to the other.\
+And the installer is divided into multiple segments separated by reboots.
+
+First part was OK, you choose between Japanese and English, then the IME (only 1 choice, so no idea why they even ask), and hostname.\
+That's where the common sense options end.
+
+OK, eye break!\
+![](http://ass.ryocafe.site/afba4a4a367706e54f3bec5bded7ca3f.jpg)
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+During the 2nd part you get into the bullshit.\
+You MUST set up a WiFi connection, or it'll prevent you from continuing.\
+Even the one that's connected by ethernet had to be connected to WiFi or it would still not let you continue.\
+And because you're connected to WiFi, you MUST log into a Microshaft account or create one, no local account can be made anymore.\
+Employees were all complaining, even the employer himself found this to be retarded.\
+Then it asks you if you want to enable a bunch of telemetry (default is all enabled), not like disabling will do anything, but meh.\
+Then it asks to install OEM provided bloat, again everything is enabled by default.\
+Then Face ID, Game Pass subscription, connection to an Android phone, and a couple of other stuff, this is all skippable.\
+What's not skippable was the PIN code entry.\
+Then it asks if you want to set up as a new device or copy over files from a different PC.\
+They set it to new device, and Windblows 11 still copied files over from a different PC anyway.\
+And then it asked what type of PC user you are.
+
+Reboot, and you get greeted with the ugliest looking wallpaper ever made, so they all had to change it to something else.\
+Then they were looking for Goolag Chrome, so they opened up Edgy, and it asked to log into a Goolag account, then Edgy insisted on you going though a tutorial or some shit.\
+They installed Chrome, and immediately bloatware extensions got installed.\
+Also, they had to manually change the default browser at a dozen different places.
+
+Seriously, anyone saying that Windblows is easy to use and Linux is hard to use, from what I've seen, is absolutely wrong.\
+15 years ago it might have been just my opinion, but now it's safe to say that it's an actual fact at this point.\
+If I were to install these machines, I would probably just give up at the forced WiFi connection part, plug in a live USB, install any Linux or BSD with any DE or WM, and call it a day.\
+Even the other people said they would have wished to go back to the PC-98 era, because NEC's PCDOS was so much easier to use than Windblows 11.