From 0e08269d46a86322846b3388558af5df97afe269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AF=AE?= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:40:11 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Windows 11 installation is dystopian as fuck --- src/blog/windows-11-is-cancer/index.md | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/blog/windows-11-is-cancer/index.md diff --git a/src/blog/windows-11-is-cancer/index.md b/src/blog/windows-11-is-cancer/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49adf8e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/blog/windows-11-is-cancer/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +title: Windows 11 installation is dystopian as fuck +author: 寮 +date: 2023-01-25 +tags: technology,computer,windows,dystopia,spyware +---- +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) + +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.