Whatever, I don’t exist.
Windows 11 was stress. I was spending far too much time keeping it the way I want it - stable, no cloud, no AI. A four hour call with MS tech support (that went in the most idiotic circles) kinda sealed the fate of my new desktop build (old one had a failing MB, no choice but to finally upgrade hardware) and switched both it and another desktop the next day.
Much less stressed now, even when things go weird and wonky.
I’d wager it’s due to the user’s catalogue of knowledge being effectively reset, even the deepest of users of windows has years of working around the (many) issues. Swap to a new OS, the knowledge doesn’t always transfer.
It’s not hard, it’s just different.
Very effective for cold climate/weather, not so mach for heat.
I did this for the windows on an old 1920’s cabin in BC, the walls and roof cavity had been retrofitted with insulation, leaving the windows as the big heat loss spot during winter. Didn’t fix how cold it go inside during winter completely, but it did bring the unheated temp up a degree or two, which made heating and keeping a temp easier.
Summer, OTOH, it created a heat pocket that radiated more heat inside, so I did a covering for outside with light coloured heavy fabric (curtain fabric) for the outside.
I put off the switch for ages due to similar reasons, tried once that failed horribly. Later had a motherboard failure and Microsoft showed their whole arse. Reactivated the dual boot, channeled my inner old woman energy, solved the video issue and have been happily tinkering with the smaller issues as they come up. Still playing whack a mole, but now I’m getting things the way I want them, instead of disabling things I’m being told I want by some corporate nutcase.
And hilariously, I am spending less time maintaining Linux than I did for Windows.
I dropped it around the same time for the same reason. And yeah, got told I was overreacting and leaning too far into the woo-woo.
I’m doing my part, switched last week to Linux. A few growing pains getting everything working, but it beats the nightmare that was keeping Win11 stable.
Red. My eye colour already changes randomly, although less often and more subtly than it did when I was younger.
I’d love to be able to control it and confuse people.
LOL. So true.
-Gen Xer
No Man’s Sky and Satisfactory keep me coming back. Cozy and itch scratching without being harassed for the latest microtransaction.
That said, if a game does have microtransactions without jamming them at my eyeholes, and I’m not missing anything without them, also acceptable.
We’re old like dirt.
Or beans. Old like beans.