Best Damn Description of Windows I've EVER HEARD!!!!!

As a 15 year Linux user, I consider Microsoft itself to be "for entertainment purposes only".. I'm a retired Windows admin, but after I retired in 2010, I switched my systems 100% to Linux, but.. to make a few bux on the side, I hold my nose, and support a few customers on Windows.. Since Windows 10 was assassinated last year, I've managed to move a growing number of clients over to KUbuntu. To show my distaste for the crap that IS Windows 11, I charge $25/hr, 2 hour min, on Linux, and if they're still on 11, its $175/hr, 2 hour min. Some of those who were going to stay on 11 have moved over to Linux.. Also I find the ones on Linux have FAR less need for ANY support, usually only for actual hardware failures/misconfigures.. Its damn sure a FACT that Windows 11 is the best advertisement for Linux..

I'd go so far as to say its malware, in and of itself.. Its always been a malware magnet, now its malware by itself.. Good job, Microsoft..

NO KIDDING!!
The statement
"..It knows everything about me. "
SHOULD have any normal human being screaming and running for the exits...

I'm not up on this AI thing, but having been involved with computers since the "Z80" days (that's the late 70s-early 80s for those who weren't alive then), the fact that AI can now, ON ITS OWN, create a post that insults, and finds out private info on a target person, SCARES THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME... I enjoy a good science fiction tale, and I've read enough of those that carry the idea of artificial intelligence to this level and I'd think it would be quite a few years in the future before AI would get to the point where a human turns it off, and the AI turns itself back on.. And I've read where this has already happened.. If THIS doesn't scare you, you might stop the mind altering drug you're taking and rejoin the REAL world... Just my .000001BTC..

People who are discussing something totally non-political and then want to bring Trump into the discussion are people who have VERY bad cases of TDS and need to be institutionalized ASAP.

GOOD LUCK in "taking the battery out" in pretty much ALL of the current crop of laptops. Guess that "command line" shutdown is your only choice in this case...

LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
And once more with FEELING... LoL no fuck you. kBye.

I've got a 32" Samsung TV (NOT a "smart"-tv) that I've had for going on 10 years, I use it as a monitor for a Roku "stick" in one of the HDMI ports. Works great.. Probably they don't make any "non-smart-tvs" anymore, so I hope this thing lasts, as I WILL NOT BUY any "smart-tvs" to replace it.

I do believe you are me.... I feel the exact same way about professional sports. These players are paid obscene amounts of money to kick balls around.. I refer to myself as being born withOUT the "sports gene". I care not a bit for pretty much anything that fits the term "sports".. Which is why I'm damn pissed off if I want to subscribe to Disney+ to allow the grandkids to watch the old Disney stuff, before Disney went woke, but I'm stuck paying for that sports abortion called ESPN... F--k ESPN...

After a 20+ year career of supporting Windows, starting with 3.11 in 1990, and ending during the XP to Win7 migration at my last company, when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with using Windows on my personal systems. Since I became aquainted with Linux around 1995, it was now my go-to OS. After seeing the "shit-show" that Windows has become, since Win7, I couldn't be happier with my choice of switching to Linux. Oh I still have some specialized software that Wine does not run, so I have a heavily castrated Win10 LTSC VM that I keep around for those programs..
I feel sorry for those who, for whatever reason, keep using Windows..

I dumped Windows and all other MS software nearly 15 years ago. Now its just me and Linux..

Morons with more money than they know what to do with????

I recall when Musk was saying they were expecting to get perhaps 10 launches out of the first stages.. Now this one did its 31st launch?? DAMNED impressive...

I vote KUbuntu, currently the 24.04LTS version. I've tried Mint and some of the other "introductory" distros, but I keep coming back to Ubuntu and the KDE/Plasma DE.. Your mileage may vary.