I was happy Win10 was approaching EoL, and that they said 22H2 would be last major update for it, cuz I wanted Microsoft to stop f*cking with the OS and just leave it the f*ck alone. I plan to use it well past EoL like I did Win7. I'm not happy about their renewed interest in it, not at all. Is it because Win11 adoption and usage is below Win10? If not enough people are using Win11, then all the fancy new annoying features Microsoft wants to cram down people's throats can't be delivered. So I guess maybe now they will figure out how to do that in Win10. But of course it won't be the sh1t that might actually be useful, like AutoHDR or the full version of DirectStorage, oh no. Those will stay exclusive to Win11. But Win10 users will get all the other crap, like AI nonsense, or maybe this new Recall crap. How wonderful.
It still pisses me off that after Win7, Microsoft no longer allowed you to pick-and-choose individual updates. I kept of list of which updates to avoid for Win7 (a lot of it was annoying sh1t related to nagging people to upgrade to Win10). If Win10 was like that, I could avoid all the crap I don't want, and still grab security updates and sh1t. But nope, we don't have that kind of freedom anymore. Freedom, well that's what Linux is for. Windows to me is just a "game console" now. I switch to it for gaming, or for the few programs I use that don't have Linux versions, and can't/shouldn't be used through Wine. And a lot of the games I play run fine on Linux, not to mention emulators (some of which are better on Linux), so sometimes I don't even need to switch to Windows to game. As time goes on, more and more I think Win7's greatness wasn't the result of purposeful design. It think it was a happy accident. We're not gonna get that lucky again.
We keep hoping that Win11 is just one of the bad ones we tend to skip over every other generation or so. But the way things are going, do we really think Win12 is gonna be any better than Win11? It might just be one continuous downward spiral from here on out. I hope it's not, but you never know.
