 It has been probably close to three years since I've used Windows for any amount of time. I've been very proud of myself in that I've switched completely to Linux on all of my computers for the last five years and there was only a brief period there where I was dual booting and even when I dual booted most of the time I spent my time in Linux. I never even bothered booting into Windows and it was just like it wasn't even there. And I've also been proud of myself in that I've gotten several members of my family to switch to Linux. These are people that I have to help with their technical problems every time their computer craps to bed. So it makes it easier on me that they use some version of Linux. Now my dad uses Ubuntu, a couple of other members of my family use Linux Mint, surprise I did switch to Linux Mint but Cinnamon is really good. The point is that there's one person in my family that just refuses to switch to Linux. Now they have good reasons like the file picker problem that I've talked about on the channel many times before still exists so there's good reasons for them to still use Windows. The point is that I have to actually, you know, service that computer and I've come to a realization like I knew this, like I knew this bone deep in my soul that Windows was terrible but it's not something that is in my face every day, right? So last night my mom has been having problems with her computer now for a couple of weeks. She's the one that won't switch to Linux. She has to use a Windows machine and it's fine but whatever. Because she's been having these problems I've been putting off actually fixing them because I hate Windows so much but last night I decided I was going to just fix them now. Most of my actual intelligence when it comes to fixing a Windows computer at least these days seems to be just Nuke and Pave. It seems to be the best solution for any problem when your computer starts running slow and it has just a ton of bugs and it was running really hot. Nuke and Pave seems to be the best way to solve it. Maybe it's not the most technologically minded way of actually solving Windows problem but it's the way I chose to solve this problem. And because I decided to do this and I had to go through and back up all of her data and all this stuff I had to spend several hours in Windows and Windows are loving to be specific. And I've come to a conclusion like I said before I've always known that Windows is terrible but having it right in front of me. Windows is awful. Windows is so, so bad. I'm so used to being able to do whatever I want with my computer. If I want to uninstall something on my computer even something that I shouldn't install. If I wanted to uninstall sudo I could do that. You shouldn't do that but you could do it if you wanted to. The system is not going to stop you. It might warn you but it's not going to stop you. You can do it. On Windows you can remove Microsoft Teams but the icon for it that is in the task bar can't be removed. It has to stay there. Like what? Like no that's not the way computers are supposed to work. Let me remove the icon if I don't want it there. My mom doesn't use Microsoft Teams. She doesn't need the Teams icon in the task bar. Let me just remove it. And on top of that every manufacturer of a laptop adds just tons and tons of garbage on their machines. So even if you want to get away from some of that stuff you have to go through item by item uninstall it. Now the thing is I was going to actually get a clean install of Windows 11 off the internet and do it that way but I lost internet midway through the whole process so I ended up having to do a restore on the system through the Windows restore process and that just reinstalled all the Dell nonsense that is there like 30 or 40 programs all of which were running in the background and we were wondering why the computer was running slow. Of course it was running slow if all these programs were running in the background like every single one of these had a process. It was so stupid I just need to calm down. Windows is back like it's one of those things like like I said before it's it's one thing to know that Windows is terrible. It's another thing to be confronted with it over and over again when you use it like it's just the whole browser thing like my mom uses Google Chrome 90% of the world so I had to install Google Chrome on it. Getting that thing to be set as a default browser is painful. You have to go and set Google Chrome for each and every file extension that could possibly be related to the browser as the default. Like no that's just not that's not OK. That's not good user design and whoever thought it was good user design deserves to be fired and should never work in a programming or design functionality job again like that should never be hired. They should go work at a grocery store. That's more their speed. That is horrible design and maybe it's not even their fault. They were probably ordered to do it that way. In which case Microsoft is an evil corporation. We all knew that they were. But that's just I mean it's just that is so bad. Can you imagine if that was the default on Linux? We'd be hanging Linus Torvalds up by short and Curly's if he tried to pull something like that and he wouldn't like obviously wouldn't. But the point is like there would be no way we'd ever put up with something like that on the Linux side. Even an organization like GNOME that is very much a do it our way or not at all kind of organization. They have a very firm idea of where they want their desktop environment to go. Even they have ways of working around all of their wall garden. Right. It's easy to it actually it's fairly easy to customize GNOME if you want to do it. You're not supposed to do it but you could do it if you wanted to. Whereas with Windows how would you even go about removing that Microsoft Teams icon? Would you have to like edit a registry entry or something like that? I don't even know. The point is that it's very much it'd be very much a hack right and eventually probably with an update it would come back right. That once they've done a registry update or whatever that icon would come back. The point of the whole video and I just wanted to rant a little bit because I've literally pulled an all nighter working on that damn laptop and Windows sucks. Now that I've used Windows 11 even more Windows sucks even more than I thought it did. And honestly I didn't even think that was possible. I mean Windows is God awful. And if you have to use Windows like I have to use Google Docs for work. I can't stand Google Docs. They're so bad but I have to use it for work. So I understand having to use an operating system or something for work that you don't necessarily want to use. If you're in that position where you have to use Windows for work I am so sorry for you. Like I really truly feel your pain and here's hoping that someday everyone can use Linux because Linux is just I actually I think that this whole experience has just made me appreciate Linux even more. 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