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I generally try to avoid windows as much as possible, but I'm tech support 
for my wife's computer, so I can't avoid it completely.

Today she got into some page "it seems like you haven't backed up your 
computer in a while...". I thought, OK, I back up my stuff every day, why 
not. Then we had to either remember a microsoft account, which we've used 
in like never. It wanted me to verify who I was, but somehow I could 
nevder seem to get the email it said it was sending me, and then I 
couldn't cancel out of it.

I was stuck, so I decided to  reboot. Next thing I know it's doing updates 
without asking. I'm sitting there watching the spinner and I have no way 
of knowing how progress is going - is this going to take ten minutes or 
ten hours? Finally got to the logon, and it decided to go to the spinner 
again for a while. I had no idea what it was doing, installing, or 
whetever.

When I log on, I got that stupid screen asking if I wanted to upgrade to 
windows 11, followed by some edge thing - I never use edge either. It took 
over half an hour just to be able to read email.

I contrast this with Ubuntu, that asks me nicely If I want to do updates, 
and gives me a choice of components to update. If I say NO it goes away 
and doesn't ask me again for a while. If I decide to update I can see the 
progress as it goes along, no hiding anything behind the curtain.

I HATE WINDOWS!!!!!

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Windows rant Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-05-05 22:37 +0000
  Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-06 01:37 +0000
    Re: Windows rant Not Necessary <not@necessary.invalid> - 2025-06-30 09:37 +0530
      Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-30 06:47 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-06-30 13:41 +0000
        Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-01 00:06 +0000
          Re: Windows rant John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-01 08:13 -0700
        Re: Windows rant Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> - 2025-07-01 20:12 +0200
          Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-02 01:13 +0000
            Re: Windows rant "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-07-02 16:30 +0100
              Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-07-02 20:05 +0000
                Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-02 22:40 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2025-07-15 16:54 +0000
  Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-06 05:13 +0000
    Re: Windows rant scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-06 14:08 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-06 18:38 +0000
        Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-07 19:11 +0000
      Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-07 19:06 +0000
    Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-06 20:41 +0000
      Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-06 22:36 +0000
        Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-07 12:49 +0000
          Re: Windows rant Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-07 21:57 +0000
            Re: Windows rant Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-08 11:50 +0000
              Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-08 19:53 +0000
      Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-07 19:17 +0000
        Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-07 21:52 +0000
  Re: Windows rant Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-06 20:30 +0000
  Re: Windows rant Berend Lettinga <berendlettinga@hotmail.com> - 2025-07-03 17:26 +0200
    Re: Windows rant rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-03 18:33 +0000
      Re: Windows rant John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 11:49 -0700

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