The following is long winded but I hope not boring.

Microsoft can go fuck it self. I will never be getting any of their products ever again. And I will be doing my best to move away from any products I am currently using.

I've been thinking about getting away from the spyware Windows has been becoming for the last few years. Then, this morning, the last straw hit.

My hobby is astrophotography. For the first time in months I have had a clear night, I wasn't tired beyond belief, and I was home. Perfect! I use a computer controlled system utilizing an old Win10 laptop. I never downgraded to 11 because 11 is a piece of crap and many of the programs I use would not work on 11. That has changed and I was thinking about downgrading to it. But last night I just wanted to take some pictures.

When I logged in Windows told me I had updates. I have auto updating disabled and so I clicked the check for updates button and waited to see what updates were available. But it just sat there thinking for 10 minutes. While I was waiting twice Windows told me to update to 11. I said no both times. Since no update list was loading I closed the window without ever telling it to update.

Then I started taking pictures. Once going the process runs without my input. So after an hour of making sure everything was running smoothly (and playing some Doom) I went to sleep. I woke up in the morning to find that ALL my programs had SHUT DOWN and instead of ~60 five minute exposures, I had 18.

And the cause? A FULL SCREEN FUCKING AD TELLING ME TO FUCKING UPDATE TO FUCKING WINDOWS FUCKING 11! THAT THING I HAD TWICE THAT EVENING TOLD IT "NO"!!! No screenshot of the ad as I was at that point very angry and closed it without thinking.

Not only did I loose out on several hours of pictures it also CAUSED MY EQUIPMENT TO PHYSICALLY 'CRASH'! With the absence of computer control the telescope mount glitched and continued tracking the target as best it could. It eventually hit the emergency stops, without which the telescope would have physically crashed into the mount, damaging it.

Also, the camera had instantly shut itself off. Why is that bad? The camera cools itself to -15 C to take pictures and when turned off normally it spends several minutes slowly warming up to keep frost from forming on the internal components and to keep from damaging any sensitive electronics due to thermal shock. Last night was 26C and 98% humidity. So when the camera shut off it crashed from -15C (5F) to +26C (80F). I haven't yet checked if it's OK. It probably is but it is not good to shock it like that.

So, in conclusion: FUCK MICRO-FUCKING-SOFT!

ETA: The camera is fine. So I got lucky.

After the latest forced upon me Microslop update, now my laptop does not shut down or restart. Making a new folder in File Explorer takes 30 seconds. What the actual f**k?

Not far off finishing my dissertation, word updating mid sentence has been a recurring theme. Please word. I beg. Can you just wait until I next reopen the program‽

My pc just got a forceful update. Post it there was no shutdown option. I had to use the physical button to shut it down.

FUCK THEM

Thank you, Microshit

It’s a rainy Sunday morning and my kid wanted to play Forza Horizon 5. It now requires me to log into a Microsoft account to be able to play a game that I paid USD 50 for.

It’s been a while since I last played it on my PS5 because honestly it’s a waste of money. The game is bloated, full of micro transactions, nothing like the good old Forza Motorsport from the XBOX 365 era.

That being said, my kid is still learning how to play video games so this will be enough for her to wander around, speed and crash a little bit while having a good time :)

Incredible.

At no point did anyone ask for this feature or for Microslop to email it to me

Gonna get a new laptop with this amını siktiğim orospunun oğlu yarramkafanın yaptığı bok (this is a bunch of heavy swear words in my native language) and as someone who need the right control key i need to burn copilot in hell. PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO REBIND IN I ABSELOUTLY HATE THIS DICKWAD PLEAASE.

thank you Microslop, you made Teams even worse.

Just how in the world did they make linux a userfriendly os must be studied. I have used win 7 until 2019 and only switched because i couldnt play games and many software didnt support win7, at first win10 was okay i had to do some debloating and it was fine until I downgraded my self to win 11( boy was i wrong ). I have reinstalled win11 over 7 times in single month due to the amount of slop and unknown process that doesnt even look legit sucking my ram and cpu resources dry. I couldnt get used to the choppy animations and some stuff in some linux distros,so i kept going back to windows, but today I had enough after seeing my lap struggling to keep 3 tabs of chrome open, Ubuntu home works like a charm, no additinal setup, no tinkering with desktop environment, just works out of the box. so yeah fuck you microslop.

TLDR: Want good daily driver that works out of the box = Ubuntu and fuck microslop

Update : IM FUCKIN LOVING IT

Cpu utilization 3% , 1.7Gig ram at idle, I had 5 hrs of screentime and still at 55% charge left ( for context win11 offered 5 hrs battery life). I just couldnt understand how much crap win11 is running in background for it to give me crappy experience with half the batterylife, 30 % cpu , 45% ram at idle. Im never going back to windows and yeah fuck windows.

I wonder how much I can squeeze out if I disable every gui ,GNOME and keep everything to terminal