Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping! So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex (booo, but still better than windows) and Bazzite!
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping! So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex (booo, but still better than windows) and Bazzite!
I tried this 15ish year ago with my parents, and the results were mixed. Windows wasn’t as egregious back then, with its spying and pre-installed garbage, but it did have a tendency to accumulate bloat over time. So my parents’ computer would get unusably slow after a couple years. I installed Ubuntu on their system and it solved the bloat problem. It lasted for years without slowing down. The issues they ran into were compatibility. They’d buy a new camera and the connection wouldn’t work. Or their friend would send them an attachment and there’d be no default viewer for the filetype. I suspect those issues have been mostly solved, but they’ve moved back to Windows and are running into the same bloat problems. Now they’re thinking of moving to apple.
Man, I would be happy if my parents used any computer.