OtterCynical<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@FlashMobOfOne" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FlashMobOfOne</span></a></span> I'll do you one better. I'm uninstalling <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> wholesale, because I have finally lost interest in harboring corpo malware/gov <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/spyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spyware</span></a> on my devices intentionally anymore, which doesn't seem to offer any valid advantage itself over other systems anyway.</p><p><a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/windowsupdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowsupdate</span></a>, <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/msstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msstore</span></a>, <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/msdefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdefender</span></a>, search app, <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/edgebrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edgebrowser</span></a>, shell-embedded ads, nonstop logging and telemetry, things just refusing to function reasonably because Windows knows that it's a day that ends in "Y" -- Windows ceaselessly masturbating itself in various elaborate ways finally ran out my last iota of sanity.</p><p>In my assessment, the point of me having my computer was for me to use it, not just to have it sit there wasting time touching itself — and galavanting in the background with my system resources as if it had worse ADHD than me while I seethe and reach for the <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/ProcessHacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProcessHacker</span></a> on my taskbar that I've kept perpetually open with Admin rights for most of the last decade (along with <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/ResMon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResMon</span></a> and <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/TaskMgr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaskMgr</span></a>; in order to combat Windows' defensive strategy of gaslighting the user about what it is or isn't doing) — instead of actually doing what I tell it to.</p><p>Anyway, enough about bad operating systems. Anybody happen to feel any particular preference between <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/CrunchBangPlusPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrunchBangPlusPlus</span></a> (#!++) and <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/BunsenLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BunsenLabs</span></a> <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a>? Haven't decided yet which I'm settling on (I have them both loaded on a <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/liveusb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liveusb</span></a> using <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/Easy2Boot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Easy2Boot</span></a> / <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/Ventoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ventoy</span></a>), but I was a daily driver of og <a href="https://is.nota.live/tags/CrunchBangLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrunchBangLinux</span></a> back in the day.</p>