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I finally nuked windows (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by IsoSpandy@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 79 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows

Sounds like you took your time, got comfortable, found a distro you liked, and generally did it all the right way. Now watch as with each new headline you see about Windows or MS you become happier and happier with your decision. There's no better advertisement for Linux than the behavior of MS and Windows. 😁

Congrats on dumping Windows. One of us! One of us!

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Early 2000s, Microsoft starts putting sketchy telemetry into XP: 🙂

Late 2000s, MS ramps that shit up even more with Vista and 7 while the bloat rises to never before seen levels with the architecture change to 64 bit: 😁

Early 2010s, MS includes actual fucking ads into the OS: 😆

Early 2020s, MS jams AI into it because it's the thing to do and everybody else is doing it after nobody really asked: 🤣

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

Fuck Microsoft.

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Plus I was super creeped out by the news that apparently Microsoft tries to decrypt files I have stored encrypted on my one drive and by default sets up my home directory to be on one drive. What the fuck

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

holy shit, if that's true then I'm so nuking windows off my machines

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-is-scanning-the-inside-of-password-protected-zip-files-for-malware/

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

wow.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's that "one of us, one of us" reference?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I never even wondered about it until you asked lol. But the answer is pretty interesting.

Origin is this scene from a very old film called Freaks. https://youtu.be/bBXyB7niEc0

https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/24069

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[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did not expect that!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Same! Apparently it's been referenced in bunches of other things though.