If you know the right tool for the task, very few things take time. IMHO what’s more problematic is that with enshitification you’re swimming upstream. Sure as long as the maintainer finds the right trick, you can postpone indefinitely bad “surprises” but ultimately, why do so when proper alternatives more aligned with your Worldview exist?
I agree! But I guess it is a good option for those who still just have to stick, for e.g. IT reasons. That script does a little bit more than a lot of debloating.
Could be any reasons, right? Gotta be mindful of those!..
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Legacy personal projects! Visual Studio!
Some games!
The sudden need for a Windows-only tool!
And some people still don’t want to switch away from… say, their Adobe tools. They don’t want to!
They don’t want to is what!
Same for say… those who want to play multiplayer games with… unfortunately, kernel-anti cheats…
There’s also folk who are stuck for organizational reasons like Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
Here in India, Linux “market-share” jumped up to 14%, sure, but many, many people want to stick to Windows. Linux is an alien concept to most.
I am a happy Debian user, but TBH, it doesn’t take too much longer than 2 hours with Chris Titus Tech’s
winutil.If you know the right tool for the task, very few things take time. IMHO what’s more problematic is that with enshitification you’re swimming upstream. Sure as long as the maintainer finds the right trick, you can postpone indefinitely bad “surprises” but ultimately, why do so when proper alternatives more aligned with your Worldview exist?
I agree! But I guess it is a good option for those who still just have to stick, for e.g. IT reasons. That script does a little bit more than a lot of debloating.
Could be any reasons, right? Gotta be mindful of those!..
…
Legacy personal projects!
Visual Studio!
Some games!
The sudden need for a Windows-only tool!
And some people still don’t want to switch away from… say, their Adobe tools. They don’t want to!
They don’t want to is what!
Same for say… those who want to play multiplayer games with… unfortunately, kernel-anti cheats…
There’s also folk who are stuck for organizational reasons like Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
Here in India, Linux “market-share” jumped up to 14%, sure, but many, many people want to stick to Windows. Linux is an alien concept to most.
Must promote the good thing!
But rationality, man!