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Do you know that after taste of bad soda? Most soda, really, but I mean specifically that awful post-sweet flavor you get after drinking a C-brand warm soda, or those extremely artificial candy that just makes you go “I just tasted an industrial machine and corn syrup”, those that really make you feel like you’re tasting some awful combination of lab grade chemicals and no food that’s ever existed in nature is present in there.
Imagining that taste in your mouth? That’s how I feel whenever I see or interact with Windows nowadays.
You can’t even call it “personal” computing anymore
It infuriates me to no end that the term “PC” has become indistinguishable from “computer running windows.” Firstly, any personal computer, whether it’s running Windows, MacOS, Linux, TempleOS, etc is a PC/personal computer. Secondly, as you pointed out, Microslop does not allow users to take personal ownership of their computer.
The term PC has been used to mean x86 compatible machines designed to run Microsoft operating systems for 45 years now; IBM started using the term for their model 5150 in 1981. It was too generic to trademark but they did trademark “IBM Personal Computer” and “IBM-PC”. You had other platforms like Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and among them the IBM Personal Computer. That was one company’s branding. If you were releasing software, you’d say “For Mac, Amiga and PC.”
It just so happens the one with the very generic name also happened to be made of almost entirely off-the-shelf parts and a third-party OS they didn’t bother to secure exclusive rights to, so the only thing they really held IP rights over was the BIOS. Compaq engineered a non-infringing BIOS, and boom the PC was now an open standard, and hence it was the one that got widely adopted. “IBM-Compatible” was attempted for awhile, but that kinda died when IBM bowed out of the market entirely, “x86-compatible” is awkward, “Intel-compatible” is also awkward because the 64-bit extensions are actually AMD’s doing, and MS-DOS or MS-Windows compatible is incorrect because other OSes are available. So…we use “PC” to describe the ecosystem as a whole for lack of any better term.
I fucking hate one drive and how it is constantly shoved in your face. Thanks, let me use my computer and save to my computer, that is right here beside me. I know where my computer is and who has access to it. Thanks! I built my computer with storage capacity on purpose?!
Every fucking update it tries to dark pattern me into setting it up. They even have the gall to be like “okay but we’re going to ask again” when you refuse it. I already have a backup, just fuck off.
And people STILL think I’m weird weird for hating 11
Windows is becoming increasingly hostile and really I think the only reason people and businesses still use it is mass Stockholm syndrome.
It’s the ultimate vendor lock. All of our productivity software is on windows, we designed our productivity stacks around windows.
