The more I hear about Windows 11...
Jul. 5th, 2023 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solon_kitten...the more I wanna stick with Windows 7. I'm listening to the latest Windows Weekly podcast, and apparently, they've been forcing OneDrive integration into Win11 Home, and widgets are now showing ads at times? The longer Satya Nadella's tenure at Microsoft goes, the more sketchy Windows becomes, and I really don't like that.
It's funny too, because I was about to start on a blog post about Windows XP, and wanting to just stick to the XP Mode VM for a bit when I write, just for that feeling of being able to go offline again. Because ever since Windows 10 RTM, that OS has driven me bonkers, Windows 11 makes me scared shitless for my data, modern MacOS is too expensive for me, and modern Linux...well, I've ranted about that plenty, but I'll save it for its own post, because that's a novel in and of itself. Just...there is not a single modern OS that gives me a reason to trust it, much less use it.
That's part of why I cherish my MacBook Pro. It does what I need, I can play games that I enjoy (even with only 256MB of VRAM and 8GB of memory), my accessories work with it, and my selection of software is nice enough that I don't worry about not having something to do a thing I want to do. Between Windows 7, MacOS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and whatever I can run in VMs (including things like Win98, WinXP, NextSTEP, and Linux), I'm good. I'm perfectly good, and don't need to upgrade.
And for anyone who yells "It's insecure!", I say this: there is not a single machine on the internet that is secure. Not...a single...machine, on any OS. And with how many people store their data in the cloud, cloud servers are no more secure. They're computers on a network. It's never a matter of if, but when. At least with my stuff, I have air-gapped backups in multiple locations. I'm not nearly as worried about a local vulnerability, as I am someone hacking one of my accounts outside of my network. I can't do too much to protect myself there, outside of multi-factor authentication (which I use wherever possible) and fully randomized passwords (thank you, KeePassXC).
And with that rant out of my system, I'm going to finally get some sleep.
It's funny too, because I was about to start on a blog post about Windows XP, and wanting to just stick to the XP Mode VM for a bit when I write, just for that feeling of being able to go offline again. Because ever since Windows 10 RTM, that OS has driven me bonkers, Windows 11 makes me scared shitless for my data, modern MacOS is too expensive for me, and modern Linux...well, I've ranted about that plenty, but I'll save it for its own post, because that's a novel in and of itself. Just...there is not a single modern OS that gives me a reason to trust it, much less use it.
That's part of why I cherish my MacBook Pro. It does what I need, I can play games that I enjoy (even with only 256MB of VRAM and 8GB of memory), my accessories work with it, and my selection of software is nice enough that I don't worry about not having something to do a thing I want to do. Between Windows 7, MacOS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), and whatever I can run in VMs (including things like Win98, WinXP, NextSTEP, and Linux), I'm good. I'm perfectly good, and don't need to upgrade.
And for anyone who yells "It's insecure!", I say this: there is not a single machine on the internet that is secure. Not...a single...machine, on any OS. And with how many people store their data in the cloud, cloud servers are no more secure. They're computers on a network. It's never a matter of if, but when. At least with my stuff, I have air-gapped backups in multiple locations. I'm not nearly as worried about a local vulnerability, as I am someone hacking one of my accounts outside of my network. I can't do too much to protect myself there, outside of multi-factor authentication (which I use wherever possible) and fully randomized passwords (thank you, KeePassXC).
And with that rant out of my system, I'm going to finally get some sleep.
