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We Must Kill Windows For A Just Future
You never use Windows because you like Windows–you use Windows because it is there. This has been true my entire life. I have lived through the operating system’s ups and downs, including Windows Millennium Edition, which was worse than you could imagine and, somehow, worse than its reputation. But while Windows 10 was sorta okay, Windows 11 is wretched. The day-to-day experience of using it has deteriorated into something dreadful. If we continue to enable Microsoft, the walls will decay and fester eternally. We must escape this cycle of pain together.
Microsoft as a company, minus many of the good gaming companies it bought and the employees at the margins allowed to make tiny useful pieces of software, is a rot plaguing the world. Be it its active aiding in the genocide in Gaza, its unhinged commitment to AI, or just the fact that Windows and the 365 Suite have always sucked a little to use, the compromise that has existed with regular people for a long time has disintegrated. To the extent that computing can be moral, a moral future must be one without Microsoft generally and Windows specifically. We cannot assume that Windows will collapse under its own mediocrity; if that were true it would have happened decades ago. We must kill Windows. We must cut it out from our lives like a tumor; we must systematically consider what we need from it and seek to construct alternatives with purpose. It turns out that’s still quite hard, but every single day the process is easier.