NO!

i had the misfortune yesterday of setting up a new Windows 11 PC for a non-profit that I do some volunteer work with. the amount of times that it re-enabled OneDrive, after I had already disabled it, was infuriating. In less than an hour, it re-connected my credentials to the stupid fucking machine half a dozen times and began to download my personal files, without anything resembling consent.

The experience was enough to finally get me to set up my own NextCloud instance so that I can get rid of all cloud files (OneDrive, iCloud, and google drive) for good. Fuck these fucking companies and their enshittified products.

Needing an account to set up an OS is such bullshit. I would do anything to avoid that.
- No doubt!

I'm ashamed to say that it took me installing Windows 11 on my mother in law's laptop while running a pihole and seeing the amount of requests to shady data brokers the install wizard made to finally move to Linux.

If I had known how seemless everything is, especially with distros like Bazzite, I would have switched way sooner.

I put up with them for longer than I should have, I admit, but taking screenshots of everything I do made me jump ship. It's bad enough that it isn't opt-in, but I imagine all choice will be removed within three years.

This is exactly why I started using mint this weekend. I figured it's time I get comfortable with Linux because even though microsuck says recall can be disabled, I 10000% guarantee once the windows 10 deadline passes and they get as many people over to windows 11 as possible we'll suddenly see the "oops, it's required now. Can't disable it or you break windows!" message.
That's what i love about Microsoft, they just keep pumping out excellent reasons to switch away from windows!
I switched after a forced win10 update bricked my computer for the third time in less than a month 👌
Welcome to linux, brother

I was on windows 11 for a while before finally kicking it. Linux mint is my poison!

Took me a while, but I moved to Mint as well. Getting it to 'feel' right after 30 years on windoze is the hard part, but Im getting there
- Don't worry, it'll start getting better and that feeling will not stop. It's worth sticking out, maybe even trying a few flavors (Mint is a tasty one, though).
  I've been FOSSing it up since just before the pandemic, and I have yet to utilize most of the convenience Linux provides. Maybe the best way to put it, is that I didn't realize that I was in a cramped clown car back in my windows days, and now I'm still in that wierd, double-up position in my new, solarpunk limousine. I rarely touch the cli (maybe even less than the cmd tool in the start menu in Windows), but am slowly coming to terms with the possibilities.
  The memes definitely hit harder.

I'm one with the FOSS and the FOSS is with me

I’m one with the FOSS and the FOSS is with me

serious question: is the implication that Linux users are teetotalers? Or am I overthinking this?

We are teetotaling proprietary operating systems, so yes
- We are teetotaling anything properitary. (Or just u am.)
  I am never trusting any properitary software for anything ever again and always assume the worst.
Obviously overthinking
No. The original meme is about not drinking specificly the day before the first of may
- No. The original poster was an early soviet anti-drinking poster. One thing that people forget is that the USSR in its early days actually had alcohol prohibition. It was lifted under Stalin, however.
  Alcoholism was just as big a problem in Tsarist Russia as it is in Russia today.
nah lmao

"Ответственный взрослый говорит «нет» проприетарным операционным системам."

Original text.

Het!

Man, I so WISH I could say no to windows. I would install Mint today if I could. It just won't install. It begins to install and then just hangs for hours and never installs. I've tried other distros and they all fail, one way or another. I'm pretty sure (but not positive) it has something to do with my bios settings but no matter what I try, I have no luck.

You can probably get it working with some outside help.
Maybe !linux4noobs@programming.dev
- Hey thanks for the reply. I wasn't aware of that community. Thanks very much!

Sorry, where did you get this from? Because, either you adapted one of my memes (yipee, I did something fun!), or we had the exact same idea, at about the same time (I'm so sorry for that, in such a case).

Got this poster off the internet, changed the text by cutting it out and putting a background behind the hole that was the same colour, added text, got the logo off wikipedia. All in GIMP.
Looks like we share a braincell.
- Exactly the same process. Here. Yippee, same brain cell!