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So Windows 10 is a couple days away from its EOL date. This means that it will no longer get any more updates, and now we are gonna enter into a dark timeline of Windows 11, React in the start menu, and AI in every corner. And well, it fucking sucks. It sucks because not everyone wants to switch to Windows 11, or actually want to switch to hardware that actually supports it. And there are really good reasons why not to upgrade to this version of the OS. It is probably the worst version of Windows so far, infested with AI, ads, bloatware and every other thing that made you hate computers.

I’ve used Windows 10 for probably as much as I’ve used XP at this point, hell, probably even for more. It is that shitty operating system where I started to do most of my work on, school work, university projects, job hunting, YouTube watching and time procrastinating… On every computer I owned since 2015, Windows 10 was always there. It was still shit, don’t get me wrong. You needed to hack the shit out of the registry to get some semblance of privacy. You needed to fight the auto installing adware that Microsoft used to push out on the start menu. You often ended up with knife fights with OneDrive over the control of your files. It was fucking awful, lmao, yet I stayed here. And eventually got used to the awfulness. Microsoft would auto update your perfect Windows 7 computer to Windows 10, consent be dammed. The UI was a mish-mash of all your favorite Windows UIs of all time, stare into the Windows hell long enough, and you may find some long forgotten program from Windows 3.1 deep in the OS files, and they can’t remove it because some company out there still relies on that one program to actually work. Windows 10 is kinda like a ship of Theseus, with components moved around, elements moved to different places, and menus tweaked and retweaked constantly, sometimes for the best, but other times for the worst. I still remember the so called creators update where Microsoft added tools like 3D viewer, or Paint 3D, weird tools that only 4 people used ever. I really liked Paint 3D, I thought it was simple and easy to use to an extent (also I can remove the background easily and make them PNG files). If you compare the first release of Windows 10 to the most recent, you will instantly notice that there are many differences across the two versions. It is kinda weird.

I guess here is where I bring Linux into this. People go on and on about how great Linux is. But I feel every time I try Linux for an extended amount of time, I quickly find out that there are problems. New problems. Problems that I wouldn’t thought to worry about on Windows. Nvidia still doesn’t work out of the box on Linux. Wayland is still in this weird state where it works until it doesn’t. Programs sometimes like to crash, but give no warning because the only way you see the warning is if you launch it with the terminal. Getting apps on Linux is still a fucking mess. There are so many packaging formats, which doesn’t matter anyways since most proprietary apps would just offer a .deb package and call it a day. Ente Auth didn’t work for a couple of weeks because the Flatpak app decided to just stop working. I found random glitches and artifacting specifically on Electron apps. And gaming, the supposedly one thing that Linux can do great out of the box is really hit or miss sometimes. Linux is great, but even to this day still has so many annoyances and stupid little issues that makes you wonder if it even is worth using it for anything serious.

And I don’t think Windows 12 will be any better. Microsoft seems to be planning to integrate AI deeper into the operating system. I think that tick-tock cycle of one Windows version being good, and then the next version being abysmal dogshit is now broken, and now the cycle is now “bad version of Windows” and “worse version of Windows”. If I had it my way, I would still be using Windows 7 for everything, because Windows 7 actually worked, and I didn’t need to hack the shit out of it just to get a working system. Windows 7 had a beautiful design, not as boring as the flat ugliness of Windows 10 and without the tackiness of Apple’s Liquid Glass. Windows 7 didn’t pester you with AI bullshit or other annoyances. Windows 7 didn’t try to move your files without asking. Windows 7 didn’t auto install Candy Crush, Clipchamp, or any other bloatware without asking you. Windows 7 simply got out of your way, and I think that is something that we are missing from computers nowadays. Computers are trying to do too much things nowadays. and the AI bullshit isn’t helping with this at all. And while the LTSC versions of Windows get close to what Windows 7 offered, it is just simply not the same.

So I suppose rest in peace, Windows 10. You fucking sucked. And I don’t think people will miss this Windows in the same way people miss XP, or 7. I think at best it will be looked back as a cautionary tale on not what to do when making an OS. I really don’t know what I’d use now, but apparently you can get ESU updates using MAS Activator. Or I may just upgrade to Windows 11 LTSC, which doesn’t have bloatware at all, or try using Linux once again or something. Who knows.

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