@lina @waifu people pirate Windows since 3.11, and as much as Microsoft does that song and dance about "the ebul pirates", they enjoy it, because piracy was what kept Windows at a billion % marketshare. I actually wouldn't put past it Microsoft itself "leaking" the pirated versions to help train people who will demand Windows machines in the workplace.

And the spyware aspect is getting worse day by day. My company-issued laptop runs Windows, and these past few weeks I was forced to use it more (I tend to use my home desktop for work, but I'm not at home), and that copilot thing already started working, it seems, and shit is absolutely scary. These fuckers are literally screenshoting and recording everything you do, even if my machine doesn't have a NPU (which, according to Microsoft, was a prereq for it to work so it could be done locally), I still can push a button and Windows will show me screens with documents, pictures and web pages I opened weeks ago, and tell me what they are so "I can find what I'm looking for easier".

Honestly, I've been considering getting permission from my manager to wipe out Windows and install openSuse or something like that instead.