@SilverDeth @icedquinn @noyoushutthefuckupdad @romin @sun I have had the misfortune to be obligated to interact with recent Windows/OSX, and you can't use the damn thing for ten consecutive minutes without a notification popping up. It wants you to update the OS. It wants you to take a tour of features in the program that shows you a calendar. A thing decides suddenly to ask you permission to access your rectal thermometer and your address book. Another update is available. A blue tooth was found, do you want to try to connect to it? The firewall wants your permission to check if another update is available.

I couldn't figure out how to turn most of it off; I know how to turn that stuff off in Linux (it is really easy: just don't install it) and in Plan 9 (even easier: it's really easy to not install something that no one has written). I can only imagine what happens if you are trying to write and are possibly not great with computers. It must be impossible to use a regular computer for this nowadays.
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