Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

Every last update is adding just a little bit more intrusion, from the news articles, the required user accounts, the updates without asking any form of permission from the user, and more.

The only reason, and I mean the only reason, that I continue running it on any of my machines is that software often won't support Linux for edge case situations like VR games.

Also performance is just trash. If you've tried to run windows on a non ssd in the last decade, it's an absolute slog.

I'm slowly but surely trying to cut this windows software out of my life.

This is also making me strongly consider moving off of .net and looking into any alternative I can find for it, which the only real option at this point is probably Kotlin.

What I hate about this is that it pretends to be something else - "light rain starting soon" with a cloud icon. But the result is the weather taking up very little real estate. And on top of that you _can't_ make the weather take up more space. It's always the smallest tile on the page.

What I don't understand is how _file explorer_ can be so slow. It's visibly lagging between directories, first-opening etc. That's a fundamental part of the OS. I believe there is so much phone-home going on that nothing on Windows is slick anymore.

>This is also making me strongly consider moving off of .net and looking into any alternative I can find for it, which the only real option at this point is probably Kotlin.

Even MS themselves moved from their proprietary .NET implementation to .NET Core, which works just fine in Linux. But I'd give a +1 to Kotlin anyway, its a great language. I'm also fond of using Python with Pydantic to enforce type checking.

I am not crazy prone to trust the open source dotnet core. Even if it's open source, it's still Microsoft.

I feel like people give open source way too much credit in general when it comes to how it can be abused. There is still a very very large barrier to control over the ecosystem when it comes to core, so if Microsoft decides to start getting to 4E the project I fully believe they'll succeed.

I will 100 percent look into that python option though. The main reason I've ruled it out is performance. JVM and Core just thrash python in terms of out of the box speed.

This is often a sign of a problem with your file system, or worse, your drive.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

It's not necessarily or often a huge problem, but it's still enough to cause this. I've never had chkdsk fail to fix these little issues.