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renegade-ottertoday at 3:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Installed Mint on my GAMING Windows system, uninstalled Steam on Windows. All is well.

While at it, nuked my old MacBook Pro and Air with Mint too - not like they are getting updates anyway.

It can be done, it should be done. These commercial operating systems have enshitified to a critical point and are beyond repair.


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roxolotltoday at 3:39 PM

The thing that’s weird about this though is it isn’t enshitification. I don’t want to defend the worsening of software quality/ux/ui for monetary gain but at least it’s somewhat rational. This is not a change that emphasizes profit driven changes over user driven ones. Maybe I’m missing some profit motive but it just seems like an awful design choice.

Edit: Not to disagree though. I too have a Linux gaming pc and are helping friends do the same.

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