With Microsoft bodging the operating system by disabling offline accounts, cramping AI in everything and obviously don’t giving a flying f*** about your personal data: how far did you come sweeping that company from your or your family members life?
For me, it is still hard to evade Microsoft, as for reasons, companies and governments are still buying into that ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Office, Azure, …).
Did you manage to cut or phase Microsoft out?
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Did you manage to cut or phase Microsoft out?
I cut Apple out of mine, never was much into Microsoft but I have been an Apple user since the early 80s. But, yeah I cut it out (to regain my privacy and stop wasting perfectly fine device because of forced upgrade cycles), and I do not miss Apple the slightest. That was 6 years ago, maybe a little more.
My home computers all run Linux (except for an old MBP I still have laying around somewhere). It works fine and I have no reason to want to switch back.
At work I use a Windows 10 thin client to connect to a Windows 11 AVD session so I can remote into a Windows Server 2022 VM. The company is currently investigating ways to chain itself to Microsoft even harder.
Privately, I haven’t managed fully, unfortunately. I am still dual booting atm for my online sim racing & other multiplayer games. Other than that, yes. 🤓
At work though… We are fist deep in MS. Office, Teams, Co-pilot junk. My org even block all search engines other than Bing (& Google).
I asked an IT manager why they are so focused on MS office. He said that it is simply the best and is necessary to stay competitive, and that the business departments wouldn’t accept anything else.
Sad reality for most
Did you manage to cut or phase Microsoft out?
On my personal devices, yes. My main computer has been running on Linux since 2024 and that was a pleasant experience. Everything works. I also do my gaming on the SteamDeck, which also is awesome and does work without any bigger issues. I played some games that were published by publishers that since have been bought by Microsoft. I have no personal Microsoft account , no OneDrive, nothing.
I basically cut Microsoft out in 2001 when I first installed Mandrake Linux, though continued to dual boot until 2006. I had found myself rebooting to Microsoft fairly rarely, so when I had issues with my NTFS partition, I simply didn’t bother to reinstall, and have only ever single booted my desktop since.
I bought a MacBook around 2005, with Mac OS 10.04 (Tiger). Apple wanted to charge me for upgrades, so once support for that finished (I forget when that was) I put Ubuntu on it as a dual boot. Back then the Unity interface of Ubuntu was very similar to that of MacOS. And with the greater freedom that Linux offered me I then ditched MacOS too.
From that time the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever owned was Windows CE on the MediaNav of the two Dacias I owned. I can tell you once I found out they were running Microsoft it was almost a deal breaker 😂
Except for a LinkedIn account (which I currently have disabled) I haven’t used any Microsoft products for probably over a decade.
I am not as lucky at work though since that is unfortunately all in on Microsoft (Teams, Office, Azure, Windows etc).
Not much I can do about that since the company develops a system used by municipalities in my country and they continue to be heavily reliant on Microsofts services in every way possible.
Tried to Install Linux Mint in my sisters laptop. Ext4 cannot be created. Its an onboard ssd.
Will try to Tinker around with Ubuntu and enroll MOK through that, before setting Up Mint. But I’m unsure since I’ve read more Problems than solution to this model.
I have cut microsoft out in 2020. Had enough, I can’t believe some people still put up with their bs. I know some people have no choice when it comes to work, but in personal life it should be a no brainer. I wonder how many people is on windows just because they have never installed any OS and they just don’t know how to. Won’t be a small number I guess.
I have cut microsoft out in 2020. Had enough, I can’t believe some people still put up with their bs.
Some of us couldn’t believe it in 2015 or even 2005.
Fair point 😀
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