Start menu ruined. All the UI is garbage. Fucking OneDrive.

I'm over it. Shopping distros as we speak.

Edit - Making this edit from a fresh Linux Mint install. Cheers.

Maybe that's where the loop starts.

Windows 7 was the last good Windows. It was a nice polished OS that had the last decent search feature. 8 was a mess (it started without a start button) and then all the bloat/ads that came with 10 and above

To be fair, Windows has huge, maybe even unreasonable, demands placed on it for backward compatibility due to corps not wanting to dump their 30 year old legacy software. And to Microsoft's credit, they actually manage to do that pretty well while maintaining a reasonably stable OS. Most of the time, anyway.

The increasing interest in using Windows as a conduit for ads and data collection is what they really chafes me and is the primary reason I'm slowly moving away from Windows.

Yeah its the original example of enshittification for sure

But Windows is unique in that it can fit a whole lot of shit in it. Way more than one could imagine.

Minecraft, Chrome etc are a 7 litre compost caddy of shit. Windows is a vast open country waiting to be turned into landfill of human waste.

Thanks. I was legitimately confused by Minecraft because I never saw anything negative added to Java edition but I've never played Bedrock. Minecraft keeps pumping out free content updates so they seem like a good example of what to do for a company.

Additional stuff:

Reddit - becoming more and more like a typical social media website with profile customizations and instant messaging.

Netflix - ads and now only limited to one household.

Chrome - might be the bloatiest of all chromium based browsers

Bedrock is pretty full of microtransactions, upsells, and ads, and the Mojang to Microsoft account migration for Java made a lot of people lose their accounts entirely.

But the core gameplay of both editions is still fine, and Java is consistently getting more mod-friendly with each release. You also don't actually have to buy anything in Bedrock; it's mostly just annoying.

I don't really agree that Minecraft is getting enshittified, but I can see why others might.

Windows was enshittified decades before it was even a concept. Grandaddy of enshittification.

when bedrock edition was introduced, I’d say

the marketplace, character creator and partnered servers all have very predatory monetization

thankfully java resisted enshittification for the most part

And google (the search engine)

I think it's bedrock edition and the many cash grab spinoffs. Afaik og Minecraft is only better than it ever was.

I had the same reaction. Enshittification came for Windows more than a decade ago, WTH are they thinking with this meme?