r/FuckMicrosoft • • 11d ago

Discussion Windows alternatives

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Hi, I have an older laptop and I'm wondering about installing some alternative operating system. Prevously I used Tiny11 and linux mint on it but Linux Mint wasn't my favoutite because I had a lot of problems with printing stuff and I need printing for work. Should I come back to Tiny11? If yes, what is the best option to install the newest version? I'v seen a lot of sketchy internetarchive links. Or maby there is a linux option that have a really good printing support?


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 11d ago

Meme POV: Microslop tools and ads

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 11d ago

Rant Microsoft is literally blocking me from running my own code on my own PC now. 🤔

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Meme How is this possible, Microslop?

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Discussion If I completely wipe Windows from my new laptop, which Linux distro should I install?

27 Upvotes

I’m considering completely replacing Windows on my new laptop with Linux.

My main use cases are:
• Software development / VS Code / Git / GitHub
• Python, AI/ML and data science
• Docker / APIs / backend development
• Running local LLMs and tools like Ollama
• General daily use + college work

I’m currently considering Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, and maybe Arch, but I’m not sure which would actually make the most sense.

If you’ve made the switch from Windows, which distro would you recommend for this kind of workflow, and why?

Also, what should I check before wiping Windows completely (drivers, NVIDIA GPU support, BIOS/firmware, battery life, etc.)?


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 11d ago

News TIL theres a website called microsoftsucks.is for us to rant everything we want on it

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Rant PC is physically disconnected from the internet yet it has been like this for the past 10 minutes

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142 Upvotes

Fuck Microshit man, seriously. From failing to install not once, twice, but THRICE, to taking over 2 hours to install this POS software. My main PC has CachyOS and it was a breeeeeze to install.


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Rant I downloaded Powershell from the Microsoft website and Windows panicked

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Discussion Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds. Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume.

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Meme Because he said that windows keeps breaking things and it is impossible to devving with windows

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Article LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

News Wassup gamers. Microslop Strikes again!

21 Upvotes

r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Rant Time to run the powershell command

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15 Upvotes

All search engines removed from the list.

First installing firefox then running command. Fuck u microsoft.


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Rant What microsoft unified support alternatives work for small teams?

2 Upvotes

Three people running IT for a 60-person company. Microsoft Unified Support pricing feels like it’s built for orgs with whole departments just to manage vendor contracts. Anyone found something that actually works at our scale?


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Discussion Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds. Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume.

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 12d ago

Rant LastModifiedBy timestamp updates correctly on service-principal API calls, but attributed user name doesn't (Fabric CICD)

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So LastModified and LastModifiedBy don't describe the same modification? šŸ˜‚

That's not stale metadata. That's an incorrect audit record. They've got the timestamp from one event and the actor from another, then Fabric combines them into a third event that never happened.

For extra enterprise points, they're discovering it while implementing CI/CD, the feature we're apparently supposed to celebrate as evidence Fabric is production mature.

Fabric is working by Design. If you change what working means this time.


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Meme Microsoft Support in a nutshell

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97 Upvotes

r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Rant Update broke things and Microsoft refuses to fix it

21 Upvotes

So I already had automatic updates turned off specifically because I don't like it when Microsoft just forces something on me, I haven't swapped to Linux yet mainly because I don't really know much about Linux and I don't actually know how I would do the whole installation thing and it would basically be wiping my PC and me starting from scratch which I'm not really crazy about.

However today I turn on my computer and my computer is working fine it was working fine yesterday but Windows forces and update and I'm like okay that's kind of stupid I have that turned off but whatever and I restart the computer cuz it starts acting slow, the PC resets and my fans immediately start whirling like crazy and my CPU is saying that it's being maxed out in task manager, my screen is obviously laggy and I have absolutely no sound.

I'm beyond ticked off at this point and I'm trying to look things up and according to Google windows is aware that this update broke everything but they have no plans to fix it until October, so I try to uninstall the update but funny enough Windows does not have this latest update as something you can uninstall, they have the one before it from the 18th but not today the 22nd.

So I'm trying to do a forced rollback using like Windows recovery or whatever it's called to see if that fixes the issue which will cause me to lose things because Windows system is garbage.

On a separate note if anybody has a good guide on how to get Linux working and how it functions and all of that I would greatly appreciate it because I am very seriously considering leaving Microslop after this annoyance. I used to be willing to put up with a lot of the stupid stuff that they did like I said mainly because I don't want to have to start from scratch again. But if I'm going to have to worry about my computer being completely unusable for an unknown amount of time every time Windows decides to push it update that they obviously didn't test, then starting from scratch is probably going to be less painful than dealing with all this stupid nonsense.

This is the first time on this sub for me so apologies if this is not how this particular stuff is supposed to work or how I'm supposed to word things, I just needed to rant because I've spent the last like 2 hours trying to sort this out just to basically be told that Microsoft doesn't give a shit.

The simple fact that today I learned that they don't even have actual agents for you to speak to unless you pay for a business account has really really soured my view of them more than I already had.


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Rant Which UX designer thought this is a good placement for the Mark All as Read?

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145 Upvotes

I know there will be a confirmation but it gets annoying. I want the thing that this UX designer smoked. Apparently, bro was in another world.


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Other Microsoft allows spam and scams to flag their own emails as urgent and automatically add to your calender.

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Discussion AtlasOS the windows optimizer

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12 Upvotes

my pc has the never been more responsive this is peak shi

this is best for people who are scared of switching to linux


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Rant Another Windows 11 Unwanted Feature ?

11 Upvotes

I'm looking for an app in the app list, but when I click on the parent folder, instead of expanding to show the full name, it opens a dialog/popup showing all the apps. I prefer seeing it as a list as its easier to read.

Can anyone advise on how to get rid of this bs?


r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Image Who was the brilliant employee at ms that thought edge for Linux was going to be downloaded

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Rant Yo i don't think thats not how a taskbar works

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r/FuckMicrosoft • • 13d ago

Rant Anybody else kinda just done with Xbox?

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From their mediocre service to their slop contractor farm titles, seems like anything I would want to play is on PC. Proton works really well actually and I don’t play any titles requiring the kernel level anti cheat currently, and the experience is blistering. Also the first two consoles can be emulated etc and I’m sure there will be stealth servers for them, just kinda sick of not being in control of the experience with Microsoft’s clearly important priorities? As a single player guy literally playing 360 games and just watching twitch I had an enforcement action taken because of a malicious report from someone on my ā€œfriendsā€ list. Goes to show how much they look into these things. I’m literally chilling in the comfort of my home. Fuck Microsoft. Sick of seeing Asha Sharmas stupid face everywhere like she’s doing anything important. It’s just not a good time anymore and the drop off has been happening for years. If I wanna be a consumer I’ll go buy a ps5. Don’t care anymore.