Whenever a boomer shows me a 15 year old computer, and asks: can you just delete a few programs to make the computer faster:

Yes, I know I could delete the windows, and make let it run on Linux, but that is not something they would accept anyway.

@LukeAlmighty One thing I've noticed that most people are very particular about is that they get to keep their programs. They don't want to learn some equivalent to, say, Excel. It must actually be Excel. There can be no comparison. And in their mind, any difference between Excel and whatever equivalent there is, is a flaw.

Windows is the correct path you see, and any deviation from that is by definition a flaw. You can replace Windows with whatever normie equivalent we're talking about in computing. A commercial streaming service for music that competes with Spotify we'll need to work exactly like Spotify in order to merit consideration. Even the slightest user experience difference will be considered a faux pas

@NEETzsche
I have noticed one thing about my upbringing.
I grew up with win 95.
And that shit was so unstable, I had to reinstall it every two months.

So... From that time, I learned to not attach myself to a current installation or on disk data. If I have to re-install any device today, I know how to reinstall needed programs, and be ready to work in a day.

But even my colleagues seem to be missing this. Even on their company hardware. How??? Why???

You'd think that in the age of dropbox and google drive people would be less attached to the data on their hard drives.

I guess some things never change.

@ignika98 @NEETzsche
I don't know anyone who actually uses that shit for anything long term.
I use it only to transfer data, when USB is too inconvenient.