3 days
Great point… i’m no expert in software development or user experience or whatever but it just seems obvious to stop adding friction in all forms including your notepad example. And of course the ads for OneDrive and suggestions on the start menu, etc…
The tough part to me is that it seems Microsoft is thinking they’re the hero by doing common sense stuff solving (part of) a pain they’ve introduced in the first place.
Anyway, I’m windows free after moving my gaming pc to cachy and couldn’t be happier.
Since I haven’t seen these mentioned yet:
Clipcascade (clipboard sharing across multiple OSes, handy when “copy from this VM and paste to that VM gets funky with the intermediary rdp client)
Infisical (self hosted secrets management, used for n8n automation pulls so I’m not storing credentials and api keys on a VPS)
Plus a Debian 13 VM for Claude+Hermes and a Fedora workstation VM to pretend I have a central workstation somewhere.