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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm proud of you too.

Linux saved my senior citizen dad's relatively new laptop from going to the garbage heap.

He had a Microsoft Windows account fail due to a corrupt PIN.  My parents and I were able to get back into his Windows account.  However, due to lapse of the paid Windows subscription and him never having a textable phone line plus losing the Outlook account associated with the subscription, there was no way to recover his data. I tried asking for help on Microsoft forums and Microsoft AI blocked me from posting.  It said my questions violated ToS.  There were no accessible human help lines.

I'm done with paying for Windows until they go back to the buy once strategy and provide some actual customer service.

My teen son took the computer and Linuxed it and my Dad got a Chromebook to do e-mail and browse the Internet.  [b]We are living happily ever after without contributing more $$ to Microsoft.[/b][/quote]

This was part of my reasoning too.

I just bought my son a very expensive laptop and it is so overloaded with bloatware it’s outrageous.  Using it is extremely annoying and there are constant pop ups.  This is probably also on the computer company itself but I am blaming Microsoft too.[/quote]

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