QB64 3.10.0 can't be copied.

[TerryRitchie]

@TerryRitchie -  With the way Windows is going (spyware, crapware, not owning your OS any longer) I imagine many more will make the switch to Linux in the future.

No! An old dream of the Linux Community.

I do not understand how someone like you can turn an operating system into an ideology. Linux, Windows & Co are operating systems, nothing more. Operating systems only!

Windows is much more than an operating system now. It has become a tool to track and control the user according to Microsoft's will. With each version of Windows more functionality is removed from the user's control. I don't want the telemetry, can it be removed, no. The addition of an LLM is coming (what the media calls "AI"), will I be able to remove it, no. Remove the app store, no. I don't want Edge, too bad. Control panel functions strewn out all over the place. Ads, yep you're going to see them. The list of negatives literally could go on and fill a few pages.

Windows is trying to be a phone OS on a desktop. No thank you.

Now I realize I can use the LTSC version to get around a lot of this crap but seriously, $300!?

My number one biggest issue is the user has become a Beta tester. The updates are buggy and the user pays the price. Features can be removed and modified at Microsoft's will and you will like it.

Someone like me has been using computers since 1980. I know what makes an operating system good versus one that is crap. Windows 8.1 and above is definite crap and it's only getting worse. And here is Microsoft's end goal: eventually (Windows 13,14,..?) you won't even have the OS installed locally on your system. Your computer will need to act as a dumb terminal to log into "your" OS on Microsoft's cloud. Now you have lost complete control, live with it. No Internet access because your ISP is down, sucks to be you.

More people will move to Linux, not for an ideology, but simply because you'll have choices as a user. Microsoft hates when users want a choice.