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Zak Storey

I've spent 30 years with Microsoft but Linux and Pop! OS might have converted me

The Pop! OS desktop on an Nvidia-powered gaming PC.

There's a sadness in the technosphere right now, ain't there? This overwhelming disappointment that sort of lingers at the back of your mind like unkempt cable management. Enough journalists have called out the enshittification of PC gaming (or platform decay as us sophisticated lot call it), I'm certainly not the first in that regard. But back in January of this year, I finally had enough of it in Windows, and sacked off the legendary operating system entirely in favour of Pop! and that's a big bloody deal for me.

I've been using Windows since around 1998. At the age of seven, it was my first insight into the world of PC gaming. Since then, I've navigated the trials and tribulations of Microsoft's best efforts day-in, day-out. From Win 98 all the way up to modern-era 11 and every service pack in between.

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