You mean the software that installs itself as a driver from Windows update? And when you install it it installs an old version so it's absolutely useless and you're better off getting it yourself?
2026 is the year of the Linux desktop for me at work at least. I really don't use it much, but so far it does everything I need it to do, and what it doesn't I use wine and it's fine.
I have a Windows external SSD for gaming but that's only for GTA online, I'm not gonna buy GTA 6, fuck em
I believe Kaspersky has just released a commercial solution for desktop Linux. Kaspersky is a whole other can of worms, however seeing as they're russians but that's your call
Windows 8 is actually great. It's the last efficient OS from Microsoft. I mean, you can actually be surfing on the internet and have 4 GBs of RAM and you're actually having a good time? By good I mean like 2.5 GB used with the browser open.
Well apparently you could before windows 10, or there's something wrong with my laptop but it's always chuggin along after boot at like 3.25 Gb used easy.
Maybe it's because all the fancy x86 emulation it does is actually pretty RAM hungry too. Oh well.
(It's a Samsung Galaxy book go. They're dirt cheap! And I actually quite like it, it's been my main computer for a few years now actually. )
I wouldn't call that a phone at that point