Post #1295925

2025-11-05 09:22 UTC

windows 11 also gives me this feeling whenever i catch a glimpse of it. its very odd. it looks like a linux distro from the 2010s. the kind people would recommend because it "works just like Windows" and i would take one look at it and be like "no it doesn't? that doesnt look anything like Windows? i cant, in good conscience, recommend this to my grandma can i? she's going to be really perturbed by it" etc. but now it seems that microsoft themselves want to perturb my grandma

Replies (12)

@suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish 2025-11-05 09:23

@jk we're in a real grandmother perturbation moment

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@coffee@cafecreature.club 2025-11-05 09:24

@jk "Microsoft wants to perturb my grandma" needs to become a t-shirt.

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@snookerarmchair@snooker.uk.to 2025-11-05 10:48

@jk would love to see some screenshots of what bothers you most.

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@fullfathomfive@aus.social 2025-11-05 12:00

@jk perturb my grandma is my new band name

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@edwintorok@discuss.systems 2025-11-05 12:17

@jk yeah Win11 looks like it was designed on a Mac...

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@gudenau@hachyderm.io 2025-11-05 12:26

@jk The first time I saw Windows 11, I thought they were trying to copy one of those OSX-like distros.

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@Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al 2025-11-05 12:28

@jk maybe 2010 linux users were right all along because they solved the meta first

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@M0KHR@mastodon.radio 2025-11-05 17:13

@jk When XP had landed, I already had a rather similar but much more fancier DE, the KDE, with wobbly windows and all that.

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@starsider@valenciapa.ws 2025-11-05 17:23

@jk I use KDE plasma and I once thought that a win11 screenshot was a customized KDE.

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@fluffy@plush.city 2025-11-05 17:27

@jk when Windows 10 first launched I was like, oh wow, it's Windows, but it feels like Linux (in a positive way). And yeah, Windows 11 feels like Linux trying to feel like Windows (in a negative way).

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@Thad@brontosin.space 2025-11-08 14:06

@jk I switched my grandpa to Mint when WinXP went EOL because MATE/LibreOffice feel more like old Windows/Office than modern Windows/Office do.

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@slyecho@mdon.ee 2025-11-09 14:42

@jk I get like this random white line in Explorer.exe on Windows 11 that really shows up in dark mode sometimes and I'm like, ... are they not using dark mode to test this stuff?

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