Enshittification only hurts product itself.

Start menu ruined. All the UI is garbage. Fucking OneDrive.

I'm over it. Shopping distros as we speak.

Edit - Making this edit from a fresh Linux Mint install. Cheers.

Maybe that's where the loop starts.

Windows 7 was the last good Windows. It was a nice polished OS that had the last decent search feature. 8 was a mess (it started without a start button) and then all the bloat/ads that came with 10 and above

We said goodbye to that since Windows 8. Windows has been shit since Windows 8.

To be fair, Windows has huge, maybe even unreasonable, demands placed on it for backward compatibility due to corps not wanting to dump their 30 year old legacy software. And to Microsoft's credit, they actually manage to do that pretty well while maintaining a reasonably stable OS. Most of the time, anyway.

The increasing interest in using Windows as a conduit for ads and data collection is what they really chafes me and is the primary reason I'm slowly moving away from Windows.

Windows was shitty after the superior WinXP. I'd argue 98 was all I needed but XP was when disk scanning/defragmenting was baked in.

Windows 10 will be the last version of windows

Introducing Windows 11

Liars.

Yeah its the original example of enshittification for sure

But Windows is unique in that it can fit a whole lot of shit in it. Way more than one could imagine.

Minecraft, Chrome etc are a 7 litre compost caddy of shit. Windows is a vast open country waiting to be turned into landfill of human waste.

if you can manage to get the IOT LTSC windows 11, it has a ton of that stuff removed by default. it makes it much faster and saves drive space.

And it was bad long before then.

Windows was good until Vista ... then it seemed every second version was a pile of shit (7 good, 8 crap, 10 ok, 11 ugh).

Bedrock is pretty full of microtransactions, upsells, and ads, and the Mojang to Microsoft account migration for Java made a lot of people lose their accounts entirely.

But the core gameplay of both editions is still fine, and Java is consistently getting more mod-friendly with each release. You also don't actually have to buy anything in Bedrock; it's mostly just annoying.

I don't really agree that Minecraft is getting enshittified, but I can see why others might.

Windows was enshittified decades before it was even a concept. Grandaddy of enshittification.

when bedrock edition was introduced, I’d say

the marketplace, character creator and partnered servers all have very predatory monetization

thankfully java resisted enshittification for the most part

When they forced you to have a Microsoft account, which inturn made me loose my Minecraft account.

The day Microsoft bought it.

Man I remembered some silly people who said "They aren't going to make us have to use Microsoft accounts to still play!".

Boy, did Microsoft did in fact do that.

Can't speak for OP, but I took a maybe ten-year hiatus from Minecraft and came back to find the were so baby more block types that it clogged my inventory and I felt overwhelmed and just stopped playing again.

Micro$oft made some controversies on Minecraft (Minecraft owned by M$)

Windows on the first door.

And google (the search engine)

Tantacrul made an HBomb-length video about Facebook recently. Def worth a watch.

I think it's bedrock edition and the many cash grab spinoffs. Afaik og Minecraft is only better than it ever was.

Why didn't you just build your own thumb drive out of parts? It just takes a bit of soldering and W steady hand.

I suggest unbuntu or mint for your first. To get acclimated. Arch and others are cool, but they are intense. I run mint and I can play 99 percent of my old games on it through steam.

Thanks. I was legitimately confused by Minecraft because I never saw anything negative added to Java edition but I've never played Bedrock. Minecraft keeps pumping out free content updates so they seem like a good example of what to do for a company.

bedrock isn't real

Additional stuff:

Reddit - becoming more and more like a typical social media website with profile customizations and instant messaging.

Netflix - ads and now only limited to one household.

Chrome - might be the bloatiest of all chromium based browsers

Windows was an improvement over DOS. NT was the enshittification of OS/2

I don't play games often anymore, but what happened to Minecraft, I thought it was a cheap kids game that just grew into a lot of people playing it. Did they somehow put ads or subscriptions to it?

I had the same reaction. Enshittification came for Windows more than a decade ago, WTH are they thinking with this meme?

Cracking down on account sharing was the start, then the massive price increases.

In the last couple of months it has gone from the most reliable one I use to having trouble changing profiles and it hanging while atarting a movie every couple of days. Now they are removing their own interactive content and tried to branch out into gaming, but then fired the whole studio. All of these things are due to trying to chase expansion instead of just being a high quality movie and series streaming service.

When they turned their popular base plan of $7 into a Base Plan but with ads. With fucking ads.

Well, you know, that is an option...

The Linux is implied.

Linux isn't enshittified, what do you mean?