I too have been a victim of this and it’s the ultimate suck in science. Instrument companies should be required to develop their control software for stable versions of Linux.

Why the fuck are you selling us a standard Win11 tablet for your program that simply runs in a browser? Why in the world do you leave in all the bloatware and other baggage when we are paying 10s or 100s of thousands for something that we just need to run reliably? I will never understand. It’s like they want us to have a bad time.

I had this exact experience with creative cloud about 10 years ago. Adobe is actual malware and I will not allow it on my computers any longer.

I refused to log in…because I didn’t actually have one, I was just wanting to try it or something. Ended up having to go mess with the registry and use a tool from git to remove all traces of it.

Side-note: I used to use CCleaner too and I believe there was something that happened a while back (I don’t remember what, but it was related to security) and you shouldn’t use it any longer. I haven’t kept up with it, so maybe that’s not true any longer.

Using windows is just so tiring. I shouldn’t have to actively fight with the OS to do the things I need to do. Not even power user shit, it’s just that the windows experience gets more and more hostile every year.

Meanwhile, Linux quietly does what needs to be done, and offers to make it even easier to do those things, but only if I want that help.