Practical Recommendations:

How Microsoft Can Repair Trust:

1: Ship every Windows computer with a USB stick containing Ubuntu, Fedora, and FreeBSD and a note that says, “Look… you deserve better.”

2: Add a new Windows Update option:
“Install updates… or install Linux.”
The second option should be labeled “Recommended.”

3: Replace Recall with a popup that just says:
“Have you considered… not doing this to yourself?”

4: Put a giant “Export to FreeBSD” button next to every system setting. It doesn’t matter what the setting is. Users should always have the option.

5: During Windows installation, show a 30-second video explaining how ZFS snapshots actually work and then politely suggest booting into something that won’t betray you emotionally.

6: When a Windows machine crashes, automatically open a wizard titled: “Migrate to a real operating system?”

7: Add Clippy back just so he can say: “It looks like you’re trying to trust Windows again.
May I recommend FreeBSD?”

8: Make “WSL” stand for
Windows Suggests Linux.

9: Add a new category in
Settings > Privacy called
“Ways to avoid this entire situation,”
and fill it with Linux & BSD Distro ISOs.

10: Put a FreeBSD daemon sticker on every new PC to warn users in advance.
Not for branding, just as a conscience.