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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

windows 10 lacks bt aac codec so fuck it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Both these images are the same

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

11 isnt even a decent sidegrade, its just a controlgrab trying to take away what little self definition a user has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey! HEY! I resent that remark - yeah, sure, maybe it is exactly that, BUT it is also at least in equal parts an attempt to shove ads down the throats of customers who are rendered helpless to resist by the factor you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed. Or A greed, if you examine microsloths motivations

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It took me years to get my win10 install to a point that I was somewhat happy with it. I've lost track of how many registry edits i've had to do just to disable a feature I didn't want, or enable a feature microsoft wanted to take away from me. The numerous utilities I've had to download just to have functionality that was built into windows back in 7 or xp. I literally don't remember all the things I've had to do, and I refuse to do it again. Now microsoft wants to take away the entire operating system? No.

I just installed linux yesterday. It is a royal pain in my ass, as several design choices are just different from what I'm used to (middle click is paste? what the hell?). However, there's no ads in the start menu. Text I type into the start menu doesn't get sent to an online search engine. There's no proto-ai garbage. Oh, and it didn't cost $200 like my win10 key did.

It's going to take me a week to set up, as I have tons of data on many ntfs drives that I need to be able to do anything productive, and they're all "read only" because I think windows knows I have a linux install and now blue-screens every time I try to shut it down. (This is a problem because ntfs drives get set to read only if windows doesn't shut down cleanly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FYI, you have 3 clipboards in X11. You have your standard clipboard usually used with Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, like in Windows. You also have your primary clipboard, which copies any text you highlight and can be pasted with middle mouse button. The secondary clipboard is typically not used. If you don't like the middle mouse paste, stick to the way you are used to. I learnt to make use of the primary clipboard and find that I always realise just how much I miss it when I need to use a windows system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

oh deer lord, that's even worse than I thought. It's been less than a week, and it's already become the bane of my existence. middle click pastes highlighted text?! I need to figure out how to disable this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Funny thing is, I have so much stuff in OneDrive now, it has made transitioning from my PC to another temporary/permanent environment much easier. So…they might actually be helping me move to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Windows 10 is usable, so linux, I choose linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

waiting for Windows 11 LTSC, which should be later this year(?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

May I ask is there a reason why you jumping so early? I plan to ride windows 10 ltsc until end or at least as long as most of program works hopeful around 2027.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm open to either. It's just with Win11 LTSC coming out soon, I can compare and choose between them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better: Have you tried installing the current version recently? There's like a dozen screens full of bullshit where you have to click "maybe later" or "yes, I want the limited experience", while Windows hits you with messages such as "setting up some stuff" or "relax and let us take care of everything".
Then after installation you have to go through all the settings and deny, deny, deny some more.
Hide the annoying mouseover "news", the search field, remove Edge from desktop, taskbar, standard app settings and favorites, ...Shit, forgot to install updates first.
So you update. Now the privacy settings are changed again, Edge is back everywhere (it's your standard browser again), "news" are back, the search field is back. But only after you clicked through the blue screen asking you all the questions from the installation again.
Not to mention the urgent security notifications telling you you'll lose all your data if you don't set up OneDrive and your PC isn't safe without an MS account...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ah, yes. Windows 11 is better because since 11 came out MS made 10 worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better

The fundamental difference between 10 and 11 is that in 10 I still remember how to turn off all these features while in 11 its that much more difficult to do so.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I think windows 10 is better than windows 11, absolutely.

Have I tried installing the most recent version recently? Fuck no. I hate windows. Last time I installed it, it was for work and it was a server OS. That doesn’t change the reality of differences between 10 and 11.

However, your complaints apply to Win 10 and 11 equally.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying windows 11 somehow isn't a similar horror show with even more privacy invasion?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have actually reinstalled recently. I've never had updates re-add or re-enable anything I've uninstalled or disabled. And the setup guide (all the things you deny, deny, deny) hasn't changed much in the last few iterations of Windows. It can also be totally automated to disable or not install pretty much any of those features when you create the installation media, and then you don't even have to manually do anything during setup.

The last thing that just appeared after an update was Copilot. And that was a super simple setting to get rid of.

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