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In my view, this is unacceptable...

They changed my background (previously there was a default blue window), placed an icon in the bottom corner of the screen that read "Learn more about this photo", and re-added the search bar that I had previously removed.

Fortunately, I don't have to deal with this on a daily basis.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (11 children)

All it did to you was cosmetic.

Windows 10's "feature" updates consistently also re-enable the "fast startup" option on my machine when they install. Which, on my particular motherboard and SSD combination, causes Windows to take about 30 minutes to boot when left enabled for reasons I have never been able to comprehend. A regular cold boot only takes like 20 seconds, so... I definitely tend to notice when it does this behind my back yet again.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OUR desktop wallpaper, comrade

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They don’t do this shit in Linux.

Come join us, Comrade.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What VM software are you using?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

"Boxes" from Gnome shipped by default with Fedora

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

no no no, it asked your permission. It's just that the "we added back the search bar, is that ok" dialog defaults to "yes" after some short time. Extremely fucking annoying change

the dialog:

some dark pattern from microsoft

article: https://www.c-amie.co.uk/technical/windows-10-patch-for-october-2023-kb5015684-re-enables-the-taskbar-search-box/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

The dialog goes away after a short time defaulting to "yes I want the useless search bar"

It happened on all my PCs, I was infuriated

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

It's a nice wallpaper though for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Dont say it... dont say it.... dont saaaayyyy iiiiitt!!!

Have you considered Linux Mint?

Damn... sorry.. was I the first to suggest it this time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You're right though. I recently installed it and it is so much more user friendly and does everything I need it to.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I already use Fedora Linux, and this Windows is in a virtual machine because sometimes my school requires me to use software that simply doesn't run on Linux

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's where Windows belongs now, in a VM.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In a VM, in a box, at the bottom of the sea.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I bought a cheap laptop for school just to run their windows anti cheat crap. Do you have to run something similar?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Fortunately, no. My school expects me to use XAMPP (a LAMP stack but without "L" cuz it's on Windows) and Microsoft Office applications like Word, Access, and Excel.

While in the case of LAMP, I can install the individual services (Apache, PHP, MySQL) myself from command line, Microsoft Office applications won't work like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I guess I should count myself lucky everything is expected in be turned in as a PDF and Google docs is used for everything else. The anticheat recognizes it's running on a VM and throws and error.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago

You were, but it appears OP is running Windows in a VM on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 231 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Oh, didn't you know? It's not really your PC any longer.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Fortunately, it's actually mine, cuz I use Fedora with Gnome, which doesn't do these magic tricks 😁

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Tricks are something Microsoft does for money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Coo-coo-ka-cha!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (7 children)

The PC might be yours, but that virtual machine is Microsoft’s little bitch

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to use Fedora on my Asus gaming laptop, and loved it. More recently I've chosen to switch over to Manjaro, because I wanted something based on Arch that was more lightweight than Garuda. Gotta love that Linux life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Have you tried reborn or endeavor?

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well yea, you turned off the windows search/Cortana/Bing bar, but now it's called copilot/recall bar which you haven't turned off yet.

/S

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Soon I won't have to anymore. This is the last Windows virtual machine I have that sometimes I have to use 😀

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have a virtual machine with WinXP and one with 98, for when I'm feeling nostalgic :)

Sorry to hear you have to use Windows... I'm still stuck on 10 but I've been enjoying the hell out of Mint Xfce and I'll complete the move soon enough!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How would one go about setting up a win 98 at this point? Do you need an ISO of it already, or can you find that somewhere for that specific use?

I ask because I have a game that I want to play for nostalgia reasons (it’s a kids game from waaay back, but I remember it fondly, and I bet I’d do a touch better now) but I can’t get it to play in any compatibility mode or anything. It just flat refuses to launch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I'm not sure about the legality of it, so I'll say I don't condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn't care.

Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I've seen.

Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!

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