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that fucking sucks, windows 11 is malware, internal search doesn't even work right and redirects to bing most of the time.
I once got intoxicated and formatted one of my 1TB external drives into a linux boot disk
Word. I fucking hate windows. Last night I was trying to download an program and windows kept automatically deleting it with no notification, even when I added exceptions. I finally had to change the name, download it as "all files" and stick it on another drive to get Windows to leave it alone. I hate this fucking OS but I'm not quite ready to jump to Linux.
Windows is so anti-consumer it is hard to believe that it is still able to survive. But that is the magic of monopoly and inertia. I feel dirty just looking at screenshots of what it looks like these days. On my laptop I have Linux and Windows 10 LTSC.
It's exclusively because of mass adoption on the enterprise level. At this point, your average Linux distro/DE is less janky and has far more useful features/programs OOTB than fucking Windows.
can you not disable web search in W11 like you can in W10? like not even in the registry or something?
I have done that, but then an update will happen and it will be back to the way it was. It's just annoying having to constantly fight the os
Win11 Pro does let you permanently turn it off through the group policy editor (I don't know if simply downloading the group policy editor exe is enough), but it's only worth buying if you want to use stuff like HyperV and Bitlocker and Remote Desktop.
i'll be fine since i don't use this thing for work anymore, but god damn it is annoying. everything just looks and works worse. i'll be bashing driver gremlins for the next couple of weeks probably as well, since the update did shit all for the issue i was trying to solve in the first place
edit: the linux boot disk is a good idea. i think i'll do that
The PC I use at work just got upgraded and I hate it. My only saving grace is that I have been able to install Emacs, FreeCAD, PrusaSlicer, Cygwin, Git, and Python on it without admin privileges.
It is 2023 and these motherfuckers are shipping an operating system which doesn't even have grep
findstr
sometimes I get to ssh into somewhere with a real os 
I do love that Microsoft has basically admitted that they have an inferior OS by shipping windows with Linux VMs
The only reason we use Windows at work is because it's needed to run ArcGIS and AutoCAD, because ESRI and Autodesk are masochists and allow Microsoft to walk all over them and prevent them from porting to Linux.
AutoCAD
I'd rather use SolveSpace
Hey, I don't set the design specs. AutoCrash sucks and before I got this job I just used KiCAD and FreeCAD. But civil engineering stuff is all pretty cornered by Civil3D because they build the templates for county permit offices for free.
Which is absolutely predatory, and forces all permits submitted to that county authority to be in a proprietary format. Some of them are starting to accept more open design standards, but many are stuck with the hyper niche Autodesk garbage because they only have like 10 elected people working the office and they have decades of training documents geared specifically towards this exact AutoCAD template.
Slow down there pardner' they did let in GNU tar and curl. Just a couple decades late I suppose.
Computing while intoxicated
Is there another way?
What a weird coincidence. I got high af and started compiling gentoo.
I'm so sorry.
Fuck. Don't drink and root I guess
tragic
I couldn't do that cause I don't have a microsoft account, which it requires now lol
may allah guide me to linux before the 2025 W10 security update cutoff.
I think you can still get around the windows account BS by setting up the machine while it's not connected to the net and setting up a local account. It really doesn't like that, though.
Yep, and they keep changing things in the installer to prevent the workarounds. JayzTwoCents did a blurb on this back in February, and the installer had changed in between the last couple of installs that he had done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOUcvgqOV-0
Sounds like a job for Linux Mint, the detox solution for winblows refugees.
I'm so sorry for you
I feel like the people who have manually installed winblows are lower than the people who've installed GNU/Linux. Its so ubiquitous to have it just there infecting your computer.
I'm most likely statistically wrong. But statistics suck so I don't care. Feelings over facts.
Thankfully I'm immune to this problem because my CPU is too old to run it at all
I upgraded to W11 and the only thing that changed it that it solved my freezes in Overwatch. But I don't do anything else on that computer
~~upgraded~~ downgraded
Ameliorate! AME11 will save you
apparently windows 12 will require a paid subscription.
I've heard that, that was a hoax. They are definitely adding AI features to the desktop however so windows 12 will be fucked.
No, that's Windows 13. Enshittification happens every other version.
:nelson-haha:
I have to use Windows 11 at work, and I basically broke the start menu after two days of use lmao. I'm not sure whether it's because of PowerToys or ExplorerPatcher, probably ExplorerPatcher. Well, if Windows 11 didn't want me to break its start menu, it should've allow me to move the taskbar to the side lol