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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I haven't booted Windows since February and at this point I'm afraid to.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you haven't used Windows in that long you might as well just get rid of it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not possible for me. I daily Arch (btw) and hadn't booted into Windows for months and months until my university professor came along and said "btw, we're gonna build GUIs using Microsoft Foundation Classes in Visual Studio now, and yes, you have to use Visual Studio on Windows in the exam". So nope, not uninstalling Windows.

[–] Hexarei 11 points 1 year ago

Sounds like prime time for a virtual machine to me!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yesterday after a reboot windows added a fucking bing search bar in the middle of my desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Stop talkimg about your ex, Cartman.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They're talking about the Debian installer.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

people who insist on using windows should just run it in a VM, it has suprisingly low overhead these days, you can even game with it if you insist, but i'm hearing wine/proton is getting good enough that it doesn't even matter

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Youre entirely correct about proton unless your kid wants to play fortnite

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally the only reason I haven't switched to a Linux distro. I hate anti cheats so much.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To date I have not found any degree of enjoyment in any games with a windows only anti-cheat.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You're still stuck when it comes to anti-cheat in multiplayer games. Some do allow it to work on Linux, but a significant number don't. Hopefully the tides slowly start to change thanks to the Steam Deck.

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[–] RandomVideos 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One time i opened windows to change a setting on my mouse that had windows only software

The app didnt boot so i tried to restary windows. It decided to update, froze in the middle of the update, and broke

After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen

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

I had the opposite problem, I had my mouse all nicely configured just how I wanted it using Piper on linux, then booted windows to test something unrelated (which if I remember correctly didn't even have the logitech software installed) and it somehow instantly reset my mouse to factory defaults. I decided whatever I was trying to do wasn't worth the effort and have not had windows installed on my main computer since

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

After then everytime i tried to open windows it would send me back to the gnu grub screen

Sounds like it did you a favor

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a single windows 11 system while everything else is on some form of Linux distro.

That windows system has never been connected to the internet, and it has been great without ever causing any of the typical update issues (although I update applications/components manually over an isolated NAS link).

It's sad to see that everyday users have gotten habituated to these constant workflow braking updates. No wonder many people I know are jumping to the Apple ecosystem after getting a taste with a M2.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

And then Windows overwrites your bootloader so it can only boot into Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

windows updating the UI/UX with every new OS kills me. Wheres the 'fuck off' option when it asks for me to set up my personalization options and info?

I just wish they would literally and continued supporting Win 7. Everything after is just subpar from a usability perspective imo.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, you guys can click in grub?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t be shock for me if it existed. You can definitely do that in rEFInd though

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OSHA would say having a Windows install is a potential hazard because it can become dangerous if activated. To remedy, you must remove the hazard.

Safety is no accident.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Simple fix here. Just get rid of your Windows partition.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Too real. I booted up windows last week because I wanted to test something quickly before going to bed... starting it and testing my thing took about 5 mins; but then shutting down took more than half an hour.

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[–] wulrus 11 points 1 year ago

Happened to me just yesterday.

Wife: what are you doing? Me: pushing the hard reset button. Wife: it's not possible. Windows started booting up! Me: No, it's necessary.

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

I was afraid of exactly this happening. So I just deleted my partition when I fully committed to Linux a few years ago.

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

wish you could install only security updates

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can delay all other updates with the group policy editor. You can disable preview builds and you and delay quality updates by 30 days and delay feature updates by 365 days. The bugs are always worked out by then.

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

But I can’t change the taskbar size

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually crazy, its too big

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

systemd-boot for anyone that is tired of GRUB/Windows antics.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

At that point, wipe out windows, expand your partition and reinstall grub

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
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