I hate Windows10

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They say they're releasing the first Fuchsia developer preview soon. No surprise seeing as the new version of android has very similar UI to Fuchsia.
Has anyone done a deep dive on the codebase yet? I wonder what hellish nightmares it contains...
 
I was forced to switch to Windows 10 because my old hard drive shat the bed (RIP) and...well, it's less shitty than 8. But I spent hours trying to figure out what's wrong with my tablet only to find out that I can't turn off Windows Ink anymore. Fortunately, I found a way to turn off that stupid blinking cursor thing.
 
OneOfThemDamnAnimeAvatars said:
I've found virtual machines to work pretty well for this use case actually: far more convenient than dual-booting, and not as error-prone as Wine (at least in my experience). e.g. I boot into Linux, but fire up a Windows 10 VM for those times when I want/need Microsoft Office and stuff.

Or actually, you could go the other way (even for your "learn Linux" plan): just make a Linux virtual machine on your Windows box so you can have a play and not have to worry about trashing anything while you're still figuring your way around.


It was just a genuinely good OS. Sure, the security left a little to be desired (but Windows Vista's obnoxious "Are you sure you want to do this?" dialog boxes every second were a step too far in the opposite direction). But compatibility was good. And 'backward-compatibility' was good: e.g. if you'd used any Windows system before in your life, then you already knew how to use XP and there was nothing to learn. XP wasn't a jarringly new experience like Vista or Windows 8 (or even Windows 10, to some extent; I skipped Windows 8, so the new Start menu layout still kind of irks me, and I'm still surprised every time I see the right-hand side "Action Center" pane come up).

The fact that XP was flanked by Windows ME/2000 and Vista only helped it, too.
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This is bullshit.
Windows XP was more stable than a Me hybrid but tell me genius why being inherently better then previous iterations it had three big service packs making it usable? Moreover it was slandered for being heavy for even modern systems back in the day. Most users back in the beginning of new millennium had roughly 64 MB of RAM. I remember my first PC had last upgrade in 2002/2003 reaching astonishing 128 MB because that was the limit of my motherboard with Pentium III.
Lastly, the migration to XP was somewhat relevant in late 2000's when memory started reaching 2 and more GB and to properly utilize the advantage of more memory you had to upgrade not just to XP but XP 64-bit which wasn't that great. It was able to address more than 4 GB RAM but had mediocre results on that. The only advantage it had to newer Vista was that it was lighter due to age of the system.
 
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I definitely had to learn things when I switched from 7 to 10, I put it off for the longest I could until they said they'd stop supporting 7.
 
I remember one day I started up my old HP desktop that ran Windows 7, only to find Microsoft updated it without my consent. It fucked up my computer, lost all the files on there, and made it have processing issues. :mad: I prefer the older Windows UI's. They were way cooler.
 
at home I use a version of 7 I've beaten up to look like 98/XP, but at work all the machines are 10
I don't really have any problems with them.
 
The last windows 10 bug I had was the start menu failure with 1803? since then I've had no issues.

The bi polar nature of its menu interface, the sheer level of bloat, the nagging notifications and forced update policy drive me batshit though. I keep linux mint installed and play with it from time to time but always find something that either wont work properly or has to be tinkered with and I dont want to do that after a long day ece.
 
Every Windows 10 update fucks up my laptop's battery and performance more and more. It can't even last for more than 3 hours now. To add insult to injury, the charger is really flimsy and I use Photoshop a lot so it really drains the crap out of it. Every time I have Microsoft Teams lectures while having Photoshop open, my computer always tells me it ran out of ram and I get the blue screen of death.
 
Coolio55 said:
Has anyone done a deep dive on the codebase yet? I wonder what hellish nightmares it contains...
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The nightmarish stuff will be whatever "Google Play Services" gangsterwear google crams into the userland. The Fuschia design and Flutter seem pretty nice on their own.
 
Legoshi said:
Every Windows 10 update fucks up my laptop's battery and performance more and more. It can't even last for more than 3 hours now. To add insult to injury, the charger is really flimsy and I use Photoshop a lot so it really drains the crap out of it. Every time I have Microsoft Teams lectures while having Photoshop open, my computer always tells me it ran out of ram and I get the blue screen of death.
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Uh dude sounds like your hardware is fucked. And very old if you are somehow running out of RAM with just photoshop and teams.
 
I fucking hate it too.

As of last week, explorer.exe decides to randomly crash whenever you open it. If you right-click the taskbar icon and go into, say, My Documents, or Downloads? Perfectly fine. Open a fresh copy, and it dies and restarts instantly.

I've scoured the internet for solutions, booting in safe mode, running all sorts of cmd security scans, and it's found nothing. No corrupt files, no start-up programs shitting things up, nothing. So... do I basically have to live with this shit now?
 
Animosa said:
I definitely had to learn things when I switched from 7 to 10, I put it off for the longest I could until they said they'd stop supporting 7.
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Legoshi said:
Every Windows 10 update fucks up my laptop's battery and performance more and more. It can't even last for more than 3 hours now. To add insult to injury, the charger is really flimsy and I use Photoshop a lot so it really drains the crap out of it. Every time I have Microsoft Teams lectures while having Photoshop open, my computer always tells me it ran out of ram and I get the blue screen of death.
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nigger of the north said:
I fucking hate it too.

As of last week, explorer.exe decides to randomly crash whenever you open it. If you right-click the taskbar icon and go into, say, My Documents, or Downloads? Perfectly fine. Open a fresh copy, and it dies and restarts instantly.

I've scoured the internet for solutions, booting in safe mode, running all sorts of cmd security scans, and it's found nothing. No corrupt files, no start-up programs shitting things up, nothing. So... do I basically have to live with this shit now?
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All this Stockholm Syndrome. Holy shit just stop using Windows it's not that hard at all.
 
DNA_JACKED said:
Uh dude sounds like your hardware is fucked. And very old if you are somehow running out of RAM with just photoshop and teams.
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I do a lot of image editing and I have two SSD so that helps ease the problem. Problem is one SSD is in another country.
 
Legoshi said:
Every Windows 10 update fucks up my laptop's battery and performance more and more. It can't even last for more than 3 hours now. To add insult to injury, the charger is really flimsy and I use Photoshop a lot so it really drains the crap out of it. Every time I have Microsoft Teams lectures while having Photoshop open, my computer always tells me it ran out of ram and I get the blue screen of death.
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Using Photoshop on a laptop is punishing, I can only comfortably use it on my desktop with 27 inch monitor.
 
nigger of the north said:
As of last week, explorer.exe decides to randomly crash whenever you open it. If you right-click the taskbar icon and go into, say, My Documents, or Downloads? Perfectly fine. Open a fresh copy, and it dies and restarts instantly.

I've scoured the internet for solutions, booting in safe mode, running all sorts of cmd security scans, and it's found nothing. No corrupt files, no start-up programs shitting things up, nothing. So... do I basically have to live with this shit now?
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See if this was Linux you could've already just backed everything up, wiped the entire OS and reinstalled fresh by this point.

And heck, it should be as simple as that with Windows too (here's the official ISO for fuck's sake, so the process is in theory the same). But for whatever reason Microsoft absolutely sucks at managing product key use. I've bought (as in actually paid money for) digital licenses of Windows that have inevitably become invalid because I swapped out a motherboard or changed a virtual machine configuration, and I've spent countless hours on the phone trying to get 'Paul from Michigan' to let me use the software I already paid for so I can get my "each and everytink" back.

It's infuriating. No wonder everybody pirates.
 
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