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- Dec 4, 2013
My motherboard died late last year, and I decided to replace it with a Z690 motherboard and an i5-12600K. These Alder Lake CPUs are effectively throttled in Win10 since it can't use the Thread Director (I suspect that's a business decision, not a technical one) so I decided to "upgrade" to Win11. Truth be told I haven't found it to be that bad, but I have ran into one issue that is utterly confounding me: it has suddenly lost the ability to read SD cards. I tried all the usual tricks, nothing worked. Meanwhile I was able to read them just fine with a spare machine running Fedora. Go figure, Linux now reads media better than Windows does, the total opposite of the old situation.
It also has a lot of the same old issues from Win10: seemingly random Explorer crashes, File Explorer just generally being outdated and lacking in basic features, holding file locks open for no apparent reason, spontaneous computer shutdowns in certain games (already verified that it's not hardware-related), Settings still being a mish-mash of different UIs.
So there's all that has been left over unfixed, and now add that we have yet more configuration choices being taken away, being even harder to get to a basic level of security one would expect a modern OS to have or to get rid of all the oh-so-helpful privacy-invading web searches and stupid lock screen shit, more flat-shit and monochrome mystery meat icons.
Then there's the general shittiness and dilapidated feeling of the Windows ecosystem as a whole. Why the fuck should I have to give administrator rights to a .exe file to install a simple application? Have Windows developers still never heard of .msi and local user installations? Oh thanks a bunch Pajeet for putting an icon on my desktop I didn't ask for and now have to give admin rights to delete. Oh look, Google Earth updated automatically in the background and now I have a white sheet icon on my taskbar because Windows still has a retarded icon cache system that hasn't been improved since Windows 98.
My feeling towards Windows post-Vista has been "it's not that bad" but I am now firmly on the "yes, it is that bad" side. And it's not even anything in particular that Win11 did, it's more what it didn't do. The only reason I haven't already switched to Linux is that I have a bunch of gaming peripherals that don't have Linux support, but once Fedora 36 comes out I'm going to try full-timing it and see if I can get USB and GPU passthrough working in a VM.
It also has a lot of the same old issues from Win10: seemingly random Explorer crashes, File Explorer just generally being outdated and lacking in basic features, holding file locks open for no apparent reason, spontaneous computer shutdowns in certain games (already verified that it's not hardware-related), Settings still being a mish-mash of different UIs.
So there's all that has been left over unfixed, and now add that we have yet more configuration choices being taken away, being even harder to get to a basic level of security one would expect a modern OS to have or to get rid of all the oh-so-helpful privacy-invading web searches and stupid lock screen shit, more flat-shit and monochrome mystery meat icons.
Then there's the general shittiness and dilapidated feeling of the Windows ecosystem as a whole. Why the fuck should I have to give administrator rights to a .exe file to install a simple application? Have Windows developers still never heard of .msi and local user installations? Oh thanks a bunch Pajeet for putting an icon on my desktop I didn't ask for and now have to give admin rights to delete. Oh look, Google Earth updated automatically in the background and now I have a white sheet icon on my taskbar because Windows still has a retarded icon cache system that hasn't been improved since Windows 98.
My feeling towards Windows post-Vista has been "it's not that bad" but I am now firmly on the "yes, it is that bad" side. And it's not even anything in particular that Win11 did, it's more what it didn't do. The only reason I haven't already switched to Linux is that I have a bunch of gaming peripherals that don't have Linux support, but once Fedora 36 comes out I'm going to try full-timing it and see if I can get USB and GPU passthrough working in a VM.
