I actually really like Windows 11 at this point. Yes I kind of had to upgrade the ram in my beater laptop to 16 gigs, but now it's fucking smooth. And it's integrated well with the new Copilot. I think the hate for the most popular os isn't warranted, all I'm saying.
You've given good tips, thing is Josh might have tried that shit and is kinda pissed hearing it again. Don't worry, he'll fix it, he always does.
Windows 11 is so much better than 10. I got so irritated with 10 that I stopped even dual booting for a solid 5 years. My biggest gripes with 11 I was able to fix with explorer patcher, and I don't understand why people are so hostile.
Linux still mogs the shit out of it but I have been a bit impressed.
WSL2 is legitimately a godsend, I'm so glad we've moved beyond the cygwin era.
RE: infinite money glitch? What are the mechanisms for making money off of denied FOIA requests? Is there some sort of fine to which they give the unlawfully denied requestor?
Windows 11 is so much better than 10. I got so irritated with 10 that I stopped even dual booting for a solid 5 years. My biggest gripes with 11 I was able to fix with explorer patcher, and I don't understand why people are so hostile.
Linux still mogs the shit out of it but I have been a bit impressed.
WSL2 is legitimately a godsend, I'm so glad we've moved beyond the cygwin era.
Because having to see ads in your fucking file explorer is the ultimate niggercattle future. I get that that was them testing the waters, but if someone decides to do that to my PC or car or anything that I own, I will track the time that it takes me, send them a bill, and when it gets rejected I am collecting the owed debts + all collections expenses from the copper in their servers HVAC system in the dead of night.
listen you aggravating piece of shit, the issue with windows as a loose ram stick. I fixed that. I don't know what I'm doing that pops it out every so often, but Windows runs without issue. OBS on Windows runs without issue. The driver issues on Linux have been a persistent issue and they got worse recently after updating my system.
Jersh man, you've gotta take a break... your blood pressure has to be off the charts right now. Take a walk or something, or at least get off the damn 'puter.
Jersh man, you've gotta take a break... your blood pressure has to be off the charts right now. Take a walk or something, or at least get off the damn 'puter.
Because having to see ads in your fucking file explorer is the ultimate niggercattle future. I get that that was them testing the waters, but if someone decides to do that to my PC or car or anything that I own, I will track the time that it takes me, send them a bill, and when it gets rejected I am collecting the owed debts + all collections expenses from the copper in their servers HVAC system in the dead of night.
Microsoft tested implementing ads to the file explorer at some point early on. I believe Mental Outlaw made a video about it when it was discovered. They removed it because of the backlash but the fact that they tried it at all soured me on Windows 11 for the foreseeable future.
Every time I've tried this over the years I've been sadly disappointed. My current all AMD game system has absolute garbage for audio under Linux. NVIDIA with their super-evil-non-open-source-drivers have always worked much better. I try again every few years and AMD still tends to be a pain in the ass.
I mean, I guess at least it's not Intel, I got one of their video cards to play with too, it's even worse.
Microsoft tested implementing ads to the file explorer at some point early on. I believe Mental Outlaw made a video about it when it was discovered. They removed it because of the backlash but the fact that they tried it at all soured me on Windows 11 for the foreseeable future.
Well it doesn't have it. Apparently they fucked around and found out. Call this a hot take, but the constant sperging ABOUT ads is annoying in of itself. They literally took it out because it sucked but you're spooked like it's a demon gonna eat your kids. Both are ridiculous.
Ah yes, the "FOSS good, proprietary bad for 10 minutes" YouTuber no. 287642398462. You could make up a completely false story that'd paint any big proprietary software project as bad and he'd spin it without verification, put a Soyjak thumbnail on it, and shill some FOSS alternative he has never touched in his life.
I have never seen any ads in Windows. Next time get your news from more reputable sources, not Styxhexenhammer tier grifters that'll believe in any lie as long as it makes Windows look bad and Linux look good.
Ah yes, the "FOSS good, proprietary bad for 10 minutes" YouTuber no. 287642398462. You could make up a completely false story that'd paint any big proprietary software project as bad and he'd spin it without verification, put a Soyjak thumbnail on it, and shill some FOSS alternative he has never touched in his life.
I have never seen any ads in Windows. Next time get your news from more reputable sources, not Styxhexenhammer tier grifters that'll believe in any lie as long as it makes Windows look bad and Linux look good.
It depends on what you consider "Ads" as there's been the various tiles in the default start menu advertising products for a while. Looks like a fresh Win 10 install I have has: Office, LinkedIn, Spotify, WhatsApp, Micrsoft Solitaire and "Movies & TV", all leading to the Microsoft Store. Of course something like PCDecrapifier solves that pretty quick.
Skill issue. Windows 11 Education + WinUtil. No ads, no telemetry, no bloat. Education doesn't even have ads on a fresh install, before any tweaking. The shitty new taskbar? ExplorerPatcher, Open-Shell, Windhawk. All open source solutions to make it usable.
And let's not act like these hoops are stupid. You installed LTSC which is only meant to be available to enterprise users for very specific use cases, with Linux being Linux, so it's own set of hoops to go through. Hell, my initial Win10 install was also LTSC and before that I was still using 7. And we both didn't pay for it so availability of Education/LTSC isn't an issue.
Normies are gonna get buttfucked by Microsoft with preinstalled Home/Pro editions, but they were also getting buttfucked by all the bloat from the manufacturers even before 10, so nothing changed here. Normies get fucked, power users stay on top, because they know how to hack away at the retardation.
It depends on what you consider "Ads" as there's been the various tiles in the default start menu advertising products for a while. Looks like a fresh Win 10 install I have has: Office, LinkedIn, Spotify, WhatsApp, Micrsoft Solitaire and "Movies & TV", all leading to the Microsoft Store. Of course something like PCDecrapifier solves that pretty quick.
Yeah that's the only real "ad" I've experienced under Windows 11, shortcuts in the start menu to install other shit. Education had none of them. The more aggravating thing was the start menu pushing mainstream media from Bing into your face. Again, Education doesn't have it.
Also the start menu is a shit concept, use a keyboard launcher like Keypirinha or PowerToys Run. Why would I scroll through a list of icons to launch "Visual Studio Code" if I know what it's called so I can look up "vs", hit Enter and have it opened? And do many other things quickly without having to move my hands from the keyboard?
It also shows the reactionary nature of people. They think Win11 literally blasts unskippable fullscreen ads at you randomly, but it's just icons in the start menu for Spotify that'll get installed if you click on it, but you can just remove it. It's not there to torment you forever, it's more of an autosuggestion. And any ol' debloater will deal with it quickly. And again, Education version. None of it by default, very NT-like experience.
It depends on what you consider "Ads" as there's been the various tiles in the default start menu advertising products for a while. Looks like a fresh Win 10 install I have has: Office, LinkedIn, Spotify, WhatsApp, Micrsoft Solitaire and "Movies & TV", all leading to the Microsoft Store. Of course something like PCDecrapifier solves that pretty quick.
Windows 10 solitaire installed by default requires constant internet connection in order to not be locked into playing random decks (ie choosing your difficulty). That's just a game though, but if people didn't freak the fuck out about ads in file explorer believe me that you would be McEnjoying McCopying your files via Disney's wizard.
Oh yeah, another thing. If you're using Windows File Explorer, you're a nigger.
This magnificent piece of software came out 30 years ago, the protoplast of it came out 38 years ago, and to this day, not a single Microsoft pajeet, not a single Linux tranny and not a single Apple bugman came up with a better way to manage your files. Two panels and a command line. Simple and effective.
White men did it better. John Socha with Norton Commander and Christian Ghisler with Total Commander, with Christian continuously developing this one piece of software for 30 years and still making sure that it can run natively under Windows 95.
This magnificent piece of software came out 30 years ago, the protoplast of it came out 38 years ago, and to this day, not a single Microsoft pajeet, not a single Linux tranny and not a single Apple bugman came up with a better way to manage your files. Two panels and a command line. Simple and effective.
Yeaaaah not really.
It started with this. Norton Commander for MS-DOS. Initial work done by John Socha in 1984 under the name Visual DOS, or VDOS, officially released by Peter Norton Computing under the Norton Commander name in 1986. Note how you have a command line to directly send commands while you manage your files, that's the big difference between something like Directory Opus.
This was such a good concept that everyone was copying it, much like other game devs were copying Doom. And much like those were called Doom clones before they were called FPS games, these were called Norton clones before they were known as orthodox file managers.
And Total Commander is a GUI orthodox file manager for Windows. Because with the advent of Windows, Macintosh and other ripoffs of Xerox engineers work, this new fangled GUI opened up new possibilities and more functionality. Norton Commander tried to enter the Windows market in 1996, three years after Christian Ghisler released Windows Commander, but it failed as Ghisler's concept was more future proof. And yes, it was called Windows Commander, in 2002 Microsoft got pissy over trademarks and since then it was called Total Commander.
Another important feature of OFM's is the keyboard shortcuts. Their biggest strength is that you can do all the operations with easy to memorize keyboard shortcuts, and do them fast. And this keyboard layout is more or less standardized. If you have a retro PC with Norton Commander, a modern PC with Total Commander and a Linux server with Midnight Commander, you can switch between all three and still be able to do most of the work the same way.
It's really wonderful stuff, you have a massive toolset in a single window. File manager, archive packer/unpacker, FTP client, mass file renamer, and many more built-in features, not mentioning the ones you can add with plugins, like a registry editor. I forget that Microsoft has their own file manager because Total Commander is just so much better. It's just that I was using it for over a decade so I am used to it and I can use it effectively. But when you do, you can use other OFM's just as well and you'll feel like you're without a hand without one.
Ah yes, the "FOSS good, proprietary bad for 10 minutes" YouTuber no. 287642398462. You could make up a completely false story that'd paint any big proprietary software project as bad and he'd spin it without verification, put a Soyjak thumbnail on it, and shill some FOSS alternative he has never touched in his life.
I'm not a Mental Outlaw simp, I just wanted to point you towards a source but didn't have time to go fetch a proper one. Sorry if the YOUTUBER I linked was too faggy for you.
Primarily because of the hysterics from whiny cunts (like me) that flood tech discussion hubs when Microsoft does try to sneak ads for their gay cloud-powered word processor into the file explorer.
It also shows the reactionary nature of people. They think Win11 literally blasts unskippable fullscreen ads at you randomly, but it's just icons in the start menu for Spotify that'll get installed if you click on it, but you can just remove it. It's not there to torment you forever, it's more of an autosuggestion. And any ol' debloater will deal with it quickly. And again, Education version. None of it by default, very NT-like experience.
I should not have to get a specific Education edition of the OS, use a dozen hobbyist/volunteer-made open-source programs to completely overhaul the user experience and design of the product I paid money for, and even then have to put up with an OS that, from my experience, has been incredibly slow, clunky, and obtuse at every possible turn while also having one of the worst stock visual designs I have ever seen in my entire fucking life. Microsoft doesn't put advertisements in their file explorer with intentions of improving the customer experience; they do it to deliberately try and suck as much money from you as possible while signing you up to a million services you will never need and harvesting the data from those services to sell for even more money. I refuse to play into such a malicious profit structure for any reason.
I (barely) put up with it for Windows 10 because from my experience, once the ads and telemetry are killed it actually contains a very fast and solid OS with the ability to run pretty much any old weird program I throw at it while not spontaneously imploding every week.* I cannot say the same for Windows 11. Every time I've used it, it feels like an abject downgrade from Windows 10 with slower performance, worse design, less functionality, and more gay telemetry. I see no reason to use it and every reason to recommend everyone I know against using it. It'll probably remain that way for the next 30+ years when Linux finally gets a distro that isn't a janky piece of shit held together by chewing gum and troon ball sweat. Until then, I'm not ever going to use Windows 11 and Microsoft can use a package manager to suck my open-source cock for making such a viscerally repulsive piece of software and having the audacity to charge money for it.
* Even with that in mind, Windows 10 is still a major downgrade from any previous Microsoft OS sans maybe Windows 8. I used open-source programs to completely remove Edge from my system and change the icons of my programs, but seemingly every few months I boot up my PC to find both changes have been reverted with the horrific globohomo minimalist style returned and Edge sitting on my desktop like it's taunting me. It boils my fucking blood. Thankfully, I didn't pay for my OS. Eat shit, Niggersoft.
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