The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

Why do you care about theoretical arguments on what runs what? Normies play this slop on their iPhone and upgrade to a PS5 if they're really choosey.

Personally I was really excited to find Blue Reflection ran better via Proton than on my Mac via Parallels/Windows-on-ARM. I was really bummed when Hatsumira gave me a ton of trouble in Proton.
 
Cut out all the multiplayer games out of your datasheets. You know, the most popular ones that won't run on Linux because of anti-cheat. Then compare the numbers.
Okay. Only 1 in 3 of the rated games run without issues (the percentages sum to 89%) 1 in 4 games have pretty serious issues. "Great platform for single-player gaming."

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My point is that Proton does well

When you grade on a curve, yes. It's much better than BeOS.
 
11 Reasons To Leave Windows 11 - by Zac Of All Tech

tl;dw:

1. No Auto Login
2. No Local Accounts
3. Tracking/Spyware
4. Recall/Copilot
5. Malware/Viruses
6. Forced Updates
7. Baked-In Ads
8. No Uninstalling
9. Broken Sleep Function
10. Planned Obsolescence
11. No More Gaming


edit to add: just posting the vid here 🤔
 
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11 Reasons To Leave Windows 11 - by Zac Of All Tech

tl;dw:

1. No Auto Login
2. No Local Accounts
3. Tracking/Spyware
4. Recall/Copilot
5. Malware/Viruses
6. Forced Updates
7. Baked-In Ads
8. No Uninstalling
9. Broken Sleep Function
10. Planned Obsolescence
11. No More Gaming
1. Was always this complicated since Windows NT was designed as a workstation OS first where auto login would be a major security vulnerability.
2. He regurgitates the same news articles that do everything they can to avoid mentioning the MS account requirement affects only Home versions.
3. People complained about it with 10 that had it, didn't matter, now they're defending 10 as the last good Windows.
4. The only one on the list that is remotely legit, but again, Copilot in 11 is just an optional web frontend and Recall can be uninstalled, Microsoft made it an optional system module in the end.
5. Plagued Windows since it's inception, plagued computers before Windows, the only reason Linux and Mac aren't plagued by it yet is because they're niche.
6. People complained about it with 10 that had it, didn't matter, now they're defending 10 as the last good Windows.
7. People complained about it with 10 that had it, didn't matter, now they're defending 10 as the last good Windows.
8. You could just cuntishly delete Edge's installation folder, Windows will only ask you for admin rights and it'll be gone and Windows won't care. They don't protect the files themselves.
9. IIRC this is an issue that also affects 10 and relates to the power plan allowing for the network interfaces to be active during sleep. Disabling that fixes it, and also saves you laptop battery by a ton.
10. Yes, Microsoft fucked up bad here, but it's mainly due to their laziness in enforcing the TPM 2.0 requirement. The CPU generation cutoff isn't arbitrary, it relates to when Intel/AMD added TPM 2.0 to the CPU itself.
11. The biggest asspull of the video. Steam still works on Windows. All Windows games still work on Windows. Valve and SteamOS won't destroy Windows' gaming domination, it'll put no more than a slight dent in it.

Not to mention that every single one of these points this talking head schmuck was pulling out of... clickbaity articles. Of fucking course, and he has the audacity to show them on screen to remind you that he's an ignorant cunt that doesn't know what he's talking about and just reparsing sensational articles because idiots like @ToroidalBoat here will instinctively click it, watch it and then repost it so that another faggot can get his YouTube career going.

If people would put this much effort into figuring out how to use WinUtil or how to switch to Linux/macOS instead of submersing themselves in this vat of shit ragebait content, their day-to-day computing lives would improve tenfold. But no, people just want to suffer and complain, but never put in any effort to change their lives for the better. Pathetic.
 
I have noticed recently that they have changed the update settings of the Microsoft Store app on Windows 10. Before the change you could disable the auto-update, now you can only delay the update from a week to 4, like Windows Update.
 
I just need an OS that lets me work in peace without having to send my personal information to India every day, and isn't an unwieldy resource hog. I don't care about Current Day gaming it's all terrible, and I certainly do not care for training Nutella's chatbots for free. And I never, not once defended windows 10 as "the last good windows" because there has never been an acutal good windows product.
 
I have nothing to add to this conversation but I'm here to complain once again that my piece of shit HP/Windows 11 forgot what bluetooth and USBs were, forced me to update in order to let me use them again because God forbid you turn updates off, sometimes won't even turn on without pressing the power multiple times, keeps getting screen burn, and keeps fucking freezing despite having a ram upgrade a week ago, and is now throwing up unexpected storage exceptions like gang signs.
never buy a laptop off polacks
 
people just want to suffer and complain
The internet exists to facilitate piracy, porn, and complaining.

10. Yes, Microsoft fucked up bad here, but it's mainly due to their laziness in enforcing the TPM 2.0 requirement. The CPU generation cutoff isn't arbitrary, it relates to when Intel/AMD added TPM 2.0 to the CPU itself.

There are some serious vulnerabilities in TPM 1.2, which is why 2.0 is the minimum spec.
 
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A shortish (6 mins) on Windows' "agentic" future according to M$ itself. Can't help thinking that given how much M$ is pushing this brave new world, this stage of "opt in and only if you fully understand" will quietly switch to the more typical "on by default, sorry we forgot to tell you" approach sooner rather than later. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YO9HvPtJJ0)


There are some serious vulnerabilities in TPM 1.2, which is why 2.0 is the minimum spec.
Totally unrelatedly, can someone with a better understanding than me (it's not a high bar) provide the one or two sentence explanation for idiots of what benefit TPM provides for the typical user and whether it identifies/tracks specific machines?
 
I just got back on Windows 10 after fucking around with Linux for a few weeks. It feels weird as fuck to return to 10 after 3 years on 11 but it feels nice. I will say I do think Windows 11 looks far better and Windows 10s gotten old enough that there's style clashing. But it feels good to be back.
 
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A shortish (6 mins) on Windows' "agentic" future according to M$ itself. Can't help thinking that given how much M$ is pushing this brave new world, this stage of "opt in and only if you fully understand" will quietly switch to the more typical "on by default, sorry we forgot to tell you" approach sooner rather than later. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YO9HvPtJJ0)



Totally unrelatedly, can someone with a better understanding than me (it's not a high bar) provide the one or two sentence explanation for idiots of what benefit TPM provides for the typical user and whether it identifies/tracks specific machines?
TPM hides a key inside your CPU that requires physical access to the machine. It cannot be removed or copied. This key can then be used to locally encrypt files that, if they are removed from your computer, cannot be decrypted. The key cannot be removed or even copied.

For example, every time you type your password into a website and click "remember this computer," the TPM is used to encrypt some kind of access credentials in a file. If someone were to use some malware to steal this file, it would be useless to them, because they need the key in your CPU to decrypt it.
 
I just got back on Windows 10 after fucking around with Linux for a few weeks. It feels weird as fuck to return to 10 after 3 years on 11 but it feels nice. I will say I do think Windows 11 looks far better and Windows 10s gotten old enough that there's style clashing. But it feels good to be back.
I just updated to the latest security patch and I got a blue screen and the audio now isn't working. Holy shit how do you mess up this bad as a multi billion dollar corporation?
 
TPM hides a key inside your CPU that requires physical access to the machine. It cannot be removed or copied. This key can then be used to locally encrypt files that, if they are removed from your computer, cannot be decrypted. The key cannot be removed or even copied.

For example, every time you type your password into a website and click "remember this computer," the TPM is used to encrypt some kind of access credentials in a file. If someone were to use some malware to steal this file, it would be useless to them, because they need the key in your CPU to decrypt it.
There is of course the small detail that this is totally useless to the typical user (to his question)
 
For whatever fucking reason, PowerToys decided to enable "Light Switch" and has been randomly toggling dark mode for the last half an hour until I turned it off. Normally I wouldn't really care, but holy crap when half of your desktop goes from 3 lumens to 4000 lumens, that's a bit uncomfortable.

Turn off Light Switch and you won't have to fight the system again.
 
Top 15 PC games.

Green = supported on Linux
Yellow = kinda works, maybe
Red = doesn't work on Linux

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A lot of people play the games Linux users think nobody plays because no Linux users (1.2% of the market) play them (because they don't work on Linux).
Weird, I played Roblox last year and it worked fine. I was playing to bully my Oshi. don't judge me
GTA V was fucked by R* out of spite, they were always dicks to PC players so no surprise there.
Oh shit, it's a Windows thread, inb4 Slav spergs out
 
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Windows 11 Agentic Features Are Security Nightmare, Microsoft Confirms

So, they know it's a major security problem. They make it opt-in. They know it's a bad idea. Yet they're still working on it. Not to mention how fucking stupid it is that you're now delegating something as simple as ordering pizza to AI to automate the task for you.

This feels like the Windows dev team knows that this is a bad idea, they don't want to do it, but the higher ups are holding the proverbial gun to their head forcing them to implement this shit because investors like AI so they have to implement useless AI features that nobody asked for. The worst part is that there will be nigger cattle that'll like this as they're that lazy, justifying the existence of this garbage to the higher-ups. Given how Bill Gates was the one to cement the idea of company infighting I don't think it's a far-fetched theory to make that all of Microsoft isn't scheming together on this, but rather there's an internal company conflict over it leading to this shit.
 
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