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

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windows 7 was amazing windows 11 has not had any major issues but it is so ugly it makes me not even want to use my computer
 
Saddam Hussain Obama said:
windows 7 was amazing windows 11 has not had any major issues but it is so ugly it makes me not even want to use my computer
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The Windows Vista/7 era was unironically the point of no return. This was the period where install sizes and idle memory bloated to such extremes that you couldn't even use Windows comfortably with less than 2 GB of RAM. XP on release could run on potatoes that came out 4 years before it was new, whereas there were new PCs released contemporaneously with Windows 7 that could not run Windows 7.

I dunno why everyone idolizes this era of Windows when it was unambiguously the point at which Microsoft stopped giving a shit.
 
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It's mostly that the overt user hostility started with Windows 10. It was seriously over the top. "You're going to infect my computer with malware that overwrites my operating system against my will? And you didn't end up in prison jumpsuits?" "You're going to make me jump through registry editing hoops to disable pop up ads on the desktop that *I paid for*?!"

I don't even know what the word for it is. The control freakery. The will to dominate their users and overtly trespass in *their computers*. Maliciously written software is a different level of betrayal than badly written software.

I remember having to disable some shutdown setting (forget what, because there are millions of things I need to change before a Windows 10 install is really "tamed") - Windows somehow locked and wouldn't release the network driver to the BIOS, preventing dual booting operating systems from seeing the network card. An OS that screws with the BIOS and prevents basic hardware functioning in entirely different OS's is being evil.

Daily driver at home is now Linux Mint (has been for a while.) I'm looking into Qemu for running windows software in a sandbox, because it's getting bad enough that the OS needs to be sandboxed to prevent it from doing things it shouldn't.
 
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Hyperbola said:
I remember having to disable some shutdown setting (forget what, because there are millions of things I need to change before a Windows 10 install is really "tamed") - Windows somehow locked and wouldn't release the network driver to the BIOS, preventing dual booting operating systems from seeing the network card. An OS that screws with the BIOS and prevents basic hardware functioning in entirely different OS's is being evil.
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you probably mean fast boot (or fast startup now), where windows doesn't really shut down and just suspends to disk. I remember it because it also could fuck with NTFS drives when you try to access them from linux (or used to, not sure if it still does) when it's not disabled.

it's a relic from the HDD days when tech "journalists" had the retarded metric of boot time or boot to desktop, because 5 seconds more or less is apparently important to people who are smarter than staring at a boot screen and not go make a coffee or take a piss after turning on their PC.
SDD kinda took care of that, but it still affects windows today where it's optimized to show the desktop as fast as possible, while still being fucking unusable because it keeps starting and loading shit in the background with full CPU and disk load. but hey, desktop!
 
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I'm going to give you some tips to improve your Windows experience.

Download ISOs and more here: https://files.rg-adguard.net/
A rentry page about Windows here; https://rentry.org/fwt

Windows Activation Script
A script for fastly and easily activate your Windows without you having to buy a license.
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Windows Debloat
It will remove your problems with Microsoft spyware and you'll be able to use Windows privately.
https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools
 
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It downloads two package managers and sets up Task Scheduler jobs to pull down new packages from both daily? Seriously?
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I didn't remember him doing that. Either way, it's probably optional. There are many options in the software.
 
Fcret said:
you couldn't even use Windows comfortably with less than 2 GB of RAM
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That was caused by Microsoft not offering a clean break option for end-users. The botched 64-bit transition still hasn’t completed to this day because Microsoft doesn’t translate applications to be compatible with 64-bit libraries but eats RAM by loading in a separate 32-bit userland instead.

Microsoft tried the same flawed approach with Windows 10 for ARM but eventually learned their lesson by Windows 11. So there’s still hope for them yet to push in the direction of a much leaner system.
 
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That was caused by Microsoft not offering a clean break option for end-users. The botched 64-bit transition still hasn’t completed to this day because Microsoft doesn’t translate applications to be compatible with 64-bit libraries but eats RAM by loading in a separate 32-bit userland instead.

Microsoft tried the same flawed approach with Windows 10 for ARM but eventually learned their lesson by Windows 11. So there’s still hope for them yet to push in the direction of a much leaner system.
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WOW64 and its consequences have been a disaster etc.
 
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I am currently using Tiny11, which I run as a VM on my main machine. Windows 11 UI has some irritating aspects, but its not horrible.

Microsoft just cannot help themselves when it comes to trying the start menu into a billboard, but thankfully you can disable most of the nonsense.

I actually got used to the Windows 10 start menu, and it sucks that we dont have that anymore. Windows 11 start menu is a bit of a step down.
 
Windows 10 always gave me performance issues, but man, I miss the old UI. Windows 11 looks so ugly; it looks like it was made for tablets or blind people. How can I make Windows 11 look like 10?
 
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Fcret said:
The Windows Vista/7 era was unironically the point of no return. This was the period where install sizes and idle memory bloated to such extremes that you couldn't even use Windows comfortably with less than 2 GB of RAM. XP on release could run on potatoes that came out 4 years before it was new, whereas there were new PCs released contemporaneously with Windows 7 that could not run Windows 7.

I dunno why everyone idolizes this era of Windows when it was unambiguously the point at which Microsoft stopped giving a shit.
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cause its UI was good
 
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One of my big gripes with Windows outside of privacy issues for years is the fact I could not remove pre-installed applications and became worse overtime. Well finally thanks to the EU, that is changing.
Windows 11 will now allow you to uninstall edge,bing, and other pre-installed applications.
I still dislike Windows, but this is a big plus.

Edit: Note that it says EEA version of Windows will allow this, so not sure if this will extend to regular editions in the US.
 
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I recently out the blue had some curiosity about the desktop marketshare and was genuinely surprised to find that the Windows marketshare dropped below 70% according to statcounter. I recall years ago it was still pretty close to 90% with macOS having 9%. Now, macOS is at 20%. Out of the 70% using Windows, Windows 10 still holds the overwhelming majority despite it being EOL in 2 years (end of October 2025). Windows 11 still has not reached 30% after being out for 2 years.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
 
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