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I used WinUtil to make it prioritize security updates and lay off feature updates for as long as possible. Best setting for WinUpdate tbh, should be the default.
The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets
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They probably tested including the old context menu extensions in Win11.
I would never use a screen with higher than 1080p on Windows, so I don't know what this looks like with Windows's shitty handling of high-DPI screens, but even on 1080p the text in the new Windows 11 explorer context menu is like 50% larger than the proper one, right?
I bet they actually implemented bringing the ridiculous shitshow that is the old context menu item entries across.
Sanjay, the developer who implemented it took a look at what the 20 completely incoherently named items now mixed into the redesigned Win11 menu looked like, half of them with no icon, half of them with a ridiculous random mix of icons (most of which likely don't even include icons sized for anything but the good old 95/NT 4.0 context menus).
Sanjay looked at how the new, larger context menu now didn't even fit within the screen height and it would need to either go to double stacking of menu items, or implement scrolling.
Even Sanjay didn't pretend to the UI/UX team that putting this into production was a good idea.
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My main gripe is specifically about 3rd party software. Yes, the old context menu has a shitton of random options by default, but also other 3rd party software adds it's own options. For example, ShareX adds context menu options for quick uploading and I use that a lot. I wouldn't have that in the new Win11 context menu because it's a legacy context menu option, and no one at MS thought that maybe it'd be good to let those show up in the new menu. If they'd clutter it, just put them in an expanding menu.
If you use these, you can see that 3rd party software adds it's own context menu items. If you have 7-zip installed, that's a shell extension. It's simply unwise to completely cut all of it out from the new menu and make you use the old one to access those, if you could just add a little expanding menu to nest all non-MS old context menu elements, so at the very least it's a case of you having to hover over a menu item and staying in one menu instead of clicking one menu item to open another menu.
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One of the few context menu extensions I actively use. Though I don't actually make use of these functions particularly often.
That would make a great deal more sense. Alternatively, a new means of adding context menu items, that could (at least in theory) be implemented by actually actively developed applications in a way that doesn't look like complete dogshit.
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The framework to add the WinUI3 context menu items already exists, what I'm talking about would act as a stopgap between software that's yet to adapt to it (or never will cuz it's legacy) and the software that adapts to it. Given how sudden this change was since the old context menu is ~3 decades old it would be a better way to phase out the old context menu for the new one by showing that hey, it's not that bad, and you have all of the most important stuff from the old one here.
Or, you know, you'll just use that registry tweak. Given that it's actually presented by Microsoft and it's not something that's being actively killed out in the name of the "better" new thing by any means necessary besides making the new thing like the old thing and improving it from there, and it's still accessible without any hacks in the first place, it's safe to say the legacy context menu will hang around for much longer.
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I installed the newest Windows 11 update (yes I know, I'm a retard for using it) and now my PC is slow as fuck. Literally nothing loads quickly and the stuttering is unbearable, making gaming impossible.
Sucks ass, considering Microdicksoft will probably fix this in a few months.
Sucks ass, considering Microdicksoft will probably fix this in a few months.
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Look at the upadate KB numbers you've recently installed, look them up online and see if any of them results in something about lowered performance. It's possible you could uninstall it or lay it off for the time being, or there being a workaround already. Also it's a good idea to set your Windows Updates to prioritize security updates and postpone feature updates with WinUtil.
I once had a faulty KB update that would cause my PC to stop from booting, and every time I restored my system to the checkpoint before it it would install it again. I ended up disabling automatic updates altogether, and only months later I realized that by doing so I wasn't updating Windows Defender databases. So, don't do that, or at least remember to turn it back on later.
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I uninstalled the update and it did nothing. My PC worked perfectly until the initial update on Tuesday.Look at the upadate KB numbers you've recently installed, look them up online and see if any of them results in something about lowered performance. It's possible you could uninstall it or lay it off for the time being, or there being a workaround already. Also it's a good idea to set your Windows Updates to prioritize security updates and postpone feature updates with WinUtil.
I once had a faulty KB update that would cause my PC to stop from booting, and every time I restored my system to the checkpoint before it it would install it again. I ended up disabling automatic updates altogether, and only months later I realized that by doing so I wasn't updating Windows Defender databases. So, don't do that, or at least remember to turn it back on later.
If I can somehow fix my PC (or Windows releases a fix)
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The best solution would've just been to not replace the legacy context menu at all. I'm pretty sure some tranny was able to hack together working mica support for the now legacy context menu and Sanjay could've just taken that work and shipped it into production while changing some variable names to make it seem like his own work like the indian nigger he is.
Remaking shit is so fucking stupid to me when it already works fine and looks fine for the most part. Don't fix what isn't broken. I guess it makes sense since Prajesh, try as he might, can't for the life of him understand anything but shitty XML.
WinUI is so fucking stupid god I hope the retards who made it die.
The faggots who are pushing for the Windows 11 design (and you see it in Windows 10 in some places too) deserve to be shot dead as well.
It's very funny thinking about it, I don't think I've ever seen a Windows 10 update have this many critical issues other than the 1809 update (and even then I don't remember being affected by it?).I once had a faulty KB update that would cause my PC to stop from booting, and every time I restored my system to the checkpoint before it it would install it again. I ended up disabling automatic updates altogether, and only months later I realized that by doing so I wasn't updating Windows Defender databases. So, don't do that, or at least remember to turn it back on later.
Windows 10 has been a solid OS since I started using it again around 2018 and even then, most if not all of the issues I had with the OS when I started using it around early 2016 was due to me using a shitty Lenovo Ideapad and not with the OS itself.
With Windows 11, however, I have seen so much stupid shit. Things that break the OS and make it genuinely unusable for normal people. It really makes me wonder how fucked Windows 12 is going to be.
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Is there any way to get old PC games to work on Windows 11 without having to use an emulator? I’ve tried running them in compatibility mode and 90% of the time it doesn’t work, when with Windows 10 and earlier versions I was usually successful using this method.
I’m trying to run a game from 1998 and another from 2006.
I’m trying to run a game from 1998 and another from 2006.
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If SteamOS isn't your thing, you could pick any popular Linux distro and have a better time.
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try to keep delusions about Linux being "good" or "good enough" on the Linux threads
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Werks on my machine
Mysterious Figure
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Just about every single program and game has run well on Steam Deck with Proton.
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Is it perfect? no, but then again what OS is actually perfect? The gaming experience on linux is pretty good and at times even better than Windows.
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I've been using Windows 8.1 with classic shell for almost 9 years and I don't regret a thing.
It's a shame the fags at Microsoft removed update support. because if it weren't for that, I would continue using it for a few more years.
It's a shame the fags at Microsoft removed update support. because if it weren't for that, I would continue using it for a few more years.
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There are ways to do so, but it's not going to be straightforward. Look those games up on PC Gaming Wiki, it's the main resource hub for shit like this.
Linuxfags clinging onto SteamOS like it's a fucking Windows killer. It's not and it won't be. SteamOS only works because it's a purpose built Arch distro from Valve for Valve's hardware. Try to apply it anywhere else and you run into the exact same issues you'd run into on any other distro. And the old Debian based SteamOS is dead.
Key word: Steam Deck. Not everyone has a Steam Deck, most gamers have a custom built PC, and the type of install and forget system has been mastered by Microsoft while Linux still struggles. You have an Nvidia GPU? Whoops, distros don't install the proprietary drivers because they're proprietary, therefore evil, and you have issues and no one told you upfront it's because of FOSS spergs that prefer shoveling FOSS over a functional OS every time.
If it's not perfect, why is it that Linux users need to say it's superior to Windows in every way in every thread that's not related to Linux? And then downplay any criticism of Linux as something unimportant to keep up the "perfect OS" illusion? At least Windows users aren't ashamed of admitting their OS is shit.
Linux user will bend into a pretzel to turn any criticism of Linux into a good thing, like Wayland being forced on everyone and still having issues, or needing to rely on the command line to do anything when in Windows the command line is complementary and so on.
Windows user will blatantly say that the telemetry is shit, that the UI changes in Win11 are shit, the Settings app is shit, because a Windows user doesn't suffer from Stockholm syndrome where he physically cannot criticize the piece of shit he uses daily.
At this point, why not just use Windows 7? Win8.1 was a fucking UI/UX nightmare that only got corrected in Win10, and right now Win8.1 is in the same boat as Win7, AKA slowly going down to the bottom of the ocean because the crew abandoned ship.
BTW, having a commercial legacy piece of software that's constantly updated and supported is insanely rare. The two instances I can think of is Total Commander that still supports Windows 95, even though the Win3.11 version has been long abandoned, and Mikrotik's RouterOS that still gets updates for their 10 year old devices. Even in the FOSS world you don't have an old distro version supported forever. At some point you have to update, but it's Linux, it's all free and you can keep it mostly the same, so no one cares.
Like, yeah, of course Win8.1 is gonna get abandoned, it's a 10 years old OS and there is no money to be made by supporting an ancient piece of software like that, and ultimately, Windows is a commercial product and it has to make money. They have no obligation to keep supporting old software like that.
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Have you considered the possibility that not all linux users are the same nor hold the same viewpoints? I never once said anything positive about Wayland, nor glorified the commandline. I mean if you use something like Mint, you practically will never have to touch the commandline.