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

[Susanna]

The operating system will have dynamic recompilation. It'll read the x86 instructions, translate them into ARM64, and then save the cached file. The program will launch very slowly the first time, then function perfectly smoothly every time after that. Macs handle this flawlessly, and despite all, Microsoft do have better engineers than Apple, their solution will work fine.
ARM isn't the issue, Qualcomm being garbage is. Before ARM can become mainstream you need a more competent firm designing the actual processors. For instance Apple Silicon works just fine, I'm sure once AMD and Intel get into the market, you'll see more practical offerings.

 

[Betonhaus]

Shame we didn't get to see more Huawei silicone.

 

[macrodegenerate]

Microsoft do have better engineers than Apple, their solution will work fine.

Ah yes and India will be a superpower by 2030

 

[Susanna]

Ah yes and India will be a superpower by 2030

Dynamic recompilation has been a thing since the late 80s, it was how you ran DOS software on Sun workstations. Almost every JRE uses one. Microsoft can absolutely put one together. My understanding is that behind the scenes, OSX is an absolute kludge mess compared to Windows or Linux, Apple only feels better to use because they let the UX team veto idiocy like "let's put ads in the file manager" and "if we make the start menu search default to using bing, it'll improve our search engine department's usage statistics!".

 

[The Pulverizer]

I've been getting the name wrong this whole time.

Yay is mostly just used for running pkgbuild scripts though, and tthose are typically pretty short.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

Shame we didn't get to see more Huawei silicone.

HiSilicon announced a new series last year, the Kirin 9000s, all domestically made. It was supposed to launch this year in some devices, and it's significantly behind of what they were doing before the sanctions, but looks like a solid chip still.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/chipsets/huaweis-sanctions-evading-kirin-9000s-tested-significantly-behind-kirin-9000-with-tsmc-tech

 

[Barry McKockner]

My mobo died and I lost my windows pro key I've had since 2015. Are the key reselling sites legit, or should I just go ahead and spend the money on a new legit key?

 

[Susanna]

My mobo died and I lost my windows pro key I've had since 2015. Are the key reselling sites legit, or should I just go ahead and spend the money on a new legit key?

Most of the key resellers are legit.
But you can just use https://github.com/abbodi1406/KMS_VL_ALL_AIO instead. Turn on auto-renew and just leave it be, it’ll run a local volume license server and let your windows authenticate against itself. Also free Office 365.

 

[Betonhaus]

My mobo died and I lost my windows pro key I've had since 2015. Are the key reselling sites legit, or should I just go ahead and spend the money on a new legit key?

key reselling is usually pretty legit, but we are no longer in the era where you can buy a $20 windows 7 pro key and use it to activate Windows 10

is this for a desktop? there is a way to transfer your key to a new motherboard, but it requires you to have been using a Microsoft Account

I've used it before when I had to RMA a motherboard and all of the other hardware was the same.

 

[Barry McKockner]

key reselling is usually pretty legit, but we are no longer in the era where you can buy a $20 windows 7 pro key and use it to activate Windows 10

is this for a desktop? there is a way to transfer your key to a new motherboard, but it requires you to have been using a Microsoft Account

I've used it before when I had to RMA a motherboard and all of the other hardware was the same.

Well the resellers for 10 pro are like $30, which is a HELL of a lot cheaper than $200. Also, my windows never bound to my account, and I apparently had unlimited free office 365 some kind of way. I'm basically SOL starting from scratch (lost all of my files and everything), so just looking for the cheapest way since they already collect and sell my data.

 

[The Ugly One]

Well the resellers for 10 pro are like $30, which is a HELL of a lot cheaper than $200. Also, my windows never bound to my account, and I apparently had unlimited free office 365 some kind of way. I'm basically SOL starting from scratch (lost all of my files and everything), so just looking for the cheapest way since they already collect and sell my data.

Have you contacted Microsoft or the OEM you got it from?

 

[the rat]

Most of the key resellers are legit.
But you can just use https://github.com/abbodi1406/KMS_VL_ALL_AIO instead. Turn on auto-renew and just leave it be, it’ll run a local volume license server and let your windows authenticate against itself. Also free Office 365.

but piracy = bad, how could you? KMS AIO russia spyware (rael) why are you trying to install russian hacks on my computer?

 

[ZMOT]

My mobo died and I lost my windows pro key I've had since 2015. Are the key reselling sites legit, or should I just go ahead and spend the money on a new legit key?

if the hardrive still works you can grab it from the registry, might even work with a replacement mobo if the rest stays the same.
otherwise just use a volume activator, kms38 activates till 2038, I guarantee you you gonna reinstall before that date anyway.

key reselling is usually pretty legit, but we are no longer in the era where you can buy a $20 windows 7 pro key and use it to activate Windows 10

is this for a desktop? there is a way to transfer your key to a new motherboard, but it requires you to have been using a Microsoft Account

a key off ebay is cheaper than a happy meal, no need to pay double-digits (or anything at all).

as for the key you just deauthorize it from your old PC/hardware, than put it into the new one. no account required.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Have you contacted Microsoft or the OEM you got it from?

I got it for free from Azure/Student portal in 2015, but that account with the info is long gone lmao.

if the hardrive still works you can grab it from the registry, might even work with a replacement mobo if the rest stays the same.
otherwise just use a volume activator, kms38 activates till 2038, I guarantee you you gonna reinstall before that date anyway.

Hard drive still works, and I put the new windows installation on a new partition (nothing could repair the OS image apparently), but it seems the only thing in windows.old is just program files. All user data is nonexistant.

 

[whogoesthere]

You’re not compiling anything, what an installer does is copy a compressed binary into certain folders. That’s the same on windows and in most Linux package managers. Compiling is a different task, much more resource and time consuming. If you were compiling, you’d know, because installing a web browser update would spin the processor fan up to 100% for a couple of hours and the machine would be more or less unusable for anything else.

He is just a linux tranny, all they do is lie. The worst think about linux is the users, they make it very hard for anyone to give the OS's a fair shot. I wonder if they are employed by microshit or applefags. At least we know our OS has problems.

 

[Overly Serious]

I got it for free from Azure/Student portal in 2015, but that account with the info is long gone lmao.


Hard drive still works, and I put the new windows installation on a new partition (nothing could repair the OS image apparently), but it seems the only thing in windows.old is just program files. All user data is nonexistant.

I've used key purchase sites for Windows OS. Had reservations first time I did it and can make no promises but have done so multiple times now and they've continued to work so far. My understanding is that they're legal keys but selling in a way that MS try to lead you away from. In any case, for the amount you save I personally would take a shot at it.

You can use some Russian key server to activate as well but I felt more confident in actually paying for keys.

 

[Barry McKockner]

I've used key purchase sites for Windows OS. Had reservations first time I did it and can make no promises but have done so multiple times now and they've continued to work so far. My understanding is that they're legal keys but selling in a way that MS try to lead you away from. In any case, for the amount you save I personally would take a shot at it.

You can use some Russian key server to activate as well but I felt more confident in actually paying for keys.

Yeah, I went ahead and bought a key from kinguin. Registered right away and works perfectly fine. Did it through paypal though so I could chargeback if anything happened. Also, found all my old documents. They weren't where microsoft forums said they were supposed to be. It was in a "file history" folder on my C drive instead of in windows.old.

Now to hold off and try to never let it update to windows 11.

 

[419]

He is just a linux tranny, all they do is lie. The worst think about linux is the users, they make it very hard for anyone to give the OS's a fair shot. I wonder if they are employed by microshit or applefags. At least we know our OS has problems.

FWIW I'm a Linux thread regular and I've gone out of my way to report him for being a retarded disruptive nigger on this thread. I'd rather we didn't have spastics like him pretend to be representative of us.

 

[Betonhaus]

Yeah, I went ahead and bought a key from kinguin. Registered right away and works perfectly fine. Did it through paypal though so I could chargeback if anything happened. Also, found all my old documents. They weren't where microsoft forums said they were supposed to be. It was in a "file history" folder on my C drive instead of in windows.old.

Now to hold off and try to never let it update to windows 11.

I forgot all about kinguin, that's a good site

 

[Demonslayer1776]

A while ago I had to disable a "WebClient" service to make Outlook stop lagging when downloading attachments to a LAN drive by default.
For context, this "WebClient" service allowed PCs to share files with an http-using application I'd never heard of called WebDAV, and Outlook was trying this http method before defaulting to smb.
Serious question, no snark, etc. etc., but while I appreciate that Windows is at an advantage by supporting legacy shit, why is this legacy shit enabled by default, especially when it fucks up other, more modern applications? This seems like a prime candidate to be hidden behind an arcane reactivation process for whatever poor schmucks still need to use http-based file sharing (probably some Japanese company, IDK, I only know the stereotypes).

Windows has to enable legacy support by default because it is a consumer product and 95% of their userbase has 0 computer literacy. Its the blessing and curse of using a product aimed at non-technical users. If Windows didn't enable all of these things by default then businesses would flip their shit, and they are the primary customer. Karen from HR would flip out that her computer is broken because some legacy service was using WebDAV and she cant connect anymore. Microsoft decided early on that they would strive to support legacy software to appease end users, to the point where they were having their own developers place patches for Sim city into Windows 95 to ensure it would work. It allowed them to gain a better foothold with normal users at the cost of reducing quality within the OS itself.

This is certainly ironic when considering the fact that it breaks new software, but I think its 2 competing philosophies. Part of MS is used to legacy support because it got them this far, while another part of MS is aggressively pushing product no matter the cost. I'd imagine MS would be more willing to retire legacy protocols if they thought it could push copilot or sell ad-space.

That's your epic own here? In that case:

1. Most of what I installed was cracked games and most of them compile the games. I'm sorry that I can only remember what I've worked with personally and don't have an academic knowledge of your dogshit .exe installers.
2. I never said Linux doesn't have security updates. The main difference here is that while Windows has insane bugs and vulnerabilities, Microsoft pretends there's no problem with their software. Judging by the four links you posted it's fair to say that FOSS devs are much more open about their issues.

Can you feel how you feel about the fact that Microsoft datamines you and gives that data to the NSA from the moment you install Windows 11?

This is honestly some great bait and I don't think people are giving you enough credit. Not only are you making false claims that Windows compiles software every time you install something, but you're making claims that indicate you've probably never compiled something from source yourself, and don't even know what compiling a piece of software means.

If you're a Linux power user like you pretend, then try compiling a normal piece of software like a web browser and see how long it takes. Time it and it'll be blatantly obvious why its not possible for Windows to be compiling 50 GB videogames during the installation.

Also, If you were compiling a game there would be no crack in the traditional sense. Someone would just remove the DRM from the source code. If a normal person could compile the game, there would be no need for a crack to begin with.

From what I've experienced, packages from the AUR are not compiled and I was talking about YAM which uses the AUR.

So you get these fun cases where it's like: "oh fuck i need a program, ok, 'pacman -Sy <packagename>', oh wtf why isn't it working... oh ok it was actually 'pacman -Sy <package-name>', oh wtf it's still not working.... oh i have to use YAM to get it from the AUR." And then the program has to compile because it's from the fucking AUR.

Many packages in the AUR offer both source and compiled versions. Many of them compile from source if you just download the base package. Check for an identical package suffixed by "-bin" as this is the typical convention for pre-compiled binaries.