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My workaround allows me to get full use of 6ghz and Windows 10 thinks it's on Ethernet.
The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets
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I've been increasingly having problems with the clipboard on my work computer.. you know, the super simple program that has been unobtrusively humming in the background on every computer since the 90s? Well now it doesn't work if I try to copy and paste things too fast or sometimes for no reason at all.
I am forced to use Windows 11 at work, New explorer is even more unreliable when it comes to opening selected files by hitting enter. Sometimes it will just refuse to react and I need to right click and select a program, what is this bullshit.
Clipboard manager is a laggy piece of shit, but it at least works and is more usable than one bundled with 10. I tried disabling transparency and animations but it didn't help like it does on X11.
Dark theme is half assed as well.
All antivirus and spyware bogs down that poor 14th gen i7 as well, it's an achievement if you ask me.
Clipboard manager is a laggy piece of shit, but it at least works and is more usable than one bundled with 10. I tried disabling transparency and animations but it didn't help like it does on X11.
Dark theme is half assed as well.
All antivirus and spyware bogs down that poor 14th gen i7 as well, it's an achievement if you ask me.
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To be fair, the i7 is probably killing itself slowly which could be partly causing the instability, then again windows 11 is also just that big of a turd so who knows
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The debloat scripts / custom ISOs have identical performance to base Windows 10 and almost always end up breaking shit
LTSC is probably your best option and that too will cause some bizarre compatibility issues but nothing too important
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If they can get rid of the ads, tracking, and the subtle pushes to yes their cloud services it would be appreciated.
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I would recommend Windows 10 LTSC as long as you don't have a 12th generation or newer Intel CPU (because of the scheduler). Most of what you need to know is covered in the Windows 10 LTSC for gaming thread.
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Search inside the file explorer is also a piece of shit on W11. At my job it can't find anything even when you have the file open in another window. Now imagine trying to find a file inside one of the backups of 20 years worth of files. If it wasn't for the folders and files that thankfully follow a naming convention, we would be fucked trying to find anything manually.
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Microsoft seems to have some sort of commitment to never, ever making a GUI-based search that is as useful as grep or find.
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Does your Windows change jpeg to jfif on update?
And it's registry, so you have to find it in regedit every time!
And it's registry, so you have to find it in regedit every time!
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Oh god I hated that. You download an image to share but can't because the file format is rejected
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Random rant: what is the point of designer collections/images?
Half of the images I stored over 1 month ago are gone for no fucking reason.
Half of the images I stored over 1 month ago are gone for no fucking reason.
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The thing I don't understand about JFIF is that it's an ancient format, as old as JPEG itself. It's just a JPEG with support for extra metadata that got superseded by EXIF, yet you see JFIF being used all around the modern web, even though there's no good reason to use it, and somehow Windows 98 was able to open them up in Internet Explorer out of the box yet modern websites don't know how to handle JFIF attachments. It's not even something like APNG where it's an obscure enough substandard of PNG that not many websites support it, even if all the browsers have supported it since the 2000's.
As for Windows Explorer being shit, I keep forgetting that's a thing in Windows. At this point I only treat Windows as a barebone OS, strip it down from superfluous bullshit, install my own set of software and use that for everything.
-Instead of Windows Explorer I do everything in Total Commander and have been doing so for well over a decade, so even if I were to move to Windows 11 the new garbage Explorer wouldn't be an issue for me. I even applied registry tweaks to redirect directory opening to TC. And it's more than just a file manager, it's very much a Swiss Army Knife of a file manager, quite literally since it's sole developer, Christian Ghisler who's been at it for over three decades is Swiss.
-For file search there's Everything, instant lookup of any of the millions of files in my system. And if I need to do a very specific search, for example finding all .dll symbolic links pointing to a specific file, Total Commander can do that, and it can use Everything to pull the initial file search instantly before doing the in-depth one. You could never do that with Windows Explorer.
-Instead of whichever image browser Windows comes with I use XnView MP as a standalone and IrfanView for integration with TC.
-For screenshots I use ShareX which is much more robust than the little snap tool that comes with Windows. It can do screenshots with more on-the-fly edit options, it can record your screen, it can edit images, combine images, read QR codes, make QR codes, upload files to specific file hosts and so on.
-For media playback I just install K-Lite Codec Pack for an AIO package of codecs, thumbnail shell extensions and MPC-HC for the playback itself.
-Instead of using desktop shortcuts or the start menu I use a Keypirinha. A bit clunky and outdated, but the other decent alternative, Flow Launcher, is bloated, sluggish and is missing some plugins I tend to use a lot. The ecosystem of robust keyboard launchers is insanely poor on Windows, unfortunately, but it's one of the best things you can put on your computer.
-Instead of Outlook I just use Thunderbird. Or more specifically Betterbird since it comes with more bugfixes and features.
-Instead of Task Manager I use System Informer, way more robust than Microsoft's own SysInternals Process Explorer.
Of course I'm in the 0.1% percentile of Windows users with this kind of setup and most people aren't even aware they can use something else for Windows that'll work better than what Microsoft pushes out of the box, or that it exists at all. Most people also pay for Windows, log into their Microsoft account and do nothing to make it less annoying, so it's no wonder Microsoft doesn't bother to cater to power users at all and they have to solve that shit on their own. But by the end of the day it's still Windows NT, there's always a way to make it not shit.
As for Windows Explorer being shit, I keep forgetting that's a thing in Windows. At this point I only treat Windows as a barebone OS, strip it down from superfluous bullshit, install my own set of software and use that for everything.
-Instead of Windows Explorer I do everything in Total Commander and have been doing so for well over a decade, so even if I were to move to Windows 11 the new garbage Explorer wouldn't be an issue for me. I even applied registry tweaks to redirect directory opening to TC. And it's more than just a file manager, it's very much a Swiss Army Knife of a file manager, quite literally since it's sole developer, Christian Ghisler who's been at it for over three decades is Swiss.
-For file search there's Everything, instant lookup of any of the millions of files in my system. And if I need to do a very specific search, for example finding all .dll symbolic links pointing to a specific file, Total Commander can do that, and it can use Everything to pull the initial file search instantly before doing the in-depth one. You could never do that with Windows Explorer.
-Instead of whichever image browser Windows comes with I use XnView MP as a standalone and IrfanView for integration with TC.
-For screenshots I use ShareX which is much more robust than the little snap tool that comes with Windows. It can do screenshots with more on-the-fly edit options, it can record your screen, it can edit images, combine images, read QR codes, make QR codes, upload files to specific file hosts and so on.
-For media playback I just install K-Lite Codec Pack for an AIO package of codecs, thumbnail shell extensions and MPC-HC for the playback itself.
-Instead of using desktop shortcuts or the start menu I use a Keypirinha. A bit clunky and outdated, but the other decent alternative, Flow Launcher, is bloated, sluggish and is missing some plugins I tend to use a lot. The ecosystem of robust keyboard launchers is insanely poor on Windows, unfortunately, but it's one of the best things you can put on your computer.
-Instead of Outlook I just use Thunderbird. Or more specifically Betterbird since it comes with more bugfixes and features.
-Instead of Task Manager I use System Informer, way more robust than Microsoft's own SysInternals Process Explorer.
Of course I'm in the 0.1% percentile of Windows users with this kind of setup and most people aren't even aware they can use something else for Windows that'll work better than what Microsoft pushes out of the box, or that it exists at all. Most people also pay for Windows, log into their Microsoft account and do nothing to make it less annoying, so it's no wonder Microsoft doesn't bother to cater to power users at all and they have to solve that shit on their own. But by the end of the day it's still Windows NT, there's always a way to make it not shit.
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So, is there any reason not to switch over to Windows 10 IoT LTSC? Like, is there some important feature that it doesn't have?
Also, would I have to reformat my drive, or can I just "update" my current version of Windows to it?
Also, would I have to reformat my drive, or can I just "update" my current version of Windows to it?
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Why do some programs and websites refuse to accept .jfif files? It's within the jpeg specifications, no?
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I guess they never thought of adding .jfif to the list of supported file extensions because of how uncommon it is