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

[Betonhaus]

I guess the SteamDeck plus the newly released steamOS has lit a fire under their ass when it comes to handhelds but they really should've been doing this years ago.

it would've been a logical evolution years ago to make some sort of Windows Xbox edition, where you had an OS you could install on a console PC or handheld that had an interface optimized for gamepad navigation. but Microsoft is not capable of foresight.

 

[They were once men]

I don't even want to think about 12. There was talks of them storing your actual user account on the cloud as opposed to the C: drive as they currently do (and have for literally ever).

I main Mac's now mostly but still require Windows for work and it's such a bitch. On 10 still and we have LTSC so we're good for the foreseeable future but yeah, 12 will be a fucking jeet nightmare.

I'm guessing it'll also be a subscription model, microjeet ain't gonna let you use their cloudjeet OS taking up cloud space for free.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I guess the SteamDeck plus the newly released steamOS has lit a fire under their ass when it comes to handhelds but they really should've been doing this years ago.

I remember thinking the same thing just a few years ago when I found out how easy it is to run Windows games on Linux thanks to Valve. I wondered why they weren't adding a shit ton of new features and addressing the problems of Windows on handhelds given that gamers are probably the second biggest users of Windows after businesses.

 

[Miller]

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Wasn't there a similar issue with Windows 10 when it was released? I remember reading about the Start menu launching Bing in the background or something.

 

[Jang Joo]

Have you all moved over to Windows 11 at this point?

Nope. Don't feel like looking at how to wrangle it properly. I'm staying on 10 LTSC until a game I really, really want to play forces me off. And since I care about video games a little less every day, the odds of that even happening keep decreasing.

 

[The Ugly One]

Just like Apple lit one with iPad, and later M-series processors, forcing them to work on Windows on ARM. How many years did it take for them to make it usable?

Snapdragon CPUs are dog shit, though. The problem with Windows laptop power consumption isn't the ISA, it's a complex of things. One is that Windows is a desktop-first OS, while Apple's primary market is notebooks, so there are a ton of little design choices that don't play well with laptops, particularly that power consumption is an afterthought. One person brought up how the Win 11 Start menu is an energy-hungry web app. It's hardly the only example; tons of Windows bits are heavyweight because they just figure, "eh, everybody's got at least 6 cores that can blast up to 5 GHz." Another example is that Windows exposes flags that allow applications to prevent sleep mode.

But another is not Microsoft's fault, and that is that the PC space is culturally dominated by the attitude that the most important thing is compute power per dollar. PC buyers generally do not feel like they are getting value unless they are getting the fastest CPU and most RAM they can. If you have two laptops for sale, one for $1900 with a CPU that caps at 3.5 GHz and a conservatively managed clock, integrated memory to minimize transfer consumption, and premium, stress-tested parts, and another with a thirsty CPU that juices itself constantly up to 5.1 GHz, a huge load of RAM that's halfway across the motherboard so the SODIMMs can fit, and corners cut across the design so that they can sneak that price in under the $1800 mark and still make money, your average PC laptop buyer will buy the second and brag about how smart he was to not get ripped off. Sure, the battery dies in 2 hours, and the thing is falling apart after two years, but it wins CPUMark benchmarks.

 

[Screamer_2]

At what point do I just have to give in and click the update to Windows 11?

 

[Slav Power]

I believe I have encountered, for the first time in my life, a legitimate instance of Windows 10 LTSC. Peeps at work got some cheap POS AIO computer that had a password on and was previously used in the UK and of course I had to prep it since I'm the wizard. The goal was to do a clean install so I had to pull out the edition and the serial from the registry so that they'd match, so I had to do that on a "cold system", drive hooked up to my laptop. Turns out it had LTSC 2019 and the key that was in the registry was unique so I copied it and sourced an LTSC ISO. Put that on Ventoy, do a fresh install, then enter the registration key with Internet hooked up. It worked, so it must've been a legit key. A bizarre experience when you've always just activated it with MAS.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

At the very least they seem to finally be getting the dicks out of their asses and working on some enhancements for x86 handhelds, if recent reports are to be believed.

I’d love to see a Metro updated interface for handhelds with a barebones desktop mode that doesn’t have all the AI and other nonsense that Windows 11 currently has.

 

[Fcret]

Just for some bait Vista SP1 was good, I've been playing around with skinning Win7 to look and feel more like Vista and after 16 years I have come to the conclusion that the small taskbar without grouping is superior, we got it right in 1995 and have been living in sin since 2009.

Vista was fine assuming you had reasonably powerful hardware and your hardware had actual Vista drivers and not just rebadged XP drivers. Windows 7 was basically just a soft relaunch of Vista (Windows Vista is NT 6.0 and Windows 7 is NT 6.1) after Microsoft decided to tardwrangle hardware manufacturers and OEMs into making sure their shit actually ran correctly on the platform.

I ran it well into the Windows 7 era when they forced me to update and never had any problems. I kinda miss how forward-looking Microsoft was about desktop computing in that era, because nowadays it feels like they've left the desktop to be gangraped by incompetent jeets.

Have you all moved over to Windows 11 at this point?

Yes. First version of Windows where I've broken down and done registry hacks to disable things. Microsoft has always bundled junk I don't want with Windows but it's mostly been stuff I can ignore. Shit like Copilot and bing search in the start menu are a little too much for me, although I use the Command Palette from PowerToys to launch programs now instead of bothering with start. Also completely disabling animations has made the system feel less laggy.

Windows for me is akin to demon in a cage I occasionally parley with to play games. I do most of my actual work on MacOS or Linux so the enshittifcation doesn't affect me as much.

 

[The Ugly One]

Is Windows still celebrating Pride Month? I disabled that widget completely last time.

 

[Overly Serious]

Is Windows still celebrating Pride Month? I disabled that widget completely last time.

You're asking on the wrong forums, my friend. We've all disabled it too.

May I suggest Reddit?

 

[The Ugly One]

You're asking on the wrong forums, my friend. We've all disabled it too.

May I suggest Reddit?

Ugh fine.

So I went into my settings to reenable News & Interests to see if it's still gay for June, and it's gone. Looks like they completely removed the feature.

 

[Overly Serious]

Ugh fine.

So I went into my settings to reenable News & Interests to see if it's still gay for June, and it's gone. Looks like they completely removed the feature.

Good on you for taking one for the team. Uh, metaphorically I mean - wording could be better here.

Companies wont say it but a lot of them seem to be quietly toning down their LGBTQWTFBBQ rhetoric. Disasters like Dragon Age, people increasingly willing to openly disagree and the trans movement seem to be concerning them. Especially that last one. I think the trans lobby are almost single-handedly sinking the LGB movement.

 

[The Ugly One]

I think the trans lobby are almost single-handedly sinking the LGB movement.

White women in HR forcing mandatory ass sex celebrations on everyone are doing their part.

 

[Hellwalker]

Does anyone have experience using SoftGPU?

 

[Betonhaus]

After rebooting my computer demanded to be activated again. Did Microsoft patch the TSForge activation process?

 

[Fat Moron]

Did Microsoft patch the TSForge activation process?

Looking at the Microsoft Activation Scripts changelog it seems Microsoft introduced a bug that broke the TSForge activation. But as of last week the method has been changed so it should work if you run the activation script again.

 

[the rat]

Another day another unwanted Microkike update forcing propagandizing into your face at the lock screen. Anyone know how to remove this kikery?
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SteamOS can't come fast enough.

Edit: It's in lock screen. Personalisation > Lock Screen > Lock Screen Status. You now have another faggoty setting to change.
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Of course - Despite the fact that I already turned off this setting in the past, they have to nigger another one in. Gotta create that Context at all costs right DoD contracting Microkike? May Bill "Feces Fucker" Gates and his tech caste pajeets be culled.

This is a bit of a late one but if you happen to be like me and despise that fucking tablet swipe shit on the lock screen then you can always disable it through the group policy editor. It's so nice being immediately thrown to the password prompt instead of that gay shit.

I liked the Windows 8 Start Screen.

Personally I think the Windows 10 iteration of the start menu is probably the best regarding ease of use for both finding programs and not having to move both my mouse and eyes so far to find shit in a weird looking list but for your case, what about the full screen mode in Windows 10?

 

[teriyakiburns]

This is a bit of a late one but if you happen to be like me and despise that fucking tablet swipe shit on the lock screen then you can always disable it through the group policy editor. It's so nice being immediately thrown to the password prompt instead of that gay shit.

I think I love you.