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

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I was planning to use microwin from that chris titus guy on a new build, but I've heard it's a little unstable or could cause problems down the road. Is that just FUD? I don't love the idea of running youtuber scripts but if it's legit I might try it.

Besides that I looked at Rufus and from what I can tell that seems basically 100% stable. But is Rufus even worth trying if I'd have to manually go through and debloat everything anyway? At that point I might just go through the OOBE without internet for a local account. Any insight would be appreciated.

I just want a clean and reasonably private fucking windows install, which I know is kind of an oxy moron. Also no, I'm not interested in spending forever learning linux and wrestling with compatibility all the time.
 
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(Physiognamy Czech) said:
I was planning to use microwin from that chris titus guy on a new build, but I've heard it's a little unstable or could cause problems down the road. Is that just FUD? I don't love the idea of running youtuber scripts but if it's legit I might try it.

Besides that I looked at Rufus and from what I can tell that seems basically 100% stable. But is Rufus even worth trying if I'd have to manually go through and debloat everything anyway? At that point I might just go through the OOBE without internet for a local account. Any insight would be appreciated.

I just want a clean and reasonably private fucking windows install, which I know is kind of an oxy moron. Also no, I'm not interested in spending forever learning linux and wrestling with compatibility all the time.
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LTSC IoT?
 
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(Physiognamy Czech) said:
Is that just FUD?
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It can be due to it basically ripping stuff out of the ISO, and by extension the OS, and I know that in my experience it was buggy, but idk how much better it is nowadays. Alternatively, like Betonhaus said, LTSC IoT is a good compromise. Sure it's still a bit bloaty, but it's an Enterprise version that's designed not to break whenever Microshaft decides to push out a big update with new features, so at the very least it should be stable. Not super lightweight fast or super duper private, but stable, and at this point that's the least you want from an OS.
 
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Slav Power said:
Choose your poison.
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The issue with migrating to Linux is that after decades of using Windows you get used to the environment so that means you just need to get used to the quirks of each new version. Meanwhile switching means getting to relearn a new environment, and if you've done any ricing on your PC it adds onto the linux learning curve. I'll stay on 10 until the extended EOL in 2028 but everything looks grim.
 
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Fig Kommandant said:
The issue with migrating to Linux is that after decades of using Windows you get used to the environment so that means you just need to get used to the quirks of each new version. Meanwhile switching means getting to relearn a new environment, and if you've done any ricing on your PC it adds onto the linux learning curve. I'll stay on 10 until the extended EOL in 2028 but everything looks grim.
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Going from Windows 7 to Linux Mint was far easier then going from Windows 7 to 11.
 
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Slav Power said:
>tard wrangle Windows
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>tard wrangle Linux
Choose your poison.
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If you don't tard wrangle Windows, it just sits there like a fat bitch and doesn't really cause you any trouble other than being fat. Linux is constantly crumbling around the edges, and major upgrades always introduce far more headaches than a major Windows update. I mostly use RHEL derivatives, and migrating from 8 to 9 was an absolute clusterfuck. So when people tell people who don't want to upgrade their OS that "switching to Linux" will magically fix that...what the fuck are you smoking, what a retarded thing to say.
 
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After researching and getting increasingly pissed at Windows I'm just gonna switch to Fedora. I'd try Mint but I want Wayland for different refresh rates on monitors. Overall Linux seems less nightmarish than I was assuming and it looks I should be able to do pretty much everything I want with minimal tweaking. Only big question for me is compatibility with certain games but it seems like most everything (including cracks) run fine through Lutris.

Thing that made up my mind was Win 11 on my current pc deciding that I couldn't log in to my fucking desktop without an internet connection yesterday.
 
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The Ugly One said:
what a retarded thing to say.
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it's a retarded cult, what in the flying fuck were you expecting?
it's like seeing star citizen players talking about their scam game.
Slav Power said:
>tard wrangle Windows
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>tard wrangle Linux
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tard wrangling windows is faster and doesn't give headaches if you force auto update to only notify you with a registry edit, i ain't got time to tard wrangle linux and the problems that will come up with it.
 
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The Ugly One said:
If you don't tard wrangle Windows, it just sits there like a fat bitch and doesn't really cause you any trouble other than being fat.
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True. The distinction is that you tard wrangle Windows so that it won't piss you off. You tard wrangle Linux so that it won't kill itself.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Curing Windows problems by switching to Linux is like curing jock itch by sawing off your dick.
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Or, for a car analogy, it's like getting annoyed at the radio unit in your 10 year old car so instead of figuring out how to rip it out or how to get around all the annoyances, you scrap it and get an 80's shitbox.
 
(Physiognamy Czech) said:
After researching and getting increasingly pissed at Windows I'm just gonna switch to Fedora. I'd try Mint but I want Wayland for different refresh rates on monitors. Overall Linux seems less nightmarish than I was assuming and it looks I should be able to do pretty much everything I want with minimal tweaking. Only big question for me is compatibility with certain games but it seems like most everything (including cracks) run fine through Lutris.

Thing that made up my mind was Win 11 on my current pc deciding that I couldn't log in to my fucking desktop without an internet connection yesterday.
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Linux has near parity to Windows in terms of functionality these days. You just need to dick with it some. Unlike the Linux of 20 years ago where you also needed extreme basement dwelling nerd habits to be functional with it. Especially when it came to correcting stuff or DIY your own shit for basic drivers. All from reading whatever books you could find and figuring it out.

I got tired of Windows after a lifetime because of fucking ads and sports trash in my START MENU. When Win11 decided to be AI slop just to feed me even more of that I was done.

It's been somewhat painless.
 
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Dirty Harry said:
Any love for Windows 8.1 here?

I installed it a few days ago on a VirtualBox and honestly, it's not that bad with speed compared to Windows 11.
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It's about as light as Windows 7 with a shell that makes me want to put a hole through my monitor in rage while having worse application support and driver support.

At that point I might as well just use Windows 7.
 
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Windows was hoping that it would catch on in the tablet market like it did the PC market 20 years earlier and flopped. I still got a s**t tablet that had Windows 8.0 on it, I'll have to dig it out and see if it still works, although I do remember I only used the tablet maybe 3 times.
 
TJT said:
It's been somewhat painless.
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windows 10/11 debloat makes it painless but if you wish to cut off your arm because your hand was itching, not my problem.
Dirty Harry said:
Windows was hoping that it would catch on in the tablet market like it did the PC market 20 years earlier and flopped. I still got a s**t tablet that had Windows 8.0 on it, I'll have to dig it out and see if it still works, although I do remember I only used the tablet maybe 3 times.
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they still hope for that seeing how shit windows 11 UI is.
 
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