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0:00 wherefore dost thou watcheth??
0:11 Updates blocked for Win11 PCs with add-ons
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[@Blue2x2x]

Microsoft: "Why no one upgrade to Windows 11?" Also Microsoft:

[@nekomasteryoutube3232]

I have Win11... only with the Ruffus hack to by pass the TPM requirement.

As they previously blocked UI modifications throught regedit to bring some Windows 10 options back, I really doubt that this wasn't intentional. I just don't get why they don't like people customizing the interface. It must be an ego thing.

[@73delgado]

It's okay because the government will probably go after Microsoft again for this. They just don't learn with IE and Edge

[@DaedaStream]

​@@gladiatorsfc7This isn't true, even if it was you couldn't pay me to use win 11. As soon as win10 support is dropped I'm swapping to Linux.

[@Nobody-vr5nl]

Also, also Microsoft: U opened an app? Lemme open the last 30 files uve opened using our product! Ur not welcome! Next time his 2 different exists instead of just 1!

[@Muppet-kz2nc]

MS really needs to be taken to court over its practices. Edge is baked in. Everything I uninstall gets reinstalled after an Update. I hate it.

[@filipthedev]

Same. The EU will take care of it, maybe soon enough before they loose everyone to Linux.

[@Muppet-kz2nc]

@@filipthedev Cant play all my games on Linux so its a bust.

[@filipthedev]

@@Muppet-kz2nc Very true, that's why I don't daily it either. Let's hope proton keeps getting better and better.

[@Gizawar]

Why didn't you buy or "buy" N version of Windows then?

[@Xevf]

Perhaps you should try the windows N edition, the edition compliant with the eu laws

[@TheRealDrae]

"software stops users from updating" splendid, I'm downloading it then.

[@One-Crazy-Cat]

Upgrade.

[@TheRealDrae]

@@One-Crazy-Cat From Windows 11 tooooo where? Unless there's a relatively fresh LTSC release. I enjoy Win11 to be honest, after cleaning it with ShutUp10++ and nuking some shit like Edge, but the fact that Windows Update will literally keep turning itself on no matter what i do bugs me, and i'd rather not update because the further you go with Windows updates the further up your ass Microsoft wants to get, with ads and spying and whatnot.

[@AlienDarkmind]

Yeah, their updates are becomming more and more like yesterdays viruses. You know the annoying ones that just wanted to mess with you.

[@jonthomson222]

windows update blocker works great, update free for over a year here

[@Hexcede]

@@One-Crazy-Cat Why would you want to?

[@Wichitan]

Recently I hit an 'upgrade Edge' browser screen with only one option: *Upgrade Edge.* There was no *Back* button, no *Not now* button, nothing. It seems that Microsoft is increasingly adopting a 'my way or no way' attitude towards their users.

[@spvillano]

Old commercial campaign from years ago, applied slightly differently today... Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce?! Special orders do upset us, that's why we insist that you have it our way. Have it our way or not at all, have it our way we're Microsoft... And I've really, really dated myself with that one.

[@Wichitan]

@@spvillano Right there with ya, pal...

[@itsafroggytime]

microsoft seems to think their way is the best and/or their users are idiots 🙄

[@Wichitan]

@@itsafroggytime I think part of it is Apple. They've always had much tighter control over how their machines are configured and when they update.

[@ginaran8921]

@@Wichitan and apple PCs are famous for not being bought by anyone except schools EDIT: and psychopaths

[@d.wolfin152]

Wait, are you telling me if I install a certain third party software, windows will voluntarily stop trying to forcibly update my OS

[@loganiushere]

ooh I didn't think about it like that

[@andreobarros]

I see that as a feature

[@zybch]

@@loganiushere Same. At last, a new feature worth having!!!

[@manvydaspletkus3874]

It makes the UI better AND blocks forced updates that are known to randomly crash your PC? I see this as an absolute win!

[@markmason2045]

You don't even have to install it. Just rename a random file and put it in the right path.

[@rickotap3859]

The user-choice-protection-driver is the most ministry-of-truth-thing I'ver heard today

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

Protecting the shareholders from user-choice-induced profit loss. No lies detected.

[@iDontProgramInCpp]

Protecting registry keys seems, to be completely honest, like a way to prevent malicious programs from hooking into links. Back in the Win95/98 days, certain programs would just install themselves above the start menu, cluttering the UI and annoying the user, so they made the XP start menu much harder to abuse like that.

[@musicalneptunian]

It was thought up by the Morrowind Ordinators Spin Dept.

[@BlackSun404]

@@musicalneptunian While YAY Morrowind is Bestwind - just to make sure, the ministry of truth in MW was / is a reference to the very important 1984 by Orwell. If anyone didn't at least see the movie, huge educational gap, catch up and watch immediately!

[@Vysair]

@@iDontProgramInCpp all your comments are just simping for msft, wth bro

[@samwood3691]

Windows blocking “unreliable high crash rate software” is highly ironic

[@vicroc4]

The sad thing is, there are people that exist that genuinely won't understand why it's ironic.

[@anon1963]

​@@vicroc4would be ironic if windows crashed often but it just isn't true

[@vicroc4]

@@anon1963 And it would be nice if you were telling the truth, but my lived experience strongly disagrees.

[@anon1963]

@@vicroc4 100% hardware issue

[@vicroc4]

@@anon1963 Must be a lot of bad hardware, then. Or Microsoft is paying you to be an annoying ass.

[@Joe-xq3zu]

What MS really wants is to turn Windows into a subscription service with forced micro-transactions to access basic functionality, and unblockable adds in EVERYTHING.

[@Lapsio]

what do you mean unblockable? Of course blockable _for only $199/mo_ 😂

[@thomasaitken7495]

I remember a movie based on that. Ready Player 1.

[@samuelllakaj5439]

I think they already have that with the cloud PCs

[@THE-X-Force]

Remember when you used to be able to customize Windows they way you wanted to? When MS even encouraged it?

[@maxpro751]

Windows copying Apple.

[@nonenothingnull]

Microsoft and customizability? Yeah, no

[@JeremyLeePotocki]

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[@DragoNate]

you still can, it just takes a lot more work.

[@chriss3404]

🐧

[@AllieRX]

Microsoft is hellbent on pushing their longtime customers away to Linux.

[@ostlandr]

To steal a phrase from the case of the world's most stupid lawyer, "It's one thing for a business to sh00t itself in the foot. It's another for it to sit there and deliberately blow off one toe at a time."

[@arturoporraz6046]

Yeah, even I will end up having to * sigh * install loonix...

[@balala7567]

@@arturoporraz6046 linux mint is a good starting point

[@anonymous-bt6pv]

I’ve already started

[@GamingGenius777]

@@gt8200-0 Oh? Now the only thing stopping me from switching to Linux is my T300 RS GT. I'm switching to Linux as soon as I can confirm that all my hardware and games will work on it. I'm tired of Microsoft being Microsoft

[@jonjimihendrix]

If I spent 40 years programming an OS and Windows was the best I came up with, I would be cosmically disappointed in myself.

[@lordmmx1303]

Nothing better than Windows trying to convince you that you actually don't want to do what you just requested.

[@fireloop69]

WHY ARE ALL THOSE BIG COMPANIES SHOVING AI INTO PLACES NOONE ASKED FOR ?? I DONT WANT NO AI TO HELP MY FIND MY SETTINGS , FILES OR BROWSER HISTORY NOR DO I NEED AI TO ADD SONGS TO MY PLAYLIST THAT I MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR SONGS THAT I LIKE

[@christiangomez2496]

I know. Everything has to have A.I jammed into it, even if it's useless or makes it bloated.

[@CommissarChaotic]

Dang, if that's the case I really might be looking into Linux at this point or at least downgrade... But, I am on the International version and I don't know what else they've done with it, it at least got rid of the initial bloat though Copilot is annoyingly there... I also don't like Windows being treated more and more like some phone.. I don't want no mobile app style business

[@tiomkinnyborg2289]

If you stop shouting, I might have answered you.

[@ThatTwoPolishGuy]

I dont think this guy likes ai

[@ZarHakkar]

I think AI could actually be good... if it wasn't Microscuffed forcing it on you

[@konberner170]

Literally true that even MS doesn't trust MS. There was a demo Satya did just last year where he talked about being able to pay extra to keep some of your files in Teams in a "special super secure area" when your business secrets are very important. When I asked what that means for all the rest of our private business data, or if we don't pay the extra, there was no response.

[@grraf1]

Can ya spell ransomware ?!

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

AKA the FBI priority search area.

[@MollyHJohns]

​@@grraf1 thanks techbro.

[@samuelllakaj5439]

That's just unsettling.

[@markh.6687]

Microsoft is INGSOC: "Making decisions for you is freedom.", etc., etc.

[@charlesmangum2100]

Big brother

[@BocchiTheBox]

Why does Microsoft want to push the start menu in the center so much. The corner is just so much more convenient. You can always hit it without even looking at your mouse icon. Imagine if the same logic was applied to exiting an application. The X icon in the middle is just so much less convenient. You can more easily misclick and hit something else when it's not in a corner where 2 walls prevent you from overshooting either direction .

[@paristo]

Apple dock.... Microsoft wants to be apple. But they can't because lawsuit....

[@fakealizer8280]

People use keyboard anyway

[@paristo]

@@fakealizer8280 Most people use just mouse.... The keyboard is really for them just to write stuff. All the basics like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+P, Ctrl-F, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+K etc and even Alt+Tab, is not known or often used by the common Windows users. And that is the problem in Windows, it is so heavily mouse oriented that you can't really do much well without moving hand on mouse.

[@samuelllakaj5439]

Imo it does look kind of cool in the center, there are apps that do that on W10, but that should be a user choice.

[@paristo]

@@samuelllakaj5439 That is it, it looks cool. But it ain't good for the user experience. The bottom left it is, because you can just swing the mouse to the corner and click, without trying to aim at anything. And the menu opens up. The bottom left is better, because when you open the start menu, it is out of the way of your visuals to remind you what you were doing, why you opened the menu in first place. This was one of the major problems in the Windows 8 Start Screen, as they found in the usability tests that when you clicked the Start Screen open, people forgot that what they were searching or looking in first place, because the Screen concealed the situation on the desktop. The Start menu great feature is that it stay out of your way, but it is always accessible for you, and it is easy to find as it is in the corner, and you can always find without disturbing the main view. The Apple's launch bar is another great thing, if you can live up with just your favorites or "few bookmarks". So you have that 5-10 applications you use at all, and you have all of them visible under the screen all the time. And when you need something special, you go to Applications folder to find it. But it is annoying because it takes so much space now when we have 16:9 screens and all. Worked far better with 4:3 screens. But anyways it is on the way when big. And Microsoft is running straight to it.

[@Clawthorne]

Well that "User Choice Protection Driver" sure smells like another lawsuit brewing. Me, a EU citizen: "I want to modify the OS during install so that Firefox is preinstalled, and Win11 is set to use FF as the default browser from the beginning." Microsoft: "Hey, you're not allowed to do that! You must first click through 15 settings and dismiss at least one popup begging you to use Edge. >:["

[@river559]

Can't forget about blocking the suggestions notifications too. I got at least 2-3 a day of microsoft BEGGING me to set edge as my default browser until I turned it off

[@greggmacdonald9644]

@@river559 What I do instead is leave Edge as the default, but change all the settings within it to be the most neutered possible AND add Firewall rules to block it as well. This way, no in-Windows complaints about Edge, but it can't actually do anything obnoxious. Hopefully.

[@river559]

@@greggmacdonald9644 That works to a certain extent. Leaving it as the default like that still means it'll open constantly when you click links or any other activity that'd open your default browser. Kinda defeats the purpose of using a different browser

[@greggmacdonald9644]

@@river559 It's not ideal, no, but you do see the URL, and you can copy/paste it into your normal browser if you want, at that point. At least this way you don't have to constantly fight with Windows over what your default browser is and/or not have to (potentially) redo things on every update. Ofc if Microsoft was customer-focused they wouldn't be doing any of this, but Microsoft is no stranger to dark patterns over the years. Things are as they are.

[@river559]

@@greggmacdonald9644 Dude, at that point just use edge lmao. There's absolutely no reason to use this long ass roundabout when much simpler options exist; I.E just set your browser of choice as default and the numerous other options people have named. Hell, everything that you've said you do is already enough for the brunt of the nuisance. I already hate having to copy/past links when google keeps opening them under the default email despite me opening it directly from an email received in a different account. What you're doing is taking that mild inconvenience to a whole new level on an unnecessary scale lmao. 5 minutes of work and I already delt with the brunt of the issue on any device I use. It's just the minor "nudges" to use edge from time to time, like once every week or so, far more reasonable that this maze of a straight line you're walking.

[@timothynoll4886]

You KNOW that "user protection" meant Microsoft was protecting itself from the user and not the other way around. Dammit, Microsoft!

[@dylanrobson6737]

Just like how Apple when they say "security" means the security of their profit margins. Note: This isn't a defense of MS, its just a similar criticism of another compony I feel is super overated and as bad as the rest of 'em. This also isn't a defense of MS, I think what they did is bad, but as an explorer patcher user, I had to, on multiple occasions, roll back my version after an update because it completely broke the system. What they should have done is made their update compatible with the software, or at least told the user that EP would brick their system if they installed the update, rather than site "performance and security issues" But a better solution would be to have the option to go back to the way it used to be in the settings natively. If an OS cannot do all the things and doesn't have all the features of the previous installment, it is not finished, and should not be released. MS is really making it very difficult to like them.

[@goofyrulez7914]

It's the cult of Bill Gates, he started this insanity and it just gets worse and worse.

[@jeffzebert4982]

Just you watch: Microsoft will start adding Forced Arbitration to its Windows EULA! Forced Arbitration will mean that users won't be able to sue Microsoft anymore!

[@LegendOfTheFLame393]

​@@jeffzebert4982superem ocurt told them that shit can't protect them as they hide to much shit so yeah

[@hanelyp1]

@@jeffzebert4982 Under classic law in the English speaking world a contract made under coercion is unenforceable. This should apply to "agree to updated terms or we lock your computer."

[@deemelody2396]

Windows has become such a dumpster fire to use. "Yes, please give me a sliding window that completely blocks my browser every time my mouse slightly trespasses on it's invisible activation area" & many other annoying problems.

[@redacted629]

"...what Edge likes to open the most." Vulnerabilities, telemetry and data gathering.

[@AstonJay]

Also, the recent articles that came out that Google won't let Android users switch off their Bluetooth chips on their phones because it's "critical to their tracking network" for "lost" devices... Yeah, no thanks.

[@morpho9989]

I think the FAA might have a few words for them

[@jublywubly]

That's why I'm actually contemplating switching from choosing an Android phone to getting an Apple phone. They seem to have become the better of two evils.

[@Treblaine]

"no you can't turn it off because it's vital for tracking you... Oh crap, I'm not muted."

[@DocBrown11555]

@@jublywubly Apple phones do (almost) the same thing; it's so you can find your phone if someone steals it.

[@NeverTrust298]

@@jublywubly just buy a pixel and flash it

[@High-Tech-Geek]

"Lookup" is useless. Most spammers spoof the number they call from to appear as if it's coming from your local area code, while the real number is entirely shielded by the phone companies that all allow this behavior.

[@HDL_CinC_Dragon]

That's my favorite part about scammer tactics. I never changed my number when I moved thousands of miles away so now when I see my old area code on an incoming call, I already know I can ignore it!

[@High-Tech-Geek]

​@@HDL_CinC_DragonExactly. Same here.

[@cjnf11]

Depends on where you live I guess. I get spam calls from different cities and sometimes even from a nearby country. All of which are easily spotted and I just block them.

[@spvillano]

There's regulations coming down to force more transparent logging and especially, detailed logging. Won't stop the bastards, but it will allow the government to trace them back to their source or at least closer to it. So, India might want to drag their feet bringing the guilty to justice and resist extradition, that's fine, FVEY suddenly has no information on terrorists for them... Oh, now they're interested... Yeah, it's that ugly at times.

[@joao_gomes]

I just dont answer calls not in my contact list... I have 95 percent of numbers I need ahah

[@georhodiumgeo9827]

Weigh your browser history on a scale against a feather... That was the smartest joke ever made. I'm now picturing Anubis just shaking his head.

[@stage6fan475]

YES!! Loved it.

[@lockl00p27]

Anubis asking you to pay for the destroyed desk.

[@Mikewee777]

Remember when Microsoft used to be sued over excessive reliance on default browser settings ?

[@BigMan7o0]

"blocking unreliable high crash software" is such a see through lie. They don't like that people can disable their backdoor tracking and logging that stays on even if you disable all the toggles they give you in the UI

[@EricChiEric]

honestly if they stopped trying to block apps that make windows better maybe the won't be "unreliable high crash software"

[@zybch]

I'd be far far more worried about the stuff Chrome does, yet everybody bends over and takes it from google. The info they collect goes far and above the anonymized stuff from MS for the most part (chrome even tracks where you move your damn mouse), but we're back to the 'everything that MS does is bad, everything anyone else does is good mentality' of the early 2000s.

[@SorairoNanashi]

​@@zybcham not supporting Google but they did not force anything on you. Soooo while they are crappy, they are doing it discreetly. Microsoft just shoves thing down your throat which makes react.

[@aventuum]

@@zybch How are we back to that mentality? I think most people here would agree both Microsoft and Google, and lots of other big tech companies, have shady practices around collecting user data. You mention mouse tracking specifically, which is typically used for analysing how a website is used. Loads of websites do this, there are 3rd party SaaS products that offer this exclusively. I'm certainly more worried about Microsoft actively making their OS worse than I am about Google tracking my mouse movements on their websites to make their products better.

[@BigMan7o0]

@@zybch Yeah I know Chrome and to some extent also Chromium is bad, but its also not OS level so I'm not AS upset by it. I don't know specifics of how much of that is in chromium itself and how much is Chrome the actual application, but I use Opera GX. I know they collect some data but at least as far as I was aware when I looked into it last they didn't have any keylogger/mouse tracking stuff turned on like Chrome does. I believe its there to be used if they wanted to though, since it's Chromium so still eh.

[@ShiroKage009]

Microsoft, STOP MESSING UP THE UI SO I DON'T HAVE TO USE APPS THAT RESTORE REMOVED FUNCTIONS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! How can the UI of a professional operating system degrade so freaking fast????

[@lokithecat7225]

Microsoft is big into the ESG Money for DIE.

[@GamesFromSpace]

Seriously, how hard is it to let users move the taskbar.... The fact that third party apps can make it work should embarrass microsoft devs.

[@ShiroKage009]

@@GamesFromSpace it's the designers that I don't understand. This is not a code issue but a serious design issue.

[@gryn-main]

it not professional though, it's commercial crapware there's a reason they run their servers on linux.

[@ShiroKage009]

@@gryn-main professional doesn't mean server. It's designed for professionals as much as it is designed for the casual user. I'm a professional and I have no choice but to use it.

[@mistermac56]

I work in IT infrastructure at a local community college and I downloaded the Windows Server 2025 Insider Preview to install on one of our test servers. Lo and behold, the UI is the same as Windows 11. The build has the same 24H2 as the upcoming Windows 11. Our server admins and I played around with the install and we all hate it. Nothing is intuitive to access settings as with our Windows Server 2022 OS servers. You have to dig through piles of GUI nonsense. Needless to say, were are NOT upgrading. We have a volume license with Microsoft and the EOL on our Windows Server 2022 OS is 2031 and we'll pay for licensing Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 for our installed campus wide PCs, as its EOL is in 2032. We'll all be retired by then. 😂

[@waffleMccoy]

Its like windows server 2012 all over again😂🎉

[@davestir5743]

yup, my Radeon software was removed in the last update form Microsoft. Nothing like having to reinstall drivers every time you get a pushed update.

[@ScottGrammer]

"Security and performance issues." That's Microsoftspeak for "to protect the children."

[@IngwiePhoenix]

Which is lawmaker speak for "Because we know better than you and you will like it"

[@pchris]

It's always the safety and security...

[@WyattOShea]

@@pchris Funny how that works huh?. Been using startallback for years yet somehow that was fine before and is only now a security risk 😂.

[@Alex_Vir]

​@@IngwiePhoenix Isn't it lawmaker speak, for we don't have any real reason to do it and it is a bad decision but we want to do it and have to say something?

[@Anton-V]

Aren't lawmakers the ones who invented the "to protect the children" bs?

[@kingofutopia]

Appreciate the Microsoft efforts to increase Linux desktop adoption

[@Anton-mk3ok]

if linux gets better in terms of compatibility and gaming, only then ppl will start adopting it, before that? doubt.

[@Vash.Baldeus]

The issue is, gamers will be the last one to shift, due to online games (not all of them) have anti cheats that do not support Linux (some of which are just settings issue to make it run on linux!). Plus some of us will have ot buy AMD GPU's just to shift, since Nvidia is being big meanie on drivers.

[@micha-8659]

@@Anton-mk3ok yes the only reason im not switching to linux (currently on w10 for as long as possible) is because vr support is really bad and confusing, and certain games i play don't work on it.

[@Frappe3621]

I duel boot due to compatibility

[@vicmac3513]

About 13 000 Steam-games works on Linux. The ones not working is 100% fault of the game creator company.

[@paladinepaladine]

Reminds me of ATI and their Quake "improvements" where all you had to do was change the EXE to Quack and they all switched off.

[@ogreunderbridge5204]

Best Microsoft update I´ve ever did, was to reinstall Win 7 Pro

[@Day100]

Every day Microsoft pushes me further and further to use Linux more. Multi-billion/trillion dollar corporations don't even use it for their handheld PCs because they know it can't run well with all the garbage Microsoft is putting in it.

[@aero2629]

just do it 👍

[@thadaagaard6648]

Windows 11 drove me to Linux 2 months ago. My computer is working better since.

[@chaoswolf9452]

I got this video recommended to me as I'm talking with a friend on discord about duel booting with Ubuntu.

[@scrubscrub4492]

​​@@chaoswolf9452Word of advice, you should generally avoid the "Buntu" options for Linux, they actively try to follow Microsoft's footsteps as much as they can. Linux Mint, Debian or Fedora are what I'd suggest for a new user. Just make sure to get a live install ISO if you choose Debian so that you can go through the installation process a lot easier.

[@alexanderoestreicher3557]

most linux ui is pretty unpolished in my experience. only macos has a really polished ui.

[@Tall_Order]

I guess this explains why suddenly a month ago I noticed PDF files opening in edge, when I never use that terrible browser at all.

[@danilocorreia5104]

Come on, Edge got better over time

[@Tall_Order]

@@danilocorreia5104 It's still insecure and garbage compared to my preferable privacy focused browser, which is set to default and should actually be treated as default.

[@Tall_Order]

@@danilocorreia5104 It's still insecure and useless compared to my preferred privacy focused alternative, which is set as default and should be treated as such.

[@Tall_Order]

@@danilocorreia5104 Edge is trash

[@Tall_Order]

Edge is trash

[@tinasmith1391]

I use a flip phone because I don't want a smart phone. To get around that they're turning my PC into a smart phone? Thanks for nothing Micscrewsoft.

[@asif5431]

"Blocking unreliable high crash rate software" so windows 11 is next on their list.

[@TheBurnsStuff]

Soooo instead of listening to what their customers what, they just make it more miserable. Got it, Microsoft.

[@hellowill]

Yup. Instead of fixing the problems, they go out of their way to make it even worse.

[@LogicalError007]

Those apps change the OS a lot. Installing a major update with those enabled will cause data loss or worse. It's better to reinstall those after updating than causing something bad only to blame Microsoft.

[@98ahni]

I know right? This is what the DMA have done to most bigger brands. It's a collection of tech laws that "protect" the consumers written by a group of people who only really care about profits and people who don't know what "an internet" is.

[@cutback443]

hahaha. This guy thinks WE are the "customers".. hahahaha. Silly goose, WE are the PRODUCT

[@cjxgraphics]

Seems to be the norm for most major companies these days. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, etc. They don’t care about feedback only control and profits.

[@BobMotster]

Windows 11 is a design, security and performance issue in itself.

[@debrainwasher]

I respectfully disagree. According my perception, Windows 11 is a professional spyware package bundled with an advertisment-engine. That thing simply pretends being an operating system.

[@lvsluggo007]

I STRONGLY suspect that when MS "kills" Windows 10 in 2025, you will see a LOT of people with perfectly good systems, that MS has decreed cannot run Win11 move said systems to Linux.. From what I've seen of Win11, there isn't ANY reason to move to it..

[@HDL_CinC_Dragon]

@@lvsluggo007 I personally vowed I will never put Win 11 on any of my machines. I'm in the process of switching to Linux permanently.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

​@@lvsluggo007My guess is a huge spike in pirated Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT 2021 installs

[@Hane_.._]

i honestly love the windows 11 Ui mostly. the explorer tho? is so fking complicated.

[@billysherman2702]

I went full Linux in 2012 and I'm never going back.

[@Recordeer]

I went full windows 7 in 2012 and I'm never going back

[@Hane_.._]

i use linux dualbooting. cause i need ms office. but can you actually use ms office in linux? not alternative apps i mean real ms office

[@Recordeer]

@@Hane_.._ Should work in Winetricks just fine if it's an earlier version

[@galaxyyeet1206]

​@@Hane_.._you can use ms office in a browser, and it looks the exact same with the exact same features

[@tin2001]

​@@Hane_.._ Depends on the version and how much you need to be up to date... It sometimes works, but an update might break it 2 weeks later. Then it might work again with another update a few weeks after that.

[@kevinherrlin1772]

"They weight your browsing history against a feather..." 😂 😂😂😂😂😂 That was a lovely cryptic interjection... 👍👍

[@Rudxain]

I'm not a privacy activist, but did you guys know that when any (even background) program crashes, Windows sends a memory "micro-dump" to MS servers? These dumps can (and will) contain extremely sensitive data such as passwords and session tokens. How is this even legal???

[@dindindundun8211]

Imagine a tiny branch of Microsoft having their software "crash" repeatedly, at set intervals... indefinitely...

[@JacobP81]

Are you serious?!

[@Gatrehs]

@@dindindundun8211 I wonder if you can automate a program launching another program that has a huuuuge crash dump and you just crash it like a few thousand times per second..

[@chrismay2298]

Nobody cares about "legal". Odd you haven't noticed.

[@Rudxain]

@@JacobP81 Search "Windows Error Reporting" (WER). The actual term is "minidump" not "micro-dump" (my mistake). I learned this thanks to "privacy . sexy" by @undergroundwires

[@Kiyuji]

Won't be very long before Linux becomes the new standard if Microsoft keeps this shit up.

[@BrentMalice]

i swapped to popos already, and Microsoft edge works better on here than windows lmao.

[@MobikSaysStuff]

It will never become the standard, lmao. Normal people don't care. Only some people are bringing windows 10 features to 11. You are greatly overestimating how many people care about this.

[@logaandm]

Haven't been following the 'backdoor" Linux hack have you.

[@lbgstzockt8493]

Keep dreaming. As much as I like Linux I cannot see the general population switching from windows.

[@JayfkProductions876]

​Curious, can most programs that work natively on MS work on this Linux Distro?.. Linux has never been a option & never will be for me if it doesn't support the Music & Video Production Softwares that I use for work everyday.. Even moving Macos seems like less of a life altering move. ​@@BrentMalice

[@theiran]

I got tired of disabling windows updates only to find it reactivated. So I made copies of the registry keys and put them in a zipped folder and then deleted the ones in the registry.

[@skunkmaid]

So the shell I use for Win10 to act like Win7 will block the Win11 forced update?

[@PeterHonig.]

Why are users continuing to accept this sort of behavior from Microsoft? I had been using Windows since version 3.0 and really loved version 7. Unfortunately, MS forced the Win 10 upgrade upon me with all its telemetry and restrictions. That was the last straw that made me switch to Linux. I started with Linux Mint Cinnamon, but finally settled upon Kubuntu KDE Plasma. Both my wife and I were productive right from the start, as Linux distributions are very Windows-like. My only regret is that I didn't switch sooner. Note: Most, if not all, Linux distributions allow you to try them from a USB flash drive without any installation. In other words a risk-free test drive.

[@smalldeekgeorge]

IT'S NOT THAT EASY. I'm forced to use windows cause video editing apps only works on windows. I know about alternatives. I tried them i tried using linux for video editing and it sucks.

[@bacon-sandwich4726]

it's cus of people like me who can't be bothered to update anything Dunno if windows 10 is considered out of age, but I'm running it on a busted ass laptop that I've still yet to clear out dust after about 7 years

[@paradiselost9946]

@@bacon-sandwich4726 i run 32 7 on an old hp lenovo thinkpad. i run it as its the only "portable" method i have. tuning EFI... need it in a backpack every now and then. just put XP on an a desktop. finally, i can use my CNC mill again! been out of action for near ten years. ironically, that desktop had win10, i got the iso... but probably wont use it. ever. knowing my luck its corrupted anyway :) both applications are one of those "legacy" things that windows and all multinational corporations appear to have forgotten about... "linux multi media studio" only runs on windows... go figure? my only experience of 8 and 10? i hope i never have to use 11. ever. everything else, i run linux. i tried linux cnc, and well... i gave up after it bricked the PC...

[@Xoruam]

Because this is what happens when you have a monopoly on an easy-to-use OS with a clear GUI. Monopolies always end in customers being fed BS.

[@daddy7860]

@@smalldeekgeorge You could dual boot and use the Windows side just for video editing, but yeah it is a hassle not having the same compatibilities for now

[@xXCrimsonWolfXx752]

I miss Windows 7 so, so much

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

I recently reacquired a couple of Windows 7 laptops, and they run snappier than my MSI with a core i9 and 64 GB of RAM. These Windows 7 laptops are running 1.8 GHz Celeron processors, and yet they're running snappier for small tasks because the OS was better optimized.

[@isaacphilip]

The last good OS

[@tanostrelok2323]

@@KanawhaCountyWX Not being bloated with spyware most certainly helps, lol

[@zybch]

10 was great, a few niggles but significantly better than 7 or 8. But 11? Christ that thing is a dog of Windows ME proportions.

[@walkingonneedles]

​@@zybch i cannot disagree with you any more, theres so many times ive had to fight with windows 10 and its updates have broken my pc to the point of needing a full clean reinstall before.

[@Raggsocka]

I'm just here to welcome all the new members of the Linux community.🐧

[@Althemor]

"Music for being hunted by Terminators to." Do I spy a fellow Helldiver?

[@tylergerdes5778]

For the "User Choice Protection Driver" - I wonder if this is actually a fix for the fact that Edge likes to randomly take back over as your default PDF viewer after Acrobat updates. Maybe if NO program can change it, that will include Edge, and it will respect the choice for Acrobat instead of doing that whole "An issue has been detected with your default PDF viewer and it has been reset to Microsoft Edge."

[@Nofanboyz]

Acrobat is full of spyware and trackers.

[@hendrx]

Remember they blocked users with old cpus and lied about w10 being the last system

[@jensenraylight8011]

They will do Absolutely everything to let Linux and Mac to snatch their Marketshare. they would rather those Win 7 and 10 users to use Mac instead of using Windows 11. They think that their OS is getting in their way, and slowed them down from developing AI.

[@jayefe17]

All the drama surrounding late win10 builds and early win 11 pushed me to Linux two years ago. I haven't used windows since. Its crazy how seamless and sensible Linux (a terminal loving OS😅) is in comparison to Windows

[@Gramini]

Did they even say that Win10 would be the last one?

[@VM-lt9wl]

​@@Gramini yes, many times

[@Gramini]

@@VM-lt9wl That's new. Where did they do that? All I can find is various media outlets reporting wrong information and interpreting things into a throwaway-line of a single employee.

[@Babaelow]

Windows 11 became shit. It all started with devhome. This app was suddenly installed. Additionally, WIFI stopped working, UI is constantly being modified, Control Panels "add printers" redorects to the new menu.... Edge is crashing, Bing is writing garbage... Start Menu is WAY worse than Windows 10 where you could group things... I don't like computers anymore 😅

[@harrisdizdarevic5797]

Thanks for emoting with hands. My sound got desynched.

[@Widowshyper]

Recently re-installed windows 11 on my gaming pc and MY GOD the amount of garbage and bloatware that comes with Windows 11 is WILD. Like why do I need linkedin and AI Photo Editor??

[@BigFatCone]

You might not, but you're also probably not the average computer user.

[@el.CAO.]

If you only knew, it extends even further. Telemetry data processes and the heavy You-must-use-Edge-propaganda are aweful on Windows 11. We only need the screen to work and our drivers for our other components, NOTHING ELSE. There is so much garbage running in the background on Windows 11, it's terrible.

[@BigFatCone]

​@@el.CAO. We need you to stop telling us what we want and need.

[@Hane_.._]

and if you try searching for your file but misspelled the name it will show you the web result instead. great.... oh and it has news widget for some reason

[@christiangomez2496]

@@Hane_.._Especially if you try doing some quick math on explorer.

[@SB-qm5wg]

"User Choice Protection Driver" Nice troll MS

[@SWIRFTV]

protecting users from having a choice

[@dalyxia]

Its like the "democratic" name in countries that are everything but democratic

[@jayrowe6473]

@@dalyxia exact same as the us political party.

[@Vysair]

@@dalyxia it's managed democracy, helldiver. Please report to the democracy officer or face treason

[@iceManSwag]

Its like Apple products dumbed down restricted to changes.

[@project.jericho]

Noticing the CEO will explain exactly why the company is becoming so aggressively hostile.

[@kitsunekaze93]

so, microsoft is actively deciding "we know what is best for you, we actively block apps!" putting up a warning? okay, but you have to let the user install anything they want.

[@no-stresscat1519]

Microsoft doesn't get to tell me how to use my own computer...because Linux Mint.

[@makojuicedaniel9307]

This comment was made on windows.

[@no-stresscat1519]

@@makojuicedaniel9307 And now Microsoft knows you watch KZbin.

[@Ark_Strike]

"User Choice Protection Driver" is one hell of a double speak, are they protecting users from making choices? is it protecting them from user choices? are they implying we need this but we just don't know it yet?

[@erkinalp]

yes it sounds like ministry of love

[@mascot4950]

My read on it was that it's to prevent hijacking the choices that have been made. E.g installing crappy "financed by bundling more crap" program, not unchecking the "install spyware browser" box, and having it change default browser to that without explicit user interaction. Reading these comments, bias seems to be a pretty large factor when it comes to where you land on the "evil empire" to "benevolent protector" scale. To be fair, a significant portion of that scale would be a reasonable take on a lot of things Microsoft does.

[@Xahnel]

Why does what sounds like a security feature need a driver? Drivers are for hardware.

[@Baiswith]

If your browser history is weighed against a feather, does it also eat your heart if the feather is lighter? 🤣

[@StCreed]

I like the sound absorbing tiles in the background. Unfortunately you need to plaster your entire wall with them to get the full effect, but they don't look too bad.

[@mason6300]

If major game publishers started supporting Linux it would be totally game over for windows.

[@Plus_Escapee]

It needs to happen for the sake of everyone, but more than that, we need more OS options. Microsoft is very anti-compete and there needs to be more than just Linux.

[@michaelwright2986]

I think Adobe might be at least as important. And one last bit of polish on the LibreOffice UI. Those are what drive corporate orders.

[@privacyvalued4134]

Adobe software doesn't run on Linux. Every business I know of licenses Adobe Photoshop (minimally). It's more a matter of where the market share is at. Guess what? Linux still only has 4% market share globally. Windows market share is being eaten up by Apple (Mac OSX) but not Linux. Adobe and game publishers would certainly make a version for Linux if the market share was there, but it simply isn't. They look at market share numbers to decide what platforms to make their game for. 4% isn't worth the effort when you can capture 90% of the desktop market by targeting just two OSes: Windows and sometimes Mac OSX.

[@dhillaz]

​​​@@michaelwright2986 Yup, mainstream graphic design tools don't play well from my experience. Davinci Resolve is supposed to be compatible but has showstopping bugs. And while I'm very grateful for their existence, FOSS tools (e.g. Shotcut and GIMP) don't compare to the market leaders (e.g. Adobe and Affinity products). Linux is great for developer productivity, but not for artist productivity - and I so badly want to be proven wrong.

[@catch82]

I honestly can't think of a game recently that hasn't worked for me. Outside of anti-cheat games. But I'm cool with not installing kernel level malware anyway. Adobe is the real issue. Once they go full cloud it will open up the floodgates for people who haven't been able to make the switch,.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

"but we must protect our users for choosing the tools that are actually functional but don't make us Ad money!"" - Microsoft probably

[@jasonenns5076]

They do not even need the money from the advertisements. They have Azure cloud service

[@graywolf2694]

Maybe Microsoft should stop the whole "latest update changes everything" routine

[@Alcateru]

User choice protection driver is truly one of the funniest things I've ever heard

[@TommyCrosby]

To be honest, as a StartAllBack user, I once had a Explorer.exe crash loop after an update requiring me to revert the update, uninstall SAB, make the update and wait that SAB is updated to the new Windows version before installing it back. So, yeah, knowing Microsoft and its telemetry program [that isn't spying on you wink wink], it should be aware of that problem and not want to repeat it. That said, the wording of the notice is wrong.

[@Xyzair]

Same, windows start menu got murdered after an update and file explorer couldn't resolve a location and would crash, best part was //they knew about the issue// and released it any ways, I found this out after reinstalling windows. ps that install wiped itself out, so I had to do it all again.

[@fuckwitmcdipshit2963]

Why not use openshell?

[@TommyCrosby]

@Xyzair to be fair, it's not Microsoft fault that apps with special hooks to customize UI happens to eff up sometime. These apps aren't using kosher code (by design) as they disable fundamentals parts of the Windows core UI to replace them with modded ones or reusing old dormant code from previous Windows versions. People who use these software should be aware of this (ffs, SAB changelog is mostly compatibility fixes for new Windows versions) and be ready to face the consequences. Meanwhile, Microsoft should take a hint that if people go that far to resurrect the old and better start menu, taskbar, and explorer: there's probably a REASON FOR IT.

[@river559]

I mean, that happens without it too to be fair. I've had an Explorer.exe crash loop once on windows 11 and 3 times on windows 10 in the past 3 years after it forcefully auto updated while I was actively using my computer. Hell, this past December my roommate's computer got bricked from an update they pushed, and he spent the whole day recovering it.

[@dylanrobson6737]

Same with Explorer patcher Edit: A better solution would just to not remove features the prior OS had and make it a toggle.

[@cesar_otoniel]

Made the switch from windows when a forced update had me miss two assignments in college. Reallistically the time to do the work arounds every time there is an update is more than I spend doing workarounds in Linux.

[@rabbitdrink]

i switched my last pc over when my ssd died, it was my gaming pc. all my gaming is linux gaming now. with proton i dont miss all that much and i definitely dont miss microsoft

[@GSBarlev]

My last PC build was an all-AMD system, and it worked so flawlessly out of the box that I wiped Ubuntu and installed Arch _just to give myself a challenge._ Well, joke's on me-Arch runs _even smoother,_ with access to experimental programs like Pytorch-ROCm and Hyprland. I'm seriously tempted to buy an Arc GPU just to get a taste for the bygone era of "It's been [0] days since I messed with my Xorg conf."

[@joschaugustenborgnielsen2366]

@@GSBarlev As someone who owns an Arc card (switched back to my GTX 1060 for vr support after bit over half a year), i would hold out for the next gen as they have been out for quite some time now, so can't be long for next generation

[@Roxor128]

@@rabbitdrink Motherboard failure for me. Went from Windows 7 to Linux Mint with the MATE desktop.

[@frosthammer917]

I wish I could also try Linux. I hate what Windows has become and with steam being on Linux these days there isn't really much of a gaming issue. But I am an engineering student and basically all the programs are Windows-exclusive. And dual booting isn't an option for me right now.

[@Togmalunchbox]

Could I ask what everyone’s go-to Linux distros are? I’ve been thinking about switching and I wanna see which is the most popular.

[@ThunderClawShocktrix]

Kbuntu or really any other debin based with the KDE shell

[@nebula8072]

I've had no problems with Mint. It's very windows 7 if you're into that.

[@cosmocatte4213]

Wait, you're telling me there's a GUARANTEED way to make Windows stop forcing updates on me? Sign me the fuck up.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

And here I am on Linux not needing to worry about blocked updates due to software

[@andrewt.5567]

Here I am on windows and having all attempts to block updates overridden. In my case, windows itself is malware.

[@LovecraftianGodsKiller]

​​@@andrewt.5567Switch to Linux. Windows is only gonna continue getting worse. I switched back in like mid-2018 and don't regret it one bit.

[@gt8200-0]

@@LovecraftianGodsKiller I used to hate it when people told me to switch to Linux, decided to try it out anyways in May 2023 and I'm not gonna bother with Windows again.

[@kalma5003]

On Windows I don't need to to worry about not having HDR and Linux has horrible audio producing experience

[@billyhatcher643]

I'm glad I block updates on my pc when I install the os so they can't screw with me

[@Ehh.....]

Microsoft is really the best ad for swapping to linux. Im riding out 10 til the security updates stop and then im swapping. 11 was horrible and 12 seems like its gonna be far far worse.

[@mono_si]

look up LMDE

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

You may as well slap a Linux distribution on another drive or partition now so you can get some experience in before you *really want* to switch. It'll probably feel a lot more relaxed There's some really nice guides to get Pop!_OS to dual boot between different drives or different partitions depending on your setup by making systemd.boot the default boot in your BIOS

[@The_Keeper]

Well, if things go as they have for the last 20 years, win12 will be like win10 but better in most ways. I have no idea why, but MS have had a "1 good, 1 extreme suck" cycle of OS releases for many years.

[@Cynderfan35]

@@The_Keeper its a trend that pretty much started on the day Vista came to be as a concept (though it was later reworked to be actually nice OS + when hardware that supports it was more available). I used win7 a lot and now as win10 user, won't damn go to 11 until microsoft breaks in to my house, holds me at gun point, even then will first request permission to write my last will.

[@Ehh.....]

@@ThePlayerOfGames Ive dabbled on and off with a few distros (Mint, Pop, SteamOS kinda), I'm gonna really trial and error them come the fall. As goofy the idea is im kinda leaning positively into SteamOS, Ive liked how it works from using it on my Steam Deck. I havent really tried Pop or Mint since 2020 however so i do wanna see how they are now so im gonna probably just try a different one for a month each.

[@seran-nei227]

Open shell seems to work well. I run it on several work laptops and my personal home PCs.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Who woulda thought running a CPU at 95C all the time would be problematic....

[@slackerinside]

"Unreliable" "crash" - I've used startisback since the win8 launch, and startallback with the launch of win11 and I have never once experienced a crash related to the app. On perhaps 2 occasions over all those years, I let the version fall too far back and had minor UI issues that were immediately fixed by updating startis/allback. Also, on 2 (different) occasions, windows uninstalled it during an update with no warning. I did try the stock win11 interface when I first upgraded. It lasted about 5 minutes until I realized that Microsoft now forbid using the start bar on top of the screen.

[@itsthesteve]

From my layman perspective, I despise that LLMs are being integrated everywhere. I don't mind specific AI/ML for things like music choice (not generation).

[@livipup]

Hmm, I use Start11 and I noticed after a recent update that my start button opened the normal Windows 11 start menu briefly before it switched back to the one I configured. I wonder if that was similar at all. Only happened once, though. I'm also up to date :/

[@skibidi.G]

Yeah, a micro$hit glitch, had dozens of them happen through the years 🤮

[@inverlock]

It says explorer patcher has been blocked since 22h2, but I’ve been updating just fine since then?

[@darkphase7799]

Chris Titus's debloat script has been blocked as well, he did a video on it saying that certain things in the script are things that microsoft is trying to block such as elevating to admin without the user right clicking and selecting run as admin and removing UAC.

[@SnakePlissken25]

Automated privilege elevation is a bad thing on any OS, and allowing it is an idiotic thing to do on any OS.

[@kellymoses8566]

Removing admin elevation prompts is incredibly insecure.

[@mascot4950]

@@kellymoses8566 I can't remember a single time since it was introduced, that it has blocked anything I'd actually want blocked. I can, on the other hand, remember many times I've waited for something to happen, only to discover the prompt is waiting on the taskbar for me to activate and accept. I tend to turn it off, but I recently built a new computer and have been trying out the experience with it turned on, and oh god it is just as annoying as ever. I don't disagree that it significantly lowers security to disable it. But you also need to conduct insecure behaviours for it to be much of a factor. Common sense + antivirus will get you far.

[@clovernacknime6984]

@@kellymoses8566 In what way? A program running with your normal user privileges can already encrypt all your files and hold them for ransom. Furthermore, admin elevation prompt is not meaningful security: you can't select what privileges the program gets, you can't trace what the program is trying to do and approve or reject, you can't get a report of what the program did after the fact, you can't let the program "succeed" in a sandbox environment, the only thing you can do is let the program run or not. No, the admin elevation prompt is not security for the user, it's a fig leave for Microsoft.

[@johndododoe1411]

​@@clovernacknime6984Running as non-admin can't damage files stored under a different username like "work" or "mom" . Those of us in the know have split our computer into multiple accounts since the 1960s in general and since 1993 for Windows . But the way Microsoft redesigned the feature in 2007 is quite annoying in various ways .

[@Caledon91]

*Adds third party apps to make Win11 less bad.* *MS retaliates by stopping those who do from receiving updates that will probably just make Win11 worse* I see this as an absolute win.

[@Talcyon64]

The updates suck, but you still need them for security updates and bug fixes.

[@fuckwitmcdipshit2963]

@@Talcyon64 Not really.

[@ZedDevStuff]

Those apps are known to break updates. They only do it because if the update breaks everything, it's suddenly Microsoft's fault even tho it's the apps that are using unsupported/intrusive features to do what they do

[@sihamhamda47]

Yeah I will no longer be suffering on "getting updates ready" screen every time I turn my laptop in a hurry (like when I was asked to attend a zoom meeting in my college)

[@a_plastic_bag]

@@ZedDevStuff Really? I’ve been using StartAllBack for years now, always kept my system up to date, and have never had a problem, not even so much as a crash.

[@Micharus]

The single most annoying thing for me is every time there is a major Windows Update as soon as it reboots I get a popup from my antivirus telling me that 'something' is trying to change my default search engine to Bing.

[@janvangorp6918]

If I can not select my default app change settings etc, then why should I pay for windows??

[@fricki1997]

2:18 why, it's named perfectly! Prevents the user from making any choices that could endanger the shareholders. I'm still on Windows 10, but after this it's going to be Linux. Microsoft has messed up too much.

[@marcossonicracer]

me too. i'll keep my Win10 OS for my .exe needs offline only, and run a Linux via USB stick for my online ones. screw microsoft.

[@filedotjar]

I ran Windows 11 for about a year, and swapped back to Windows 10 recently. Haven't regretted it since.

[@solenoidnull9542]

As someone still on 10 I wonder now and then if I could finally tolerate and merge into 11. Posts like yours have reminded me to just stay put right where I am on 10.

[@SWIRFTV]

I did the same, tried win 11 for almost a year and went back to 10. Better benchmarks, gaming stability and FPS etc

[@The_Keeper]

@@solenoidnull9542 Do not, under ANY circumstances, make the downgrade to win11. It might be the worst Win release I've ever had the bad luck to have tried. And I've used windows since Windows 3.0. (I know, I am old).

[@Fighter_Builder]

Same here, though I only put up with Windows 11 for a couple months (since my new PC came with it pre-installed) before I got sick and tired of it and went back to Windows 10. There was one problem in particular that drove me up the wall where clicking in a fullscreen application/game would often cause the desktop to flicker onscreen for about one frame and drop inputs, and this persisted even after reinstalling. After I upgraded to Windows 10, the problem completely went away 😂

[@130rne]

Wait, so to block updates all I have to do is install StartAllBack?

[@horriblewithgaming]

blocking registry hacking the filetype associations make sense as this is how a lot of malware works

[@ElectricityTaster]

Seasonic should include a small casket of whiskey so when your warranty runs out you get a consolation 12 year aged scotch.

[@RUSTYdayo]

Windows 11 is the worst virus I have ever had. It restarts instead of shuts down. If I ignore the updates long enough, it automatically updates itself. I thought I won once, when I hard shut down the PC because the 'shut down' option was removed from the menu by Windows only leaving me update options. When I turned the computer on the next day, it went straight into the update process... If I was smarter, I'd be using Linux. This doesn't even cover the endless hassles I have had trying to keep mail accounts separate. It constantly tries to merge my intentionally different TEAMS accounts (personal and work). Edge, automatically signs you in with the Windows Account when opened...why does a browser need an account to sign in with?

[@insu_na]

You don't need any particular level of intelligence to use Linux. You can try it out risk free with a VM like virtualbox and get a glimpse of what it's like to use (tho obviously it will have less performance in a VM than installed natively and won't play games in the VM) A good place to start is EndeavourOS. Comes with a really nice installer, good guides on KZbin and it's fully covered by the arch wiki

[@Roxor128]

If you can reinstall Windows, you can install Linux. Honestly, the hardest part is making the bootable drive and coaxing the computer into booting off it.

[@TheyCallMeIce]

@ceciliacole5098 Plus, you can use most Linux distros in a live environment, i.e. without installing, so you can try them before you commit fully.

[@feldegast]

thank you! i was clueless as to why the latest windows update kept failing.... testing again after uninstalling the explorer and start menu apps (i use both)

[@thegame9305808]

Problem is i control what i install on my PC good or bad.

[@skyrimax]

Windows becoming more and more like MacOS, just let us use OUR god damn OS like we want!!! That is one of the reasons I switched to Linux

[@maxpro751]

We need to boycott these companies by using Linux. I hope that the EU saves us like they always do.

[@skyrimax]

@@maxpro751 and even go a step futher by using as much free (libre) software as possible

[@kennyoffhenny]

And what can’t you do on MacOS? Exactly, nothing important

[@skyrimax]

@@kennyoffhenny have an NVidia card for starters

[@BeaNoodl3]

MacOS is miles better than modern Windows. UI consistency is a strong suite of MacOS, you really don't need to edit it cause it's always the same.

[@GamesFromSpace]

StartAllBack is literally the only reason I was willing to try windows 11.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Same here, only with explorer patcher

[@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch]

Microsoft doing something that is against the interest of the users!? I am shocked, SHOCKED!

[@matthewcb1970]

Microsoft seem determined to encourage people to find an alternative.

[@SlampthChompth]

PSA: use Linux and LibreOffice and stop using Microsoft.

[@gnanasabaapatirg7376]

I tried to use libre office and good it was awful.

[@Dirtysocksandpanties]

Agreed LibreOffice is bad in so many small inconvenient and extremely frustrating ways that using google or office is really better tbh. Slow preview performance on libre impress because no multithreading, funny short cuts and UI on calc awkward UI on docs. Donating money in hopes it’ll get better

[@electric26]

​@tatakae8331like what?

[@Eagle3302PL]

@tatakae8331 then make a fork and diy, be a hero

[@Eagle3302PL]

@@gnanasabaapatirg7376 it's terrible, it functions ok as a replacement for word and powerpoint but it cannot even be compared to excel, excel is a beast in it's own realm

[@Abu_Brandino]

How did we go from such innovation with Windows 98 SE to this?!

[@musicalneptunian]

It was the wrath of PANOS!

[@igorthelight]

Every company has it's ride and fall ;-)

[@benwu7980]

It used to be each second major version would be good. I'd still use XP if was viable, and will stay on Win7 until I am properly forced to change..

[@johndododoe1411]

98 and XP were cosmetic lipstick on good previous versions . 98's biggest feature was putting cat pictures on all the icons and smearing out the highlighted title bars . XP's key feature was adding more entertainment support to the solid Windows 2000 .

[@markthompson4859]

Im almost convinced a windows 10 update killed my Asus laptop three years ago. It was after my warranty expired and the onl;y 'fix' was a new mobo. For a password issue? I never changed my password. After an update restarted the computer, I could no longer log in. Any ideas how I can revive my laptop?

[@Jeremyak]

There's literally nothing that could compel me to go back to Windows.

[@toamastar]

That "music to be hunted by Terminators to" is just Gesaffelstein's whole discography lmao

[@marcossonicracer]

Skynet, play "Take one Breath" from Sonata Arctica

[@spencernorman2626]

Whoever is behind the camera has serious gremlin energy and I'm all for it. 😂

[@derekposh]

Im not shes trying wayy too hard and is not funny 😂

[@kellymoses8566]

She is funny

[@mgomez5606]

I'm retired and no techie. How can I find out if my computer is elgible for windows 11 upgrade. Just found out they are stopping support next year.

[@taranullius9221]

I was just ging to bring up Explorer Patcher, there's often been some bugs after a Win update by my Pro 9 I just had to install a pre-release for the first time ever because it returned my start menu to Win 11 after updating. Handy to know about the work around for future if I want to stick with full releases and trick MS, but for now the pre-release did fix the issue.