Word. I fucking hate windows. Last night I was trying to download an program and windows kept automatically deleting it with no notification, even when I added exceptions. I finally had to change the name, download it as "all files" and stick it on another drive to get Windows to leave it alone. I hate this fucking OS but I'm not quite ready to jump to Linux.
Windows is so anti-consumer it is hard to believe that it is still able to survive. But that is the magic of monopoly and inertia. I feel dirty just looking at screenshots of what it looks like these days. On my laptop I have Linux and Windows 10 LTSC.
It's exclusively because of mass adoption on the enterprise level. At this point, your average Linux distro/DE is less janky and has far more useful features/programs OOTB than fucking Windows.
Win11 Pro does let you permanently turn it off through the group policy editor (I don't know if simply downloading the group policy editor exe is enough), but it's only worth buying if you want to use stuff like HyperV and Bitlocker and Remote Desktop.
i'll be fine since i don't use this thing for work anymore, but god damn it is annoying. everything just looks and works worse. i'll be bashing driver gremlins for the next couple of weeks probably as well, since the update did shit all for the issue i was trying to solve in the first place
edit: the linux boot disk is a good idea. i think i'll do that
The PC I use at work just got upgraded and I hate it. My only saving grace is that I have been able to install Emacs, FreeCAD, PrusaSlicer, Cygwin, Git, and Python on it without admin privileges.
It is 2023 and these motherfuckers are shipping an operating system which doesn't even have grep
I think you can still get around the windows account BS by setting up the machine while it's not connected to the net and setting up a local account. It really doesn't like that, though.
Yep, and they keep changing things in the installer to prevent the workarounds. JayzTwoCents did a blurb on this back in February, and the installer had changed in between the last couple of installs that he had done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOUcvgqOV-0
I feel like the people who have manually installed winblows are lower than the people who've installed GNU/Linux. Its so ubiquitous to have it just there infecting your computer.
I'm most likely statistically wrong. But statistics suck so I don't care. Feelings over facts.
I have to use Windows 11 at work, and I basically broke the start menu after two days of use lmao. I'm not sure whether it's because of PowerToys or ExplorerPatcher, probably ExplorerPatcher. Well, if Windows 11 didn't want me to break its start menu, it should've allow me to move the taskbar to the side lol