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Now, I'm usually a fairly level-headed Windows enthusiast
Absolutely demonic.
I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be.
Still love the truck, though
This guy sounds worse than my dad.
He knows just enough about computers to think of himself as very technical, and he's very much a "Windows guy". Now, he's not bad at computers, he doesn't break things, he's genuinely very experienced and skilled, with Windows systems at least. But he is... very tied to that paradigm, and when the differences in computer operating systems now and in history does come up, he can be... very sectarian.
There is a reason the little stuffed penguin on my purse zipper is a cutesy girly thing, and I never ever talk to him about computers unless I can use a truly idiotic line like "what's an operating system?" or "where's the "any" key?" or "what's a caps lock?" (He doesn't buy the truly stupid questions, but he takes them as jokes and laughs at me making fun of my own tech illiteracy, and he buys that the moderately dumb crap is asked in good faith.) The arguments are bound to be unproductive and frustrating and sure to last for weeks, so I've learned from watching others to pretend to think technology is magic and he's a wizard, and never ever tell him when I think he's doing something incorrectly or not the way I'd do it.
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They ruined notepad.exe they ruined mspaint, they killed off space cadet all the good Windows apps dead.
No idea how calc.exe is doing
Funnily enough the windows calculator is open source. Idk why they did that while enshittifying everything else so hard but it’s true
So is Power Toys which just gives you a bunch of stuff that's usually built into Linux or a Linux DE, but in windows
A thin client that needs more powerful hardware than Windows 10 did.
A thin client that isn't even thin.
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what's that chinese notepad++ clone that doesn't have weird ass political statements above the download link?
I think notepad++ is Chinese now since their installer got hacked and a Chinese hacking group was getting ACE on any corporate or government PC that had it installed for like 6 months.
lmao
i hadn't been able to run notepad in like a year because i killed off the microsoft store shit and whatnot using privacy.sexy ... once i killed off the MS store so much shit just broke entirely and i was never really able to get it back.. even after doing a 'reset my pc' thing
If you uninstall the "new" one (right click uninstall on the startup menu), you get the good one back. It's a useless hack but was useful on computers I couldn't install npp.
i wasn't able to do much of anything once i broke the ms store but I'll keep that in mind should I ever have to use that awful piece of shit OS again.
yeah.. funny thing is i've always had linux installed in a dualboot config.. since the late 90s, but i rarely ever booted it unless i got into a nerd mode because "muh gamez"
but in the past year someone on hexbear pointed out you can run just about any game in linux just fine now, and i tested it, and switched to my linux install permanently. funny enough though, there are certain things that don't work very well in linux like modding Fallout or Skyrim, so just a couple days ago I finally found a working guide to doing single-gpu passthrough to a windows vm which i have completely locked down. got the best of all worlds now.
Could you link the guide? Been having a bear of a time with my Fallout games.
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https://gitlab.com/risingprismtv/single-gpu-passthrough/-/wikis/home
I've gone through guides before on youtube and various other forums and got ALMOST to a working setup but never crossed the line where they actually worked until I went through this guide. I went through this one step-by-step to the very end.
I had some network issues in the windows vm after following all the steps which ended up being caused by having opensnitch and mullvad vpn installed on my linux host. I asked https://chat.qwen.ai/ (free) for help and it walked me through fixing those things and getting my 10gbe nic working.
Good luck to ya!
funny enough though, there are certain things that don't work very well in linux like modding Fallout or Skyrim
I think a lot of that is because there are certain assumptions made by setup scripts for those that use powershell or Windows pathing/dll side loading.
You could probably identify the ones that are using powershell can non-posix filepathing and manually patch them, but that could be quite a chore.
When I say they don't work very well, I don't mean that they didn't work at all. I found ways around it such as using SteamTinkerLaunch to install nexusmod's vortex mod manager, and finangling shit to get it to find the games and do the automatic mod installations. I got a 90gb skyrim mod collection installed that way, but actually playing the game afterward produced some pretty awful framerate issues. I reached out to the collection's author on discord and he said there is no way my rig should have any problem whatsoever. So I went back and did the windows vm thing, reinstalled all the stuff, and he was right, it runs locked at 120fps without a single hiccup in windows. Proton doesn't always work as well as windows for certain things, but for most everything else it does.
Yall ever see the late night commercials where some poor person cant juice a lemon for their lemonaid with spilling everything everywhere so they need the special lemon juicer 9000? Why does this give off those vibes so hard here. Like I dont like windows but this is like comically stupid use of your system - does anyone ACTUALLY use windows and not have a local account?
I dunno maybe I have lost touch with the kids.
Microsoft has been trying very hard to phase out local accounts for a while now. It is impossible to install Windows without a Microsoft account unless you escape from the installer and run a series of commands in the terminal. It is approaching the "install Linux with ZFS as your root filesystem" user experience.
Installing Linux is seriously easier than setting up Windows these days.
If Microslop keeps going the way they're going, even a manual Arch install will be an easier task.
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A manual arch install may be complicated, but at least it's not actively trying to obstruct you
Yep. At least Linux is complicated because it gives you near infinite options, not because it wants to prevent you doing what you want to do with it.
I have so much more time to figure out how to do cool shit when I'm not busy trying to fix whatever Microslop breaks!
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I forgot they did this. Does it just hard stop if you don’t have any kind of network connection now?
Yes. In the past you could just not connect to a network and run installer offline, but now it requires a network connection unless you search for instructions on how circumvent it.
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