If I recall right, they were getting rid of one older unsupported way to do that, but multiple news outlets misread it as getting rid of the ability to bypass at all and then the story got spread from there.
I do feel sorry for them, but they can only lift themselves up. I can't really do anything to help. Linux has never been easier to set up than today. But it will always be a bit of a hurdle to make the switch.
I'm still salty that they killed Cortana. For the short period between being released full-featured and MS gimping it hard in my region, it was the best assistant out of the bunch, by far.
All they had to do was add the option to add the capabilities of Copilot to the existing system and they'd have an actually killer feature.
The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)
On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.
Thanks for explaining that! I was rather commenting on how it is for some of my old friends who game. I’m happy to learn that even piracy is better on Linux :) I may convert those to Linux then!
I mean, those people I know, they are not computer people. So, for them, having a computer is to play games. If they are pressed with money, they’d rather buy a better GPU than games. It’s not like these people are having multiple computers, keeping one to just play games.
Sure, I agree, when the money isn’t an issue, why won’t you just buy the game?
Personally for me, i no long find pirating worth the time to set things up. The only recent good titles are mostly indi, and they are quite cheap. You can also find ultra cheap offers on not-so-old 3A titles. Also, my backlog is already 6-7 times longer of the rest of my remaining lifespan, so i have quite a bit to chose from.
Indeed. And honestly, for example GOG classics are worth to support and also come with the added benefit of being usable on modern systems out of the box, with emulation readily setup if needed.
Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.
I'll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it's somehow completely unavoidable just isn't trying. It's always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they'll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.
Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn't to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go "here's the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems"
I have literally never seen this occur outside of:
it attempting to reset the default PDF viewer multiple times
twice when the entire group of settings related to cortana/internet search from the taskbar changed and they didn't attempt to map previous choices to the new settings
That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment.
If you've got more hard evidence of MS doing this I'd love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run "SFC /scannow".
My PC used to turn itself on occasionally after I put it to sleep at night and went to bed. Over a span of weeks, I'd track down the latest reason for starting up and disable it until it would only wake on keyboard or by hitting the power button.
Except I'd have to reapply them because it would just randomly be enabled again.
It's really easy. Linux Mint. Bootable USB. Back up your important files on a separate harddrive. Plug in USB. Reboot. Install. Port old files over. Good as new
Bonus points for looking into how to optimize your partition structure, but it'd be fine to just let it do its thing. Also like... I guess you should probably make sure your audio and video cards are supported, but they like 98% are
I’m a computer dumbass and I managed to install Mint by plugging in a USB and clicking “next” until I had a new OS installed. Maybe something else would be marginally more suited to me, but Mint does everything I want: games, internet, and office software are all I need.
Mint is now easier to install than Windows. With Windows you have to create a microsoft account or run commands in order to skip that step (assuming you didn’t use rufus skip account/tpm check when flashing the image)
I will not use those services. I think im willing to give up any service except email. And if Im forced, I guess I will identify for email since its critical to have. But its all ridiculous and part of building dystopia.
Question. Does it even matter, because a LOT of people (majority of humans, even babies) have their name and picture all over the internet that the AI has scraped and knows everything about you. Why would an age verify even matter? If you buy anything with credit card they have you got already.
I'm all for privacy but let's be honest, unless you lived under a rock for the last 25 years, they know who and where you are and everything you like and dont.
That being said, the hard one for me will be when fb pushes it because I love marketplace, and also every one of my friends and family only use fb. If I quit it I'll basically have no one.
It's the implementation (such as in UK) requiring government ID, making it sound more like blatant data collection.
I'm honestly not the best person to talk about this. But also not every user in a website/social media has to buy something, hence not everyone has ever given their payment info.
But from tiny bit reading on recent essay on the lobbyist of the OS-level age verification law, being Facebook behind it, they kind of want to offload this work to OS so that they themselvs (social media services) don't be the one who does this, apparently because that may violate some regulation. I don't remember the details sorry.
As for the motives, why's everyone suddenly obssessed with verifying everyone's age since 2025, who knows. But I do have concern that prosecuting critics on the internet will be easier if everyone is well profiled.
That's not the same at all though. Complaining about AI "features" being shoved down users throat, and AI being used by developers are very different things.
Both can be complained about, absolutely, but they are completely different things.
If Microsoft was using all artisanal human written code to deliver all the AI crap, I wouldn't be complaining about it any less.
If some idiot don't automatically add AI slop and the developer have the actual time to check the new code before adding it to the distro release, then sure. Is not like they are forced to run pushing new updates full of slop just to make the investors happy and having the whole sistem flooded with bugs.
TBH I'm very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I'm just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn't let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I'm reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.
Three of those are the same thing (AI features) and all are easily handled through group policy.
You are using a version the has group policy right? Spoofing a Pro license with MAS Grave takes roughly 2 minutes from opening the website to finished, on a slow connection.
It's even easier if you don't set up a Microsoft Account during install of the OS. You did take the 30 seconds to look up the current bypass when you started, right?
It's even easier than that if you just don't use Microsoft Office. Open source office suites work fine on Windows.
Today i had a segfault that basically froze my entire machine. I was just running some downloads and browsing and all of a sudden i couldn't open, minimize, raise, or close anything.
I'll be running Windows 10 LTSC until late next year on my work machine, but even I have issues where Microsoft Store keeps reinstalling itself after I gut it. If I leave it installed it causes BSOD and super slow startup times (Hours).
What's crazy is all this can be disabled in Windows by a power user or enthusiast, but they don't want to, so they want to move to linex, an operating system designed for power users
You clearly haven't touched Debian or an immutable distro. I've been happily using Bazzite for 2 years on my laptop on the same install without any settings resetting themselves. It simply is not a thing outside of windows and some other poorly optimised operating systems. You should try them before posting your opinions as fact.
Edit: I see now I'm not talking to a serious person - rather someone who intentionally says dumb shit to get into flame wars. Have the day you deserve. Now, and forever!
Back when the most hated thing about Windows was the forced updates, I likewise didn't have that problem because I would update my system often.
For me, as somebody who never had issues and never lost work from it, the update process of every Linux distro I have ever used is still 10x better than Windows ever was.
And honestly that's a microcosm of the overall Windows vs Linux comparison for me. Ask yourself who the stakeholders are in the design, and of them whose desires get priority. With Linux you generally have the users and the devs (who are themselves users), sprinkled with some commercial interests that contribute for various reasons. With Windows you have users and devs seemingly at the bottom, followed by numerous different priorities inside Microsoft that range from "make the company better" to "keep this department relevant for one more quarter", you have they who are on the most high -- the shareholders -- and I guess now you have a pretty strong presence of the US government.
So the purpose of the update process in Linux, whether command line or a friendly graphical interface, is to update the selected items. That's it. As always, do it quickly, efficiently, and with as little disruption as possible.
The purpose of the update process in Windows includes updating the selected items, sure. But it obviously also includes turning One Drive back on. And history suggests that Windows Update's true to-do list has waaaaay more than 2 items on it, lol.
Yes. I hate it. If anyone has a good CAD/CAM package for Linux I'll jump ship in a heartbeat.
Should probably also add that the amount of time I've spent rifling through the event viewer, task scheduler, and registry editor has skyrocketed in the past few years.
Mainstream linux distros are currently easier to use than it is to debloat a windows install. Quite a few of my "normie" friends swapped to Linux because it was easier to use than Windows when all you do is play games and browse the web.
Welcome to the fediverse new user. Since you appear to be lost, you should know that we are overwhelmingly linux users on the fediverse, and that !linuxmemes@lemmy.world is unsurprisingly a linux-centric community.
None of us are inexperienced with Windows or Linux and many of us are Linux users because of Windows.
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yaroto98@lemmy.world · 142 pts · 191d
You forgot forced microsoft account.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 77 pts · 191d
And "Age verification"
And "Telemetry"
tristynalxander@mander.xyz · 29 pts · 191d
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 6 pts · 190d
LOL telling the people who created the Darknet that you're going to control what they do with their computers
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -4 pts · 191d
If you don't take 30 seconds to look up the bypass on install. If you're capable of switching to Linux it's hardly forced in any way that matters.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 191d
On that topic. Weren’t they going to get rid of the oobe bypass nro thing? I reset a computer the other day and it still worked.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 191d
If I recall right, they were getting rid of one older unsupported way to do that, but multiple news outlets misread it as getting rid of the ability to bypass at all and then the story got spread from there.
Pirate@feddit.org · 1 pts · 186d
It really doesn’t matter if you can bypass it. The issue with using windows is that you have to use windows.
You can never disable telemetry fully and even if you could, it would be turned on again on the next update.
It’s just not worth the effort to end up with a shittier OS when Linux exists and works so so well.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 29 pts · 191d
I do feel sorry for them, but they can only lift themselves up. I can't really do anything to help. Linux has never been easier to set up than today. But it will always be a bit of a hurdle to make the switch.
coolfission@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 191d
Talk to your PC is basically what cortana was
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 191d
I'm still salty that they killed Cortana. For the short period between being released full-featured and MS gimping it hard in my region, it was the best assistant out of the bunch, by far.
All they had to do was add the option to add the capabilities of Copilot to the existing system and they'd have an actually killer feature.
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club · 16 pts · 191d
Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.
xyguy@startrek.website · 11 pts · 191d
How it started
How it's going
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 191d
Hello? Hello computer! Hello?!
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 191d
I am very pro Linux and have been trying to migrate all my system but I got to say:
I installed windows 11 LTSC and disabled automatic updates, it’s not good but it’s also not this bad.
If your wondering why, pirating games isn’t very seamless on Linux yet,
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works · 70 pts · 191d
Why would we pirate games when we have SuperTuxKart?
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 191d
Don't forget SuperTux! It got a larger update just a few days ago.
https://www.supertux.org/news/2026/03/14/0.7.0
versionc@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 191d
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 191d
The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)
On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.
versionc@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 191d
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 191d
Works doesn’t always means works well. “Playable” on proton db has wildly different meanings to some people.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 191d
Thanks for explaining that! I was rather commenting on how it is for some of my old friends who game. I’m happy to learn that even piracy is better on Linux :) I may convert those to Linux then!
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 13 pts · 191d
Many pirates do piracy for the lack of money (hence why many end up buying the game when they get money) so this is def an exception of the exception
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 191d
I mean, those people I know, they are not computer people. So, for them, having a computer is to play games. If they are pressed with money, they’d rather buy a better GPU than games. It’s not like these people are having multiple computers, keeping one to just play games.
Sure, I agree, when the money isn’t an issue, why won’t you just buy the game?
Lisk91@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 191d
Personally for me, i no long find pirating worth the time to set things up. The only recent good titles are mostly indi, and they are quite cheap. You can also find ultra cheap offers on not-so-old 3A titles. Also, my backlog is already 6-7 times longer of the rest of my remaining lifespan, so i have quite a bit to chose from.
Jiral@lemmy.org · 7 pts · 191d
Indeed. And honestly, for example GOG classics are worth to support and also come with the added benefit of being usable on modern systems out of the box, with emulation readily setup if needed.
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 10 pts · 191d
jenings@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 191d
I pray you are deleting those roms after 24 hours
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 3 pts · 191d
Zoot@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 191d
Why would you even want to delete them after a day?
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 3 pts · 191d
jenings@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 171d
Back in the olden internet days rom sites would tell you to delete your roms withon 24 hours to stay legal
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 1 pts · 171d
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 191d
Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.
I'll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it's somehow completely unavoidable just isn't trying. It's always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they'll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.
Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn't to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go "here's the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems"
These are tools, not religion.
Bongles@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 191d
Until windows decides you really should have that switched on and flips it back after an update.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 191d
That was my main issue with Windows. I’m not here to fight with my computer, especially not with a corporation controlling MY computer.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 191d
I have literally never seen this occur outside of:
That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment.
If you've got more hard evidence of MS doing this I'd love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run "SFC /scannow".
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
My PC used to turn itself on occasionally after I put it to sleep at night and went to bed. Over a span of weeks, I'd track down the latest reason for starting up and disable it until it would only wake on keyboard or by hitting the power button.
Except I'd have to reapply them because it would just randomly be enabled again.
Larsa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 191d
Fake news
Neps@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 190d
proverbialarteries@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 191d
One day I will swap to Linux!! One day!!!
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 22 pts · 191d
Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 191d
Cmon man. Join the right side!
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 191d
It's really easy. Linux Mint. Bootable USB. Back up your important files on a separate harddrive. Plug in USB. Reboot. Install. Port old files over. Good as new
Bonus points for looking into how to optimize your partition structure, but it'd be fine to just let it do its thing. Also like... I guess you should probably make sure your audio and video cards are supported, but they like 98% are
Denvil@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 191d
Step 1: install Linux Mint
Step 2: everything works
Step 3: profit
The ??? step is only for Window's nonsense
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 190d
How to use HDR in Mint?
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 191d
what are you waiting for?
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 191d
muhyb@programming.dev · 4 pts · 191d
That day is closer than ever.
Hello_there@fedia.io · 3 pts · 191d
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 190d
brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 191d
Do it! It’s easy; Linux mint is soooooo easy
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 191d
I’m a computer dumbass and I managed to install Mint by plugging in a USB and clicking “next” until I had a new OS installed. Maybe something else would be marginally more suited to me, but Mint does everything I want: games, internet, and office software are all I need.
coolfission@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
Mint is now easier to install than Windows. With Windows you have to create a microsoft account or run commands in order to skip that step (assuming you didn’t use rufus skip account/tpm check when flashing the image)
tristynalxander@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 191d
gurty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
You won’t regret it. When I switched, I realised just how much it felt like I was just renting my OS from Windows.
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 191d
until the age verification brick hits you in the head
1984@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 191d
I will not use those services. I think im willing to give up any service except email. And if Im forced, I guess I will identify for email since its critical to have. But its all ridiculous and part of building dystopia.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 190d
Question. Does it even matter, because a LOT of people (majority of humans, even babies) have their name and picture all over the internet that the AI has scraped and knows everything about you. Why would an age verify even matter? If you buy anything with credit card they have you got already.
I'm all for privacy but let's be honest, unless you lived under a rock for the last 25 years, they know who and where you are and everything you like and dont.
That being said, the hard one for me will be when fb pushes it because I love marketplace, and also every one of my friends and family only use fb. If I quit it I'll basically have no one.
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 190d
It's the implementation (such as in UK) requiring government ID, making it sound more like blatant data collection.
I'm honestly not the best person to talk about this. But also not every user in a website/social media has to buy something, hence not everyone has ever given their payment info.
But from tiny bit reading on recent essay on the lobbyist of the OS-level age verification law, being Facebook behind it, they kind of want to offload this work to OS so that they themselvs (social media services) don't be the one who does this, apparently because that may violate some regulation. I don't remember the details sorry.
As for the motives, why's everyone suddenly obssessed with verifying everyone's age since 2025, who knows. But I do have concern that prosecuting critics on the internet will be easier if everyone is well profiled.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 191d
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 191d
That's not the same at all though. Complaining about AI "features" being shoved down users throat, and AI being used by developers are very different things.
Both can be complained about, absolutely, but they are completely different things.
If Microsoft was using all artisanal human written code to deliver all the AI crap, I wouldn't be complaining about it any less.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
Good point
thax@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 191d
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 191d
Yes, for sure.
But we will eventually clean up our AI slop code mistakes. I'm not so sure if Microslop will or not. It might not be profitable.
MattW03@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 191d
Also, the good thing of open source software is that anyone can clean off any bullshit code.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 191d
But can you clean it up faster than AI can create new bullshit code?
MattW03@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 191d
If some idiot don't automatically add AI slop and the developer have the actual time to check the new code before adding it to the distro release, then sure. Is not like they are forced to run pushing new updates full of slop just to make the investors happy and having the whole sistem flooded with bugs.
...I mean, who would be so stupid to do that? 😁
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 191d
You don't need to pull the new bs...
utopiah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 191d
Link please
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 191d
TBH I'm very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I'm just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn't let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I'm reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.
RAFAELRAMIREZ@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d
Linux users just watching the chaos like it’s a movie 🍿
HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 190d
https://tenor.com/view/eating-the-chip-chips-chip-eating-chip-man-eating-three-chips-gif-18885184
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 191d
Three of those are the same thing (AI features) and all are easily handled through group policy.
You are using a version the has group policy right? Spoofing a Pro license with MAS Grave takes roughly 2 minutes from opening the website to finished, on a slow connection.
It's even easier if you don't set up a Microsoft Account during install of the OS. You did take the 30 seconds to look up the current bypass when you started, right?
It's even easier than that if you just don't use Microsoft Office. Open source office suites work fine on Windows.
Of course, Linux is the easiest way.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 191d
So you have to know 4+ workarounds before you've even got an OS installed. Sounds "easy."
cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 190d
Today i had a segfault that basically froze my entire machine. I was just running some downloads and browsing and all of a sudden i couldn't open, minimize, raise, or close anything.
semperverus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 190d
Thanks for letting us know
CatalpaRed@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 190d
Just made the jump. No regrats
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 191d
I'll be running Windows 10 LTSC until late next year on my work machine, but even I have issues where Microsoft Store keeps reinstalling itself after I gut it. If I leave it installed it causes BSOD and super slow startup times (Hours).
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Yea we get it you are terrible at running windows. WINDOWS!
Hello_there@fedia.io · -1 pts · 191d
Repeat the meme, but with windows users looking at peripheral driver failures
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 191d
krisevol@lemmus.org · -11 pts · 190d
What's crazy is all this can be disabled in Windows by a power user or enthusiast, but they don't want to, so they want to move to linex, an operating system designed for power users
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 190d
What's crazy is that everything a power user does to disable these things gets UNDONE with the next windows update.
A real power user wouldn't waste their time with that added maintenance of re-disabling things.
krisevol@lemmus.org · -3 pts · 190d
I haven't had a problem with everything staying off, except one drive turning back on which was annoying but took 5 secs to turn it off again.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 190d
Proving the point, it's a never ending battle with windblowz
krisevol@lemmus.org · -2 pts · 190d
If that is a problem for you, just wait till you try Linux
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
It's not a problem for me, because I use Linux.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 190d
Have a great day
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 190d
Yeah that overly reductive version of his response is mega cope.
krisevol@lemmus.org · -1 pts · 190d
If this is a deal breaker, then no OS will satisfy you
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 190d
You clearly haven't touched Debian or an immutable distro. I've been happily using Bazzite for 2 years on my laptop on the same install without any settings resetting themselves. It simply is not a thing outside of windows and some other poorly optimised operating systems. You should try them before posting your opinions as fact.
Edit: I see now I'm not talking to a serious person - rather someone who intentionally says dumb shit to get into flame wars. Have the day you deserve. Now, and forever!
Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 190d
Back when the most hated thing about Windows was the forced updates, I likewise didn't have that problem because I would update my system often.
For me, as somebody who never had issues and never lost work from it, the update process of every Linux distro I have ever used is still 10x better than Windows ever was.
And honestly that's a microcosm of the overall Windows vs Linux comparison for me. Ask yourself who the stakeholders are in the design, and of them whose desires get priority. With Linux you generally have the users and the devs (who are themselves users), sprinkled with some commercial interests that contribute for various reasons. With Windows you have users and devs seemingly at the bottom, followed by numerous different priorities inside Microsoft that range from "make the company better" to "keep this department relevant for one more quarter", you have they who are on the most high -- the shareholders -- and I guess now you have a pretty strong presence of the US government.
So the purpose of the update process in Linux, whether command line or a friendly graphical interface, is to update the selected items. That's it. As always, do it quickly, efficiently, and with as little disruption as possible.
The purpose of the update process in Windows includes updating the selected items, sure. But it obviously also includes turning One Drive back on. And history suggests that Windows Update's true to-do list has waaaaay more than 2 items on it, lol.
NerdsGonnaNerd@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 190d
But wouldnt you always need to check, that those settings keep the way you want them? I heard that windows sometimes resets some of those settings.
rami@ani.social · 1 pts · 190d
Yes. I hate it. If anyone has a good CAD/CAM package for Linux I'll jump ship in a heartbeat.
Should probably also add that the amount of time I've spent rifling through the event viewer, task scheduler, and registry editor has skyrocketed in the past few years.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 190d
I don't know whether it counts as good, but FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are going concerns
krisevol@lemmus.org · 0 pts · 190d
Yes I've had one drive turn itself back on before. Annoying.
CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 190d
Mainstream linux distros are currently easier to use than it is to debloat a windows install. Quite a few of my "normie" friends swapped to Linux because it was easier to use than Windows when all you do is play games and browse the web.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Welcome to the fediverse new user. Since you appear to be lost, you should know that we are overwhelmingly linux users on the fediverse, and that !linuxmemes@lemmy.world is unsurprisingly a linux-centric community.
None of us are inexperienced with Windows or Linux and many of us are Linux users because of Windows.