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laughs in Linux
Cries in arch
Laughing yourself to tears about windows, peak arch user behavior
My wife came to me saying her laptop wasn’t working. She was on it last night. It was forcing a Windows account login. Shift-10 disabled so I couldn’t bypass.
Microsoft can straight fuck itself after this. Trying to brick an 8 year old laptop with a local account. Fuck that noise. My wife is gonna have to learn Linux.
trying to reinstall Windows on a used computer I got recently sent me over the edge. holy fucking shit that was so complicated. there is just no way to install windows without a Microsoft account now, their documentation is both out of date in some locations, non-existent in others (posts removed), and seemingly up-to-date yet incorrect in other locations. I followed the instructions for installing with a Microsoft account and then unlinking it, and it was fucking hell. I had to do some back door shit (not really, but stuff that the average user doesn’t stand a chance of doing) in order to get my account actually unlinked so that I could sign in with the local credentials
I will not be buying Microsoft again. just going to transition slowly as Windows 10 fades away
Download pro, during install before setting initial account: shift+f10 (may have to hold fn key if laptop). When the cmd box opens type oobe\bypassnro hit enter an PC reboots. Disconnect networking. Say I don’t have internet. Now you can do local accounts.
I installed Windows 11 on my machine a few months back because i couldn’t get Cities Skylines 2 to run properly under linux. What a fucking mess. only had it for a few hours before i went back to linux. Ahh the serenity.
This would be illegal in a world not run by Microsoft and companies like it.
The computer says no
Also Clock is now an Electron app running in its own instance of Chromium, because the devs are afraid of static typing, thus everything needed to be in Javascript.
This makes me sad. I get using electron for cross-platform stuff like VSCode or all the other examples (trying to do desktop apps with decent looking UIs that work across Linux/Windows/Mac is a nightmare) but the clock that only works on windows? WPF and/or WinUI ARE RIGHT FUCKING THERE WHAT THE HELL?!
THEY’RE YOUR FUCKING PRODUCTS, MICROSOFT!!!
trying to do desktop apps with decent looking UIs that work across Linux/Windows/Mac is a nightmare
I’d argue that both Qt as well as GTK is right there for the taking… but those are not “industry-standard”.
Probably skill issue on my end tbh but here goes:
I’ll admit I’ve never tried GTK. I’ve always assumed it was specific to linux and used to make apps that look a certain way (like they were made for gnome) vs allowing you to make UIs the way you want to. Maybe I should look into this more.
Qt I’d say is “industry standard” but I’ve never been able to figure it out (so definitely skill issue here). It’s just that every time I’ve tried it, it’s been confusing where you’re even supposed to start. Also the last time I tried it I was a bit lost because I assume that I’m supposed to use Qt 6 (?) but it requires me to create an account because there’s a whole community/enterprise pricing thing (fair enough, nobody’s entitled to OSS work, especially not billion/trillion dollar companies). I plan to look again but that’s where I’ve been stuck so far.
I hate shipping chromium for every single app and it’s easy to fuck up a react app but there’s something to be said about cutting through the BS, just building, and having it work the same everywhere. Webapps won’t perform as well as native but they will perform well enough that it’s fine assuming the product owners give a shit.
Still learning but this has been my sentiment so far.
Edit:
Been playing around with iced.rs a bit and it looks promising but I haven’t done anything past beginner stuff so no fully formed opinions yet.Also there was a big push for “web first” applications, thus there’s a lot of developers with that kind of knowledge. In college, I was instructed to instead of learning software optimizations, to learn how to outsource complicated computations to the cloud, where there will be always enough compute, so I can write my code “as clean as possible, without worrying about optimizations”.
That explains so, so much. Not just why everything wants to connect somewhere, but also disasters like programs with >1000 npm package dependencies. Why learning the right way if you’ve always been told to go the easy way.
Wha? That’s a dangerous mindset to teach. The last thing you want is to add network latency to every interaction or tether an app to the internet when it doesn’t really need it (but I guess big tech didn’t get the memo on that one).
But it was the beginning of the big data hype, so in exchange you got advertising data and anyone daring to object are probably criminals because “good citizens have nothing to hide”.
Ah yes, the surveillance state argument. Classic 🤦
Not sure if joking…
I fear the day my little Win7 lappy finally cooks itself. The modern computing landscape is bizarre, alien, and frightening to me. Maybe I can build a XT and find a 300 baud BBS?
Yay Windows, eh?
New Update: Microsoft deleted 12 hours from your clock (every hour now is really 2 hours), so now you have to work 2/3 of every day. Sleep? What sleep? Get the fuck back to work! You pleb
"Exact time is no longer available. For the precise time, subscribe to Clock com. Thank you for upgrading "
"WELCOME TO CLOCKO COM
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE"
Wow, a Zombo reference in 2025? Hell yeah!
And why the fuck is windows always “preparing” to do something!? Are you generating a record of my activities to phone home with? Just do the damn thing!
Well, downloading maybe. But it should just say fuckin downloading!
Just a moment
Progress bar at 100%
Progress text reads “complete”
Wait 2 hours
Why am I reminded of Monty Python’s Meaning Of Life?
“Doctor, what do I do?”
“NOTHING! YOU’RE. NOT. QUALIFIED!”
“PING!”
What was that?
That means your baby is STILL ALIVE!
We even brought in the machine that goes PING!
And the most expensive machine in the whole hospital.
“Guys, today we just reinvented time!”
-Microsoft (or something idk…)
The clock needs an update every second! /s
I have no idea why a clock would need an update.
All apps need updates as new features are added. The problem on windows the updates are slow and UX is poor.
Nobody’s complaining about android clock needing updates, because they’re seamless.
Why does a clock need more features. It tells the time. MAYBE add an alarm to it so you don’t have to have 2 apps. that’s it. It’s not a calendar, it’s not a task-tracker, and the last time I checked we still have 24 hour days.
The only updates it needs are UI updates (which should be system-side anyways) and if the time source changes, which are a few bytes at most.
tbf, there are leap seconds. I don’t know if this “update” was for a leap second, but it really needs to be more seamless.
leap seconds should be handled via the standard sync just like any normal deviation
yeah, but this is Microshaft we’re talking about. What they SHOULD do, isn’t what they do. Hence why we have windows.
To show the current time, duh /s
The sticky note app makes my skin crawl every time it gets an update.
My main gripe is Windows Defender. I have an app that integrates with Home Assistant and Windows keeps flagging a component as a Trojan virus. Makes sense, as it’s supposed to access admin level functions to read some sensors and enable remote power control.
But for years I’ve seen MsMpEng.exe, or the antivirus, constantly scan my 4TB HDD, either looking for viruses or doing some stupid NTFS remapping thing. It’s loud and only spun up when idle on Win10, but became more aggressive on Win11 with less time to start scanning and not stopping when I move the mouse.
The latest development with breaking my app just means I’m more vigilant in turning the entire antivirus off when it turns on and starts scanning.
I have a volume, let’s call it “Shit I put in here that I have randomly acquired over the years”, mostly smallish files of any nature, text, image, executables, archives, that I’ve been carrying with me for over two decades, cloning from one drive upgrade to the next, surviving multiple systems. I’ve noticed that starting with Windows 7, defender without so much as a notification, started removing random files it deems malicious. I suspect they may have been quarantined at first, but other times outright deleted, as I’m sure the default behaviour settings have been overridden by updates numerous times. I’ve had a couple executables that were doing direct memory reading and injection for some MMOs, think packet sniffing or botting/automating certain tedious tasks, and defender would eliminate the executable without so much as a warning when I have extracted backup archive of it.
Makes sense, as it’s supposed to access admin level functions to read some sensors and enable remote power control.
That makes no fucking sense. Kernal level driver accesses sensors. User mode driver reads that stuff and provides API access to whatever app.
You’ve got a shitty, shitty system.
Why are you using a hard drive?
I recommend Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, which is supported until 2032 and has never required me to update my fucking clock or calculator, never crashed my SSD, and never randomly encrypted my hard drive and lost the recovery keys! And, there’s no OneDrive, Copilot, Recall, Cortana, Clippy, or whatever else Microsoft’s cocaine addled executives have come up with this week to FUCK us.
Since thats the standard for operating systems we’re working with now, I’d say this one is pretty good!
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Honestly I’ll just stick to a custom Windows 11 image if I need Windows.
Chris Titus tech even has a tool to build one
Isn’t the IoT version missing some features?
The real fix is to switch to Linux.
Also, what’s wrong with Clippy?
IoT is missing all the features I hate, but they can usually be installed manually if desired.
I’m holding out till 2032 for Linux by which time I will be dead or ready to switch.
I was one of those cool 90’s kids who hated Clippy, and I am still just as immature.
I was one of those cool 90’s kids who hated Clippy, and I am still just as immature.
I always liked the red ball and the wizard more than Clippy anyways.
💯
Why are you waiting so long? Windows XP pushed me over the edge and I switched to Linux then. Everything was suddenly better. Computers were useful and fun again.
What are you waiting for?
anticheat support
Should probably contact the developers then, because the ones that don’t work, don’t work by choice.
Wouldnt hold your breath, unless microsoft finally realizes rootkits are a bad thing.
unless microsoft finally realizes rootkits are a bad thing.
Isn’t that what happened after the CrowdStrike issue? https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206719/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstrike-kernel-driver
the windows store is not a real feature
Windows Store is useful for less sophisticated users though. It’s dangerous teaching non-computer-illiterate people to install apps by downloading random EXE files.
- if lemmy users are not sophisticated enough for ya, donno what is
- microsoft doesnt audit the store apps
purchase
?
He linked to the Mass Activation Script. The same way I purchase all Microsoft products.
Yes, purchase legitimately from Microsoft with a genuine Microsoft license key from Microsoft because software piracy is wrong and totally not justified in the face of abusive software monopolies.
Gotcha!
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aka Chef’s kiss
This is sweet! Didn’t realize it existed. Been dreading the 11 BS and clawing all the enshittification out. I wish I could do linux on my main machine, but CAM is still not pro grade.
big sloppy kiss
On the computers I still have running windows, this is what I’m using and I have dodged So much of the bullshit people have been dealing with. I’m still running Linux on my main machines though. Maybe by the end of the year I’ll have migrated everything away from both Microsoft and Google.
I’m using Win11 LTSC and it’s great for the same reasons.
