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Candy Crush et al. is uninstallable with three clicks. And that’s it, slightly annoying, but it won’t slow down your machine or anything.
Install 0 clicks, uninstall 3 clicks plus slight annoyance. Multiply by whatever autoinstall Windows Store crap Microsoft is pushing at any given time.
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I suspect that search indexing is slow and you weren't patient enough. Leave that machine a week and everything will be indexed...
A week!?! What planet are you from that it takes a server nearly 170 hours of processing time to index... what... a few dozen kilobytes? And why, for the love of god why, does it have to index the Start Menu!? Why isn't it indexed synchronously on install!? Why does it even need indexing in the first place!? Do you have any idea how few milliseconds it takes to just brute-force search through a few dozen KB of text?…
This is one of those places where Microsoft has let the OEMs that install Windows on 5400rpm hard drives or slower to this day ruin the experience for others. Hence we get this weird performance detection system that tries to guess how slow your system is when it comes to search and seemingly fails miserably at all cases.
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A week!?! What planet are you from that it takes a server nearly 170 hours of processing time to index... what... a few dozen kilobytes? And why, for the love of god why, does it have to index the Start Menu!? Why isn't it indexed synchronously on install!? Why does it even need indexing in the first place!? Do you have any idea how few milliseconds it takes to just brute-force search through a few dozen KB of text?…
You get neither bonuses nor kudos for implementing a bruteforce solution. A self-healing machine-learning AI-based n-dimensional hyperindex search sounds much better, and is the natural choice for any career-conscious programmer
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LTSC really is the way to go for a stable windows experience, unfortunately there's no legal way for consumers to get licenses without a much larger investment than what a home or pro license costs. You can meet in the middle and run transcript on pro which disables most of the worst new features.
Any word of when is a new version of LTSC supposed to come? I bought a very new laptop that just launched last year. The windows version out of box was I believe 1909. I haven’t yet tried running LTSC on it yet but worried about drivers or other issues. My CPU in the laptop was released in March 2020 and 1809 was released in 2018. I didn’t think it was too good of an idea because of that, even though prior I always r…
Next LTSC release should be late next year apparently.
This article immediately reminded me of a video I saw a while ago.[1] The long and short - MS basically laid off the staff that tested Windows, and much of it is automated nowadays (I bet the MBA educated executive at MS who was responsible for that got PHAT bonus, at the expense of Windows customers and laid off testing staff, of course). Seems like it happened in 2015, which is why it seems that windows updates hav…
Data was all still there but it rendered the drive unbootable. Very annoying.
This article immediately reminded me of a video I saw a while ago.[1] The long and short - MS basically laid off the staff that tested Windows, and much of it is automated nowadays (I bet the MBA educated executive at MS who was responsible for that got PHAT bonus, at the expense of Windows customers and laid off testing staff, of course). Seems like it happened in 2015, which is why it seems that windows updates hav…
My friend woke up two days ago to find out that 500gb of source video and 24 hours of edits from Adobe Premier were mysteriously missing from her computer having only recently copied them there.
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On Windows you decide how crisp you want your display. There are plenty of hardware options with Retina-equivalent DPI.
I was probably too much into their marketing. Is it the same for Linux/Archlinux?
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I've been mostly Linux since 2011 and the few times I had to install Win10 for something I've been very displeased. We've fallen quite far in Windows, with ads everywhere, hundreds of services that do God-knows-what, fresh installs that break as soon as the updater runs for the first time. I'm really not impressed and I try to use it as little as possible. Just a bloated, unstable mess designed to sell Microsoft's va…
This perfectly sums up my views, being a Linux only user since 2013. Windows used to be so... Less awful. It's like all the people who use it have been slowly trained to accept more and more anti-user features.