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Windows 11: Just say no

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Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by scns »

aceazzameen wrote: post #335
amyjess wrote: post #196

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Welp, time to start dropping every packet from any Windows Update-related IP block in my router...

Since my PC is on wifi, what I do is set my wifi as a metered connection. Windows won't download updates on metered connections. I have to trigger the updates manually, which allows me to review them first. Like how it used to be.

Nifty trick, thanks for sharing. Will be useful to many readers. Including those booting into W10 1% of the time, for SD-Card formatters and other Windows exclusives.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by jhgb »

Sunspark wrote: post #24
GnarfGnarf wrote: post #14

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I migrated from Win32 to Qt two years ago. Never looked back. Much easier to program dialogs & UI. Qt gives you macOS as well. ( And UWP if you insist). WinRT is the OS/2 of the 21st century.

I have some concerns with Qt. Not the functionality, but the implementation of some of it. My primary concern is that it doesn't respect the OS's anti-aliasing settings. It defaults to making fonts anti-aliased, even if you don't want them to be. Because of this, last year I stopped updating an app using Qt. The higher resolution a display is, the less and less you need anti-aliasing so it's unnecessary in the 4K and…

Have you tried Ultimate++, by any chance?

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

vetinari wrote: post #462
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #413

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Apple managed to support high-dpi without turning the whole thing upside down.

Apple doesn't run 20 years old binaries. On the contrary, they break ABIs faster than Linux distros, so they can move faster.

What did they break in order to support high-dpi?

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by II2II »

mark-r wrote: post #304
II2II wrote: post #157

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Developing a calculator that one could be proud of would be a pretty sweet job. By that I mean producing a product that consistently produced correct results, offered useful features, and had a user interface that is more pleasant to use than a four function calculator.

I just use Python as my desktop calculator, it works pretty well.

I also use Python or bc as a desktop, but that really isn't the point.

People sometimes criticize the Windows calculator for perceived errors in the results even though it is a superficially simple program. What they fail to account for are the edge cases, those quirks of computation that manifest themselves for various reasons (e.g. the precision of floating point, simplifications that appear simple to a person yet are non-trivial to implement in a program). A shipping product is not the same thing as a simple calculator tutorial a novice programmer may follow.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by scns »

liquidify wrote: post #281
olah_1 wrote: post #49

Proton[1] is the reason my next machine will be Linux. [1]: https://www.protondb.com/

Can proton handle ableton live or deal with audio device drivers?

Haven't tried, but i have a hunch that Windows in KVM with passthrough might work better for that. Just my zero cents.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by scns »

midasz wrote: post #422
krona wrote: post #146

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Anecdotal, but I have a 2015 Lenovo X1 Carbon running Ubuntu 20 (gnome 3.38), a 2020 MBP and a 2019 MS Surface Laptop 3 (windows 10). The recent Gnome experience on hardware half a decade older than the Surface laptop is so much snappier than Windows. I dred MacOS and Windows updates these days but I'm generally very pleased with updates to Ubuntu/Gnome. Furthermore everything just works, too, which is what I grew up…

I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme and I dual boot Windows 10 + Arch. I haven't used Windows in so long, the last time I tried it was so insanely slow I don't know how people deal with it. Arch with GNOME is super snappy.

1% of the time i boot into W10 to check the FW for my BT-Cans or something else. After a while, even while idle, the fans suddenly shift into overdrive. The CPU is undervolted by 0,095V.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by scns »

liquidify wrote: post #287
seph-reed wrote: post #123

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Yup. I've been running EOS ( https://elementary.io/ ). It's almost as pretty as my MBP, and vastly more usable than Windows. And I have everything I really need (with first class Linux support): * Gaming - Steam + Proton * Digital Audio Workstation - Bitwig * Video Editing - DaVinci Resolve * 3d Modeling - Blender * 2d Image - Gimp (this one could be a lot better) ----- The only thing I can imagine dual booting into…

How does bitwig do with multi channel audio? I need 32 in and 32 out. I have Merging and RME available as audio devices, but I don't suspect that either of them would actually work with multi-channel recording, despite both of them offering drivers. If someone could guarantee rock solid stability, I *might be willing to switch, even though I'm fairly invested in the Ableton / VST world. 10 years of projects will like…

May i suggest trying it in a VM? Then you could check if all 32 channels actually record, latency can be disregarded in this case i think. Second idea would be buying another SSD, and install Ubuntu Studio on it to get better data. If you can free me from the predjudice Bitwig only runs on Ubuntu, please do. I would suggest switching off, or removing in case of a laptop, the Windows drive. This makes reverting easier if it should be nonsatisfactory.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by pitay »

Zardoz84 wrote: post #104
jnsaff2 wrote: post #54

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This is M$ doing its tik-tok releases. XP - decent Vista - horrorshow 7 - alright (compared to vista) 8 - horrorshow 10 - alright (compared to 8) 11 - horrorshow Personally I will never use it unless I really need to and then kicking and screaming but that is my observation.

Allow to fix your list : XP - decent Vista - horrorshow 7 - alright (compared to vista) 8 - Not too bad 8.1 - alright 10 - dumpster fire 11 - another dumpster fire

I completely agree with this list. Although Windows 8 had a bad desktop UI, it was easily mostly fixed with Classic Shell at the time (these days it is Open Shell as Classic Shell is not updated any more). What Windows 10 has now is a better UI, but it has all this background stuff and telemetry which screws any performance for long periods of time, other times it is fine. But I have had to have performance monitoring tools open all the time to see what is going through my hard drive. It is that bad that I have resource monitor open all the time, just out of habit, because of how often there is Windows telemetry stuff or update medic service or even stuff which tries to measure power usage of programs in Windows when I am running it on a desktop. This is all stuff built into Windows installed by Microsoft, not 3rd party stuff. I have been able to deal with this by bypassing the haphazard protections MS put into place to stop me turning that stuff off, if they truly manage to stop me using my PC the way I want, not allowing me to disable the stuff I don't like, then it will become to unbearable to use Windows. The only reason it isn't unbearable is the protections against turning stuff off can be bypassed (not that they haven't tried to stop it).

With Win 11 requiring SecureBoot and the Trusted Platform Module turned on, it is a hard no for me. I like having control over my PC.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by ladyattis »

userbinator wrote: post #26
Someone1234 wrote: post #21

Windows 11 is half-baked. But it isn't just half-baked because it was rushed out while ignoring all the feedback (although it absolutely was). It is also half-baked because Microsoft's management has no particular strategy or plan for what they want Windows to be. So Windows 11 just feels like an "and kitchen sink" where someone picked up an iPad, noted down a bunch of random features without rhyme or reason and then…

and UI elements that haven't been updated since Windows 2K. Also known as "the good part"... Everything else about Windows UI since then has only gotten less usable and more hostile.

The worse part is how new settings are pushed into the new UI layer under their own menus rather than being easily accessible from the control panel. I understand the need for backwards compatibility but I'd assume they would want to put together a proper replacement for the control panel that utilizes their newest technology while still being able to manage legacy application settings. But it seems you have to go through multiple screens until you find the right one that has the setting. It's really annoying.

Re: Windows 11: Just say no

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Post by binkHN »

NtGuy25 wrote: post #199

I really like Windows 11. Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about, as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten. It's better to view this as a Windows 10 Refresh with alot done behind the scenes and a new UI. Not much of this is talked about though, outside of really niche highly technical circles. There's some false narrative about it which is bizarre.

> Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about...

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