The problem is that it is garbage and has always been garbage. I just bought my wife a new laptop that had 11 pre-installed. It REQUIRES a MS account to use the laptop. So I returned it today and got her a Mac. Problem solved.
Windows needs a change in priorities
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Re: Windows needs a change in priorities
#322Talking about dark patterns, here are a couple I've noticed. In Windows, I'm very careful about NOT signing in to anything Microsoft, unless I have to. I make sure I use a local administrator account instead of a Microsoft account. Yesterday I had to open Microsoft Edge for something that would only work in Edge, and lo-and-behold, Microsoft had taken my Xbox Game Pass sign-in and applied to Edge, then informed me th…
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who have grown up with Windows and can never be trained to use anything else. When Windows itself is changing so much that it hardly resembles what it used to be, there's going to be a lot of relearning anyway. On the other hand, you can make Linux look like any version of Windows if you really wanted to.
If you want Linux to compete, you need spreadsheet software as good as Excel and a word processor that's 100% compatible with Word. I tried to use LibreOffice for a while but Calc ins't there yet and I had tons of formatting problems when I sent documents to Words users. After dealing with this for a while you just give up and start using Office again.
There's WPS Office that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The user interface has a level of polish that rivals Microsoft Office. Sadly, I didn't have a chance to explore if it is seamless to move a file between MS Office and WPS Office.
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I don't want to pull back the curtain too much or tramp on everyone's hopes, but Linux can't compete with Microsoft because of UEFI. The PCs being sold today only allow Microsoft's software to run. In order to distribute a Linux distro, you have to ask Microsoft to give you a shim where they've signed your private key, so that you can share your own signed kernel builds with others. Therefore you can't publish a Linu…
I believe many UEFI implementations allow you to replace the secure boot keys with your own. I've not done it personally as most of my machines I just disable Secure Boot, but it's an option if you know about it and buy carefully.
That's why I was used the word consumers. Rolling your own crypto will let you work around the requirement of asking Microsoft for permission to install our own operating system. But it limits the audience for your work to the technical class.
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> It's even worse when you activate Office 365. There is a small checkbox at the end which if you don't uncheck, converts your local administrator into your Microsoft account.. Going back to a local administrator account is not an easy task. I'm not even sure it's possible, I've tried multiple approaches but gave up after almost having to do a clean install. Now I have to deal with an accountname that contains multip…
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I saw this comment and began to wonder if it was necessary to make a throwaway to make your comment. But then I clicked the name and realized this account is used more than some random throwaway.
Almost had me asking hn if we were abusing throwaway accounts.
Re: Windows needs a change in priorities
#326When I was buying a new computer last month, I spent a some time considering if it should be Mac or Linux. The Windows option was rejected rather quickly. And I was a Windows developer around the time .NET was starting.
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#327From the author's own words, sounds like he should stop supporting Windows.
I only support Windows and macOS as a masochistic exercise in extreme cross-platform support, and even then it's only CLI applications and programmatic API's, never GUI bother.
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#328>I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues Ok, I think this person hasn't tried to run many old games.
It's not ideal, but to be fair, a lot of them (not all) that don't require funky DRM APIs (a-la Grand Theft Auto IV with Games for Windows Live) do work decently. Some might need to have a right-click, run in compatibility mode check done.
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#329If not have left xp if it wasn't for automatic driver installations
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Really? I made the same move (or at least finished it 100%) at the same time, and that's not a problem I've ever seen. Some (surprisingly few, actually) don't perform well under Wine/Proton, or at all, but random freezing I've never seen. And certainly not all of my games.
It's all games, both proton and native, on a specific computer. The issue didn't occur for a long time when I first installed, so I'm pretty sure its a software/config problem which a reinstall would fix. I just haven't gotten around to it. Probably a nvidia driver problem tbh ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lhwb_OckQ )
There's a chance that your problems are being caused by bad RAM.