I see ‘secure’ laptops at F500 companies now that have search ads in the start menu.
How did IT not push back against MS here?
Huge security issue.
Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate? I never had a Mac device before this year, but it can do all the document processing (M$ Office) I need for work/school, almost all audio-related stuff (DAWs and VSTs), and video/photo (ugh I know but Adobe) that I need it to, even though its a brand new chip architecture. It can't do games but I have a M$ desktop just for that and for some rendering stuff
Windows advertising features were bugging me, so I tried to install MacOS on my computer, but Apple told me that I would have to purchase different hardware from them directly if I wanted to run their software. Seems like MacOS does not run on hardware that is not sold by Apple.
It does; just not out of the box. They only include drivers for their hardware; You have to compile your own kexts. The EULA, however, does “prevent” you from doing such a thing, but unless you’re selling “Hackintoshes”, Apple isn’t going to care.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
What drivers? You don't need to install any drivers if everything works.
The GPU drivers tend to be proprietary.
Both AMD and Intel have open source drivers upstreamed into the Linux kernel (and are the vendor recommended ones, outside of certain enterprise use cases).
It's really only NVIDIA that's proprietary.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#324Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice.
There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business right now. In fact, there are no Microsoft products. I migrate clients away from Windows when possible, and refuse to work with those who are tightly integrated with MS products. I do occasionally work a job where something has to work on Windows or with MS SQL, but I only accept if that can be done in a platform agnostic way.
I previously held onto Windows at home because despite my age I still love games. At least, I love the idea of them, if I ever get time to play.
Now, recently I had a startling realization: it's actually easier now to get many of the games I love running on Wine (with or without steam) than it is on Windows. The performance is great. (edit: I love you, Lutris, you make gaming easy.)
Even for tools where Windows is essentially mandatory (music production), the situation is such that I now would rather run old software on an old version of Windows as a dedicated DAW machine than to subject myself to new Windows.
Anyway, great job Microsoft, you converted a customer into someone who will take time out of their day to bad-mouth you on the internet.
All that could have been avoided by just not behaving like an asshole.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#325Is there a version of Windows that lets you pay your way out of this bullshit? I may need a Windows machine for work next year and this shit is terrifying. I haven't touched Windows since around 2006 so I'm not familiar with their offerings. They used to have a consumer and a professional edition of Windows in the olden days with the latter being far less annoying.
Don't bother with cleaning script, they can fuck things up, and the benefit is questionable, as it's a whack-a-mole basically. Windows 11 is not a hard requirement, and I don't think it will be in the coming few years, so I went with Windows 10 LTSC. Lots of useless crap is cut from it, so no Cortana, no Store, no Edge even, and no feature updates. There are security updates however! So it's a nice, stable, useful edition, with no downsides for gaming.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't use a Mac because they're overpriced. The new CPUs are interesting but the rest of it can go do one.
One thing to consider is resale value. When I tried reselling old Windows laptops like a Surface or XPS, the value dropped off a cliff from the MSRP. I would spend $2000 on a laptop and then it was selling for $700 used on ebay a year later. With MacBooks (and other Apple products) you can often recoup 70%-80% of your initial cost as long as it's in good condition.
I don't tend to upgrade machines all that often. My current laptop is two years old that I maxed out with 128GB RAM and oodles of storage so I won't need to consider upgrading for at least 5 more years at least.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#327What a pile of shit Windows has become. The user hostility was present from day 1, but they really visibly ramp it up over the years.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it do ask you whether you want to change the setting, except the default is nuking all your settings. And something even more annoying is: That pops up in the OOBE of every major update. If you accidentally click "yes", your settings fxxks up. Come on, I already click "no" last time, you shouldn't even ask me again about this.
My favorite part about this "helpful" prompt is that "no" is tiny text at the corner of the screen, and the yes-please-change-all-my-defaults button is a giant "ok". This kind of behavior should be illegal, IMO.
It's not going to be illegal anytime soon, but in the meantime, you can punish them by moving to Mac, or Chromebook. I did that after an update that went too far
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#329Last week I allowed it to "upgrade" to Win 11 22H2. Part of the upgrade involved silently resetting a heap of my default apps. When the upgrade was done, Firefox was no longer my default browser, it was changed to Edge. Also, the default apps for PDF, JPG, PNG, TXT, MKV, and probably others that I haven't yet discovered, were set to their MS equivalent apps. Microsoft, this was not a nice thing to do to a user.
I wish antitrust enforcement focused on this stuff again. Remember when MS merely including a web browser at all was brought into question?
In 2013 they were fined $731m by the EU for, as the BBC put it, failing to promote a range of web browsers. They blamed a 'technical error' then too.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate? I never had a Mac device before this year, but it can do all the document processing (M$ Office) I need for work/school, almost all audio-related stuff (DAWs and VSTs), and video/photo (ugh I know but Adobe) that I need it to, even though its a brand new chip architecture. It can't do games but I have a M$ desktop just for that and for some rendering stuff
Windows advertising features were bugging me, so I tried to install MacOS on my computer, but Apple told me that I would have to purchase different hardware from them directly if I wanted to run their software. Seems like MacOS does not run on hardware that is not sold by Apple.