I bought a piece of software called StartIsBack that makes windows 11 feel a lot closer to windows 7 with some features and look and feel. $5!
Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#292Microsoft actually makes the version of Windows that people want, but it’s called LTSC and they really don’t want you to have it. No bloat, no ads, no forced or feature updates, optional security patches only, virtually nothing installed by default, and minimal telemetry.
Do modern GPU drivers install okay on LTSC? Would it be suitable for CUDA/PyTorch etc with NVidia graphics?
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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I'm coming off of an entire weekend spent trying to get acceptable latency for audio recording in Linux. Just a midi controller to play a simple 3x oscillator VST with better than 250ms latency was my test case. I tried different versions of Ubuntu, Debian, different kernels, different window managers, different graphics drivers, stripping things out of the system etc. After going down the rabbit hole, I finally ripp…
Did you happen to try Arch? I only ask because I too had audio issues with Ubuntu LTS and Debian (both stable and unstable in hopes to get newer packages) in the past. I never got past the problems I had so I reverted back to Windows but if I go down that rabbit hole again I'd likely try Arch just to see what happens.
This is whats stupid about linux. Every time someone raises a specific issue , someone invariably suggests X or Y distro, which may fix that one thing, but break other 5. It seems I'd need to n install 5 different distros in my Dell Latitude to have Bluetooth, Sleep, Webcam, hibernation and fingerprint all working correctly. And somehow use one or the other depending of what breakage can I stand at the time.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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Why run Windows at that point? I'm a hybrid person. I run Linux for my work and dev OS and Windows for gaming and day to day shenanigans. If you're just going to strip Windows down to this weird broken minimal thing tho why not just use Linux full time and get a PS5/Xbox for the AAA games you can't run under Linux. I dont really get the point of the effort people go through trying to make Microsoft products something…
Adobe Suite, Office, hardware specific software like those for controlling RGB lighting, Visual Studio, et. al
what's up with the rumor that adobe doesn't install on ltsc?
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#295IMO I think with the changing dynamics of how people use their computers (most things now are web based whereas before it was always an app you installed on your computer) coupled with the maturity of the Linux desktop, most regular people could probably get away with using Linux these days. Still the biggest barrier to Linux adoption is just getting it setup on your machine.
Yes. I speak as a layperson who wants to. The landmine of UEFI/BIOS, TPM, partitions, etc, and knowing I absolutely cannot fuck anything up. Those are huge hurdles for someone whose job is outside of computing and just needs a few things to just work.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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Why run Windows at that point? I'm a hybrid person. I run Linux for my work and dev OS and Windows for gaming and day to day shenanigans. If you're just going to strip Windows down to this weird broken minimal thing tho why not just use Linux full time and get a PS5/Xbox for the AAA games you can't run under Linux. I dont really get the point of the effort people go through trying to make Microsoft products something…
> why not just use Linux full time and get a PS5/Xbox for the AAA games you can't run under Linux A PC with Windows 10 LTSC beats PS5/Xbox in terms in game availability and backwards compatibility. It also unsurprisingly still beats Linux + Proton in terms of compability. It is still Windows after all. Console gaming is not comparable to PC gaming at this point. Using LTSC over regular W10 affords you a more stable s…
I paid $350 for my Xbox Series X. I then spent another $120 for 1.5 years of Game Pass Ultimate (there’s an arbitrage method to convert an existing Game Pass Core sub).
For a casual gamer, like myself, I don’t see a point in spending $1500+ on a PC for diminishing returns in performance and game compatibility. It’s also common for new AAA PC releases to be much worse than their console counterparts.
I can cheaply buy used physical games and still have access the vast majority of the Xbox back catalog. 100% of the Xbox One library, 600+ Xbox 360 games, and 90+ Xbox games.
The official Xbox Live servers for these older games are still up and maintained. It’s seamless for my non-technical friends and I to get into a COD MW2 lobby. On PC there are only community servers, and the cheaters are way more common.
I’m not trying to discourage people from PC gaming (I use my Steamdeck quite a bit too).
I think the trade offs only make sense if you spend a significant amount of time gaming, or can get more value out of the PC by using it for productivity.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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To clarify, those security updates are only partial: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-secu...
Yes, critical security updates only. Alternatively, you can do what many “antique Mac” users do and use OpenCore Legacy Patcher. https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
Yes, OpenCore Legacy Patcher is great! No thanks to Apple.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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Why are people so obsessed with gaming? It's unbelievable how this industry has gotten so many people hooked, to the point of accepting kernel level monitoring
I solved it by just running a console. People look down on me for it, but the way I see it: my computing experience is not keeping me prisoner; and I value my time too much to dig about certain issues, you're guaranteed to suffer the "my FPS isn't so good I will investigate" or "this game doesn't run so I will investigate" situations. Cheats are less common too, so there's less incentive for kernel anti-cheat, and if…
Yup, after I switched to a console - I was finally able to just play games with my friends and not waste mental energy on fiddling with settings.
I don’t have to worry about downloading a game launcher riddled with telemetry or wait 6 months after launch for a PC port to reach a playable state.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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No, but I've had at least ten counts of apt gimping itself somehow during an update. Who here isn't intimately familiar with > Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock
I've had over ten of each.
Cancel meetings - updates then can't bork your system just before them.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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I dunno, installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever. Pre-installed Linux laptops is great - and is clearly the way to get someone less techy on-the-way . But, for most, if they're sick of Windows and they want to move (dual boot their machine) then god help them. Linux is much better than it was, for…
> I dunno, installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever. I have to wonder what hardware and distros you're using, as the most dominant vendors (Intel, Realtek) work out of the box on the major distros. Or are you recalling experiences from 15 years ago with ndiswrapper and older Broadcom devices still?…
Things broken in Debian 12 Linux with the Framework 13 AMD laptop:
amdgpu
i2c
bluetooth autosuspend
wifi connectivity issues
resume after suspend sometimes crashing
usbc-pd sometimes not charging
There are so many warnings in journalctl / dmesg, since getting the laptop one month ago, I'm nonstop searching for solutions.
The only reason I'm doing this is to learn the inner workings of the current state of how things are done in Linux.