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Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by hnlmorg »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #100
hnlmorg wrote: post #87

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It’s been a while since I’ve played with Cygwin and I do recall there were a lot of stuff compiled for Windows, but couldn’t it also run Linux software run natively too? Admittedly back then I was working for a place that mainly developed in Perl, so I didn’t port a whole lot of ELFs across. So maybe I’m misremembering

I had to confirm this, but you are misremembering. https://www.sobyte.net/post/2021-11/cygwin-mingw-msys/ gives a good rundown.

Ahhh. It must just have been shell scripts, Perl and the likes that I ran under cygwin then.

Thanks for correction

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Post by MarcusE1W »

devilbunny wrote: post #91
999900000999 wrote: post #47

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Debian based distros lag in hardware support. KDE is heavy, but that's the magic of Linux. It's to you to figure out your perfect combination. I'd argue that if you don't care how computers work, buy a Mac. If you actually enjoy the process Linux is great.

The Mac is so much simpler. I just want a big screen iMac again. 27” with Apple silicon and no more of this inability to be used as a big dumb monitor when it’s ancient and slow.

I think for users who don't want to learn about their computer and just use it a (new or used) Mac is the best option if you want cover many use cases.

Linux on Desktop is especially great for used Laptops. In that case the Linux community had a bit of time to adjust to the hardware.

Laptop also offer a well defined hardware environment where you know exactly what's inside.

Once you additional devices the range of hardware that needs to be supported is so much wider and so is the risk that something does not work.

However, especially for more casual users to just use your Laptop and not connect anything ever is in my opinion a quite common use case. There you can optimise to support some Laptops really well. And that is where Linux can shine.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by guilamu »

mamonoleechi wrote: post #22
guilamu wrote: post #17

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The new 'good' (more like less worst) version of Windows is Windows 11 iot ltsc. It's as clean as windows 11 gets ( https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links#differences-between... ). Still, I've been using computers for 30 years and I'm starting to feel the itch to look for Linux alternatives and I'm pretty old. Change does do not comes easily to old people. This is bad for ms.

If you want to switch to linux but not feeling overwhelmed at first, you can stay on windows and work with something like Virtualbox running your linux distribution of choice alongside. You keep on testing/experimenting daily, slowly getting the hang of it one software at a time. And once you found how to do everything you have to on linux, you're just ready to switch.

Thanks for your insight, I might go and try something like that.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by p_ing »

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #3

I'm honestly still shocked there isn't some kind of lawsuit or federal investigation on how Microsoft is able to get away with dropping support for CPUs that are only a few years old. Thus forcing unknown millions of people worldwide to upgrade an ENTIRE CPU and Motherboard just for the next version of Windows. What are we supposed to do with all that e-waste?! People who spent thousands on a 32 core threadripper fro…

Those older CPUs don't support Virtualization-based Security[0] which is a significant upgrade in the Windows security posture.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by p_ing »

AndrewDavis wrote: post #61
wtallis wrote: post #30

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> answered complaints about Windows being bad for development by embedding an OS that is good for development and calling that an innovation Well, they actually did it twice in recent history: WSL 1 was relatively innovative, integrating Linux application compatibility into the Windows operating system itself. But that turned out to still be bad for development because it meant Linux software was now subjected to the…

> WSL 1 was relatively innovative, integrating Linux application compatibility into the Windows operating system itself Both FreeBSD and Illumos were running Linux applications (at various levels of compatibility) many years prior to wsl v1. Joyent even went as far as re-implementing the Docker api to allow running OCI images natively in LX zones. Hence, it wasn't even that novel of an idea.

NT running POSIX applications pre-dates the existence of FreeBSD by a handful of months.

The interesting thing about WSLv1 is the pico process concept, not the syscall compatibility.

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Post by immibis »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #110
dangus wrote: post #107

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This begs the question of why Microsoft doesn’t just transition Windows to being a commercial Linux distribution, especially now that Windows licenses are so much less important to Microsoft’s business than they used to be.

That'd be a lot of work for no gain and substantial loss of control (due to GPL). How are they going to force adverts onto people if it becomes easy to just run a script to remove them?

Android is technically Linux, but you still can't remove the ads because it's all very locked down.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by immibis »

sneak wrote: post #93
picafrost wrote: post #20

There is something so fundamentally gross about Microsoft's vision of what role an operating system should serve. That there is an aftermarket of software that attempts to disable (but cannot remove!) the invasive dark patterns is alarming enough, but Microsoft may simply just... undo that, with the next unstoppable update. Then again, this is the company that answered complaints about Windows being bad for developme…

…except for the inconvenient fact that Windows is the most developed-for (and thus developed-on) desktop OS in the world. Linux is catching up (mostly in gaming) but nothing comes close to the amount of engineer-hours poured into building Windows desktop apps.

It's interesting you have to hedge it with "desktop" OS and the reason that's interesting is that desktops are mostly irrelevant.

Microsoft has their niche, which is offices. This used to be the main application of computers, but now it is just a very large niche.

The overwhelming majority of computer interactions are Android clients talking to Linux servers.

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Post by immibis »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #88
microtonal wrote: post #36

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Also, this is also the case with ad-disabling subscriptions, the people who have the disposable income to buy non-ad versions are the most interesting to a lot of advertisers.

While I agree, when was the last time you bought something because you saw it advertised in Windows?

Most people think ads don't make them buy things, but they still do. It's just not as direct as seeing the ad so you click on the ad and buy the thing. (Sometimes it's that direct and advertisers love it, but not usually)

You're thirsty. Do you want a Coke or an Africola? Coke obviously - what the heck is Africola? Why do you want a Coke? Because you saw the Coke logo everywhere since birth.

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Post by blibble »

WithinReason wrote: post #60
xandrius wrote: post #52

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Already exists, just not to the normies. IoT LTSC. Works like a charm and no bloat.

It will also miss feature upgrades and so can be slower than the main distribution. It's probably fine if you don't play games.

no-one wants "feature upgrades"

windows was feature complete with Windows 2000

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Post by gausswho »

everdrive wrote: post #119
suby wrote: post #101

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I don't think the notion is always true of something being pushed on you automatically being bad for you. I agree that Windows is very user hostile, but something like mandatory updates where you cannot defer forever are good for less technical folks who, prior to this policy, were never updating and we had huge problems with botnets and malware running on people's machines. In a way it is like herd immunity where yo…

> I agree that Windows is very user hostile, but something like mandatory updates where you cannot defer forever are good for less technical folks Maybe if those were only security updates. Windows pushes new features, new crap, and re-enables and re-installs (!) stuff you've removed via this path as well.

I sometimes wonder what's really in that Candy Crush binary.
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