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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by LogicHound »

vintermann wrote: post #176
LogicHound wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big budget games are often the ones that people are playing. Sure there have been a few big flops as of late, but a huge number of people are playing that require kernel level anti-cheat and DRM that does not work on Linux. There are also other issues around how well those games work. Some games will work perfectly fine. I am not disputing that. It is a bit of a lottery though e.g. I had annoying sound issues wit…

The publishers almost certainly prefer that you play these "AAA" titles on console, but if you insist, they'll settle for making your Windows as console-like as possible. I live fine without a console, so I live fine without a Windows gaming PC too. I don't think the AAA chasers have more fun than me when it comes down to it, dealing with these companies seems to be an aggravating affair even if you do everything the…

It isn't that much of an issue gaming on Windows. Yes, I had to do a one time workaround for a local account and run a de-crapifier. But it wasn't that difficult. If it becomes too difficult I will probably drop Windows entirely.

I run into more problems with Linux than I do typically with Windows. I've been using Linux on and off since 2002. I don't particularly mind it, but I also don't pretend it is for everyone.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by IT4MD »

breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by elric »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Outlook is what is keeping me away from Linux Desktop.

Can you briefly explain what it is that you like about Outlook? I've had to use it at corporate clients, and I really detest it. The interface seems to suffer from that same ribbon-nonsense that Word suffers from. Its search is poor and slow. It offers very few display customization options. The calendar in particular is horrendous, I can't even seem to select a time block by clicking/dragging the way I've been able to do in Thunderbird for (probably) 2 decades.

Or maybe you're talking about needing Exchange integration? I don't know what the state of that is on Linux these days.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by theshrike79 »

jncfhnb wrote: post #159
theshrike79 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an old anecdote that everyone uses only 10% of Excel's features ...but everyone uses a different 10%. Something that's useless to you might be a dealbreaker to someone else.

I doubt that holds up personally I would guess reliance on excel is declining

If the general public knew how big decisions are done based on some ancient Excel sheet they'd faint.

It's in the sweet spot of "already installed" and "kinda-sorta database" and "kinda-sorta programming environment" where industrious people can build massive tooling over the years on top of an Excel sheet.

Yes, it could be an Actual Application, but then Legal gets involved (where is the data stored, what's the contract with the supplier), then you need to talk to Finance (Who's paying for this? Justify the cost!), IT (Managing the installations and licenses) and Security (Is the provider following good practices, is the application audited).

...then you decide "fuck that" and just use Excel, it's good enough.

Anecdote:

A programmer friend got promoted a few steps upward quickly and got into the "provide us with reports" level of employment. Their predecessor (a career manager) had spent multiple days each month manually doing the reports.

But a programmer's mind isn't built like that so they used the fact that Excel can pull stuff from HTTP APIs and now the report takes about 15 minutes to build automatically.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by pessimizer »

naikrovek wrote: post #78
a5c11 wrote: post #48

It's funny to see how Windows and Linux completely switched sides. Linux once being the clumsy one, hard to install, even harder to configure, mediocre UX, running on poor device drivers and requiring hours spent on the internet to solve a problem. Today, replace the "Linux" word with "Windows" in the previous sentence.

they have definitely not completely switched sides. Linux is still clumsy and hard to configure if everything isn't configured for you. Linux has worse UX than Windows has ever had (I'm including windows 8 in that comparison) Really liking Linux doesn't make Windows worse, and it doesn't make Linux better. Watch someone who is not familiar with Linux and how it works attempt to install it and use it. Do not intervene…

> Watch someone who is not familiar with Linux and how it works attempt to install it and use it. Do not intervene. Now do that with a dozen different people on a dozen different machines which you do not preselect.

Have you done this, or is this just a science fiction story? Have you watched a dozen people install Windows on a dozen different machines?

The reason people sorta know Windows is because they've already used it, not because it is good. And if you don't give them something straightforward like MATE or Cinnamon as a Linux desktop, you might as well compare it to new Vista users, not Win11 users.

You don't have to convince me that Gnome is bad. But everything else now pretty much follows the WinXP paradigm that we're all used to.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by Brett_Riverboat »

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10

CMD will open

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.

Next type "regedit" and press enter.

This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"

Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"

Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".

Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"

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Post by RobotToaster »

wiseowise wrote: post #63
yehat wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there're no russian developers almost everywhere?

There's a difference between having Russian devs and being made by a Russian company that supports war. OnlyOffice is made by a Russian company that doesn't condemn war of aggression that Russia wages against Ukraine. https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j7zlf2/onlyoffi...

Did you boycott all the American companies that didn't condemn the war of aggression against Iraq?

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Post by lelanthran »

AlienRobot wrote: post #192
lelanthran wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What do you want to do in GIMP that Krita can't do with a better UI? Adjust levels in photos.

Do you mean with the levels filter that Krita has, with the curves filter that Krita has, with the color balance filer that Krita has, with the slope, offset, power filter that Krita has, or with the hue/saturation/luma or red chroma/blue chroma/luma adjustment filter that Krita has?[1] They are all available as non-destructive filter layers, by the way, and Krita users had access to this way before GIMP 3.0 was rele…

> Do you mean with the levels filter that Krita has, with the curves filter that Krita has, with the color balance filer that Krita has, with the slope, offset, power filter that Krita has, or with the hue/saturation/luma or red chroma/blue chroma/luma adjustment filter that Krita has?

Honestly, I did not know that these existed in Krita (when I used Krita, I did not find them).

However, I still stubbornly maintain that I answered the question sufficiently, which used the qualifier "with a better UI".

Taking a leaf out of my wife's book "Even when I'm wrong, I'm right!* :-)

(Yeah yeah, I know I was wrong)

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Post by hamandcheese »

AlienRobot wrote: post #182
a5c11 wrote: post #48

It's funny to see how Windows and Linux completely switched sides. Linux once being the clumsy one, hard to install, even harder to configure, mediocre UX, running on poor device drivers and requiring hours spent on the internet to solve a problem. Today, replace the "Linux" word with "Windows" in the previous sentence.

To me it's sad that Linux never became a good desktop OS, Windows just became worse and worse until it became worse than Linux :( When I upgraded to 7 I tried Linux and I simply hated that I had to deal with the terminal and install strange third-party programs from strange forums to get anything working. Then I had to upgrade to 11 and I had to run strange terminal programs to install it without without creating a M…

> When I upgraded to 7 I tried Linux

Most Linux distros have come a long way in the last decade and a half. Windows is worse, yes, but Linux is also better.

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

Tor3 wrote: post #106
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Japanese Windows software mostly don't run, or does it badly, with Wine on Linux. Unfortunately. I've been a full-time Linux user since 1992 and this frustrates me. Some of the software won't even pass the install stage. I'm forced to run this on wife's Windows 10 PC, which has its own set of nightmarish problems. Japanese software houses develop for one target: Windows. As a rule. They don't really know about anythi…

Sorry, but could you list any program I'm never thought about japanese software and since I'm interested on japanese culture, I'd would like to know which kind of programs they are
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