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

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Post by krapp » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 12:56 PM UTC

antegamisou wrote: post #147

wiseowise wrote: post #117

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* Company is Russian * Doesn't condemn war (understandable in their position) * Has dev team in Russia * Pays taxes to Russia, which directly fuel war * Does not support UAF or donate to Ukraine (also understandable) * Keeps selling their software in Russia, which might have links to military and administration Am I missing something here?

> Am I missing something here? The fact that all of the above is being presented as an exclusively Russian strategy. When almost all companies mentioned on this website are proudly and directly tied to non-Russian war industries. The tendency to omit pointing out non-Russian examples almost always indicates endorsement of their actions. And let me beat you to this that I condemn all offensive war industries no matter…

If you interact with American businesses, use American technology or pay taxes to any Western government, you're indirectly funding genocide, slavery, wanton environmental destruction and countless other crimes by the US, its allies and corporations.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, none of our hands are clean. We all deal with our complicity in various ways, and draw our lines in the sand where we will, but at the end of the day survival in this world forces us all to be hypocrites.

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

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Post by jonbiggums22 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

ivanmontillam wrote: post #79

abcd_f wrote: post #59

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Browsers are the problem. Firefox outright refuses to install on older Windows versions for a couple of years now. Very lazy and negligent move on Mozilla's part.

If you were as resource-constrained as Mozilla is, you'd drop support for unsupported platforms anyway.

According to this they still support windows 7 through extended support channel: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7...

Chrome dropped support two years ago or so.

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

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Post by naikrovek » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

AlienRobot wrote: post #189

naikrovek wrote: post #78

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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…

I wouldn't compare the installation process since most people can't install Windows, but Linux does have an astounding gap in basic usability. Every time I see a gnome app without a menubar I can't help but feel like Linux shoots itself in the foot just because Windows has two feet.

Well, the comment I was replying to cited ease of installation, so I did, too.

> Linux shoots itself in the foot just because Windows has two feet

This is exactly the opinion that everyone who is not accustomed to all of the GNOME nonsense gets after using GNOME. And GNOME fans are far too used to things to even hear that it is imperfect.

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 12:59 PM UTC

elric wrote: post #203

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71

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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…

Two reasons: integration with Exchange and a need for the calendar to be always on (as opposed to email). I need it to inform me of meetings.

The integration to Exchange is key as well, I need to have access to rooms, PSTs etc.

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Post by LauraMedia » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

Ray20 wrote: post #212

egeres wrote: post #200

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Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (battlefield 6, fortnite, any of the call of duty games from the last 8 years, league of legends, GTA online, apex legends, rainbow six siege...)

And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.

I thought the same but let's not pretend Windows is a holy grail for compatibility anymore. Especially when it comes to older games, this facade / image breaks down fast.

I once tried to play Trackmania Nations (not Forever or United Forever, the ESWC one) because that was the first entry of this series I played. I still have all the files from back then so I thought it would be as simple as installing it and running it. Other games such as Trackmania Sunrise came with the nasty SecureROM DRM that will break your current installs, but ESWC was always free to play and without DRM.

Well, after install, I played a lot in my first sitting. A few days later, my Windows install was broken. I used a restore point before installing Trackmania, everything was back to stable. A few weeks later I tried again, same situation, a day or two after install, my Windows would break.

I thought it was a general system instability, maybe some weird configuration and the game only triggers that specific bug. So I did a full clean reinstall. And installed the game a few days later. Who would've thought, my Windows breaks yet again.

What I'm trying to say is: I've been running Fedora on my main PC for 2 years now and the game has been installed via Proton for 1 year. It never broke, it always just worked.

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

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Post by mikkupikku » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

Lendal wrote: post #141

jasode wrote: post #38

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>The solution is to run Linux. The Linux answer is often repeated but unfortunately, some users depend on various Windows software that only runs properly on Windows. E.g. CAD/CAM, Quicken finance, sewing embroidery, etc can't run in a Linux WINE emulator nor QEMU/KVM virtual machine. And avoiding the WINE/KVM incompatibilities by switching to "Linux-native" software such as Gimp often means having less features and/…

Manufacturing and automation is another big one. Think about a water plant that is air-gapped but needs computer automation software to run. These things are everywhere, in every town that has indoor plumbing and sewer. The specialized software that automates these plants only runs on Windows. It relies on industrial hardware and touchscreens that are designed for use in harsh outdoor environments. All of these types…

Most of that stuff is probably still running windows 98 or XP. If it's airgapped, and it works, and it controls a million dollar piece of equipment, then management will tell anybody suggesting it be updated to the newest windows version to stfu.

Also, the extent to which windows is needed to accommodate uneducated operators is overstated. A lot of industrial equipment runs other oddball operating systems configured by the manufacturer and machine operators don't need to know the difference because they just know which buttons to press to get the job done.

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

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Post by huflungdung » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

Brett_Riverboat wrote: post #206

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 use…

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Post by keyringlight » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

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…

I think just saying "installing the OS" is a bit of a trap, that's step one, and important step but then you get to all the different subsets of features and software that they use, including not included in the OS or its repos.

When you're looking at consumer usage of a PC for anything that remotely makes sense to do on that platform I think windows has the advantage of decades of a different software ecosystem. Cumulatively there's a huge broad library of software that linux can't touch, or gets partway there but falls short. For example I can tag music files on linux, but it's painful compared to something like Mp3tag (which has been going for about 17 years). Or if I want fan control on my 9 year old intel platform I need to learn about and add a kernel parameter and manually detect sensors before I get started whereas it's straightforward on software available on windows.

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Post by bsimpson » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

breve wrote: post #75

joduplessis wrote: post #55

I wiped Win11 from my Ideapad and installed Ubuntu. I love Gnome & it's the closest it'll get to MacOS (am a Mac user mainly). Win11 was absolutely wild though - around every corner was some ad for Office365 or Copilot or some other shit product. You don't own Windows (anymore) - you borrow it.

Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...

As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming handheld. I'll do some tweaking, but the ultimate UX has to feel right on this device, not just familiar to what I use elsewhere. Plus, I mostly use Desktop Mode for Chrome, which doesn't really use the menu bar.

But I appreciate the share!

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Post by dspillett » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 1:05 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #160

happymellon wrote: post #150

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> CSV import in Excel sucks I'm going through a project at the moment where all the data is held in spreadsheets, and every time anyone opens them Excel fucks the numbers to be "scientific notation" despite there being space to display the full number and no way to disable this anti-feature. The amount of times I've had to restore the spreadsheet from a backed up CSV because of data loss is frustrating. I wish I coul…

This is just a formatting/display issue. Excel isn't rounding the number internally. It sounds like the problem in this case is that you don't know how to use basic Excel features.

> This is just a formatting/display issue. Excel isn't rounding the number internally.

It isn't rounding or truncating while you are actively using the workbook or saving in its native formats, but it does when saving back out to CSV or certain other formats.

As much as I like Excel for many things, it is sometimes the bane of my existence wrt people using it to manipulate tabular data that isn't in its native formats and causing accidental corruption.

One of the many projects on my list of “things I'll never get around to” is a good⃰ CSV (or other text-based tabular data) editor.

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[*] There are actually quite a few that look good, but don't have some of the features behaviours I want, or in some cases are not available on an appropriate platform (there are a couple of Mac only options for instance), or are paid proprietary apps that are surprisingly expensive (I could justify it and get work to pay in DayJob, but not for my own use).