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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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

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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…

There's that Microsoft UX we know and love!

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

#232

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…

Take it down before Windows is ruined for everyone! Show not the devil's commands! All hail our Lord and Savior, constant surveillance without consent!

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

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> 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 w…

This is quite a stretch of mental gymnastics from the initial point, drawing a blatantly false equivalency between the consumer and the producer as an at attempt to derail and minimize the latter's direct contribution to the forced unethical consumption. And it's an especially absurd argument since it's impossible to ethically consume or even survive with such owners of the means of production.

And this whole falsely applied narrative is unironically a very frequent laundering tactic of their proponents.

And btw I don't even think most are really willing to accept the accusations of the American companies, as they've been told for centuries that these are the good guys.

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

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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/

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

I've come to the conclusion that anyone trying to use a spreadsheet in a way that requires excel, probably shouldn't.

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

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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/

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

There are users (me included) that state the opposite, LibreCalc is better for my needs (complex formulas table driven) and that Excel is a toy for more “scientific” calculations.

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

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Aren't they're used for slightly different things though? GIMP for image manipulation and Krita for digital drawing? (Krita is pretty awesome though, it's up there with Blender for me)

What do you want to do in GIMP that Krita can't do with a better UI?

Skew transform and other transforms.

GIMP also has an excellent print interface. Krita doesn't have one at all.

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

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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/

Another great media player for those who prefer minimalist UI: https://mpv.io/ . Includes yt-dlp integration and a much nicer terminal interface.

I like the CLI / scriptability of MPV so much better than VLC. Absolutely fantastic.

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

#238

This is probably youtuber drama about some random youtube algorithm led takedown and likely nothing to do with Microsoft or the actual content of the video that got taken down

it literally is this. Nothing to do with Microsoft, it's youtube relying on AI to take down videos now

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

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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…

I think he means he likes his .exe's, I too like a good exe or msi.

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

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post #231

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…

There's that Microsoft UX we know and love!

People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.
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