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

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Post by mikkupikku »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #252
esbeeb wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're not supposed to do this, this is to get around a restriction on installing Windows 11 on certain hardware. If your computer is supported and you install it the way Microsoft wants you to, then you won't be typing any commands anywhere.

> You're not supposed to do this,

Clearly. You're not supposed to own your computer, you're supposed to be a docile loyal rentoid.

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

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Post by mapcars »

lousken wrote: post #84
haritha-j wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VLC is a GREAT media player

Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4

What exactly is the new stuff?

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

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Post by AlexandrB »

haritha-j wrote: post #69
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/

VLC is a GREAT media player

VLC always had the ugliest UI of the open source media players. It also renders subtitles in a really ugly way (at least the last time I used it, which is years ago).

I really appreciate VLC for how it can play just about anything, but it's a "player of last resort" for me.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #246
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…

To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff. I can see why google would be concerned about malicious versions of these videos being posted, and being difficult to differentiate quickly from ones with the legitimate instructions. Or if those malicious videos were posted and reported, then I can see why a…

>To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff

Are you just playing devils advocate or do you actually believe this?

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

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Post by MangoToupe »

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...

Obviously missing things:

1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI.

The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.

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

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Post by vintermann »

sd9 wrote: post #242
vintermann wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having once worked with maintaining an ancient 3rd party windows desktop app, I'm surprised you don't have problems with them on recent windows. I guarantee you the developers do. They must be truly heroic maintainers if none of those frustrations bleed through to you. A time will come when the easiest way to run these beasts is in a docker container running wine, and I don't think it will be long.

Plenty of frustrations pass along to me, but I am sure that the developers maintaining the software are also putting in a massive shift to make it all keep working. These companies are often quite small, or small underfunded teams within larger organisations, and I believe that they are doing a fantastic job working with what they have. New features are few and far between, but that doesn't mean that they're not doin…

You don't have to tell me, I've been there :) I still think Linux-based containerization is the way to go for these apps in the future.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

esbeeb wrote: post #240
xd1936 wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do people complain about that? Like, life long windows/mac users who aren't interested in linux I guess? I always thought people loved being able to do everything from the command line.

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

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Post by ksherlock »

101008 wrote: post #142

They have been taking down a lot of YouTube videos with Bob Dylan botlegs in the recent days, so maybe the platform is becoming more restrictive with everything, not just Windows 11 installs

The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 will be released on Friday. If it's material in that timeframe, it's probably a Sony/Columbia DMCA issue or from google music file matching songs that are (soon to be) officially released.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

zparky wrote: post #275
larrik wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird, I used to play LoL on linux all the time a few years back. I assume something changed

yeah they introduced vanguard anticheat on all riot games which isn't supported on linux.

Woah so Riot broke League on Linux? I guess they probably did the math but that seems like a bold move.

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

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Post by jpalawaga »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #246
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…

To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff. I can see why google would be concerned about malicious versions of these videos being posted, and being difficult to differentiate quickly from ones with the legitimate instructions. Or if those malicious videos were posted and reported, then I can see why a…

So you'd advocate for github to remove any install script that users wget + curl, and any documentation references that instruct users to wget + curl? That's much worse than a handful of limited commands in which you're modifying your own user account.
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