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

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Post by codeulike »

jajuuka wrote: post #273

Considering I can find plenty of nonstandard Windows 11 install guides on youtube I don't think this guys video was taken down for that reason. Most likely hit with automated moderating and he probably said "kill" in the video while giving instructions. That could trigger the violence filter and now he gets tons of more views from idiots thinking Microsoft and Google are working together to protect Win11 from a suppo…

Exactly, such a lot of pearl-clutching going on in this HN thread, its just a random algorithm-led youtube takedown

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Post by jpalawaga »

One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case.

"You don't need windows for gaming, 90% of games work on linux!" -- except the 10% that DON'T are all of the new, massive titles that people want to play. It's like saying "90% of the gears in the car work fine, just not 1st gear".

"There are 0 driver problems" -- obviously not true as some hardware only ships with windows hardware. Yes it's true your new network card or mouse won't have issues, but a lot of hardware simply doesn't have support, and a lot might be supported if you spend enough time fanagling.

"it's just as easy use as windows or mac" -- until you need to change one of many settings that hasn't been included in a control panel, because linux users have been more than happy to drop to config files and cli usages to tweak things (i.e. lots of stuff left out of system GUIs)

I don't know why people do this. Especially in communities that are technical (and thus tend to be "technically correct" about things), why people essentially lying (by omission, if nothing else) about Linux?

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Post by nonethewiser »

mschuster91 wrote: post #15
breve wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy extended security updates for Windows 10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended...

In Europe it's free although you have to log in with a Microsoft account for... reasons.

to prove you're from Europe probably - right?

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

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

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/

MPV is a better recommendation than VLC and Although I am a huge open source fan, saying gimp is a good image editor is questionable though.

I have always preferred pinta for normal usage editing and although this might be shunned but idrc, but sometimes photopea can be also good software.

Regarding desktop environmnents, Just try anything you find interesting, KDE,XFCE,Cinnamon etc., you would be shocked by how snappy/minimalist somethings like XFCE are.

Personally I am on hyprland in cachy os.

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Post by delfinom »

aquir wrote: post #10

The best time to buy a MacBook Air (or Pro) or a Mac mini! Much less BS and you take it out of the box and use it within 5 minutes.

I use all three platforms regrettably.

I would rather be subjected to fingernail torture than deal with the productivity implosion that is using macOS. It isn't meant for users who do more than stare at webpages. And the workaround apps to give it more productivity such as actually useful taskbars are buggy as hell fighting Apple's trash.

Linux or Windows or bust.

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

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

notyourwork wrote: post #293
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Google is here to protect Microsoft OS users? Where do we draw the line on what Google (owner of Youtube) is responsible for.

I'm guessing that they take down videos that give you instructions that install malicious scripts etc, if they're reported. I don't know for sure, but that seems likely to be against their rules. And I'd guess that most of those would target Windows. Obviously they're not responsible for it, but I'm guessing they don't allow it and would remove it if it's reported.

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

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Post by saghm »

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…

I guess I'm old and out of touch after only a bit over three decades, because I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here. I could see screenshots maybe being slightly helpful, but to having this sort of thing as a video feels like an extreme inconvenience; I'd much rather see all of it at once and be able to visually scan (or even better, ctrl+f) to find specific parts over having to scrub around if I wanted to go back to a previous part or skip ahead. My eyes also don't require any sort of manual timing to pause on something I want to copy.

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Post by npteljes »

I wonder if they supported piracy as well in those videos, or something breaking their EULA or something. People always come out swinging, fuck corpos, etc, but oftentimes there is something shady going on as well, either consciously, or unconsciously.

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

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Post by antiloper »

itsn0tm3 wrote: post #64
chongli wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

How about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :) [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper

Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.

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

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Post by antiloper »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #184
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 good media player VLC is a broken mess and has always been a broken mess.

I've never had a VLC problem in decades of using it.
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