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

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Post by saghm » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:30 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #323

saghm wrote: post #307

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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…

Videos get higher rankings in Google's search. Remember those? Definitely says something about your age though complaining about video versions of anything. Kids today don't even know what Google's search page looks like. They search in YouTube, TikTok type apps first. Since the location bar has also become the search bar while theGoogs pays browsers to be the default search, lots of people are not even aware they ar…

Your argument basically boils down to "kids don't know any better than to use something else than what's pushed on them by the tech conglomerates or be aware that screenshots are a thing". I'm not claiming that there can't possibly be a reason that videos might work better for some people, but I don't think you've made a particularly strong case that you understand their mindset rather than judging them under the guise of claiming that I was the one doing that.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:33 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #316

antegamisou wrote: post #233

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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…

You've done the thing where you've basically restated my argument and implicitly agreed with it but for some reason also framed your comment as strident disagreement and accused me of motives I don't have. Like many people here, your emotions seem to have poisoned your intellect. I assume you just skimmed my comment and got triggered? I'm not drawing an equivalency between consumer and producer, I'm pointing out a re…

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

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Post by lelanthran » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:35 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…

What is the singular goal of doing all that? Avoid online-only accounts?

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

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Post by ycombinete » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:37 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #323

saghm wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Videos get higher rankings in Google's search. Remember those? Definitely says something about your age though complaining about video versions of anything. Kids today don't even know what Google's search page looks like. They search in YouTube, TikTok type apps first. Since the location bar has also become the search bar while theGoogs pays browsers to be the default search, lots of people are not even aware they ar…

This was a good comment until it suddenly became bizarrely insulting in the last paragraph.

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

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Post by Brett_Riverboat » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #307

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…

My guess is some of the better videos will post the text in the description and some folks are very visual and need to be able to reference an image or video.

But that aside I appreciate the compliment (or at least I'm going to take it as a compliment).

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

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Post by AstroBen » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:42 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.

Steamdeck is doing very good things for linux gaming

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

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Post by ryandrake » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #307

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…

It's telling that most of the responses to this question center around why the YouTube video creator would want to make a video instead of a simple text description, not what the OP asked: why the user would want to intake the information by way of video.

Says a lot about what is broken, incentive-wise, about the modern Internet.

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

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Post by dylan604 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #341

dylan604 wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Videos get higher rankings in Google's search. Remember those? Definitely says something about your age though complaining about video versions of anything. Kids today don't even know what Google's search page looks like. They search in YouTube, TikTok type apps first. Since the location bar has also become the search bar while theGoogs pays browsers to be the default search, lots of people are not even aware they ar…

Your argument basically boils down to "kids don't know any better than to use something else than what's pushed on them by the tech conglomerates or be aware that screenshots are a thing". I'm not claiming that there can't possibly be a reason that videos might work better for some people, but I don't think you've made a particularly strong case that you understand their mindset rather than judging them under the gui…

No, you're old man yells at clouds with the entire comment. Someone likes something you don't prefer, and want to share that with the internet. That's great, but you have to know that someone will call you out on it.

Some people like blue, some people like red. Some people like audiobooks, some prefer reading actual books. Some people like to go to movie theaters, some prefer to wait for the movie to watch at home. Some people like cilantro.

The internet is a big place. There's room for multiple ways of skinning the cat without preventing any of the other ways.

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

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Post by dylan604 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:46 PM UTC

moate wrote: post #327

duxup wrote: post #320

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Youtube creators want to cover this, youtube is their chosen path, so video it is. Not so much about the best way to communicate as much as the creators see it as their best option, for them. I've seen a lot of tutorials that really just seem to be infotainment / social media news. Often forgetting critical steps and describing why you do a thing incorrectly. It's frustrating.

Exactly this. If I have 100,000 followers on YT for my software related content, why wouldn't I use that platform to post my content? Some people are also visual more visual learners and while straight text is helpful, having a trusted source going screen by screen/prompt by prompt and comparing to their machine is helpful. So it's both content and communication preferences. HN is a self-selecting group of a certain…

Just yesterday there was a post to one of Geerling's pages where he posts the transcript to a video he's made. He could have just made a text blog and not spent the extra effort of making a video, but that's not what he does. Instead, he went the extra step to make the content available in text only. He could have just as easily left it as video only. (yes yes, creating a text only transcript of video in today's world is trivial, but an extra step nonetheless as it still needs to be added to his CMS to make the webpage)

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

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Post by dylan604 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC

ratelimitsteve wrote: post #338

saghm wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

it's easier to monetize a video, and if this information is going to have value and be presented for free there has to be someone giving someone money somewhere.

Suggesting someone can make money off of their efforts that doesn't cost the viewer/reader anything directly is one thing, but to suggest nobody anywhere ever posts anything to the internet without the expectation of monetizing it is just totally ignoring how the internet was started.