90% of software does run on Linux, but if the software you really care about/need for your job/need for your hobby doesn't, then it might as well be 0%. You are going to use Windows then.
We need a Linux Subsystem for Windows
if only WSL existed ...
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
#362Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#363The 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/
Just my 2 cents: I recently switch from GIMP to Krita, also very good and I find it more intuitive. And VLC is a superb media player, I use it on all platforms for like 10 years, nothing even compares to it.
VLC doesn't have gapless playback sadly.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#364This is actually a good thing. Competitive Windows is a thing and these people are ruining it for the rest of us.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#365Earlier 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…
>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?
I believe you can convince people to hit Alt+F4 for the cheat menu in a video game and they will do it. Actually I think I told people that is how to votekick someone in BF1942 when they are being a dick (me). I believe you can tell people to delete system32 and they will do it. I believe you can tell people to do more damaging things and they will. I still think people should be able to say and do those things.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#366For 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…
A few typos were brought to my attention in my previous comment and as the time frame to edit it has passed I am replying with the required edits so that if anyone does want to attempt this they don't have to wonder what went wrong
I originally had “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” but there should have been no space before "net" and I should have put a space before the "/" after prefferedusername.
so the corrected instructions are below. (hopefully without typos this time)
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 user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.
Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.
Next type "regedit" and press enter.
This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"
Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"
Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".
Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#367Earlier 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.
I learned bash and then needed to use powershell once later down the road; that was.. that was bad.
Not bad for me, was actually great for me because now I just main Linux; but powershell, while I get it... don't do that to people.
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't fall for the whataboutism trap.
neither my answer nor ops point is whataboutism. they bring up a valid point: libreoffice is (in their opinion) harder to use and probably lower quality, so reports are harder to write and taking away time from more important things. in my opinion libre office is absolutely good enough for this use case and thus not taking away significant time from other tasks. furthermore, the austrian armed forces are free to cont…
My point was rather that officers should have better things to do than feed the bureaucracy with reports no one will ever read, and so the harder you make it to write reports, the less likely they will do more of them!
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#369For 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…
I think non-technical people, who may have literally never seen a commandline, like seeing someone walk through it (and probably explain context along the way). Helps ensure them they are doing the correct things.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#370Earlier 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…
I think non-technical people, who may have literally never seen a commandline, like seeing someone walk through it (and probably explain context along the way). Helps ensure them they are doing the correct things.
I've seen probably too many terminals, but a video that actually demonstrates things (when to press the keys, for how long, what's the expected response from the installer, and so on, and so on) seems super helpful and easy to follow! (Even if it's worse in many regards, like terseness, accessibility for blind people, and so on.)