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Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by spectre3d » Mon, Oct 20, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

spectre3d wrote: post #460

majkinetor wrote: post #459

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AHK can do all that, but you need to program a script, there is no out of the box solution. For example: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=134045

Thank you, good to know AHK is able to do part of what Keyboard Maestro can, it just requires more work and troubleshooting for every script/macro. That example script also doesn’t let you simply drag a marquee selection to choose the image to find, you have to provide a file path to an image that already exists. That’s not There must be a market for something more user friendly, at least on Windows.

> That’s not… an option for the workflow it’s currently being used in. I’ll hunt for more user-generated scripts to modify on that forum. Thanks for your response.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by 0xfeba » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 11:56 AM UTC

tavavex wrote: post #417

vee-kay wrote: post #210

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No ads still on Win10, thankfully. That Win11 is not an OS, it is an advertisement billboard.

Did you forget the dozen or so Start Menu ads for random garbageware they started bundling with Windows 10? They didn't shy away from it either, you got all of that even in the Pro SKU. Windows 10 isn't any less ad-ridden than 11. I remember it in all the OneDrive pushing, default browser resetting, lockscreen ad inserting 'glory'. Only after you manually stamped all of that out did it start being usable. But you can…

I have Win 10 LTSC, and it came with none of that. But it is behind on feature updates.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by subscribed » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 5:01 PM UTC

olyjohn wrote: post #145

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Yeah, I'm bracing myself for this. I'll get myself £4 licence for this and hope for the best.

It's not a legit licensed copy for you. Sorry. You might as well just pirate it.

I believe you! But still, I'll get it. I _wish_ there was other way to stay on w10 (I still have several obstacles to clear before migrating to Linux)

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by subscribed » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #121

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I used both Fedora and Ubuntu for years and couldn't point to the _better_ distribution. Maybe one thing I had with Fedora: I had to trail one major distribution behind, because going for the most recent releases always ended up hurting me. But that's just for work. I don't think I can move my gaming to Linux yet

I've been using the latest Fedora full-time for over two years without issue, and have been doing nearly all my gaming on it as well. The only gaming that doesn't work are games that deliberately use anti-cheat that doesn't support anything but Windows (typically the games run great in single player or offline, but multiplayer refuses to work). Of my Steam catalog, over 90% just works, and a large amount of that now…

Hey, many thanks for this, sorry I didn't notice this comment earlier.

So, I have several of the games I play since forever (and will play some more), like Skyrim, but I can't play it without mods because it just looks bad (and I prefer slightly adjusted gameplay).

I've seen ProtonDB entry on that and it looks half promising, half problematic. Maybe I'll dust off my old nvme for this?

I _think_ I'll try going the Bazzite way - based on Fedora I actually like, reasonably sensible approach to security - and might as well stay IF they support Veracrypt well.

And yeah, Windows deception is awful, thankfully most of it can be disabled (until the next sw update).