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

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Post by jazzyjackson »

smt88 wrote: post #160
happymellon wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> CSV import in Excel sucks I'm going through a project at the moment where all the data is held in spreadsheets, and every time anyone opens them Excel fucks the numbers to be "scientific notation" despite there being space to display the full number and no way to disable this anti-feature. The amount of times I've had to restore the spreadsheet from a backed up CSV because of data loss is frustrating. I wish I coul…

This is just a formatting/display issue. Excel isn't rounding the number internally. It sounds like the problem in this case is that you don't know how to use basic Excel features.

From 2023:

In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically. Yesterday, a member of the Excel team posted that the company is rolling out an update on Windows and macOS to fix that.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel...

Also it drops leading zeros which is annoying when a column is zip codes and it should be imported as string and not number

I agree excel gives ways around these and maybe that's considered basic knowledge but it definitely has poor data-mangling defaults

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

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Post by t0bia_s »

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…

Too complex.

Download .iso of LTSC version of Win. Make bootable install disk via Rufus and tick options to create local account during install. Install Win from created bootable device. Done.

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

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Post by tim333 »

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…

As a beginner doing tech things I quite like youtube video. There are various problems with text. It'll say just type this into that but sometimes you don't know what to click to get 'that' to open. Then you find the instructions don't work because they've either skipped over something they think is obvious, or the software version has changed since they wrote it or their setup is different from yours.

At least with a recent video you can see what they click, it's probably up to date and you see all the stuff they do and you can see if it actually works.

I was trying to install jupyter notebook a few months ago and all the how tos failed because macos had updated some nonsense. At least with youtube you can try to find a recent one where they mention that.

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

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Post by DaSHacka »

Tor3 wrote: post #388
DaSHacka wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's a one-off program, have you tried Winboat or running it in a Windows VM?

Installing a Windows VM is not really an option for me for various reasons, but in any case that's just.. running Windows. I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway.

>but in any case that's just.. running Windows.

Yes, because as you said these applications only run on Windows. How else would you get around it, if not by running some form of Windows? At least this way, the core system (and 90% of general purpose applications) could remain on Linux.

> I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway.

You can just use the install unlicensed, or, if your computer came with a Windows license (as most do), you can extract it from the motherboard and use it to activate the VM. Not sure if that's allowed in Microsoft's ToS though.

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

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Post by quinndexter »

1718627440 wrote: post #441
lelanthran wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Has Microsoft removed the option to disable Microsoft Accounts via the Group Policy Editor?

It's not available in Home editions.

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

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Post by pabs3 »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71
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/

Outlook is what is keeping me away from Linux Desktop.

Evolution is a good MUA/calendar/contacts/notes app.

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

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Post by hulitu »

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…

> 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

It is because "modern" search engines will retrieve only links to SEO spam. The only thing that, somehow, works (50% of the time) is youtube search.

Enshitification.

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

pabs3 wrote: post #466
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outlook is what is keeping me away from Linux Desktop.

Evolution is a good MUA/calendar/contacts/notes app.

I see it has a connector to MS Exchange. Have you maybe used it and have some feedback?

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

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Post by M95D »

thyristan wrote: post #115
baq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> LibreOffice is an okay office suite writer, perhaps. calc, not even close - google sheets is unfortunately better in almost every way, and google sheets aren't great either.

Calc is far better than Excel. CSV import in Excel sucks. LibreOffice Calc is far better there. Best feature of all in LibreOffice Calc: highlight current row/column, so you have a cross-like cursor. Easier and better embedding of Python and other languages, not the "Python in the Cloud" crap that Excel does. Less crappy conversions like "oh, that surely looks like a date, let's mess up your data"...

Calc struggles to be bug-compatible and stupidity-compatible with Excel by converting numbers to dates.

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

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Post by Tor3 »

DaSHacka wrote: post #464
Tor3 wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Installing a Windows VM is not really an option for me for various reasons, but in any case that's just.. running Windows. I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway.

>but in any case that's just.. running Windows. Yes, because as you said these applications only run on Windows. How else would you get around it, if not by running some form of Windows? At least this way, the core system (and 90% of general purpose applications) could remain on Linux. > I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway. You can just use the install unlicensed, or, if you…

What's discussed in this subthread is running Windows applications under Wine. When it's running under Windows there's no discussion to begin with.

In any case, I'm not going to try to set up a Windows VM on my Linux computer, I don't have the room or if I had it would be better used for other things. And I just abhor using Windows, whenever I have to use the wife's PC it's hell. For her, too.. she can't find anything after she's saved something, for example. And I don't have a Windows license, never had, my computers are all bare when new. In any case, it defies the whole purpose of not having to run Windows. Now, with Windows 11, it seems to be even worse. And I have zero idea on how to install Windows from scratch anyway - in my case I would probably even have to install a Japanese version, as is installed on my wife's PC. Well, not going to happen.

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