I run Windows 11 on my gaming PC powerful desktop and a good work laptop. No issues. No idea what you guys are doing. I can also now run and install over cmd powershlle with choco, scoop and winget. Get Firefox, VLC, MPV and all that. Get Powertoys. Run Christitustech utlity for tweaks. So even less usage for Linux imo.
Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
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Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
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That's fine. I'll take responsibility for my decision. Show me a big warning message when I disable automatic updates. If I'm concerned about this scenario, I'll just manually update it (by clicking the update button).
The problem is not you being inconvenienced. The problem is making your machine part of a botnet that will attack ME. I don't like that. The cost of your freedom is you being a threat to everyone around you. Do YOU take responsibility for that?
I won't, as I don't take responsibility for someone stealing my street legal classic car, which is parked on the street right now without any special anti-theft device, and using it to run over you.
If someone takes over my computer, I'm the victim as much as you. You can't force your security standards on me, just as you can't prohibit people from connecting an arbitrary version of Windows, Linux or MacOS to the Internet just because it could inconvenience you.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux has lot of bugs and issues, but they are not caused by intention to make users' life worse.
They are caused by moral busy bodies who think they know better. To quote CS Lewis: >Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torme…
Tangential, but how is
> The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated
Holding up in 2026? Pretty poorly, I’d say.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#484I literraly can’t name one feature since Windows 7 what was worth it, even on the contrary: every update made the system worse. I had to restore Notepad, Calculator and Paint from Windows 7. What the hell Microsoft?
How did you do this?
I tried to get notepad and mspaint from an older Windows 10 build -> Windows 11 on a surface pro, but gave up after a few hours...
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#485Just switch to Linux people!
Unfortunately, Linux is nowhere near ready for the desktop outside of the techies/programmers who read Hacker News.
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I have not, interesting idea and I'll definitively try it out. Thanks!
There are some well-known scripts. All variants of the same pattern. E.g. https://gist.github.com/LuisAGC/843a2a45617d7ad05687c2f8a15c... or https://github.com/TheBear1616/CapsLock-PreventSleep-Script/... Scroll lock and F13 are commonly used
I much prefer an ahk script to move the mouse a few pixels periodically...
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#487The "sense of pride" bit makes me think they're not even taking it seriously... either that, or they hired EA's PR person that managed this record voted comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b...
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
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> Regaining trust is extremely hard after you've crossed an edge. Microsoft needs to learn consent. Everywhere there's a Yes and "Remind me later", there has to be a No. And the No has to work and be remembered forever, not forgotten after the next update. Using Windows has to stop feeling like you're being roofied all the time.
Yeah this seems to be a trend over the last few years. Google does this too. I don't have photos backed up to my Google account on a Pixel and every few days if I open the photos app it prompts me to backup to the cloud and I always have to click "maybe later", "not now" or whatever they decide to name it. It's messed up because if I were to accidentally ever click yes to that it would fill up my Google storage and I…
You have a Pixel? Install GrapheneOS.
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I understand your point and motivation completely. And I agree... However in today's world if you expose an unpatched "anything" to the internet then it is very possible that it will be discovered and eventually used to (silently) do things you don't want. Think DDOS farms, illegal software distribution etc... What is the middle ground? I don't think there is one. We need to have reliable, automatically updated OSes…
That's fine. I'll take responsibility for my decision. Show me a big warning message when I disable automatic updates. If I'm concerned about this scenario, I'll just manually update it (by clicking the update button).
A car parks outside and there's a knock at your door. Before you can even get up you hear the first shouting: "FBI OPEN UP!" Your door disappears, instantly replaced by a cloud of dust. You start to get up and the agent raises his automatic rifle, pointed at your head. You slowly sit back down. Another agent swiftly moves behind you and applies the handcuffs. "W-what's going on?" you stammer. "You were hacking the NSA" says the agent. "N-no I wasn't! What the hell!" The agent carries you out the door. "Should've enabled updates."
You can't advocate for people to be responsible for everything that happens on their computer and also advocate for being able to disable updates. That combination makes you a top-level felon completely at random and outside of your control. If your computer will be hacked (there is no can be hacked, only will be hacked), you'd best not be responsible. If you're responsible, it best not be hackable.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#490Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is not you being inconvenienced. The problem is making your machine part of a botnet that will attack ME. I don't like that. The cost of your freedom is you being a threat to everyone around you. Do YOU take responsibility for that?
I won't, as I don't take responsibility for someone stealing my street legal classic car, which is parked on the street right now without any special anti-theft device, and using it to run over you. If someone takes over my computer, I'm the victim as much as you. You can't force your security standards on me, just as you can't prohibit people from connecting an arbitrary version of Windows, Linux or MacOS to the Int…
An unpatched computer on the internet is basically like leaving a loaded gun visible on the ledge of your first-floor opened window.
Aiding and abetting might come to mind, if someone gets hurt by that gun.
Welcome to the 21st century.