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Windows 11 start menu search is slowest shit i've ever seen I can't stand when I type app name (e.g paint or vs) and it appears but click needs like 5-10 sec to be registered what the hell It worked perfectly fine on Win10 on the same hardware (my OS has been updated recently either automatically or by company). I'd call Windows 11 pretty OK once you tweak one or two things in register settings, maybe the lack of rig…
I run Pro versions on all my machines and don't tend to have this blot. Is that it? I pay $49 more and get Windows without any of this crap? Sign me up.
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I have a $700 Asus that started with windows 7 or 8, from 2014. It does everything except AI, it can play every game I throw at it(1080p) at high or ultra high. I did just replace the battery last year. I think it was $35 dollars. This is my main computer, I want to upgrade, but it keeps living. This is 8 or 9 years so far.
I don’t know what games you throw at it, but my desktop regularly needs to be updated to keep up with current titles.
I just looked up my steam games/GOTY games from the last few years, I don't have any.
For some reason I decided against them, not sure, maybe they are a genre that I'm not interested in, or they are from a series I've deemed are overrated.
Anyway, some games that seem pretty intense graphically that I can play: Doom Eternal, Witcher 3, Assassins Creed. Graphics are as I mentioned, at least on high. Sometimes I'll knock down the AA to 2x.
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ChatGPT may have solved your problem. Instead of getting the sarcastic answers from the community, you can have ChatGPT figure it out.
My experience with ChatGPT has been less than stellar. It's great at making things up but it's terrible at actually following rules. So far I've had it fail to follow the rules for making a D&D character despite correctly telling me what they are and fail to write a simple batch file to find and replace text.
Otherwise I agree with the problems you have found. Its bad at logic/rules. Good at repeating what it found on reddit.
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Been a Linux user for almost a decade. Built a PC for someone recently and they wanted 11 Pro. Whatever, I shrugged, and downloaded the iso from Microsoft. I dd'd it to a usb, like every other iso, and boot to the installer menu. I'm greeted by an error that there are missing drivers. I'm familiar with this error, still, but I'm surprised to see it on the latest O/S. It looks exactly like I remember from 98. So, I sp…
> Been a Linux user for almost a decade. [...] No, it's because I was dumb enough to think I could just DD a Windows ISO, like every other ISO I've ever encountered. Microsoft are special, I need to use special tools. You haven't been a Linux user for long enough. The Linux ISO you can "just DD to a USB key" is a hybrid ISO, which is actually a hack which has both a HDD-style partition table and CD-style headers, car…
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I think you could do a better job of trying to empathise with people who are not like yourself and who do not conform to the norms of your social class.
"I think you could do a better job of trying to empathise with people who are not like yourself and who do not conform to the norms of your social class." This statement is extremely ironic. You are scolding someone about not empathizing more. Do you see it?
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Who said I wanted to spend only $500? The issue is more this stuff is brought in to justify the garbage end of the spectrum then creeps into the rest of the spectrum because its normal and the lower end didn't complain.
If you are willing to pay more, can you not just buy a laptop with no OS and have a separate installation of Windows premium done on it? That will at least save you from the OEM cruft.
My wife (not a tech person, far from it) used Ubuntu for ages until recently when she went back to the corporate world and was forced to use a Windows laptop from corporate.
Holy Jeebus, she would complain the whole eight hours of her work for about 2 or 3 months, at about the time they send her a macbook.
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I wish more people could have the experience of using Mac and Win11 on a daily basis for real work. I've been developing on Mac/Win11/Linux for 8 years. Win11 vs Mac/Linux is night-vs-day. But you really can't get a sense of how awful windows is without spending serious work time on both Mac & Win. It's not an exaggeration. The simplest things, like remembering settings, switching displays, or setting up hardware, Wi…
I'll do you one better, used Mac for two years, Windows for most of the rest, and a hell of a lot of Linux all throughout. Found the opposite regarding cognitive load with MacOS - it feels like a ten year old operating system full of weird quirks and I got annoyed with its almost-linux-but-not command line. Win11 with WSL2 is my preferred driver, both for hacking and development (primarily Rust/Go not Node so maybe t…
One easy example:
Bash/sh works the same on Linux and Mac. Nowhere on windows is that true: cygwin mangles paths in a demonstrable script-braking way.
WSL is not windows. It is literally linux running on windows. Which is even more complicated than running a half-baked shell. You're basically using a different OS which is an admission that windows is so awful. Might as well run VNC on a Linux box.
If you want to objectively compare WSL and macOS, you need to run Linux in a virtual machine on mac, that would be the correct comparison.