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Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by devilbunny »

999900000999 wrote: post #47
cookiengineer wrote: post #44

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Pick KDE if you want the same integrated experience. The Desktop on Linux has come pretty far already and most of the complaints are from people that made the wrong choice for their UX. Sometimes setting up a WINE environment is worth it, but I'd argue that as long ss you still need to use the CLI to create environments, it's not there yet. Proton has been amazing for better support. Also, don't pick Arch when you co…

Debian based distros lag in hardware support. KDE is heavy, but that's the magic of Linux. It's to you to figure out your perfect combination. I'd argue that if you don't care how computers work, buy a Mac. If you actually enjoy the process Linux is great.

The Mac is so much simpler. I just want a big screen iMac again. 27” with Apple silicon and no more of this inability to be used as a big dumb monitor when it’s ancient and slow.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by scns »

999900000999 wrote: post #47
cookiengineer wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pick KDE if you want the same integrated experience. The Desktop on Linux has come pretty far already and most of the complaints are from people that made the wrong choice for their UX. Sometimes setting up a WINE environment is worth it, but I'd argue that as long ss you still need to use the CLI to create environments, it's not there yet. Proton has been amazing for better support. Also, don't pick Arch when you co…

Debian based distros lag in hardware support. KDE is heavy, but that's the magic of Linux. It's to you to figure out your perfect combination. I'd argue that if you don't care how computers work, buy a Mac. If you actually enjoy the process Linux is great.

> KDE is heavy

In terms of install size, performance is usually higher than on lightweight DEs.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by sneak »

picafrost wrote: post #20

There is something so fundamentally gross about Microsoft's vision of what role an operating system should serve. That there is an aftermarket of software that attempts to disable (but cannot remove!) the invasive dark patterns is alarming enough, but Microsoft may simply just... undo that, with the next unstoppable update. Then again, this is the company that answered complaints about Windows being bad for developme…

…except for the inconvenient fact that Windows is the most developed-for (and thus developed-on) desktop OS in the world.

Linux is catching up (mostly in gaming) but nothing comes close to the amount of engineer-hours poured into building Windows desktop apps.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by scns »

herbst wrote: post #80
999900000999 wrote: post #40

Ubuntu. Fedora. Arch. Open Suse . Pick one, stop trying to make Windows look like a decent os. My local Windows install just gave up. I'm very close to trying Windows 11 in a VM on top of Fedora or whatever, can't really do that on my 16gb ram value laptop though. If Maschine offered official Linux support, that's what I make music with, I'd be 100% Windows free.

A lot of cool music software is running natively it not better on Linux like reaper. After some config pain I am also surprised to see mixxx being a serious alternative to Rekordbox. It's not impossible, and everything is better than booting into windows just to be surprised with a new updated and new bloatware, every fing time.

Bitwig too. Pain point for me is hardware support. My Native Instruments interface works great, due to the in kernel drivers supplied by NI. My other one with loads of IO sadly won't.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by mzajc »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #24

Microsoft should create a new windows option in addition to Home, Professional and Pro and call this one "Windows OPTIMAL" They can price this 3x if they want but it has 0 bloatware, 0 telemetry or atleast everything can be disabled at the time of installation. It is literally windows designed from the ground up for maximum performance, runs as smooth as windows 7 or xp used to back in the good old days

There are already some such oddities between Home and Pro; to my knowledge, Home will only allow disk encryption if you let Microsoft ""back up"" your key by signing into a Microsoft account. Pro has no such requirement.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by everdrive »

picafrost wrote: post #20

There is something so fundamentally gross about Microsoft's vision of what role an operating system should serve. That there is an aftermarket of software that attempts to disable (but cannot remove!) the invasive dark patterns is alarming enough, but Microsoft may simply just... undo that, with the next unstoppable update. Then again, this is the company that answered complaints about Windows being bad for developme…

This pattern is actually how I decide whether or not a piece of software is worthwhile. First Windows install, what do you do? spend an hour or so attempting to disable or remove all the junk being pushed on you and fix terrible default settings. It's been a while for me with Windows, so I haven't had to battle with the online account requirement, Onedrive, etc. But, the general pattern remains. If an OS or software is just packed with stuff that's hostile to you, then it's either got to go (Windows) or be minimized as much as as is feasible. (smartphones & apps) This is actually what turned me off Ubuntu. It's not even close to being as bad as Windows, but I realized that on a fresh install I was attempting to get rid of snaps and the "buy premium" message when running apt, and a couple of other things.

If something is being pushed on me, it's obviously bad for me, and good for the pusher.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by styanax »

vbezhenar wrote: post #67
esperent wrote: post #46

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A few months ago I switched from Windows 11 to Ubuntu on my laptop. Coming from a decade of experience running servers with various flavors of Linux it's not much of a learning curve for me. And look, I love Ubuntu. I'm sticking with it (although kinda wish I'd been less safe and chosen Fedora or OpenSuse). But, to be honest, I've had, and continue to have, a ton of problems related to hardware. Problems waking from…

Just to present my anecdote, I'm using Lenovo Thinkpad Gen 4 Intel with Arch Linux and I don't have a single issue with hardware. Literally everything works. Suspend works, my laptop connected to the display via USB-C cable which also delivers power to laptop. My laptop stays with closed lid (clamshell mode). Sony BLE headphones work. Even fingerprint sensor worked when I tried it (but I don't use it, as I'm working…

Been running Linux on laptops since around 97 (Dell Inspiron 4000 clone, PII-400 I couldn't afford the PIII-450, Red Hat 5.x); over many years and laptops it comes down to: use a Thinkpad T-series or a Dell Latitude/Precision (modern times, not the XPS or Inspiron) and your Linux experience will be quite smooth. (sometimes card reader hardware doesn't work if they used some weird chip, which Dell seems to like to do with those devices)

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by [deleted] »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #24

Microsoft should create a new windows option in addition to Home, Professional and Pro and call this one "Windows OPTIMAL" They can price this 3x if they want but it has 0 bloatware, 0 telemetry or atleast everything can be disabled at the time of installation. It is literally windows designed from the ground up for maximum performance, runs as smooth as windows 7 or xp used to back in the good old days

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Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by microtonal »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #88
microtonal wrote: post #36

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Also, this is also the case with ad-disabling subscriptions, the people who have the disposable income to buy non-ad versions are the most interesting to a lot of advertisers.

While I agree, when was the last time you bought something because you saw it advertised in Windows?

Never. I haven't used Windows since... 3.11 :p.

Re: Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

hnlmorg wrote: post #87
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #82

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Those are runtime environments provided by DLLs (requiring recompilation), not Wine-like translation layers. WSL 1 was something special, and it says something that Microsoft ditched it in favour of "we've invented virtual machines for the very first time!!!".

It’s been a while since I’ve played with Cygwin and I do recall there were a lot of stuff compiled for Windows, but couldn’t it also run Linux software run natively too? Admittedly back then I was working for a place that mainly developed in Perl, so I didn’t port a whole lot of ELFs across. So maybe I’m misremembering

I had to confirm this, but you are misremembering. https://www.sobyte.net/post/2021-11/cygwin-mingw-msys/ gives a good rundown.
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