Our Computer

They're so annoying! I can't stand that company!

They probably have to recite a standard company line, gritting their teeth as you both know it's bullshit.

I don't envy customer service reps. Most of them probably didn't apply for the job because they love Microsoft or enjoy the prospect of fielding frustrated customers' calls.

Stamp, not a watermark, but yes. There was a post a while back, asking Lemmy OC to have that or something similar. I figured, why not.

I never thought good could come out of Microsoft's messed up ways, but here we are! Haha

I think that + her playing baldurs gate on my computer will be what drive mine to it. Though her breaking it by updating my graphics card in order to make it run the first time definitely didn’t help.

Man, I love Linux, but it's not a replacement for windows. Like, crucify me if you must, fellow Lemmings, but the world still runs on Windows when it comes to many important everyday things.

For me, it's game servers and the games themselves. I can't run half the stuff I want to run on Linux. It sucks, but this is the reality we live in.

Who is "their"?

Jumping between Mac and Windows I keep accidentally awakening Cortana when I try to copy and paste. Now that god awful, universally reviled feature if finally getting deprecated but it still brings up the damn window/modal/pice-of-shit just to tell me that it’s gone. If you want to be gone, then go! Don’t make a fuss telling me about it. Just go. No one wanted you in the 1st place. Fuck.

That's exactly what it is. Defender is removing PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), but only those unwanted by Microsoft, while Windows is installing unwanted programs left and right. Windows is legitimately acting like malware. Not even a joke.

Come join the fight against evil, join those who wish to give you control over the shit you own, go ahead and load https://www.fedoraproject.org/ onto a USB and try it out. Most software either has excellent alternatives, or works fine under Wine!

I mean I liked 7. Last good one imo

Remember Vista?

I'm curious as to how much something like shutup10 helps with that. I was always tempted, but never tried it. I barely touched windows these past few years anyways.

Advertising on a product I own is not conducive with me owning the product, but with me renting it. It's not communism, but it is me not owning something I thought I own.

Haha our, get the funny?

The means of production have seized us!

Linux Mint is massively less frustrating to use than Windows 10 or 11

I'm gonna have to go for Linux once my current laptop dies. Now way I'm putting up with Windows 11.

Unless it's unity era Ubuntu

Install both! That way you can play all the games you want, if you're a nerd like me, but you can move the other everyday stuff to Linux!

More games are coming to Linux, it'll be a while for this process to complete.

.... Yeah... I never would have considered Linux, then after being here a few months I installed Pop!_os and I will never go back to windows...

cries in my programs won't launch in wine

I let friends make their own choice. I sport a lovely Fedora and allow them to make their own decisions..... Hahaha

Yeah, but I like to play PC games.

I serve the soviet gnunion

They also love big corporations, like Microsoft

Haha! Good one! I'm going to use that!

Been a Linux user for more than a decade, but work doesn't do Linux :( I even brought my laptop in to show them that everything works fine (AD and all), but they didn't go for it.

Same here. Bought a laptop a few years ago, and immediately installed manjaro. I wasn't even going to futz around with dual booting. I decided I was done with windows and their bullshit. Haven't looked back.

For sure, and Linux/BSD isn't that scary. For anyone here who doesn't think they are smart enough, I'll give you a hint; even the Linux guru's 'Google' everything. They're looking up very different things but they're still searching like the rest of us. If you stick with popular distros there's always a guide, or a forum post, or a YouTube video that'll show you how to do almost anything. You don't even need to install it, you can run most distros, and all the popular ones, off a USB stick. You don't even need to change anything on your computer to try it. I personally still use Windows for almost everything, but calzone_gigante is right,

even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.

In theory, yes. But not in practice. This is a work computer, and I can't just turn this stuff off without tripping the xdr. For home computers, I would imagine you are 100% correct, but I've been using Linux for years. I'm assuming shush windows (or similar) still works on Win10/11.

That's not true. Windows 3.11 was mine. Well... Not mine, because I couldn't afford it, but you get it. It also couldn't connect to the internet, so there's that....

What? Are you sure you don't want to search the internet when you aren't even opening a browser? Are you sure what you're looking for is a local file/installation?

It was searching for a software I know I have and getting edge binging it for me…

Oh, Microsoft....

I briefly saw that. The second I moused over to remove it it removed itself, like it was guilty for what it had done.

I am honestly surprised they have not yet made Windows free, at least the most basic "home" version. I guess they must still be making a lot of money by just having come preinstalled on any laptop or pre-built PC.

Yes! I hate that!!

I won't tell you to use Linux. I feel that it should be your choice. Like Mac, Linux isn't for everyone. And if you use Microsoft's email service on Linux, you'll have the same anyway. It's not windows that's the problem at its core, it's Microsoft.

I thought you were kidding, but then I looked it up on the net and it seems this is really a thing. WTF Microsoft!?

This was a work computer, but this world suggestion is genius! I avoid making an ms account by not connecting to the internet during install.

I use the Enterprise SKU of Windows 11 and you can fortunately still use the Domain Join option with that. Comes without that advertisement crap as well. The only caveat is that you can’t really activate Enterprise legally without a subscription and KMS but there are ways to circumvent that issue ;)

Like everything windows. Or Microsoft in general.

Wait, that's real?

I thought it was just some dumb name that someone came up with for this meme!

I had no idea they did that. That's several kinds of messed up!

My problem is two-fold. (1) if I wanted a video editing app, I'd search for one, I don't need my OS to randomly "recommend" one, and (2) I don't want any such suggestions on my work computer, ever. Maybe three-fold, (3) clipchamp, I heard, sucks ass ;p

Especially if the stuff it does is ads. The bullshitter the job the government does, the more communism it is!

It used to be "if something was free then you're the product". Now, it's just "you're the product", period.

Except they are also selling it for $139.

So it isn’t “you’re the product” it’s them double dipping.

Have you tried edge browser? It's so much faster than chrome

How about a load of default start menu items for nonsense like candy crush?

...maybe you'll appreciate that we integrated our cloud storage in explorer.

There's still a fair bit of it in 10 - though it seems easier to deal with, and think it's dialled down in Pro.

I daily Fedora at home (and Windows at work). Got tired Arch breaking every so often, and wanted something that didn't come with anxiety with every update haha

Which one? Just curious

Without Edge, many things don't work on windows. Also, those cheap license sites have a tendency to sell illegally obtained keys. Once Windows does a key audit, the affected PC can have its key disabled. Although, you strike me as the type of individual that can bypass the key audits. Disabling notifications is one of the first things I do on windows.

Explain, please

Which one?