2021: Linux on the desktop, Free Software 9/11

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Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

I don't install any skins. Just classic shell. Hth

# ? Mar 11, 2018 21:53

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 11:13

aardvaard: Mar 4, 2013; you belong in the bog of eternal stench

classic shell is a skin, and unlike that starcraft one, it is boring and shameful

# ? Mar 11, 2018 21:57

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

windows users pining for the days of mac os9 itt

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:00

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

infernal machines posted:

windows users pining for the days of windows 7 itt

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:10

r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

OSX/MacOS would unironically be a better experience if you could switch back to the Platinum theme

Just like Windows 10 would be better if you could still switch back to the Classic (95/98/NT4/2000) theme

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:11

Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

i hate flat design. windows. macos. ios. anroid. it sucks in all of them.

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:16

r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

I am sure we are just at the start of a new history cycle, in another couple years someone will reinvent 3d-style window decorations and widgets, and in another 10 years we'll be back to candy themes like XP and Aqua.

It can only really improve from this point

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:28

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

P A I S L E Y A E S T H E T I C

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:31

Ator: Oct 1, 2005

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

winkey... sou... enter

i get:

Voice Recorder
Trusted Windows Store App

:fuckoff:

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:38

orange sky: May 7, 2007

Ator posted:

i get:

Voice Recorder
Trusted Windows Store App

yospos

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:54

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Ator posted:

i get:

Voice Recorder
Trusted Windows Store App

the first time i did it i got the control panel, then voice recorder, then odbc data sources

the second time i did i it, without having clicked on anything in that first list, i got the control panel, then "play sounds for my people notifications" and nothing else

# ? Mar 11, 2018 22:59

orange sky: May 7, 2007

I get Sound?

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:00

Celexi: Nov 25, 2006; Slava Ukraini!

windows 10 start menu is fine, also disable cortana you idiots if you don't want web searches.

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:11

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

r u ready to WALK posted:

OSX/MacOS would unironically be a better experience if you could switch back to the Platinum theme

Just like Windows 10 would be better if you could still switch back to the Classic (95/98/NT4/2000) theme

god yospos is old

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:13

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

Celexi posted:

also disable cortana you idiots if you don't want web searches.

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:13

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Celexi posted:

windows 10 start menu is fine, also disable cortana you idiots if you don't want web searches.

doesn't disabling cortana break all searching

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:21

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

anthonypants posted:

doesn't disabling cortana break all searching

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:22

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

anthonypants posted:

doesn't disabling cortana break all searching

no, it doesn't, it just stops the start menu from giving you bing and windows store results

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:27

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

anthonypants posted:

doesn't disabling cortana break all searching

depends on what you mean by disable. using the gpo to turn off the cortana functionality just leaves you with the old windows search

trying to kill the "cortana" processes breaks poo poo because that's what the windows search ui components are called now

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:33

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Foo Diddley posted:

no, it doesn't, it just stops the start menu from giving you bing and windows store results

source for this claim?

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:33

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

anthonypants posted:

source for this claim?

the source is me, disabling cortana and using the start menu

you can do the same thing

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:35

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Foo Diddley posted:

the source is me, disabling cortana and using the start menu

you can do the same thing

it's gpo only now, since like 1607 iirc

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:36

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

infernal machines posted:

depends on what you mean by disable. using the gpo to turn off the cortana functionality just leaves you with the old windows search

trying to kill the "cortana" processes breaks poo poo because that's what the windows search ui components are called now

also this; don't kill the cortana process, turn cortana off in group policies

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:37

aardvaard: Mar 4, 2013; you belong in the bog of eternal stench

Foo Diddley posted:

no, it doesn't, it just stops the start menu from giving you bing and windows store results

no cortana enabled

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:37

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

anthonypants posted:

source for this claim?

i can confirm, i have the little search loupe icon instead of the cortana ring, and there's no cortana component integration, but my search works just peachy

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:38

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

CommunistPancake posted:

no cortana enabled

guess you did it wrong then

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:39

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

it's almost as if there exists a surfeit of evidence that the windows 10 user experience is wildly inconsistent

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:54

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

also, just in case you think my search is completely broken:

it just looks at poo poo on my computer

anthonypants posted:

it's almost as if there exists a surfeit of evidence that the windows 10 user experience is wildly inconsistent

# ? Mar 11, 2018 23:57

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

anthonypants posted:

it's almost as if there exists a surfeit of evidence that the windows 10 user experience is wildly inconsistent

there's that, but there's also the contingent in yospos that like to use ~*wEeDgOkU420><><><XXX.windows.optimization.guide.v69.pdf to break their installs and then complain about how bad windows is.

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:00

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

infernal machines posted:

~*wEeDgOkU420><><><XXX.windows.optimization.guide.v69.pdf

that's the name of the directory where i hide my porn

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:05

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

infernal machines posted:

there's that, but there's also the contingent in yospos that like to use ~*wEeDgOkU420><><><XXX.windows.optimization.guide.v69.pdf to break their installs and then complain about how bad windows is.

not sure why that means microsoft deserves the benefit of the doubt

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:06

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

they don't, but if you're asking a question like "does disabling cortana break search" the answer is no, unless you try to do something stupid like disable services

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:11

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

anthonypants posted:

doesn't disabling cortana break all searching

no, i have it merrily killed

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:19

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

anthonypants posted:

source for this claim?

two windows computers i use on weekly basis?

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:20

aardvaard: Mar 4, 2013; you belong in the bog of eternal stench

all the blogs say it's easy! one simple trick!

this button does not exist

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:22

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

CommunistPancake posted:

no cortana enabled

was it dllfiles.com registry fix how you disabled it?

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:22

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

there's a group policy switch for it, which is what i'm assuming the registry "fix" would be

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:24

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

CommunistPancake posted:

all the blogs say it's easy! one simple trick!

this button does not exist

local group policy editor is your friend

i think you need win10 pro, tho

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:25

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

CommunistPancake posted:

no cortana enabled

cortana is not off by the looks of it, because you shouldn't have the cortana notebook icon on the left there if it is.

CommunistPancake posted:

all the blogs say it's easy! one simple trick!

this button does not exist

it hasn't since 1607. it's a gpo now, so disable it in group policy

infernal machines fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Mar 12, 2018

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 11:13

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

anthonypants posted:

there's a group policy switch for it, which is what i'm assuming the registry "fix" would be

technically, except gpo is supported and arbitrary reg hacks aren't and if something changes one is guaranteed to break, which is why you don't do that unless you want to be called an idiot for bitching about how badly you've broken your windows install

# ? Mar 12, 2018 00:26

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