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His Divine Shadow posted:Every windows since XP, maybe 7, seems worse to me. When I have to use Windows 10 I do everything I can to turn off all telemetry and "operating system as a service" bullshit, and then make it look as much like Windows XP as I can. I get real real mad when I see people who install Windows 11 and leave the start menu in the center of the taskbar. Really mad! 
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Did Balmer do cocaine, or was it just fart huffing that got him that far? I'm sure it was both
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Nov 3, 2023 08:25
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eh, it doesn't matter 
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gently caress a task bar. Give me task rectangular prism. rotate it to other faces, one for work, one for making stuff, one for fun.
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Nov 3, 2023 09:49
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Nov 3, 2023 10:01
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I use business/enterprise licensing for Windows so I don't get any of the weird ads and other bullshit you all are describing.
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Nov 3, 2023 12:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OGOwzGbnFw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5Btc_OYdA
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Nov 3, 2023 12:42
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Why does that sound like an AI-generated voice that still pronounces everything wrong? Blotware? Ga-nome?
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Nov 3, 2023 13:01
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Does windows 11 still have the Hotdog Stand theme?
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Star Frog posted:Does windows 11 still have the Hotdog Stand theme? No. Ironic, since Win11 is the wurst.
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Nov 3, 2023 13:14
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Khanstant posted:You're the nerd using the cloud. I have a folder on my SSD where I put my stuff Onedrive is kind of nice if you use multiple machines. It's arguably somewhere on the resilience/backup spectrum too, since you'll survive a drive failing and there's some sort of "previous versions" system if you delete or overwrite something. Basically, far from perfect but you can get some utility out of it.
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Nov 3, 2023 13:20
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Star Frog posted:Does windows 11 still have the Hotdog Stand theme? Is that the one that looks like Hulk Hogan rage-hosed a Sherwin Williams? Or was that another high-contrast red/yellow theme?
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Nov 3, 2023 15:24
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The last good windows was 2000. A device manager on ntfs?? Sweet!
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Little life lesson I learned long ago: I had my little Windows 3.1 Kingdom. Everything organized nice and tight. No chaos, nothing out of place. And then Windows 95 came along, and I was appalled. A kids OS! I try and remember my sincere feelings of disgust with this new OS, as a little life lesson, learned long ago.
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Nov 3, 2023 17:42
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I always get the newest Windows version and leave updates turned on because I actually love to have all the stuff I use my computer for randomly break forever, so Microsoft can make everything pop up more obtrusive ads about the stuff they would prefer I used my computer for instead. it gives me a little hardon to get findommed by a bonzi buddy.
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Nov 3, 2023 18:01
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Duct Tape Engineer posted:I use ExplorerPatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher ExplorerPatcher is good, even if you just use it to get rid of the new start menu. But old taskbar is good too. Got a 2-in-1 laptop thing for my partner recently. It came with 11 preinstalled and so we downgraded it to 10, but then the touchpad and touchscreen would not work. Try Linux and everything except sound works (turns out this is caused by a firmware issue and actually impacts Windows too before an update. thanks Asus!). Try Win11 and everything works perfectly, even more so with Patcher. It's hilarious because it doesn't actually add anything new to the OS. All those UI elements are still there, just disabled. Which does probably mean it'll stop working some day but I use Arch so that won't impact me 
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Nov 3, 2023 18:31
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Bula Vinaka posted:and then make it look as much like Windows XP as I can.  This is my desktop right now because lmao
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Nov 3, 2023 18:32
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Hot dog stand was the zenith of windows themes
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Nov 3, 2023 18:52
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Smugworth posted:Hot dog stand was the zenith of windows themes Now this is what I'm talking about!
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Nov 3, 2023 18:53
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We are a tremendously lucky civilisation. To be alive today is a miracle, truly. We are gifted with the cutest of dogs, the laughter of children who will forever live in safety and comfort, the beauty of nature, the hot dog stand theme for Windows... We do not deserve this blessed Earth.
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Nobody Interesting posted:ExplorerPatcher is good, even if you just use it to get rid of the new start menu. But old taskbar is good too. my favorite thing that it does is turn square corners back on
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Nov 4, 2023 20:48
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So what Linux distro do people recommend these days?
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It feels legitimately magical to fire up an old program from before the bad days, it's so fast, responsive, they're not demanding a monthly subscription to rotate a document lmao,
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sebmojo posted:It feels legitimately magical to fire up an old program from before the bad days, it's so fast, responsive, they're not demanding a monthly subscription to rotate a document lmao, And they're only a few megabytes instead of bloated monstrosities that take up a significant percentage of storage and RAM space and heat the CPU hotter than an oven.
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Nov 10, 2023 07:10
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if it doesnt have 12 transparent irc windows with cpu/memory/temp realtime monitor + a sweet winamp skin = sux
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I think my PC starts up faster than discord does. I don't know why mirc-ventrillo thinks they need to build Facebook games into the thing
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super sweet best pal posted:So what Linux distro do people recommend these days? Arch
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I work with one older dude who refuses to use Windows so digs out our teams' MacBook and then spends 2 hours complaining about how he can't get anything done on it before disappearing for two hours. He works two days a week. One time he came in and just slept all day. He's great.
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Just LMAO if your office rig isn't running 1992 Linux off of a raspberry pi taped to the moonshine still under the server room floor Management don't know poo poo
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HorseMorsel posted:My PC is on Windows 11. My laptop is on Windows 10. I honestly could not tell you a single difference between them. A laptop has a built in keyboard and screen and can fold closed for portability. Hth Also run sfc /scannow and if that doesn't help, reinstall windows. If this answer was useful to you please mark it as solution. Independent Advisor Windows MVP Microsoft Insiders MVP
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super sweet best pal posted:So what Linux distro do people recommend these days? Fedora KDE is good.
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HORSE-SLAUGHTERER posted:well the poo poo i'm product owner for (which in guess registers COM stuff in the registry when it installs?) worked fine in win10 22H2 but my boss tried installing it on win11 for shits and giggles and it turns out that when you try to launch our thing it just sits on some kind of on demand windows component install progress bar forever. lol owned
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so that's a slow shitboat sailing my way whenever win10 goes out of support
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Nov 11, 2023 22:45
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The computer we use to pump propane is running on Windows Millennium
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Geemer posted:A laptop has a built in keyboard and screen and can fold closed for portability. Hth Oh man, why'd you have to hurt me with that? Worst part is trying to find a solution to a novel and unique problem, finding a person with the exact problem on their support site, but this is the "resolution."
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This person gets it
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I run Debian on a VM because it has old school credentials.
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I run some serious hardware / software tests and I need to disable the security and update settings on the latest version of Windows. Win 7 was easy and excellent. Win 8 sucked balls. Win 8.1 was better than 8 but worse than 7. Win 10 was cool but slowly started adding ads- sorry, notifications, and now Win 11 is just fully of fluffy poo poo that just slows the systems down and gobbles up more and more system resources. Oh, and it constantly re-enables all the security and update options when I don't loving want it. Thanks, Microsoft! The enshitification continues!
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