So people most familiar with a system have an affinity to it? Colour me shocked. I expect Windows users would want to return to Windows for their own reasons.
Back to work today. Signed into my windows machine. Had to agree to 3 privacy policies to read my emails/use Edge.
Have the XKCD as a wallpaper to remind me of ‘home’.
You could redo that XKCD but with windows today…
Meanwhile, Windows users are landing down, wondering what this strange new planet is. Confused by the Great Filetree, they begin to poke its roots…
(heh, roots)
“Ima install windows server edition since I like the C API and I can learn regex stuff”
(The most undocumented nightmare imaginable)
“Never again”
Seriously how did I have harder time connecting to my home wifi than I did connecting to PEAP encrypted university wifi on open fucking bsd.
Microsoft hides how their server shit works behind their certifications
Source: I’ve been taught how to use Windows server edition by people who got their certs. I assume it’s somewhat a joke, but cannot be certain
~. / sweet ~. /
My work laptop just updated to Win11 and I’m not happy about it
Same I want your laptop on xp
Me when I returned to gaming on Linux after Proton and Lutris dropped (no more fiddling with Wine prefixes and such 😅)
So… When it was easy for you. Good job biting the hands that fed.
It works on so many levels because there is a non-trivial amount of Linux elitists who are just as insufferable as Katy Perry!
this will be me when I’m finally released from the prison of my work software only being supported on Windows
You can dual boot or VM :p
I do use a VM 👀 tried dual booting a while back but Windows 11 does some weird shit to make it harder that I haven’t bothered to sort out yet
I’ve been a Linux user since the laptop I bought with Windows Me (Millennium Edition) crashed & burned. Someone smarter than me with computers got Windows 2000 working on that PC for about a week before the blue screen of death reappeared. I replaced that PC with one of those cheap ePCs that sold for $200-300, and came with either Windows XP or XanderOS (Linux). I went with Xander OS, opened a terminal, did a little typing, and ended up with a really nice netbook. I’ve been with Linux since, mostly Ubuntu and Mint, but also a short toe dip into Kali.
It concerns me a but, all the reading I’m doing here with regard to so many people talking to switching to Linux…a few years ago, I read like 2% of Americans used Linux, and that it wasn’t much of a hacking target, because there wasn’t much in low hanging fruit. I’m a bit concerned with the seemingly growing popularity now, though.
Windows 10 was still okay, Win 11 is unbearable
It’s because Microsoft was trying to steal mac’s shine.
I use fusion 360 on windows 11 for work. Then i come home to my linux and it feels right
Windows 11 is awful i hate the UI the ADS and spyware. I debloated as much as i can but i need fusion for CAM/CAD. I bring my lenovo laptop with debian 12 incase i need to do something other than CAD. Why cant autodesk port the POS to Linux
Why cant autodesk port the POS to Linux
I mean, Fusion 360 even runs in a web browser (although it was unusably slow for me). It should be possible to port it to the Linux desktop.
Home users doing it is bad enough, but why the fuck is any business tolerating ads and spyware distracting their employees‽
Its like asking would you rather be hit in the knee with lead pipe or a baseball bat. At least on the business side, you have macbooks that can run fusion 360 that are uber expensive and the hardware is soon obsolete. Or windows with adware and enshitafaction. I really hope large software companys pull there heads out of there ass’s. I do alot of laser cutting in my free time and it hurt when lightburn (a commercial product and great software) supported linux. I installed rocky linux and installed lightburn and havent had to deal with it since. They gave it the axe because they were remaking the software and linux wasnt large enough for development.
Which really sucks, im forever stuck on version 1.7 as its the last lightburn version. I wish autodesk would just make a native linux version! I love purpose built software, have a watch, it tells the time. Have a thin client that runs the laser. Any they all do it so well, i know the opensource community is working really hard for freeCAD. But coming from fusion 360 is such a steep curve from workflows. I wish there was a better modeler for FOSS.
And i feel like the demand will grow, i mean windows 10 is EOL soon. And i have converted 4 people from windows to linux. I spend some more time teaching them about its underworkings and how to fix things. I feel that 4 more to the pile of linux users will be good for the long term.
Why cant autodesk port the POS to Linux
Out of curiosity have you tried running it in a Wine/Proton environment? I’ve been able to utilize Steams “add non-steam game to library” feature to then enable proton compatibility on simple windows programs.
Only gripe I have is with file-browsing in this scenario.
People to some point have gotten fusion working in a half baked state. Bottles has an installer for it. But all the mini windows float over windows regardless of tab. And gpu acell doesnt work for the most part. I wish it did work because i very easily could switch to linux at work but fusion 360 is the bread and butter of my job. (Yes ive tried freecad, i find it hard to use compared to fusion)
You joke, but I attempted to set up a Windows partition back in January so I could play some games on Game Pass, and made it nearly a whole two hours before I wiped the partition and vowed never again.
There were ads on the login screen. And that was just the start! I haven’t seen so many ads on a desktop since the early 2000’s when I used to fix PCs infected with spyware for people.
Some tools for the forsaken:
https://privacy.sexy/ https://github.com/builtbybel/Bloatynosy/releases https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Not FOSS: https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/
Someone’s curated list I just found: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy
At least back then the ads had naked girls!
Yep. I have to use Windows for work, and even pro version shows so many ads it’s crazy. I can’t even imagine how much they paid for this copy of professional OS for working workers, and it still shows fucking ads all the time. It’s crazy that nobody in the windows world thinks it’s outrageous.
My gaming group all uses Windows, and they go to great lengths to downplay the enshitification.
Did you just rawdog the home version or something? You gotta use at least some protection man! LTSC Pro install, some debloat scripts… anything but a straight install.
Lord knows what you could have caught!
Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It’s all written by amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.
And if you are an amateur yourself, you have no means to validate that the scripts aren’t harmful.
Privacy.sexy works great…
I’d say that the ctt winutil does a pretty good job. I’ve been running installs cleaned by it for a good year now without major issues
I thought so as well for a time, but that tool in particular is what finally made me lose faith that there might be any good debloat tool out there.
Basically, someone mentioned that it does a weird thing, so I’ve decided to take a look closer, and stumbled about a whole lot of dumb choices. To exemplify, I’ll just repost that part of my comment from back then:
Oh yeah, I’ve just skimmed what else the “Disable Telemetry” script does to the registry, and I honestly can’t classify it as anything other than batshit insane.
A few highlights:
- The popup delay of nested context menus and mouse hover popups
- Disables the prompt when there are open programs when shutting down
- Switches the explorer from the default view to This PC
- Enables long file paths
- Expands the file copy dialog by default
- Straight up disables RDP???
And this is only one script out of a few dozen this “tool” has. Not to mention this is listed under “Essential Tweaks” that are, according to the documentation “Essential Tweaks are modifications and optimizations that are generally safe for most users to implement.”
Remote assistance is not rdp, it’s Microsoft’s support hook over the Internet, which requires telemetry to function. It is distinctly separate from, and not a prerequisite for RDP.
The rest of that I’ll have to look into, but disabling remote assistance seems sane in that context.
I wonder if other parts of the shutdown dialog or hover context menu have phone home functions that can only be disabled in roundabout ways; it wouldn’t be the first time. It would not surprise me to learn that the “which apps are preventing shutdown” dialog would be something that triggers a call to phone that data home.
Good catch. Never used Remote Assistance, so I don’t know how different it is, and if it actually requires telemetry.
Although the broader issue isn’t the why, it’s that it does those things at all without clearly communicating them to the user. Even their documentation has severe lack of any kind of explanation.
The icks is what I caught!
Sexy as hell?
that was literally me yesterday when i had to backup my wifes windows pc. maybe i can get her to switch on her old pc when support runs out…
