In my view, this is unacceptable…
They changed my background (previously there was a default blue window), placed an icon in the bottom corner of the screen that read “Learn more about this photo”, and re-added the search bar that I had previously removed.
Fortunately, I don’t have to deal with this on a daily basis.
They’ve absolutely gone mad with power
Isn’t this just normal Windows behaviour? I feel like I’ve been reading these kinds of posts forever.
Get used to it. It is not your machine, its Microsofts.
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Somebody set up us the bomb!
We get signal.
What!
Main screen turn on.
It’s you!!
How are you gentlemen!!
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My windows vm runs Cairo shell as the desktop and I’ve replaced the file manager with Dolphin and the command prompt with Konsole and notepad with Kate and it almost feels like a usable operating system
Kindows
I hate that goddamn searchbar
Tell me about it. Useless. The whole start menu is fucked honestly. Can’t ever find anything you’re looking for. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I WANT BING WEB SEARCH RESULTS HERE!?!?
Just booted? Better wait 45 seconds and many failed searches, because DNS isn’t resolving.
Doesn’t matter that you are trying to launch a local program, it absolutely must delay the user experience until it can successfully resolve a DNS query.
Disgusting
Hey, got a link to the wallpaper for your main OS? Not the windows one, the red and black one we see part of in the image. Thanks!
It’s one of the Gnome default wallpapers
All it did to you was cosmetic.
Windows 10’s “feature” updates consistently also re-enable the “fast startup” option on my machine when they install. Which, on my particular motherboard and SSD combination, causes Windows to take about 30 minutes to boot when left enabled for reasons I have never been able to comprehend. A regular cold boot only takes like 20 seconds, so… I definitely tend to notice when it does this behind my back yet again.
It also does it so that you no longer hit the bootloader. My one last dual boot machine is normally a Linux setup, but every so often I have to use the real MS Office tools (some collaborator or publisher demands it), so I boot windows. Then windows patches and stops actually hitting grub so it acts like a windows only machine until I fix whatever Microsoft fucks up yet again.
It’s time to move to a VM for this garbage. I just don’t neet it more than once every other year so I never seem to get around to nuking it.
How’s gaming on Linux working out lately? I have a newer Windows 11 machine and looking to jump ship, asap.
It’s really good. Proton works great for everything over tried to play. It’s pretty amazing actually
Ive been 100% linux since 2016, and while there are some pain points, the games that work, work amazingly well.
I have epic games, gog, steam games all working through launchers that work pretty perfectly. The biggest pain points are developers with intrusive anticheats.
Check the games you/your friends play against protondb.com or areweanticheatyet.com before committing yourself.
Rule of thumb: If your game has kernel-level anticheat, it probably won’t work. If your game doesn’t have any anticheats, there’s a 95% chance it will work on Linux.
Still no good if you play about 70% of games with an anticheat. Outside of that it’s fine if you’re willing to put up with general Linux issues
My favorite part is how it broke the Intel wifi card during my Linux install until I booted back into windows just to turn fast boot off. Maybe some hackery to skip initializing wifi hardware or something?
Dude, you enlighten me, that happened to me too but it was during the time I jumped between win and Linux and one day did the wifi card just stop working and I couldn’t figure out why, I tried many things without luck but some days it magicaly worked again and I haven’t been in windows since and have never had that problem again. I don’t know if I turned off fast boot (but I have done that many times so it is likely), so it could have been an update that turned it on. I will remember this if it happens to someone or myself again. Thank you!
Just passing the tourch I guess. A random post on the archlinux forum saved me and I’m glad sharing my experience helps someone else.
What VM software are you using?
“Boxes” from Gnome shipped by default with Fedora
Time to switch to Windows 11 as Microsoft is going to make your experience as bad as possible
If you need Windows I would create Samba AD DC and then join the machine to the domain. From there you can configure it with group policy
You can set group policy on an individual windows PC without the need for an active directory domain controller
True but the AD can be useful for other things and is separate from the install
I’m struggling to think of anything that a domain controller would be useful for in a single computer setup which wouldn’t be better served by an alternative tool. What are you thinking?
I like to split the roles into separate VMs. I have a few VMs joined to the domain and I can house all the configs and user profiles on the DC. If I need to blow away a machine for whatever reason I do not need to recreate work. I just create a new VM and then join the domain. All the group policy tweaks apply and I don’t need to manually change settings.
This sounds way beyond what the average user would need, most people just want a single windows PC to play video games on or to use Photoshop. It’s fun to mess around with it and it’s good to learn if you work in IT but almost nobody who is just a regular home user would benefit from having an AD DC.
They’re trying to tell you to go outside
It even did the same thing with enterprise customers. All our machines suddenly started asking us to enable search. Like why do I need another thing when opening the Start Menu and typing is the same fucking thing?? And to fuck with my group policies and undo the customization I had is mega infuriating.
Test updates before deploying
They didn’t say they deployed it, also enterprise operating systems are generally expected to not suddenly change manually-set policies for users…
your background? Since when is this Windows computer your computer? Microsoft has been very clear that we no longer own our computers if we choose to use Windows.
It’s Microsoft Windows’ computer. Must’ve missed that little apostrophe.
You never did. You LEASED it.
Why do you subject yourself to this? Cast off your chains, become a free $USER.
It’s clearly a VM
Shh you’re no fun.
Because it’s not our fucking choice, you imbecile. Corporate does as corporate wants. I can’t install your precious penguin on my work machine, okay??!
Skill issue, get a better job.
Damn, even as a Linux user I get tired with all these “windows bad” posts. Yes, we all know it sucks. No lemmy user wants to use windows.
Sweet wallpaper though
