"u-uhm hi 😳wiww u uhh pweez consider upgwading to windows ewevven 🥺🥺🥺🥺" FUCK NO get that government spyware shit OUT of my fucking dopamine box im fosspilled bitch
"u-uhm hi 😳wiww u uhh pweez consider upgwading to windows ewevven 🥺🥺🥺🥺" FUCK NO get that government spyware shit OUT of my fucking dopamine box im fosspilled bitch
Vent session incoming
Windows 10 pushed out an update about 2-3 weeks ago and all of a sudden my PC, which has been happily chugging along for the past 2 years without issue started getting like 6+ driver-level exceptions per day, and I'm just done. I got it much more stable (but not perfect) by uninstalling a virtual audio cable driver I was no longer experimenting with, but it is still the MS package they pushed out that fucked everything up.
Technically I still need windows to run a bunch of CAD/CAM packages, but I will just try to dual boot to a p**a**d copy at that point. I was thinking "maybe the 'windows 11 health check tool' could easily fix my IRQL blue screen" but when I went to run it, they literally make you consent up front to data collection from a fucking diagnosis tool. No chance in hell will I ever run Windows 11.
I recently experimented with running Raspbian on a Pi to set up a Pihole, and even though I don't know what the fuck I'm doing in there yet, it has been less of a hassle than windows recently
Yeah windows does driver updates though windows update unless you turn it off. Fucked up my graphics driver until I reinstalled it
The last time Win10 auto updated, my computer hang at booting before restarting itself and undoing the update. I now use wub to block all of it and haven't had any problems since. I'd like to try linux but it seems like it'll just be a gamble if what I need works or not.
oh, are you able to say what you need? I could point you in the right direction!
Not sure what your workflow for CAD stuff is, but there's some options on Linux:
https://itsfoss.com/cad-software-linux/
i finally got all the components to try my own Rasbian Pihole experiment too but i've been too busy lately to really get into it. i was thinking of using it as a catalyst to start a dual boot on my PC and start messing with different linux OS
Yeah it's been a great jumping off point, you basically just turn it on and it runs. I used the 7" 'official' touch screen, and it is surprisingly just plug and play. It feels great to know the software isn't spying on you constantly, and the way everything gets handled by the package manager is awesome. Unfortunately Pihole/DNS filtering doesn't work very well against youtube or other massive sites that serve the ads from their own domain, so I was kind of toying with the idea of using it as a media server or something
originally i just wanted a tiny computer to break. my dad really fucked with my head when i was younger about "breaking" computers so even though i like tinkering i want to get over my hyper perfectionism. i thought about media server too but have an older PC with a good robust mobo and server grade athlon processor i was going to do this with instead. my dream for a pi is to make a tiny retrobox for old school games. there used to be an all in one linux-based emulator software package you could download but i think it disappeared likely for IP reasons or something.