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you when windows 10 forces an update on you: :walter-breakdown:
me hitting pause updates and then when it bothers me a week later hitting pause again because i can read: :think-about-it:
The main issue is when you have to work with other teams or companies. Even if you use all the same programs trying to get someone on Mac to work with someone on Windows is nearly impossible, and the problem scales tenfold on Linux. Any meeting between design, analytics, and development is basically a tech support session.
Even if your ecosystem is shit, having a consistent company/industry wide one is extremely useful.
Yeah, we have designers, and while we have mercifully managed to stop them emailing spreadsheets and spec docs as an OsX pages/numbers doc, they have a tendency to get "custom" in ways that would go badly if they did stuff in Libre and a client tried to open it in Word or GDocs
95 + 98 + XP + 7, are the best. I don't even know what Vista and 8 were, besides a joke. 10 is meh, 11 is cursed.
11 is literally next to no different than 10 besides a reskin, what makes it cursed?
I'm on Insider Previews and I literally got the Windows 11 kernal before anyone outside of MS (including me) even knew 11 was a thing.
I’m on Insider Previews and I literally got the Windows 11 kernal before anyone outside of MS (including me) even knew 11 was a thing.
:pain:
Why are you beta testing though?
idk just felt like it. I get to preview new features for one which is nice.
Heard a lot of negative shit about it and older pcs can't even run it.
The main reason old PCs can't run it is a dumb policy by MS, not because they actually have trouble running it. That part is pretty shit yeah.
8 was just a reskin of 7 with a different Start Menu UI and the beginnings of the half-baked Control Panel migration, but was really not that bad once you got used to it. More so if your device had a touch screen, though I still think ultrabooks are kind of pointless and just enable boomers who love to jam their greasy sausage fingers into the screen when they want to indicate something on an Excel sheet. Either way, Fast Boot was amazing when it first came out.
Hell, 7 was just a reskin of Vista, and Vista had a more efficient kernel due to some later hardware abstraction stuff not being included yet. It just had really shitty default settings, and was released before low/mid-spec hardware could keep up with shit like GPU rendered transparency effects on the desktop menus. The Gadgets system was kind of neat too (and compatible with 7), although full customization packages like Rainmeter offered a lot more options. NGL, I kind of miss having CPU and GPU usage and temps on my second monitor without having to install a third-party desktop gadget hosting app.
:so-true: My 10GB/month Internet plan is going to save me soooo much money, plus I can tether in class!
Switch to Linux and the pain goes away
lmao ok 👌
Linux can be extremely painful, even if you know what you're doing.
i love being spied on. i go fucking crazy over all the suit-wearing people watching me browse the internet all day long, each one of them fully aware of my dirty interests. i get a huge, throbbing wet boner just by imagining bill gates looking at my disgusting search history, smiling naughtily at his screen, his hungry eyes glinting from the blue light in the darkest of rooms. that's so fucking hot...
The Turing machine and it's consequences have been an unmitigated disaster for the human race.
I would hope it's not getting worse.
I'll make the switch in a bit. Just not today. Probably.
Total Download Size: 21.52 MiBTotal Installed Size: 99.83 MiBNet Upgrade Size: 0.79 MiB:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] nfeels good to be in control of my own computer :comfy-cool:
I wish everyone who says Windows 10 is the best OS ever
so Microsoft staff and literally nobody else, then
Given the frequency and obtrusiveness of the updates, Covid really looks like if it was made by Bill Gates.
Again I'm in this position...
I've never had an update forced on me at a bad time. You know why? Because I update as soon as it's available (and convenient for me) rather than waiting weeks, and shutdown my computer every day.
Yeah it sucks for "free software total control of your computer" types that it requires updates, but it's super easy to avoid the forced restart.
Also if you really want you can probably get into group policy shit and stop it entirely.
have you ever had the experience in linux where you wait too long between updates, and then it becomes impossible to upgrade anything because you're too far behind and the helpers in the IRC channel for the distro just tell you to reinstall the OS?
My biggest regret probably upgrade it to 10. Don’t even try to look at 11
this isn't new, this was the kind of shit I said in 9th grade
Oh God, am I gonna have to go hard on my work desktop to protect it from that shitpile?
For anyone who doesn't know, you can download group policy editor and wub to block this. So far, I haven't gotten any updates through them both and gpedit is what businesses use to control updates I think. Someone else on here also linked another update blocker a while back and you can download gpedit if your version of windows doesn't have it.
