Clearly.
It works on so many levels because there is a non-trivial amount of Linux elitists who are just as insufferable as Katy Perry!
Work “upgraded” me to Windows 11 today. So fun learning how to do the same thing as always but with a much shittier workflow.
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…
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
Did she really do that? I’m flabbergasted she brought a pamphlet for her upcoming tour and a little flower to hold in front of the camera. This is the first and possibly last time you’re going to space, Katy. How vain do you have to be to be holding things in front of a camera? I would be glued to the windows and savoring the sensation of weightlessness.
There may not come another time where she’s in all the news, worldwide. Gotta use every second to promote the upcoming tour with that amount of exposition, i guess.
When you’re convinced that the world revolves around you, you probably won’t have much appreciation for the universe.
She did it and so did Gale King. The only good thing about this whole narcissistic, class-based, photo op ordeal was this meme. The best part is that they trained together for what, 8 months? They spend almost 3 minutes of their 4 minutes in space taking selfies of each other and playing with their devices. I guess they got their $100k a piece worth of PR.
they trained for 8 months? doubt
Me when I returned to gaming on Linux after Proton and Lutris dropped (no more fiddling with Wine prefixes and such 😅)
🙌
So… When it was easy for you. Good job biting the hands that fed.
biting the hands that fed
That’s not how that saying works, dawg
Why not?
My work laptop just updated to Win11 and I’m not happy about it
Same I want your laptop on xp
Sexy as hell?
~. / sweet ~. /
Windows 10 was still okay, Win 11 is unbearable
It’s because Microsoft was trying to steal mac’s shine.
I helped my son install Windows 10 on a spare SSD for Fortnite. His first comment after booting into Windows: Why is it so ugly?
After the novelty of playing Fortnite wore off he’s back to Linux.
I have a win-box for old 16/32bit games, and there is always a reboot needed or some other crap. Dont get me started on the speed, does it have to call m$ by phone every time I want to launch a program?
God I love Linux.
Honestly gaming on Linux is so good these days, it’s almost on par with Windows there. Really the only major games that can’t be played are due to anticheat rootkits… which are a security nightmare anyway.
I had 5k hours of Linux-exclusive Apex Legends, the only Linux Apex Diamond in my country, I had streaming income and even tournament income. I still miss it but I won’t ever go back to Windows gaming even if I doubled my streamer income.
Did they drop Linux support or something?
Almost 2 seasons ago, yes. It’s not coming back.
It’s so ugly because you didn’t install Windows 7 :3
As much as I love Aero, one probably should use secure and supported OS for gaming
Of course, Windows 10 & 11 are harder to make look actually like Aero than basically any Linux DE, because they hate you
KDE has an Aero theme in settings.
he’s back to Linux
^^^ Amazing parenting right here. 👏 👏 👏 👏 Bravo sir.
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)
Once you’re hooked to Linux there is no going back lol
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.
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.
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!
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.
Privacy.sexy works great…
Might be down right now ( https://privacy.sexy/ )
And if you are an amateur yourself, you have no means to validate that the scripts aren’t harmful.
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!
