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.
Oh, didn’t you know? It’s not really your PC any longer.
Fortunately, it’s actually mine, cuz I use Fedora with Gnome, which doesn’t do these magic tricks 😁
Tricks are something Microsoft does for money.
Coo-coo-ka-cha!
Owning your computer is an ILLUSION
The PC might be yours, but that virtual machine is Microsoft’s little bitch
I actually enjoy playing with Windows and Active Directory. I think it is ahead in terms of management and needing hacky workarounds
I use FreeIPA and it works just fine for everything I would need AD for. Your point still stands. I just mean there are good enough alternatives for the Linux environment.
There are definitely ways of configuring Linux systems. For many organizations Ansible or Puppet works completely fine. However, they require a significant amount of knowledge and aren’t completely standardized. Group policy on Windows has been around for a long time and will be much easier to deploy, at least in the short term.
I used to use Fedora on my Asus gaming laptop, and loved it. More recently I’ve chosen to switch over to Manjaro, because I wanted something based on Arch that was more lightweight than Garuda. Gotta love that Linux life.
Have you tried reborn or endeavor?
I tried EndeavourOS, but it didn’t fully support my hardware like Manjaro does
Interesting. I’ve only had one system that had hardware issue with any of them. And it was of course the finger print reader. Though I suppose it could be a WiFi issue.
The issue I had with my Asus ROG laptop was that EndeavourOS didn’t support the volume buttons on the keyboard, along with some other keys. It was annoying enough that I went to Manjaro.
I guess Lemmy is mostly tech nerds like myself, but it’s still cool as hell to see another Fedora user around :)
Well yea, you turned off the windows search/Cortana/Bing bar, but now it’s called copilot/recall bar which you haven’t turned off yet.
/S
Soon I won’t have to anymore. This is the last Windows virtual machine I have that sometimes I have to use 😀
I have a virtual machine with WinXP and one with 98, for when I’m feeling nostalgic :)
Sorry to hear you have to use Windows… I’m still stuck on 10 but I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Mint Xfce and I’ll complete the move soon enough!
Have you tried React OS?
How would one go about setting up a win 98 at this point? Do you need an ISO of it already, or can you find that somewhere for that specific use?
I ask because I have a game that I want to play for nostalgia reasons (it’s a kids game from waaay back, but I remember it fondly, and I bet I’d do a touch better now) but I can’t get it to play in any compatibility mode or anything. It just flat refuses to launch.
You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I’m not sure about the legality of it, so I’ll say I don’t condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn’t care.
Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I’ve seen.
Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!
For operating systems https://winworldpc.com/library is easier to find things in and has way faster download speeds
This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
At some point M$ allowed the free download of something called “Windows XP Mode for Windows 7”. It was some virtual machine or something. What matters is that it’s possible to extract an XP ISO from this, which I have successfully used to spin up a virtual machine! It still complains about a license key, though.
The reason I mention this is that this is still available on archive.org, and it’s signed by M$, so you know it’s legit. I don’t know if other ISOs available have such a receipt of authenticity. Probably, but I never cared enough to check, especially since I grabbed this from the official website while it was available.
OUR desktop wallpaper, comrade
They don’t do this shit in Linux.
Come join us, Comrade.
Hmm, on one of the KDE plasma updates, my wallpaper did change to their infamous teletubby wallpaper. Mind you, I was still using the default wallpaper at that time, and this was their new default wallpaper, so that’s probably why.
Tell that to Fedora that keeps resetting the Firefox homepage back to a Fedora news site.
Chris Titus made this tool. I use it to debloat windows, disable all the telemetry, then pause all feature updates for two years and let only security updates through. As an added bonus (and if you want win11), he added a tool to create a micro windows iso. I am running the micro and it has been fantastic. I even removed defender and other garbage they force on people.
I wonder how many people confuse him for the comedian.
Didn’t even know about a comedian with this name
He’s pretty good. Kinda like a left leaning Dennis Leary
Who’s Dennis Leary? 😂 Sorry, immigrant here and don’t know many people.
He’s a comedian from the '90s and early '00s
Oh, ok. Good thing I didn’t know him I guess.
Nah, look him up. He is actually funny, but a bit right wing these days. He was closer to mainstream in the '90s
Oh, and watch the video. It is funny.
Oh definitely look up Christopher Titus on YouTube he put all his standup specials on there for free.
I assumed it wasn’t the comedian, but bought that he might be angry enough at Windows to make it happen.
I just did
I used a similar tool in the past. When I wanted to re-enable something, I forgot which tool I used to disable it, and I couldn’t actually get it working ever again
Dont say it… dont say it… dont saaaayyyy iiiiitt!!!
Have you considered Linux Mint?
Damn… sorry… was I the first to suggest it this time?
I already use Fedora Linux, and this Windows is in a virtual machine because sometimes my school requires me to use software that simply doesn’t run on Linux
I bought a cheap laptop for school just to run their windows anti cheat crap. Do you have to run something similar?
Fortunately, no. My school expects me to use XAMPP (a LAMP stack but without “L” cuz it’s on Windows) and Microsoft Office applications like Word, Access, and Excel.
While in the case of LAMP, I can install the individual services (Apache, PHP, MySQL) myself from command line, Microsoft Office applications won’t work like that.
Use Libreoffice where you can and just open it up in Word to verify
I guess I should count myself lucky everything is expected in be turned in as a PDF and Google docs is used for everything else. The anticheat recognizes it’s running on a VM and throws and error.
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!?!?
Your computer? You mean Microsoft’s bitch box?
Face it, they can do whatever they want with your computer and you’re powerless to stop them. They’ve also been looking through your photos and adding them to their AI model.
Face it, they can do whatever they want with your computer and you’re powerless to stop them.
Not my computer. They can’t do shit if it’s not installed.
We have to face the reality; Microsoft has got the majority of users by their balls. People don’t like M$ per say, but rather the applications,the compatibility, and ubiquitousness of their platform.
Till people get their favourite apps on their desired platform, M$ could start charging $10 a month to access Windows + malware + ads, and people would still rush to buy them.
When they tell you they’re walking back Recall and it’s “off by default”, remember that they constantly do this shit.
“We’ve installed malicious spyware on your computer without you asking for it, but don’t worry, it’s off by default.”
“No.” (Installs GNU/Linux)
All your data are belong to Microsoft
You don’t own your computer anymore, Microsoft just allows you to use it.
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
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.
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.
This is why you should not trust them regarding Recall. They will not let it go. It will be forced on you eventually.
no no no, it asked your permission. It’s just that the “we added back the search bar, is that ok” dialog defaults to “yes” after some short time. Extremely fucking annoying change
the dialog:
I had no dialog
The dialog goes away after a short time defaulting to “yes I want the useless search bar”
It happened on all my PCs, I was infuriated
According to the screenshot the question is only asked embedded in the start menu. Windows 10 does that all the time without actually asking. Win11 is better at actually keeping the configuration.
It’s a nice wallpaper though for what it’s worth.
Sweet wallpaper though
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