Its okay just plop some snow over the entrance they'll tire themselves out

Full of fish?

Well on the dim side, AI companies are buying up all of the new hardware. So we either get software that is somewhat efficient or we eventually move to "computers" that are just streaming sticks we use to access a Microsoft® Copilot® 365® Windows® 12® Azure® Cloud Desktop Experience Subscription Service computer.

I just want the same interface from Y2K that runs so fucking fast my eyes can’t keep up with my fingers.

This is literally what Linux is always like and it never slows down even after decades. It boots and shuts down in about 3 seconds each. Join us; I spent a lot of time typing a foolproof guide recently. Let me see it actually get used lol!

I just played a game on Steam earlier tonight with friends; it launched WINE under the hood so invisibly that I couldn't believe I wasn't playing it on Windows. Nearly everything is cross-compatible these years with WINE, Bottles, Proton, Lutron, etc. There is basically no fear. If anything, the software typically performs even better.

Try Linux.

Happening with games too... I'm tired of developers just lowering the resolution and turning FSR on by default instead of even trying to optimize

Software is like a gas: it expands to fill its container.

Moving to the open fields was a so much smoother experience than downgrading the windows.

not everyone know how to sudo su -

Microsoft isn't the interesting one at this point. I'm more in awe of how the userbase just keeps taking that shit. That's a propaganda victory.

At some point Microsoft will publish an update that will shoot the user's dog and they will just share debloating scripts. Linux is free only if your time yadda yadda.

It's part of their culture. Windows ME.

People buy it?

god i hate the constant "LOG INTO AN ACCOUNT RIGHT NOW" with passion. i once had to log into a coworkers teams account and apparently windows decided that's good enough and automatically & without asking linked my entire local windows account with her work microsoft account

one log in took hours to undo

learnt my lesson - never log into microsoft through any of their apps, only ever use web based alternatives (and never on your main browser either, as sometimes logging out is just as painful as logging in)

Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.

"Today Microsoft and Adobe are announcing further AI integration of their products. This AI will tune software performance in an attempt to counteract the slowing effects of previous rounds of AI integration."

Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt.

to be fair, Acrobat itself is a very heavy heap of dung. There's no reason for anyone to use it if all they do with a .pdf is reading.

How would I do this?

The whole NT line is crap.

tbh XP or 2K was much better. 7 got rid of accelerated classic theme, so the whole experience was laggy when not using Aero. accelerated aero desktops are cool but there's a noticeable delay.

This is not ‘things were better when you were fifteen.’

It absolutely is rose-colored glasses, whether you realize it or not. This entire thread is.

I think people were just relieved to have a viable upgrade path from XP that wasn't Vista.

I feel like Windows 2000 was peak. Best UI, no spyware, fast... Yeah, it was great

tbh the only problem with Windows 10 for me was the telemetry/Forced Edge,which could've been disabled via scripts,as well as lower responsiveness(maybe placebo effect?). but Windows 11, literally some parts of the Operating System use Chromium. Please keep Chromium/Electron/CEF On Desktop apps, i hope other oses wont try to copy this.

Hard disagree. Even though it's initial outing was not the smoothest Windows 10 eventually got there and they made many improvements on Windows 7. So much so that it ran quite well for many many years which is why it was so widely adopted.

Quite frankly it's my belief that the reason they force implemented Windows 11 was because Windows 10 was running so fucking well that they were seeing zero growth in their OS sales cause no one was needing to upgrade anymore. I myself had Windows 10 running on a machine that was over 15 years old. And it ran quite well.

The telemetry all got backported as far as seven and made a mandatory dependency of some security updates, so within a few weeks of 10's launch, you either had telemetry or a machine that wasn't safe to connect to the Internet.

I miss Windows XP. Take me back to the rolling green hills.

But with Win8 you don't get and Updates anymore. With Win10 there's still the LTSC (IoT) version.

Linux HDR support is so bad that it makes the entire OS not worth using.

I was using Debian for 4 years but unfortunately I had to stop using it once I stopped being poor because it just cannot run an OLED as its supposed to.

HDR is only supported on AMD cards and has abysmal software integration, even on supported content.. Comparatively, it just works on W11, even on titles that don't support it because of AutoHDR.

I hope it can be resolved soon, but as of rn unfortunately its not there yet.

Broke: Installing Linux

Woke: Installing an older version of Windows

Bespoke: Installing the Apple II OS

At risk of being a cliche: try Linux. It's really not hard to install.

I would take Windows 8 over 11.

I think it's an inevitability that Microsoft contributes to Wine and switches to maintaining a Debian distro. They know they don't have enough skilled developers to continue improving windows.

The only thing i wish is that i could alias win-style drive letters (complete with colon)

Muscle memory is a biiiitch

https://winaerotweaker.com/ lets you edit context menu entries

It's not loading (or it'd happen only once), it's calling back home (windows "anti virus") to see if it's secure to add each item to the context menu.

Give me an anemic E8400 and a compiler and I'll load up your context menu in under 20 milliseconds.