Anticorp,

Bill hasn’t been associated with Microsoft decisions in like 15 years. Yes he still owns a shit load of the company, but he’s not the CEO, he doesn’t even sit on the board. He sits in his 16,000 square foot lakefront Medina, WA mansion and gets richer.

neutron,

Public consciousness skipped Ballmer’s CEO era and apparently Satya’s name is too difficult to remember.

imnapr,
@imnapr@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Me when I open my laptop and get a fucking ad for windows 11

vaidooryam,

@Steamymoomilk recently had to do a clean win 11 install. Spent a day trying to get the Intel RST driver loaded just to begin install. After trying various sources including the recovery media from manufacturer had to take it to a few repair centers(many claimed bad SSD even though I explained what driver was needed) to just install the OS it came with.

Same laptop have installed a half dozen linux distros with no such issue.

Steamymoomilk,

That’s the monolithic for you, has drivers for basically everything minus NVIDIA tho.

kylian0087,

Thats why i use IPXE and a sysprepped image when i do need windows. Or i got to install windows for friends and familie

Phoenix3875,

Not just installing. When updating, sometimes it tries to reset the options and change my default browser to edge.

dontblink,
@dontblink@feddit.it avatar

Edge would ALWAYS get on the way with its stupid search bar widget. They tried to improve their shitty outdated piece of crap internet explorer that nobody was using and they ended up with a modern shitty piece of crap that is edge.

Anticorp,

It resets everything, including a bunch of tracking shit you intentionally turned off.

nostradiel,

I use Linux nowadays, but I still have dual boot cause of some games. I use LTSB debloated with stopped updates and telemetry.

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I installed it in VirtualBox because I wanted to try if a neovim plugin worked with it.

The most awful experience ever. It’s so bad it’s tragic, and screams surveillance late stage capitalism. If people don’t notice that, it’s because they have slowly become used to it under the windows regime.

noodlejetski,

someone should create !windowsbad so that such content doesn’t get accidentally posted in a Linux community.

Synthead,

I wish Windows didn’t spy on you in the bathroom. But this helps:

www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Simplesyrup,

Illusion of privacy lol

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

Can’t find it anymore, but I remember someone did a DNS analysis and they are even pinging McAfee servers, before you open any apps.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Windows sucks but that article was click bait bullshit and was due to the laptop manufacturer bloat ware.

floofloof,

Didn’t Bill Gates leave Microsoft in 2008? Other than that, yeah.

Anticorp,

Yes, he isn’t even on the board anymore. He’s only involved in his charity, and palling around with Warren Buffett these days.

ox0r,

“”" charity"“”

Psythik,

Seriously, lol; how did this post even get upvotes? (UpLemmies? Whatever they’re called here)

cyberpunk007,

Also this was one of the early windows 10 updates lol. Like 2017 or something.

How it feels to install windows in 2023 is to drop to a hidden shell and run some commands to create a local account instead of a Microsoft account to log into your computer. Fuckin disgusting.

teawrecks,

Pro tip: You can hit space tab space tab… to quickly cycle through them all.

I will say though, it is mighty refreshing to go through a Linux installer now.

20gramsWrench,

all these will be reinstated in the next update and all the unsent locally collected information will be sent with the consent you gave by not preventing your system from updating

buwho,

oof. thats fucked up.

anteaters,

I think the day I have to reinstall Windows on my Desktop will be the day I’ll replace it with Linux. Already use it on server and laptop but stuck with Windows for gaming. Anyone know if SteamVR works on Linux?

poweruser,

I got it to launch but I only got about 15 FPS.

So it is at least possible. My PC is pretty outdated so it might work for you if you have a good graphics card with good drivers

socphoenix,

It works with the valve index and I think the vice pro. I have the cosmos which doesn’t work… point being google your headset there will probably be some detailed advice for it!

throws_lemy,
@throws_lemy@lemmy.nz avatar

The reason why I still use Windows is Excel, because everyone still relies on Excel formulas and macros 🙄

vd1n,

Bro just say fuck it. If you use Linux you don’t need to care about regular lifestyle traditions. Treat yo self.

Bogasse,

Doesn’t the browser version do the trick?

theshatterstone54,

Ver often, it doesn’t. I had to use Excel for some asignments, and because I’m on a pretty low end machine, I ended up dualbooting.

madeindjs,

You can use it using your browser with Office 365, no ?

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