this pushed me to try linux again for the second time. but all i do on my pc is game mostly. i couldn’t get the games i was playing at the time to work so i quit. i spent 3 days trying to get resident evil 4 and guardians of the galaxy to work over a single ad for fallout-in-space-game.
i’ve settled on disabling “get fun facts, tips, tricks and more on your lock screen” check box in personalization >> lock screen
Were you referencing protondb.com for information about those games? I see they’re rated silver and gold, respectively, so both should work with some tinkering. Silver might be a bit much for a linux newbie.
I did. I started trying with guardians of the galaxy and gave up after I couldn’t get re4 working, which like you said was gold. I’ll probably give it another shot soon. I’ve been playing a lot of FFXIV and apparently that runs well.
I have an extra m2 slot I’m going to buy a drive dedicated to trying to get off the Microsoft teat.
Your answer was exactly 500 words, so we have added the notation “smartass” to your permanent file and also made Edge your default browser. Enjoy using Edge!
So there’s also this neat feature in Microsoft Office where if you insert a hyperlink to a Google Doc/Sheets/Slides/Forms, Microsoft appends URIs to the end that prevents the link from opening in browsers other than Edge/IE. It can be corrected with a registry edit, but it’s been an issue for years and years at this point. Super annoying!
Or another fun thing I recently saw at work, Microsoft changing Office programs to always open links in Edge by default so you have to edit a setting to make it open the default browser again - which caused a significant productivity loss when people suddenly had various intranet pages opened in a browser they were not logged into, and they all had to contact support to get the original sane behavior back.
Microsoft is being run by marketing teams with hubris these days, there’s absolutely no way they’re testing these things with real humans before release.
Thanks to FOSS Devs, it’s possible to remove a lot of shit Microsoft throws at their users, Sophia Script, Optimizer, PrivateZilla, PrivacySexy… To name a few…
However, removing Microsoft Edge is still difficult, if not impossible, I used pirated iso’s ( for testing purposes ) that removes MS Edge, but once you update the system, everything crashes, AME is a good example, in order to keep the system stable, they disabled all updates for you…
I also noticed that the privacy invasive features I turn off, get turned on, on the next update, MS Edge does this with each update, so it leaves you with no choice but to just … Ignore its there, and not use it…
So my conclusion is, you can’t disbale anything unless Microsoft allows you to, yes you can have a less annoying experience with one of the tools I mentioned above, but the OS remains hostile against user choice.
So my conclusion is, you can’t disbale anything unless Microsoft allows you to, yes you can have a less annoying experience with one of the tools I mentioned above, but the OS remains hostile against user choice.
Whats funny there, is people that are forced (I assume that’s the only reason you’d run it) to run Windows hate that shit, while at the same time the Apple cult embraces have zero control of their devices. They know best after all…
That’s just it. Most of us probably work on our computers – imagine if you were a carpenter and your tools actively fought you. It’s about literal quality of life for me at this point.
The worst part is that if Raymond Chen is to be believed (author of The Old New Thing, work(ed) for Microsoft) this is the complete antithesis of what their philosophy was supposed to be in the Windows 96/98 era, which was “let the user have full control over how they want to use their computer.”
Personally I hate these tools with a passion as every single one I’ve seen goes overboard and disables potentially wanted features or straight up breaks stuff in its default configuration. It’s always fun to figure out what’s wrong with a machine only to eventually figure out that the owner used one of those tools a few months ago.
IMO people should either do these changes themselves or use another OS, though ultimately there needs to be legislation against this to help the non-technical people.
You can’t do 70℅ of what these tools can do for you since these features are hidden by Microsoft, and the only way to disable or enable them is via Powershell
Also, you have to be lazy and reckless to run them as they are, since almost all of them have checkboxes and explainers to what they’re going to do.
From a person who troubleshoots computers perspective, yes, fixing a computer for someone who tinkers but doesn’t understand what they’re doing ( in some cases they might not know what they’re trying to achieve ) can be a headache, and I can’t help but give them this look 😒
People here have a big hate boner for Microsoft. I’m with you, this is such a non issue that doesn’t affect anyone, people just like to scream at things I guess. I await an explanation on how selecting a drop down absolutely destroyed productivity or usability.
That’s fine if you actually want it. I usually get the Costco deal for the family plan because we need the official MS Office apps and the terabyte storage per account is useful for us.
But Microsoft has gotten really obnoxious lately about upselling in the OS.
Other: “Why the fuck do you feel entitled to MY information on a platform I BOUGHT. Get fucked Greedsoft. Once Linux can play any game I want I’m out faster than you can say: Windows 14 coming 2026.”
It’s not all games though and I keep hearing easy anticheat doesn’t like Linux at all. I don’t want to limit what I can play just to stick it to Greedsoft just yet and I’m a bit of a nerd for star citizen lol I can’t imagine that would work well.
Thanks for the link though! I’ll have to save that for later
You weren’t being pedantic, you honestly thought that someone had the assumption that by paying $100, they owned the windows ip, and you were just helping them out?
My onedrive password expired on my work (and only windows) machine 2 years ago. I have never updated it, and that seems like a really good decision in retrospect.
and you think ppl will? naah ppl will use safari, iphone, insta, google search etc. and downvote you for daring to just mention problems with said corpos.
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