The registry trick came with caveats, though. Third-party SSD management tools like Samsung Magician and Western Digital Dashboard were not compatible with the new driver, and BitLocker could trigger recovery prompts after the driver swap.
$150 plus ads and all your data and they still won’t give you access to a driver
Man…I don’t even like linux. I don’t know what I’m doing. I have difficulty understanding what I’m even doing wrong. I have issues installing software unless it’s a flatpak.
And yet for the past 2 years I’ve been exclusively running linux. Not so much against my will, but against my wants.
What I want is WindowsXP 2.0. Just WindowsXP but able to run modern hardware, in a 64 bit software version.
Instead, we get Windows 11. I will not stand for buying hardware, paying for software to run an OS, only to be told I own nothing, my privacy is not respected, my screen real estate is theirs to sell, and the software spies on me.
So I want you to know, as a lifelong windows user, dating back to Windows 3.1, and going all the way to Windows 8.1, I want you to know I say this as a Windows user who feels held hostage on linux…
That being said…FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!! FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF WITH YOUR BULLSHIT! FUCK COPILOT! FUCK TILES! WINDOWS 10! FUCK WINDOWS 11! FUCK AI PUSHED DOWN OUR THROATS! FUCK YOUR ARTIFICIAL TECH LIMITS TO RUN WINDOWS 11! FUCK YOUR WHOLE MINDSET THESE PAST 15 YEARS!!! I HAVE BEEN UNHAPPILY USING LINUX FOR 2 YEARS EXCLUSIVELY AFTER TRYING IT OFF AND ON FOR 20 YEARS. NEVER UNDERSTOOD TERMINAL, MAY NEVER UNDERSTAND TERMINAL, BUT FUCK YOU MICROSOFT! I REFUSE YOUR BULLSHIT!
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is maintained until 2032, de-bloated, and free.
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I use Teams flatpak to communicate with family and like a week ago got a prompt “would you recommend this to others?”.
I clicked no, and for the reason “Sloppity slop slop slopitty slop” and 3 days later M$ announced they were rolling back Copilot integration in trivial apps. I felt listened to :P
GUYS!!! WE FOUND THE ONE!!! HE’S THE ONE WHO ENDS AI!!!
Praise be!
Debian + KDE and then install synaptic and your basically there man. https://itsfoss.com/synaptic-package-manager/ You could go with Ubuntu but it has telemitry bullshit (if you don’t care then its fine). Ubuntu is just the commercialized linux that is based on Debian, basically the same thing but with the Ubuntu store and settings on top of Debian. Launch Synaptic once a month and refresh and apply updates or add the software from the repositry from there. Debian is all about being stable so it wont have all the latest versions of software but if you want a Windows XP version of Linux that just fucking works, Debian is the way to go. Everything has a .deb installer if it is trying to be available to the wider Linux user market.
Man…I don’t even like linux. I don’t know what I’m doing. I have difficulty understanding what I’m even doing wrong. I have issues installing software unless it’s a flatpak.
Use decent distro like Fedora KDE. A lot of issues are because new people pick Debian, Ubuntu or Arch
Which distro are you on?
I’m sure you could easily get some help with how to install things and the basics of using the terminal (though you really shouldn’t need to use the terminal much anyway).
ZorinOS. I’m still on 17, because 2 years ago on my TwisterOS (raspberry pi) I used sudo update all, and that broke some shit.
So when I installed ZorinOS on my PC, I immediately disabled all updates, and it sits exactly as it was when I installed it. Never updated in 2 years. I haven’t broken anything.
I want to install this thing called docker, but it’s been so long that now I forget what it even was I wanted to install. I just remember docker was a prerequisit.
But I tried for 2 weeks, and it gives errors. And the thing is, if I understood linux, I’m sure it’s a simple fix. It’s like wandering into a house you’ve never been in before, and your friend is saying “turn the lights on!!!” and you know you need to turn the lights on, but you have no idea how. And you don’t feel the light switch on the wall. What you don’t know is it’s actually a clapper light switch. So you don’t even know what you’re doing wrong.
Thats how linux feels to me.
But for browsing the web, and playing games, it seems to work decent enough.
Although recently my bluetooth has been wonky. Very recent behavior. Used to just be rock solid. Now sometimes my devices won’t connect. Gotta turn off bluetooth, and then turn it back on. Then turn the device back on, and it’ll connect like normal.
In windows, I’d say uninstall and reinstall the bluetooth driver. In linux I have zero clue how I would even start that process.
Again, in a dark room not sure what to do.
How could the bluetooth performance deteriorate if you are really not updating anything?
I have no idea.
Ah … I’m not too familiar with Zorin (or bluetooth) myself, but hopefully you’ll get some answers!
C’mon beb Linux gon be guuuuud.
There’s a x64 version of XP iirc, running it would be a hacky and security nightmare though (but think about that sweet zune theme!)
The scream of an era!
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Their entire company philosophy and culture revolves around Copilot.
Every coding task needs to start with a prompt.
The use of Copilot is tracked and if you don’t use it enough, you get called into a meeting.
Copilot is used to write your own progress reports and by management to read them for performance reviews.So basically, Windows 11 is now vibe-coded using the worst AI on the market.
Part hubris, part greed. They believe their own hype and either think that other people will believe it too or that they can force it on the unbelievers, thus leading to great profit.
Where is the profit? Enforced cloud accounts and storage mean users’ information is permanently held ransom, and users shall pay monthly to retain access to it.
They can also pick through users’ files and sell that information to data brokers and advertisers, if not also various government intelligence agencies.
Actually that last one is more about the continued ability to go on bleeding users dry, but it amounts to the same thing.
it just takes a few stupid people in higher positions to negate the work of hundreds more competent people.
I don’t think you can apply Hanlon’s Razor to actions of corporations.
For publicly traded companies, you actually have to apply the inverse of Hanlons Razor.
Rozar’s Nolnah? It is forbidden.
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I think Hanlon was either a lot more optimistic than I am or he was malicious when he came up with that Razor, assuming razors are named after the person who coined them.
no no no, you misunderstand, this is malice, but the reason backing it is stupid and short sighted. i mean, unless the game plan was to run off their customers like a movie troupe
I don’t understand where’s the problem. My Linux distro works just fine.
Such a long history of driver BS on windows. Going all the way back.
It was tested (I believe igors lab) and the end result was that it doesnt matter for the general user and mainly to businesses that are dependant on heavy parallelisation.
And how often do you max out your PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe with loads of multiple small operations?
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You are maxing out your gen 4 PCI bus on a regular basis
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