Recently I had a hiccup with my main SSD drive. I have a dual boot Win/Kubuntu setup. Linux was crashing hard and Windows was giving me blue screens. After I resolved the issue (cooling/loose connection, idk) my Linux was doing fine, but Windows was giving me blue screens. I think it was doing an update when it crashed.
After a couple of hours messing with my recovery USB and booting in safe mode, I was able to fix the bad update and reboot normally.
I tried to open Firefox and it couldn’t find the executable. Looking into the Program Files Mozilla folder, I found the .exe files had been renamed to .exe.sig???
Then looking for the Edge browser, I suddenly found out that Microsoft Copilot AI had been installed!?!?!?!?!?!?
What the actual fuck???
I never wanted that trash on my PC! That’s one of the reasons out of the many that I didn’t want to use Windows 11.
And it’s a weird fucking coincidence that Firefox was fucked. I couldn’t even rename the files to .exe because they wouldn’t execute. Looks like they were encrypted or some shit? What the fuck is Microsoft pulling?
It’s a happy coincidence because you know what? I’ve been thinking about going full Linux install since all my games and Windows applications work with Steam, Proton and Bottles now.
I really don’t see any fucking reason to keep using Windows. Fuck this shit and fuck Microsoft.
Edit: Oh and that’s on top of all the other bullshit like forcing users to create a MS account to install Windows 10 now and having to jump through hoops to have an offline installation. And also defaulting to having all your user folder documents into their fucking One Drive cloud.
I’m done.
Embrace it. Most of us used to use Windows at some point. But I think it’s really nice here on the other side. Hope you find your nice and bullshit-free way to use your computer.
My only fond memories of Windows is as the Backyard Baseball machine when I was a kid… It probably won’t even run that game anymore
Windows is as the Backyard Baseball machine when I was a kid… It probably won’t even run that game anymore
If there’s one thing windows does well, it’s maintaining backwards compatibility.
Most of my childhood games from that era run with little issue. Biggest issue is going to be 16bit stuff, but IME, it’s mostly been the installers that are 16bit only and the actual executable was 32bit and ran fine
Awesome and good to hear. Gotta find a torremt next time I’m feeling nostalgic. Bet my crappy 10 yr old laptop can run it at the highest settings 🤣
Welcome in from the cold. We have blankets and cocoa.
You found a .sig file where you expected a .exe? Did Windows crash while the Mozilla Updater was running? Sounds like a file that’d be present to verify that a new copy of the .exe was legit and complete, but the .exe itself was never written to disk.
As shitty as Microsoft is, I don’t think they encrypted your Firefox.exe…
How auspicious that this popped up on my Lemmy feed
Earlier on my Misskey I was bitching about how like
Holy shit
I hadn’t realllly used windows in 2 years (only for emergencies, and my emergency windows install is a debloated windows 10 AME thing that I set up one geological era ago). But today I was setting it up in a family member’s laptop as a favour. It somehow got even worse in the past few years!
Like to not even get into the whole privacy and control over one’s machine discussion (someone smarter can explain that in an eloquent way that isn’t just “windows bad”, though windows IS terrible for that, mind) – it’s just annoying!
Like you can’t even start using the computer without setting up a Microsoft account, and then you have to go through seven different screens where Microsoft wants you to give consent to them spying on you, and even if you were to say yes (don’t), it still is slow and plodding to do. And THEN after that it still sees fit to drop advertisements for Microsoft 365 and Gamepass because hey you just bought a license key to premium software? How would you like some fucking subscription services with that?
Everytime I use a windows machine it’s a real “damn bitch you LIVE like this?” moment
Microshit is minting more new linux enjoyers than any linux shill campaign ever could.
Thank you Satya the creep, your weird behaviors are driving linux growth!
Pro tip, LLMs are an amazing resource for Linux, if you got a modern GPU, they run decently locally. 24gb you can run GPT3.5 level.
Careful what commands you putting in though, i deff lost files by overriding directories. Don’t want you rage switching back to microshit
Brother, I’ve been using Linux for 24 years. 😎
It was nearly my daily driver for several of those years, especially in college.
I really liked Windows 10 when it came out and I’ve enjoyed using it until it became enshitified.
I’ve been using Linux on the daily for the past couple months and haven’t even noticed. I’ve been blown away by the progress in Wine and Proton and Bottles.
