Paint now has built-in AI image bullshit.
Death to Microsoft.
We did a while back as well
Apparently, Win 11 managed to make File Browser unstable, so occasionally your right click will stop working when clicking inside a folder; the only quick fix I’ve found is to just reboot File Browser itself from the task manager. And when I say ‘stop working’, I mean you’ll still be able to right click, but you will be unable to select/use any of the options. Apparently this is a fairly common issue
I don’t like Windows 11.
Yes. Yes. This is it. The cracks are starting to form. Microsoft’s policy of eternal backwards support is starting to go past the event horizon. The whole windows explorer thing has been a mess of jumbled legacy garbage since at least XP. And now it’s just breaking? We’re entering the technological cool zone
God I’m so glad I switched to Fedora. I’ll be putting it on my work laptop soon. I loved Windows 10, you could really to some good modification and it was a lot easier to do so. Then my laptop came with W11 and I can’t find shit, it keeps trying to push AI garbo etc on me. Fedora 40 feels as familiar as W10 with wildly more customization. Plug and play just works on pretty much everything.
If I ever work for another place that provides a computer, I may die.
Can’t get rid of Bing web search.
Can’t get rid of recommendations in start menu.
You can disable all that by adding a reg key under HKCU somewhere (can’t remember where exactly off the top of my head). I think you should be able to write to that without admin.
If you can sneak open shell onto your machine I would highly recommend it. It’ll give you a classic start menu from the pre-win8 days and then you can just disable the w11 search bar.
There’s a folder you can make on the desktop with a long registry-type name that turns into a menu of all commands for win11. Maybe someone here knows the magic folder name. That should allow a certain amount of customization
IMO the app Everything is necessary if you want to search through your files on Windows 11. Typing in the name of a program I know I have and the first item being “web search” drove me nuts.
Typing in the name of a program I know I have and the first item being “web search” drove me nuts.
Haven’t used Microsoft in a while, what the fuck?
Everything is incredibly useful, however, let me further recommend everything toolbar. It allows for even easier integration into Windows 10/11. The standalone “everything” is relegated to the little notifications area in the bottom right (whatever that’s called. And no I don’t care enough to look it up).
I’ve just started using Linux as my daily OS for non-gaming purposes. MX Linux specifically. It’s Debian with some minimal packages added with the idea being speed and low resource usage from the OS. I was using antiX (I think is the name) but it lacked full support for some of the stuff I needed when doing (light) dev stuff. I work with docker engine, re-writing python code, etc. I like MX Linux though. I also like Debian just generally. If you’re sick of windows, person who may be reading this, try out Linux. It’s come a long way! And there’s a billion flavors of it to offer something for anyone.
Is there an idiot-proof version that doesn’t require hours of troubleshooting to figure out why my Webcam isn’t turning on?
Pop OS is worth trying. It has a lot of “just works” stuff built in.
Since Linux lets you try it out before you actually install, you can check whether the webcam works before you commit to it.
I’ve never had a problem with webcam on any of my computers FWIW.
Of what? Linux? I dunno. Try Ubuntu I suppose. Some purists (who are mostly annoying if we’re all honest) shit on it for including non-FOSS packages (or something along those lines- honestly don’t even keep up with the current en vogue complaints). But it works well for end users and is similar (feeling) in operation to Windows.
Manjaro is another option that includes a bunch of “angers the purists, but works regardless” things. I don’t even know why people hate manjaro tbh. Something vague about not using standard arch packages.
I use debian because it’s light, but this is also inconvenient if like you said specific drivers are a concern. Last time I played with Manjaro, it had a ton of built-in Windows drivers support. You could play most games on it as well. It was all pretty smooth from my memory. Although it’s not gonna be perfect unless you’re using drivers or programs written explicitly for Linux. Now days this seems to he more common to see though. I can’t remember the last thing I just straight up absolutely couldn’t make work in Linux.
