Brand new, out of the box. It’s been sitting here at 100% for 5 minutes.
The best part is still too come, clicking through the 10 or so questions, where the preselected option is the always the bad one regarding privacy, and the “good” one is a compromise at best.
“Install Cortana?”
- “Yes”
- “Postpone decision”
My other favorite is when they add Edge to my desktop periodically
Oh, and the one time they put a fucking arrow on my wallpaper pointing at Edge. That’s what finally convinced me to make it my default browser
Or “let’s finish setting up your PC” full screen on a 4 year old system. Then you click through just to find the only options are 1) share more data with Microsoft, or 2) make Edge your default browser. The day I find a decent note taking tablet running Linux, windows is dead to me.
Ive never seen that… lol
That is weird
what how?
Lmao the absolute gall of them
I used a VM to install Windows 10 the other day and the installation process alone was enough to remind me why Windows 10 will be my last Windows, Navigating 20 questions then having to uninstall about 30 apps some of which will reinstall at next update, Infuriating tbh. I seem to have settled with Mint Cinnamon, It’s been working perfectly.
Linuxmint cinnamon ftw
One of our customers has a Lenovo with an i7 10th gen and 16gb of memory. Booting up takes about 5 minutes on an NVMe drive and using our application, based on Microsoft Access, takes literal years to save an entry.
Windows can fucking die in a hotel fire.
Are hotel fires worse than other fires?
They’re pay-per-view.
I have an E495 with an SATA SSD, a cheap one at that, and it takes Arch (btw) about 5 seconds to get to SDDM login and about 7 seconds from login to usable Plasma desktop.
Try that with Win11.
That’s weird. My one boots up quicker than it shuts down.
Also why are you using Microsoft access hehe
You’re on “Microsoft time”. 100% in “Microsoft time” does not mean complete. 100% means you’re in a time loop that will never end. RIP OP
My last laptop didn’t even have an initial boot for Windows. I booted on a Ventoy stick and had a Manjaro install on it from the very beginning.
Life’s to short to fuck around with Windows.
God, I just did the set up new laptop process on Sunday; I completely forgot how insanely long everything takes to set up, update, configure, etc. Linux SBC, maybe an hour end to end; install, update, all my configs neatly in a file, ready to be copied over. Regular Linux: two hours end to end at most. You just do not appreciate the beauty of apt update/apt install quite as much as the moment you are confronted with a new Windows install.
Windows? Pretty much most of Sunday afternoon and evening. First the Dell updates, then the driver updates, then the pre-installed program updates, then the Windows updates (though not in that order and not all at once, because predictability what is that). Then I could actually start adding my programs and configuring it, and oh boy.
Just my base configuration for Office–that being each individual program in the suite, God knows–required a hunting expedition and a lot of googling to track everything down in multiple locations and I still had to do a lot of it manually; putty and kitty required copying bits of the registry; calibre I gave up as it was less work to do it myself from memory; firefox was the only thing I could just copy and paste a folder and be entirely done. That part was nice. Every other program I needed I had to track down and install separately then hunt up configs in multiple locations and Windows kept interrupting the process because oh, we forgot, here’s more updates and one to three restarts. Why?
And Windows 11’s start menu is just insulting; talk about salt in the wound.
5 minutes is about as long as it took to download that mammoth 2MB jpg from this struggling Lemmy server.
Seriously though, I can download an ISO, flash it to USB, boot up and do an entire system install in less than 15 minutes. The only limiting factor is the speed of the internet.
You can do the same for a modded windows install. Depending on hardware ofcourse.
Only thing is with Linux I could do it on my pi with a crappy SD card instead of a full desktop with decent CPU and a good nvme.
I do wish I could hit a key chord or something to show a terminal of what is happening under the hood with Windows…
Is that a mouse nipple?! They’re still using those??
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*Definitely not in the business field, here! Haven’t seen one of those sexy things since my old Gateway laptop in the mid 2000s. Miss those little guys, glad to see they’re still around
Edit: ***I AM
I am not in the business field! I’m not saying anyone is wrong.
Lenovo are one of the most commonly used laptops in business. Dell have had them for a long time and only just phased them out too.
Well fuck me for not knowing or bothering to Google the current status of laptop nipples before commenting to share my joy at seeing one 🤗 sorry I’m such an asshole, everyone.
TBF you did say not in the business field and that was wrong. Not harsh just letting you know.
…I…was talking about myself…I don’t work in business…
I dunno. You said definitely not in the business field here. Just wording is all. Anyways, no worries all is good. Peace.
Thinkpad.
i used to hate how long installing win xp took, updating, then getting my favorite 3rd party software installed, and so on.
don’t get me wrong i liked xp, but reinstalling windows, any of them, always felt like a huge chore.
linux is much better in that regard. especially when you dig in and start automating stuff with scripting.
Installing Linux is fun unless it doesn’t like your wifi adapter and you’re a noob.
fair enough. I’ve seen a number of people having issues with wifi on linux across the web.
i prefer wired connection for my pc regardless of support and only use wifi for tv, phone, etc.
best practice is a spare ethernet cable and if a built in wifi adapter won’t work, research external usb ones if you need wifi that bad.
personally I’d rather find a work around or try a different distro than give up and go back to windows over a wifi adapter.
It was an external USB adapter but Manjaro didn’t like it. But yeah that one thing isn’t enough to give up Linux. Windows keeps killing certain printers when Windows updates, that is a fair amount of trouble to fix sometimes too.
cortana drove me nuts . i like being able to search/type in the start menu, that was a good freature to add, but cortana along with web searching felt messy and invasive.
I’ve heard of people allegedly losing personal files in updates but i never experienced that problem.
at one time i had a laundry list of reasons i disliked windows but over the years I’ve refined down to “not my cup of tea”.
I get rid of Cortana every time it pops up. Last time I installed Windows I somehow enabled OneDrive even though I definitely did not want it. It wound up trying to back up my gigabytes of game save files and mods to the cloud.
Which one? What was the chip?
TP-Link AC600. I didn’t buy it with Linux in mind, but I assumed it was popular enough that it should work.
TP-Link AC600
Oops, this was meant as a reply to someone about the TP-Link AC2100 router in anothrr window, ugh. Too many google results open.
Let me google the chipset for that one if you haven’t found drivers that work yet. For some of the Realtek based ones, there’s some you can compile yourself by morrownr.
I did get it working but it took a lot of Googling and config file/terminal work.
First thing I did with my new Laptop, was to switch Out the hard drive for a bigger one and then I proceeded to install Linux.
Linux has customization and superior security. All of the security features on Windows like bitlocker are probably backdoored.
So, you prefer Linux and show us a booting Window screenshot. What happened?
