Anon goes back to Windows 10
(midwest.social)
🍹Early to RISA 🧉
GreentextWindows 7 was the peak.
This is not 'things were better when you were fifteen.' I started on Apple fucking II. I remember Windows 95 being new and fancy, and even that 90 MHz 16 MB ass DOS extension of an operating system had better UI and better UX than Windows 10 or 11. 98 was an improvement, NT was a tradeoff, ME was a mistake, XP was a lurching step forward, service packs can burn in hell, Vista doubly so. Windows 7 was the last time the good-bad-good-bad cycle actually worked out. 8 was bad, trying to be a touchscreen OS, and then 8.1 was a band-aid instead of a real fix, and everything since WIndows 10 has been a deliberate disaster. 'We're gonna screenshot your desktop every few seconds because--' Die.
The whole NT line is crap.
Windows 2000 was peak. XP and 7 were warmed up leftovers in comparison
tbh XP or 2K was much better. 7 got rid of accelerated classic theme, so the whole experience was laggy when not using Aero. accelerated aero desktops are cool but there's a noticeable delay.
All this can be fixed in Windows 11. One can neuter it to faster-than-Windows 10.
…Thing is, if default Windows 11 is so bad, why spend weeks and weeks learning how to mess with it? For the same mental energy, learn partitioning and install Linux, or W10 like OP.
How would I do this?
You can still download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/software-download/windows10ISO
Why would I do this either?
Win10 is when telemetry was implemented for the first time. You'd better be off with win8.1 with some custom start menu adjustments or straight back to a heaven of Win7.
Or, inhales deeply, just install Linux and do not bother with MS crap cause Linux just works and there is some sort of a distro for pretty much anyone's taste and preferences that will serve them as good or even better than win10/11/8.1/7.
The telemetry all got backported as far as seven and made a mandatory dependency of some security updates, so within a few weeks of 10's launch, you either had telemetry or a machine that wasn't safe to connect to the Internet.
Penguin noises intensifies
Internet was down at work today, I tried to use the start menu on a coworkers computer to search for an app.
Got a 'connection timed out' message instead, and had to scroll through the list like a rube.
Linux users:
Its okay just plop some snow over the entrance they'll tire themselves out
I'm in awe of how Microsoft somehow manages to make an OS somehow more dogshit than the last one.
Microsoft isn't the interesting one at this point. I'm more in awe of how the userbase just keeps taking that shit. That's a propaganda victory.
At some point Microsoft will publish an update that will shoot the user's dog and they will just share debloating scripts. Linux is free only if your time yadda yadda.
It's part of their culture. Windows ME.
People buy it?
Yes, it's bundled with laptops.
While is the basic principle of economics, I was more marveling at their trashcan engineering, finding a new way to shit something so awful each iteration that we miss the last dogwater version
This is a frustration of mine with software. We make all these gains with hardware just to occupy the new capacity with cruft. I just want the same interface from Y2K that runs so fucking fast my eyes can’t keep up with my fingers.
I just want the same interface from Y2K that runs so fucking fast my eyes can’t keep up with my fingers.
This is literally what Linux is always like and it never slows down even after decades. It boots and shuts down in about 3 seconds each. Join us; I spent a lot of time typing a foolproof guide recently. Let me see it actually get used lol!
I just played a game on Steam earlier tonight with friends; it launched WINE under the hood so invisibly that I couldn't believe I wasn't playing it on Windows. Nearly everything is cross-compatible these years with WINE, Bottles, Proton, Lutron, etc. There is basically no fear. If anything, the software typically performs even better.
I did not use your guide as I do not need it, but if I did need it, it would be exactly the kind of thing I would be looking for.
No adobe so no photoshop, no 3dStudio, no MSVC.
So I have one "windows box" for that.
The added bonus is it's such a fresh experience to go back to linux every time 😁.
There are worthy alternatives to photoshop and 3dstudio max. Even if you /really/ need it, they can be run in wine or a vm.
Well not really, I'm "relearning" Krita but there is still some stuff lacking, making it a drudgery to use (fine software though!).
And there is no real replacement for 3dstudio and it won't run in wine/vm.
Try Linux.
I have, but unfortunately have to run Windows.
I switched when the windows context menu had to ask washington for permission to open. Some days it took 10-20 seconds. Repeatedly.
Well, it was one of the reasons, now it's all snappy and predictable on my 6 gen intel mint linux.
Well on the dim side, AI companies are buying up all of the new hardware. So we either get software that is somewhat efficient or we eventually move to "computers" that are just streaming sticks we use to access a Microsoft® Copilot® 365® Windows® 12® Azure® Cloud Desktop Experience Subscription Service computer.
This made me physically ill.
Bring back timeshare computers!! /s
But that's their wet dream btw.
That's not a wet dream, that's exactly what tech corpos are trying to do. Own nothing, rent timeshare.
I miss Win7
I would take Windows 8 over 11.
win8 is actually very good. just need to replace the start menu thing. they optimized the os to run on crappy atom tablets so it's actually faster than 7 on low end machines.
I had a bad experience with windows10 at the start. It had one process, I recall scvhost.exe or something that would eat tons of ram and cpu for no particular reason. I rolled back to win8.1 cause of that and skipped 10 pretty much entirely.
Not even sure why people claim win10 is much better than win8.1. Start menu was dog shit, yeah. But how often users actually use start menu besides of shutting down PC. All in all, under the hood windows 10 was not so different from win8.
Windows 7 tho. The best OS, literally.
I would take XP over milennium.
Never left.
No lag with the right-click context menu
Give it a month of BS software adding itself to the menu. Mine used to take 10 seconds to load if I right clicked on the desktop. Just the run with GPU option took like 1/4 of a second or something absurd. Like WTF nvidia.
It's not loading (or it'd happen only once), it's calling back home (windows "anti virus") to see if it's secure to add each item to the context menu.
Give me an anemic E8400 and a compiler and I'll load up your context menu in under 20 milliseconds.
https://winaerotweaker.com/ lets you edit context menu entries
