Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Friday 19 September 2025
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I didn’t like Windows 10 and I am absolutely hating Windows 11. The only reason I keep a Windows laptop is because my favourite game is Windows only.
But I am cursing the Microsoft monopoly.
spoiler
Trying to do something simple is a massive fuck around, accidentally ghosting near some dumb shit button brings up a news popup that covers most of your screen, it kidnaps your files into the cloud to extort payment for more storage and obscures the settings to back up to drive instead of cloud, and trying to search your computer for something takes you to fucking Bing. Forget about simple games like Solitaire, even as of Windows 7 they’re gamified and enshittified out the arse with sounds you cannot disable and pushing to upgrade to premium to stop the ads. There’s also AI and the increased amount of corporate spyware including screenshotting all your shit (including potentially sensitive information). And the fact that Windows 11 can possibly wipe your SSD once it reaches 60% full. (Which is why I’m hurriedly backing up now, especially as the computer contains stuff I’m desperately pulling off cloud.) I really hope something happens and the monopoly collapses. Fuck them for all the shady shit they pulled for so long to make this the normal state of affairs. And yes, I knew it was a good idea to not use Windows and not rely on cloud. I just literally haven’t had a chance to prioritise sorting it out. I’m still not really getting to focus on it right now and Big Tech continues messing up yet more shit. If I knew everything I needed would work without prolonged wrestling and troubleshooting that would probably never get finished I’d be maining Linux or some other alternative already.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I fucking hate itunes/music so much for the way they “remove” files they don’t want you to have by renaming them and reformat photo files
and their tv app sucks so bad
but damn they support such good television production and they pretty much give the producers/writers free rein
microsoft , you still have choices, you can choose to not use microsoft
and choose not to play games on line, you can use a pack of real cards if you choose
reminds me, i have to find the unsubscribe button for epic games, they are annoying me
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s going to be so hard to disentangle everything. And I’m probably not going to be able to play a favourite game if I can’t get it to work in Linux.
And the .odt files I tried sending aren’t able to be opened on the other end. Kind of important when communicating with organisations.
I think what I’m going to do is break it down in steps.
I have to grab back all my pictures and files from the cloud to local storage before a deadline, I’ve got them off One Drive into a differently named folder so it can’t yoink it back but this computer is getting really full.
So I’ll back up my old desktop.
Install whatever Linux that has a legit iso.
Then get everything onto there.
Then I can try to use Wine or whatever to see if I can get Minecraft and online games working.
briongloid@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I strongly recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, I’ve been exclusively using Linux distros for years, Mint is the only one that for me just works how I want out of the box and stays working.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I was trying to sha the Cinnamon iso and none of the numbers matched for any of them despite trying different mirrors.
I might have to give up and try a different one