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.
Anon goes back to Windows 10
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blarth@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Try Linux.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
blarth@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
I have, but unfortunately have to run Windows.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 week ago
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.
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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 😁.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Happening with games too… I’m tired of developers just lowering the resolution and turning FSR on by default instead of even trying to optimize
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Penguin noises intensifies
j5y7@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I miss Windows XP. Take me back to the rolling green hills.
Vytle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Linux HDR support is so bad that it makes the entire OS not worth using.
I was using Debian for 4 years but unfortunately I had to stop using it once I stopped being poor because it just cannot run an OLED as its supposed to.
HDR is only supported on AMD cards and has abysmal software integration, even on supported content… Comparatively, it just works on W11, even on titles that don’t support it with HDR.
I hope it can be resolved soon, but as of rn unfortunately its not there yet.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
The problem lies in the fact that Linux could easily integrate HDR for everything, but NVIDIA. HDMI and MS are gatekeeping these features.
felbane@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I was using Debian
Say no more, fam, I see your problem. Debian is what you run for stability. If you want features, you need a more appropriate distro.
CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
HDR in Wayland using KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 50 is supported on NVIDIA-open-595.58.03 and later.
A lot of specific applications still suck, including Firefox, but HDR is supported on AMD and NVIDIA.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Linux HDR support is so bad that it makes the entire OS not worth using.
Really weird hill to die on. HDR is nice, but it’s not that nice.
mastod0n@lemmy.world 6 days ago
But with Win8 you don’t get and Updates anymore. With Win10 there’s still the Enterprise Version (with much more functional GPO btw)
quack@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Windows 10 was never good, it just looks good compared to the radioactive slag heap that is Windows 11.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hard disagree. Even though it’s initial outing was not the smoothest Windows 10 eventually got there and they made many improvements on Windows 7. So much so that it ran quite well for many many years which is why it was so widely adopted.
Quite frankly it’s my belief that the reason they force implemented Windows 11 was because Windows 10 was running so fucking well that they were seeing zero growth in their OS sales cause no one was needing to upgrade anymore. I myself had Windows 10 running on a machine that was over 15 years old. And it ran quite well.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
tbh the only problem with Windows 10 for me was the telemetry/Forced Edge,which could’ve been disabled via scripts,as well as lower responsiveness(maybe placebo effect?). but Windows 11, literally some parts of the Operating System use Chromium. Please keep Chromium/Electron/CEF On Desktop apps, i hope other oses wont try to copy this.
Godric@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m in awe of how Microsoft somehow manages to make an OS somehow more dogshit than the last one.
frog@feddit.uk 1 week ago
It’s part of their culture. Windows ME.
MML@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
People buy it?
Godric@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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
Hupf@feddit.org 6 days ago
Of course opening the context menu takes its time. It’s gotta load a whole Electron framework first.
rumba@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
you just need a registry cleaner for that, dump out all the non-stock entries out of the list.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
It should cache those until your file extensions get a reg edit, there is no need to build the context menu fresh every time
quips@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
Leave windows, embrace linux
Griffus@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Moving to the open fields was a so much smoother experience than downgrading the windows.
IratePirate@feddit.org 6 days ago
And then: extend and extinguish! /s
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
OP is wearing rose colored glasses, yes 10 was better but 10 was a turd in a blanket but you could do workarounds to keep that turd covered, 11 just took the blanket away and exposed the turd … . all the time.
Like Trump accelerating the transition to renewables and e vehicles across the world with his bumbling incompetence, MS is hastening the transition to Linux from theres, i was there from MS DOS days until early 10.
They really just need to use the Linux Kernel and do their own “Windows” skin on top, like Tuxedo etal
i gave up and have been on Linux Mint then LMDE for 4 years now, fucking hell, all i want to do is click the icon on the toolbar and use the app i selected. My gf uses 11 on her laptop.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I think it’s an inevitability that Microsoft contributes to Wine and switches to maintaining a Debian distro. They know they don’t have enough skilled developers to continue improving windows.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I miss Win7
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would take Windows 8 over 11.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I would take XP over milennium.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
At risk of being a cliche: try Linux. It’s really not hard to install.
Mac@mander.xyz 6 days ago
I have three PCs: Win10, Mint, and Bazzite, and then laptop with Mint.
Clutter@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Windows 2000 was the absolute best windows hands down.
But now it’s cachyos for me going forward. Never again will I install windows.
Xyphius@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Amen. I’ve hated every windows OS after Windows 2000.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Windows 10 was fine until they started cramming it with shit nobody asked for. Windows 11 is horrendously worse.
Source: My work laptop, a Surface Laptop 7th gen, runs Windows 11. Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.
“Today Microsoft and Adobe are announcing further AI integration of their products. This AI will tune software performance in an attempt to counteract the slowing effects of previous rounds of AI integration.”
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Good god 🤣
I hate how accurate this is.
shneancy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
god i hate the constant “LOG INTO AN ACCOUNT RIGHT NOW” with passion. i once had to log into a coworkers teams account and apparently windows decided that’s good enough and automatically & without asking linked my entire local windows account with her work microsoft account
one log in took hours to undo
learnt my lesson - never log into microsoft through any of their apps, only ever use web based alternatives (and never on your main browser either, as sometimes logging out is just as painful as logging in)
Jako302@feddit.org 6 days ago
Android does pretty much the same thing with Google accounts.
“Oh you logged into YouTube music? Here, we added that account to your phone. You can now view alp Emails, access payment options and view the entire browser history without additional confirmation.”
outerzenith@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt.
to be fair, Acrobat itself is a very heavy heap of dung. There’s no reason for anyone to use it if all they do with a
.pdfis reading.IratePirate@feddit.org 6 days ago
Just because 11 is worse doesn’t mean 10 was good. 10 was a shit-show from the get-go. It came with aggressive dark patterns trying to trick people into installing it over their Win 7 and 8 machines, came with mandatory telemetry, ads in the start menu and a built-in keylogger.
So it’s not “fuck 11”. It’s “fuck Windows”.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Agreed on all points.
At least 10 could be unshittified to an extent. But I don’t run Windows on any personal machines at all anymore, so its a moot point. My work laptop belongs to the company and is managed by them.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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 much worse than, why spend weeks and weeks learning how to mess with it? Mind as well learn partitioning and install Linux, or W10 like OP.
Kewlio250@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
How would I do this?
deathbird@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Go to Microcenter and buy 3 USB sticks. Make sure one is big enough for backing up all you home / documents directory. Make sure the others are of good size too, 32GB is more than enough.
Go home and make a copy of your home directory onto one of the disks. It will take a while.
Go here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/…/windows11 And follow one of the instructions on making Windows 11 bootable media with your second disk. Test that it works then set it aside.
Go to Ventoy’s website and download it here: www.ventoy.net/en/download.html Follow the instructions and make the third USB stick a Ventoy disk. Ventoy lets you load multiple ISO files on a single disk.
Go to distrowatch.com and pick some distros, some operating systems. Download the ISOs and drop them in empty partition on your ventoy disk. Don’t forget you may need to change the boot order in your UEFI/BIOS to boot to it,
Explore and have fun.
Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Going back to Windows 10 feels like removing ankle weights you forgot you were wearing.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 days ago
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Use Windows 11 at work. Was using 10 at home. Seeing what my future looked like if I went to 10, I installed CachyOS instead. 4 months of CachyOS now: I’m not going back even if you pay me.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 6 days ago
Ah don’t worry, leave it running for an hour and they’ll inject copilot and all the crap you’ve come to loathe.
wilmo@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Switched to using Linux like 6 years ago. Wouldn’t know how bad Windows 11 is but I can only imagine.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Lame. Should have gone back to Windows 7.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Broke: Installing Linux
Woke: Installing an older version of Windows
Bespoke: Installing the Apple II OS
Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why do people insist on using shity OS, is beyond me. Even macOS is far better than Windows nowadays.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Because Windows is still the universial standard and MacOS requires purchasing new hardware
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Which is a reason to switch.
A closed source OS, as universal as windows, shouldn’t be legal.
Switch now!
freddo@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Also, people do not know what an OS is, let alone how to change it.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
My coworker complains about Windows daily, I’m like " there are alternatives dude.". But he’s adamant that windows is better. Some people like being abused I guess.
rumba@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
They’re used to it
All their apps work
They hate learning new things more than they hate the problems with 11.
I’m 100% linux. Have been for a long time. Your average person can definitely survive Linux on the day-to-day, but the first time they hit a problem needing kernel pinning, they’re gonna have a high chance of switching
arockinyourshoe@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My laptop is still rocking Win10, and the moment they force it to update to Win11 against my wishes is the moment I jump to Linux, ready or otherwise.
But I know for a fact that Im not as patient with technology as Id like to be, and while I try to learn what I can and prepare myself for that leap, the only reason I haven’t just lept yet is because I still find the amount of information I need to know (or think I need to know) overwhelming.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Because it doesn’t matter if 95% of the software you use works fine on Linux or Mac if you need that last 5% tondo your work.
Autisti4@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I’m stuck because my SP7 didn’t work properly with linux even with the surface kernel and there aren’t any working alternatives (or at least what I can afford…) for what I’m using it for :(
I was forced to upgrade back to to win10 because win11 is so broken it was unusable… the taskbar is forever busted and wouldn’t even display all apps, microslop has no excuse, they build the SP7! And then made an os that doesn’t work with it!
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Imagine if this guy took a crack at MX.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Then try Linux and be amazeballed by what your computer can actually do
rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Never left.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Windows 3.11 or bust.
You can pry my Workgroups from my cold, dead, hands.
user_aready_exists@lemmy.world 6 days ago
8.1 ftw, 8 was awful and so 8.1 names got dragged through the mud but it launches stuff and loads stuff faster, plus it has better battery life. There’s a video out there that shows most the wondos OSs doing stuff side by side and it consistently sweepes them.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Sounds like nothing more than a fresh install.
I got the same on my freshly installed Windows 11.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
make sure its Windows 10 LTSC.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Linux users:
Meme of polar bear poking through a den entrance saying “Bonjour”
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Its okay just plop some snow over the entrance they’ll tire themselves out