Best thing about Windows 11 is that my hardware doesn’t support it
“great work” 🤭
Thats unironically based
Is right click menu one too? After boot, it always takes like 5 seconds for it to show up, recurring times it takes <1 second (not instant). I run last gen ryzen somethingsomethingXD and 4070 so my PC can definitely run a context menu.
On windows 11 or windows 10?
The <win10 context menu is old and poorly designed. Each app that declares itself on the right click menu gets to hold up the entire menu for like 3 seconds each. So if you have one poorly designed app that can appear on that list your right click menu will be super slow. Try to go through the right click menu and disable each app that appears one by one until you find the culprit.
Windows has this official tool, if you go to the explorer tab and find …/contextMenuHandlers section you can easily disable them one by one but i haven’t used it personally.
Win11 tried to fix this and moved to a different model but in doing so made the first level right click menu functionally useless.
Win11. I remember it being fine in Win10, though I didn’t have that many applications there, now I should have even less though.
Maybe I’ll look at what I have there now, in case I indeed have a misbehaving app.
So that’s why it is so freaking slow! 💩🤡💩🤡
no fucking way
This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.
Microsoft why can we not turn this off!
You can just disable web search through the settings app now.
I mean… KDE can do it just fine.
You can. I’ve had it off for years. It just needs a registry update, and persists across updates.
And people say Linux is not user-friendly
It’s simple, really.
If the first results are a web search, you wouldn’t notice how terrible the local search indexing is.
I legitimately cannot believe how comically powerful medium level hardware has become yet the windows user experience is so much shittier than it was almost 20 years ago. I remember school machines struggling less to power up on 1gb ram and a one core machine that my gaming rig does sometimes. Windows is such a fucking waste of computing power.
There’s a few ways to turn it off, but they require registry editing or using the Group Policy editor if you have a Pro license
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/26/how-to-turn-off-search-the-web-results-in-windows-11/
ive had to learn never to use the ‘more info’ or ‘search’ options at all, as it defaults to a web search now instead of what im used to, a hdd search for my file or internal windows help documentation. fuggen
! something something you are the product smh my headI remember searching “control panel” and it brings up a brazilian cafe
I have it turned off. But maybe that option is not available outside of EU? I don’t know.
Some suggestions:
Really, its Linux that makes you spend all your time debugging issues and fixing things.
I’m using keypirinha and haven’t opened the startmenu for years
Windows is basically malware now. My wife is forced to use W11 for work and she fucking hates it with a passion (and that’s the pared down IT version).
I pulled out my old gaming laptop that had been unplugged for quite a while and found it somehow updated itself to W11. I immediately wiped the computer and installed Nobara as the main OS. No regrets, no issues, and no half-assed bullshit.
Windows on the ASUS ROG Ally is absolute dog shit. It would constantly reboot to install unwanted updates that offered zero value on a handheld (let alone anything).
Nothing I own will ever run Windows.
Windows isn’t popular. It’s forced onto tons of prebuilt computers and most people wouldn’t know what to use instead. Fuck Windows. Rant over.
If someone can please make Autodesk stuff install and run under Wine, not saying Autodesk to deploy their stuff natively for Linux, I’d be gone with the blink of an eye. And I bet a lot of professionals too.
The best would be if the open source alternatives got better and more popular, like Blender did for 3D stuff.
Probably won’t happen under capitalism. It’s way too expensive (time consuming) to write good software/make good products.
gestures broadly at the entire FOSS ecosystem
What?
(sorry for the long answer)
Besides the vendor-lock-in and “enshitification” things (which are also a direct consequence of capitalism) just compare the Microsoft Office Suite against LibreOffice. It’s not even close.
Don’t get me wrong it works good enough for typical use-cases but the difference in depth, quality and polish is huge. Same with Photoshop vs Gimp, After Effects and other Adobe stuff.
Tons of software doesn’t even have proper Open Source equivalents because they are so nieche (compared to office software or VLC for example).
Unity (vs Godot), IDA Pro (vs Ghidra), EnCase, SolidWorks, etc.
Check out how Mozilla Firefox makes its money. They are over 80% funded by Google and make all kinds of shitty decision. Not because they are bad people but somebody has to pay development because good software doesn’t just happen because a hand full of junior devs have some free time.
Look at the shitty Ubuntu decisions, also done because somebody needs to pay for development.
Look at audacity, redis, FluentAssertions, OpenOffice, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MySql, IdentityServer4 and many more OpenSource projects that went commercial or changed their license because it was unsustainable.
You can of course always fork, but the forked project than has the same issues. Development works as long there are skilled people motivated to practically donate their free time in exchange for nothing. That already greatly limits the people that even can work on open source and if their situation changes history repeats.
It’s not even OpenSource only. Look at YouTube creators especially science educators. A lot of them with great content and talent explaining various topics. But also trying to sell you stuff like squarespace, Brilliant and NordVPN because it would be unsustainable otherwise.
So yes great (by that I mean big polished good quality “unenshitified”) FOSS won’t happen under capitalism because writing software is time-consuming.
Why do you think people pirate commercial software like AutoCAD, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, MS Office, SketchUp, SolidWorks, etc.? Because they are polished in a way no open source project could be, because hundreds of engineers worked for decades on those.
All that said, FOSS is great. I use and rely on a tons of OpenSource software, self-host a lot of services, regularly contribute to quite a few projects and also am the maintainer of some libraries other people use (even commercially) and I still stand by what I wrote before:
Open Source can’t be as polished and high quality as big commercial software because it doesn’t have the funds to do that. Five motivated people are not enough to write an After Effects competitor.
Maya and Motionbuilder run on Linux, but that happened before they were hoovered up by the monster. Autodesk just ignores that part of their portfolio. I know a few people who work/have worked on the Maya team and they’re talented, passionate devs, but management just doesn’t give a fuck about Media & Entertainment when Autocad and Revit are making so much money.
Windows is freemium now. It serves as a vehicle to sell other MS shit.
At least I don’t need to pay for freeware. Last I checked, the cost of Windows was included in my laptop and I didn’t get the option to not install an OS even though I fully intended to install Linux on it.
I’ve used Windows my whole life at home. Last year I realized I kind of hate gaming at a desk since I’m at one all day for work, so I bought a used Steam Deck. Literally have not touched Windows since. I probably don’t need a home computer anymore and if I need one in the future, I’m confident it won’t be running Windows.
I have one too and love that thing! Even as a programmer, I find the only time I use a computer is during work time. Otherwise I’m mostly on my Steam Deck.
What’s Nobara? I’ve never heard of that OS.
Adding on to the other comment, Nobara is maintained by Glorious Egroll, the same guy that also develops the popular Proton-GE compatibility tool which adds some extra fixes on top of Valve’s Proton.
(Proton is the compatibility tool Steam uses to make Windows games run on Linux, in case you’re unfamiliar)
Gamer-focused derivative of Fedora Linux.
Oh, I think I might hop over to that when I switch over the OS on my gaming PC.
You could also try bazzite, it is based on fedora atomic desktops
Rant on, bruddah! I am also in the “must use it for work” group, and I despise my work laptop with the fury of 1000 suns. In my personal work and prior to this new job, I was staying on Win 10 for Inventor, AutoCAD, FL Studio (and a bunch of VST synths I bought), and DaVinci Resolve Studio. My experience with my work laptop has spurred my nearly-complete jump to Linux.
FL Studio has been replaced by Bitwig, new learning curve and loss of the VSTs just being the cost I have to eat. I almost have DRS running in perfectly in Aurora Linux. And my two Win 10 machines will just go into an isolated network until I can figure out workarounds/replacements for the Autodesk garbage.
Reaper is another good DAW that runs natively.
Blender has great video editing capabilities. There’s also KDenLive and a few other native video editors.
CAD is harder unless you’re okay with switching to a parametric design flow with FreeCAD.
I collaborate with other people who are also on DRS. Before I had teammates on DRS, I tried using Blender, Openshot, Shotcut, KDenLive. Those NLEs are just not there yet.
I actually started my solid modeling/parametric journey on FreeCAD, and I prefer the parametric workflow. I switched to Inventor when FreeCAD kept crashing when the object tree was ~60 primitives even on my monstrous workstation. I would love to go back to FreeCAD, because fuck AutoDesk in its ear, so hopefully they get the stability + complexity under control.
Anecdotal, but I got a few VSTs working on Ardour with yabridge, if it helps.
Gosh, after all the hacks I do to Windows I often forget how terrible the experience is for all my users our there raw dogging it. 🪦
I’m thinking that maybe I should upgrade my old Win 10 Pro laptop to Windows 11 Pro, “just in case”, instead of going full Linux everywhere.
And then I read shite like this.
You’re not making it easy for me Microsoft.
Linux everywhere and then Windows VM labeled “Shitty Spyware Do Not Open”
It’s not an upgrade if the system doesn’t work better. And the new Windows is simply worse than the old one in every single way I can see, having been forced to run both of them on different machines at work.
I haven’t used windows in so long, the only thing I know about it is the incredibly high volume of complaints regarding it.
Same here. I can’t figure out why anyone uses based on what I read.
Yes, the most popular OS on the planets used by the most people on a daily basis, also has a high number of memes about it. Shocking. What information you’ve gleaned.
the most popular OS
It’s barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.
Fair point, I would argue that it’s not e entirely fair to compare a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility, for a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications, but it’s not entirely unfair either, they’re still both OSes and lots of the complaints have nothing to do with the burden of legacy support.
Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.
This is true, especially for games. But for some reason, even though some compatibility features have been removed from windows, others still remain. Hell, if you look into System32, you can still find the dialer app from windows 95 (still with its original icon, btw!), or Windows Vista’s “bubbles” screensaver, and they still run.
Edit: this is not a windows praise, it’s a critique. Those parts are dead weight, and windows isn’t even that good at offering compatibility for old software
a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility
I have an app built for Android 4 running on my Android 15 device. It looks ugly but it works. Of course other apps will not be so lucky, but some backwards compat is absolutely there.
a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications
Not really, Microsoft is steadily breaking old stuff. For example lot of 10-15 year old software that was doing something hardware-related would be broken now due to driver signing changes/restrictions (e.g. WinRing0 things).
For what it’s worth, just because something is popular does not mean it’s perfect, or even better.
I think a lot of the complaints about Windows 11 are overblown, but a lot aren’t. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh I don’t think it remotely is. I just find it irritating that someone sees lots of complaints about the most used thing and takes that as an indication that it’s bad, and ignores the indication that it’s not (it being the most used thing).
Lots of complaints about something popular literally means nothing on its own. The content of those complaints have validity, but there’s nothing to learn from their metadata.
Actually lots of complaints has meaning. It means lots of people have problems with it. It doesn’t mean anything else but this.
The percentage of users complaining is the same thing. If your software has 100 users that means 1 complaint, if your software has 1,000,000 users that means 10,000 complaints, for the exact same software.
Yes. But if you have many complaints from MANY MANY users, it may not mean anything serious, it could still mean a very small fraction have problems. Absolute number means very little without context. That’s the purpose of the previous comment. Please note how it doesn’t say anything about qualities of Windows.
Being the single OS that has had a chokehold on the prebuilt computer industry for ages doesn’t mean it’s popular. It’s also used in tons of workplaces where people don’t have a choice. High number doesn’t automatically correlate to “popular.”
I didn’t mean like people’s choice popular, I just meant most used. The more something is used the more memes you’ll see about it’s issues.
Yeah, that makes more sense. More users automatically means there will statistically be more complaints due to sheer numbers.
Yep it’s pretty bad…
And yet it’s somehow less awful than the Windows 10 start menu. Is it still improvement if you put the bar under the floor yourself?
Is it? Honestly I don’t care about it anymore, I’ve been opening everything from task bar icons and search for ages now.
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It’s WHAT?
Microsoft couldn’t think about this while they were developing the OS, no?
I’ll take Business majors making technical decisions for 400, Alex.
Sorry that’s 500…
Are you really asking?
