Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found
m33@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Every Windows 11 wreaked SSD is an opportunity to try Mint, Fedora, you name it … and maybe enjoy something different
Using windows is just so tiring. I shouldn’t have to actively fight with the OS to do the things I need to do. Not even power user shit, it’s just that the windows experience gets more and more hostile every year.
Meanwhile, Linux quietly does what needs to be done, and offers to make it even easier to do those things, but only if I want that help.
This.
And I didn’t even realize just how exhausting it had gotten until I switched and, even with having to relearn how to do certain things, just never felt like I was having to fight with it. It doesn’t change things and move things around on you at random, it doesn’t pester you constantly to do things unless you explicitly set it up to do so, doesn’t shove an online account down your throat, force you to accept updates on their schedule including reboots when you’re trying to get something done…
No, my machine is my machine and it does what I need and tell it to do, not what some multi trillion dollar company thinks it should do.
Oh my god, this.
I spent the whole morning on my day off fighting with my kids’ windows install.
“when I open rope locks and I open chrome at the same time if everything just lags and stutters.” " I think it’s because Chrome is using 30% of my memory up when I open it. Can you help me fix it?"
What started as a educational how things actually work, what matters, what doesn’t matter, quickly evolved into why in the fuck can’t I uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud. Followed by looking up a dozen services I’ve never seen before which are apparently part of Windows now, but have names like corporate products that don’t have anything to do with Windows.
I showed him the start-up and the task scheduler and all the little bits and bobs for things to detect what’s happening. Showed him how to look through the task manager list. Uninstall the stuff that isn’t necessary, reboot, and check again.
Fucking creative Cloud would not uninstall. Hit uninstall. App opens to update. No option but to update.
I’m trying not to go in bull in a china shop because it’s a teaching moment. We search, find to delete the program data and try again. It unlocked it enough that I could log into it, then uninstall. Why the ever-living fuck would you have to log into the app to uninstall it?
We installed sea ccleaner afterwards. And did some cleanup. I did Linux on the desktop for 14 years. Went back to Windows for a few years and dropped back in for NixOS for the past couple of years and God I hate dealing with windows now…
I had this exact experience with creative cloud about 10 years ago. Adobe is actual malware and I will not allow it on my computers any longer.
I refused to log in…because I didn’t actually have one, I was just wanting to try it or something. Ended up having to go mess with the registry and use a tool from git to remove all traces of it.
Side-note: I used to use CCleaner too and I believe there was something that happened a while back (I don’t remember what, but it was related to security) and you shouldn’t use it any longer. I haven’t kept up with it, so maybe that’s not true any longer.
I believe they were packaging shitware with their binaries. It also isn’t generally healthy to do a lot of the things they do to the operating system. For a free, quick emergency on install, imo they are fine, I removed it after it got the job done.
I don’t know what the current free uninstaller is, my first thought was Revo, but it looks like somebody threw up monetization all over their shit.
I could probably have used Gandalf or something, but I haven’t updated it in a while and I just wanted CC gone.
Thanks for the tip though.
I genuinely don’t understand what you have trouble with that you had to fight with. Usually I’ve found it comes down to just not knowing how to do it, or doing something completely out of left field. Honestly Windows “just works”
Windows didn’t just work though. I’ve worked with it for decades. It’s unreliable, inconsistent and increasingly intrusive. The amount of dark patterns they use honestly makes me want to firebomb a Microsoft office.
Tell me how to show all icons in the taskbar notification area.
Spoiler, you cannot.
Tell me how to not have a “live” MS account associated with my profile without having to do clandestine IT hijinks, etc
windows is hot trash
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This is the exact same BPM as the song I’m listening to… Weird…
Mushroom mushroom
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Psythik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Been there, done that.
Fix the shitty, half-assed HDR support first, then I’ll switch. It’s bare-bones and barely functional in Linux. On Windows you can even convert SDR YouTube videos to HDR in real time, right within Firefox. Linux doesn’t have anything like that yet.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 6 months ago
How do you “convert” content to HDR? You have to generate something that doesn’t exist.
Did you pay 2 grand for a high-contrast mode?
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes I’m aware the added information is fake, but I don’t care cause it still looks better than SDR. The additional fake details especially look good in the highlights. Clouds are a lot more realistic, for one. There’s almost as much brightness information as real life clouds.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 6 months ago
Ok. I guess I’m more of a purist, meaning I prefer to view content as neutral and close to what it essentially is, as possible.
It’s fair to prefer a more saturated or subjectively better-looking image, but I guess this is just not on many people’s list of top priorities.
I have no solution here, except maybe use that display solely for media consumption and do serious work on a more traditional display. That’s at least what I do, except with a projector in that case.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
Really? Just for HDR?
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, really. HDR is a make or break feature for me.
I didn’t spend $1800 on a high-end OLED, only to be unable to fully utilize every feature I paid for.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
That’s an outageous amount for a monitor. How big is it?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’m genuinely curious:
What are you doing on your PC that HDR is such a dealbreaker? I can’t remember anyone I’ve spoken to about it even giving a shit that HDR is available on anything other than their TVs
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Games and YouTube. HDR makes them so much better.
Like I said to the other person, I didn’t spend $1800 on a high-end OLED for no reason. I want to hear able to use every feature it has.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can’t understand where something so trivial and minor like hdr would be more important than not having copilot and one drive shoved down your throat. Personally if I never had any hdr features I wouldn’t bat an eye. Not saying you don’t have a point.
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
HDR is not “trivial and minor”. It’s a make or break feature for me. I use it every day.