The piece of nuance every one of these threads seems to miss. I have software that literally only runs on windows. What do? Rather than talk about how to make Windows work better, the best you get is jump ship!
Because the concept of make windows work better is a fallacy. You, me and everyone has no control or ability to do that. It’s not a real option to anyone.
The only people that can do it are Microsoft themselves. So you get what you get. Either windows is EXACTLY what you want and your ok with that or you jump ship.
Except that’s not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.
And the thing is, it’s something we’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It’s been a fact of life with windows, and it’s fine.
It maybe used to be more true, but these days even when someone posts a decent guide on de-bloating Windows, it can A) Miss something critical, leaving spyware telemetry running, or B) Become out of date one month later when a Windows Update manually re-enables all the things you turned off.
I would’ve appreciated it when I was on Windows, but now? I’m kind of just happy not to be constantly fighting my OS on things, even if I do get compatibility annoyances.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The piece of nuance every one of these threads seems to miss. I have software that literally only runs on windows. What do? Rather than talk about how to make Windows work better, the best you get is jump ship!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Check out Winboat!
github.com/TibixDev/winboat
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Because the concept of make windows work better is a fallacy. You, me and everyone has no control or ability to do that. It’s not a real option to anyone.
The only people that can do it are Microsoft themselves. So you get what you get. Either windows is EXACTLY what you want and your ok with that or you jump ship.
Those are your options.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Except that’s not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.
And the thing is, it’s something we’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It’s been a fact of life with windows, and it’s fine.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It maybe used to be more true, but these days even when someone posts a decent guide on de-bloating Windows, it can A) Miss something critical, leaving spyware telemetry running, or B) Become out of date one month later when a Windows Update manually re-enables all the things you turned off.
I would’ve appreciated it when I was on Windows, but now? I’m kind of just happy not to be constantly fighting my OS on things, even if I do get compatibility annoyances.