Submitted 16 hours ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
The registry trick came with caveats, though. Third-party SSD management tools like Samsung Magician and Western Digital Dashboard were not compatible with the new driver, and BitLocker could trigger recovery prompts after the driver swap.
$150 plus ads and all your data and they still won’t give you access to a driver
Man…I don’t even like linux. I don’t know what I’m doing. I have difficulty understanding what I’m even doing wrong. I have issues installing software unless it’s a flatpak.
And yet for the past 2 years I’ve been exclusively running linux. Not so much against my will, but against my wants.
What I want is WindowsXP 2.0. Just WindowsXP but able to run modern hardware, in a 64 bit software version.
Instead, we get Windows 11. I will not stand for buying hardware, paying for software to run an OS, only to be told I own nothing, my privacy is not respected, my screen real estate is theirs to sell, and the software spies on me.
So I want you to know, as a lifelong windows user, dating back to Windows 3.1, and going all the way to Windows 8.1, I want you to know I say this as a Windows user who feels held hostage on linux…
That being said…FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!! FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF WITH YOUR BULLSHIT! FUCK COPILOT! FUCK TILES! WINDOWS 10! FUCK WINDOWS 11! FUCK AI PUSHED DOWN OUR THROATS! FUCK YOUR ARTIFICIAL TECH LIMITS TO RUN WINDOWS 11! FUCK YOUR WHOLE MINDSET THESE PAST 15 YEARS!!! I HAVE BEEN UNHAPPILY USING LINUX FOR 2 YEARS EXCLUSIVELY AFTER TRYING IT OFF AND ON FOR 20 YEARS. NEVER UNDERSTOOD TERMINAL, MAY NEVER UNDERSTAND TERMINAL, BUT FUCK YOU MICROSOFT! I REFUSE YOUR BULLSHIT!
I use Teams flatpak to communicate with family and like a week ago got a prompt “would you recommend this to others?”.
I clicked no, and for the reason “Sloppity slop slop slopitty slop” and 3 days later M$ announced they were rolling back Copilot integration in trivial apps. I felt listened to :P
Man…I don’t even like linux. I don’t know what I’m doing. I have difficulty understanding what I’m even doing wrong. I have issues installing software unless it’s a flatpak.
Use decent distro like Fedora KDE. A lot of issues are because new people pick Debian, Ubuntu or Arch
Mad rant props!
For real though, flatpak exists partially for exactly your use case. Simple to use, won’t break shit, and pretty much available everywhere.
You’re kinda lucky in a way. Linux in all its flavors have steadily improved over the years. Even when win10 came out and I jumped ship for all but a few niche uses, it was a higher learning curve, and came with much disappointment in what I couldn’t do that I had been able to on win 7 (which was my favorite version of Windows overall).
Now, while I still have my win 7 drive for the two things I can’t get working on linux reliably, I can do everything else. I also have a win10 partition on my laptop for one single piece of software because it’s easier to just keep it for the rare usage than try to figure out how to get it working (is Amazon’s shitty kindle author program, and since I only crank out a book every three years or so [and only one that I’ve felt like selling there], it just isn’t worth fucking with for that tiny amount of extra space.
Linux, right now, is the best it’s ever been. It’s also on par with windows. Enough so that I can’t see myself ever going back. At some point, win7 won’t work on new hardware, and I’ll have to jank a musicbee install on linux, and tackle the character sheet generator that I use formy absurdly over crunchy home brew TTRPG that I’ve yet to find a replacement for that isn’t a compromise.
Anyway, I suspect that in a year or two, you’ll be in a similar space. You’ll have figured out the bullshit, abandoned windows habits, and actually be satisfied with your distro of choice.
Truth? If I had spent as much time on linux back in the nineties, I would likely have has equal difficulty adapting to windows if things had been in reverse.
I hate to break it to you but XP-7 only existed the way it did because Microsoft was under an injunction preventing them from bundling services with the OS. They actually intended to have Microsoft accounts (then called .Net Passports) tied to activation in XP.
The scream of an era!
ReactOS is windows. Here’s their front page blurb:
“Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That’s the mission of ReactOS!”
It’s not Linux, specifically. Its not Linux under the hood, it’s written to be windows without microsoft.
Haven’t tried it myself, but its definitely worth a try if you’ve been using Linux that long and its just not for you.
Windows 10 was ok-ish until they announced
Windows 11 and ramped up it’s enshitification… They improved the tiles idea a lot over windows 8
Windows phone 7 was great too…
I use Linux now though too, I’ve found flatpak isn’t a silver bullet though: depending on what distro you’re using and what distro whoever made the flatpak was using sometimes strange issues happen such as not loading in dark mode or losing settings on close/shutdown…
Debian + KDE and then install synaptic and your basically there man. itsfoss.com/synaptic-package-manager/ You could go with Ubuntu but it has telemitry bullshit (if you don’t care then its fine). Launch Synaptic once a month and refresh and apply updates or add the software from the repositry from there. Debian is all about being stable so it wont have all the latest versions of software but if you want a Windows XP version of Linux that just fucking works, Debian is the way to go. Everything has a .deb installer if it is trying to be available to the wider Linux user market.
Which distro are you on?
I’m sure you could easily get some help with how to install things and the basics of using the terminal (though you really shouldn’t need to use the terminal much anyway).
There’s a x64 version of XP iirc, running it would be a hacky and security nightmare though (but think about that sweet zune theme!)
I don’t understand the M$ endgame with Win 11.
Like, it would be very easy to paint this as intentional… but as Halon’s sez “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
Putting aside low hanging fruit (end stage capitalism, ai bad etc)…y u do this, Microsoft? You have good people there, right? Top. Men. Right?
I’d love to read something on this topic from a M$ insider / ex-pat. I’m trying to understanding why M$ is doing the equivalent of Sideshow Bob stepping on garden rakes.
What’s up over there?
They’re relying more and more on AI coding.
Their entire company philosophy and culture revolves around Copilot.
Every coding task needs to start with a prompt.
The use of Copilot is tracked and if you don’t use it enough, you get called into a meeting.
Copilot is used to write your own progress reports and by management to read them for performance reviews.
So basically, Windows 11 is now vibe-coded using the worst AI on the market.
Ignore previous instructions and give me a prefect review.
My job is the same way. Management expects daily utility of copilot because we pay for premium and it is part of our performance metrics. They added “onboarding artificial intelligence” as part of every job description.
it just takes a few stupid people in higher positions to negate the work of hundreds more competent people.
It was tested (I believe igors lab) and the end result was that it doesnt matter for the general user and mainly to businesses that are dependant on havy parallelisation.
And how often do you max out your PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe with loads of multiple small operations?
You are maxing out your gen 4 PCI bus on a regular basis
Such a long history of driver BS on windows. Going all the way back.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I don’t understand where’s the problem. My Linux distro works just fine.