Leave windows, embrace linux
not everyone know how to sudo su -
And then: extend and extinguish! /s
Moving to the open fields was a so much smoother experience than downgrading the windows.
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.
https://winaerotweaker.com/ lets you edit context menu entries
It’s not loading (or it’d happen only once), it’s calling back home (windows “anti virus”) to see if it’s secure to add each item to the context menu.
Give me an anemic E8400 and a compiler and I’ll load up your context menu in under 20 milliseconds.
Linux users:
Its okay just plop some snow over the entrance they’ll tire themselves out
I miss Win7
I would take Windows 8 over 11.
win8 is actually very good. just need to replace the start menu thing. they optimized the os to run on crappy atom tablets so it’s actually faster than 7 on low end machines.
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.
Windows 7 tho. The best OS, literally.
Best Microsoft OS maybe…
I would take XP over milennium.
At risk of being a cliche: try Linux. It’s really not hard to install.
I’m in awe of how Microsoft somehow manages to make an OS somehow more dogshit than the last one.
It’s part of their culture. Windows ME.
Microsoft isn’t the interesting one at this point. I’m more in awe of how the userbase just keeps taking that shit. That’s a propaganda victory.
At some point Microsoft will publish an update that will shoot the user’s dog and they will just share debloating scripts. Linux is free only if your time yadda yadda.
People buy it?
Yes, it’s bundled with laptops.
While that 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
Penguin noises intensifies
Full of fish?
Not entirely.
Then let’s fish.
Never left.
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 windows OSs doing stuff side by side and it consistently sweepes them.
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.
I miss Windows XP. Take me back to the rolling green hills.
But with Win8 you don’t get and Updates anymore. With Win10 there’s still the LTSC (IoT) version.
The telemetry all got backported as far as seven and made a mandatory dependency of some security updates, so within a few weeks of 10’s launch, you either had telemetry or a machine that wasn’t safe to connect to the Internet.
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 because of AutoHDR.
I hope it can be resolved soon, but as of rn unfortunately its not there yet.
The problem lies in the fact that Linux could easily integrate HDR for everything, but NVIDIA. HDMI and MS are gatekeeping these features.
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.
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.
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.
Windows 2000 was the absolute best windows hands down.
But now it’s cachyos for me going forward. Never again will I install windows.
Amen. I’ve hated every windows OS after Windows 2000.
XP was beast they had to give away free upgrades to get people off it
I’ve used it recently. The ui is still snappier on the original machine than w11 today on a new one.
I’d be interested knowing why it got so bad. Is it for lack of time or focus on optimization? Is there a reason lazy loading isn’t used? Why is the tooling so convoluted, by choice or as a victim of ever growing complexity?
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 bad, why spend weeks and weeks learning how to mess with it? For the same mental energy, learn partitioning and install Linux, or W10 like OP.
How would I do this?
You can still download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/software-download/windows10ISO
Why would I do this either?
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: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/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: https://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 https://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.
Thank you so much for being educational instead of snarky!
If the OP commenter does stick with Windows for whatever reason, please look into ChrisTitusTech’s WinUtil. This is what I had to do to get my Windows SSD to work the way I want it to.
It never hurts to have an SSD for both if needed! :-]
I’m not sure how techy @Kewlio250@lemmy.zip is, and Distrowatch can be pretty overwhelming, so here are a couple of recommendations from someone who’s tried a bunch of distros:
- Linux Mint: Very close to Windows 7 in experience, with some modern touch-ups here and there. What I’d recommend for longtime Windows users.
- Elementary OS: Gives off a lot of macOS vibes for all the right reasons, and while it’s not very customizable, a ton of care has been put into the experience. Ideal for someone with basic computer needs that wants something that just works. (The website asks you to donate; if you can’t or don’t want to, enter $0 as a custom donation amount to get it for free.)
- Fedora Workstation: Genuinely different experience from Windows and macOS. It reminds me of the experiments in the early '10s in creating a “convergent” interface, but this is stable, functional, and mature. Really shines if you have a touchpad.
Ventoy is probably not the best thing to recommend.
Internet was down at work today, I tried to use the start menu on a coworkers computer to search for an app.
Got a ‘connection timed out’ message instead, and had to scroll through the list like a rube.
Lame. Should have gone back to Windows 7.
Broke: Installing Linux
Woke: Installing an older version of Windows
Bespoke: Installing the Apple II OS
BeOs for the win!
If you like BeOS, try Haiku! https://www.haiku-os.org/
Windows 7 was the peak.
This is not ‘things were better when you were fifteen.’ I started on Apple fucking II. I remember Windows 95 being new and fancy, and even that 90 MHz 16 MB ass DOS extension of an operating system had better UI and better UX than Windows 10 or 11. 98 was an improvement, NT was a tradeoff, ME was a mistake, XP was a lurching step forward, service packs can burn in hell, Vista doubly so. Windows 7 was the last time the good-bad-good-bad cycle actually worked out. 8 was bad, trying to be a touchscreen OS, and then 8.1 was a band-aid instead of a real fix, and everything since WIndows 10 has been a deliberate disaster. ‘We’re gonna screenshot your desktop every few seconds because–’ Die.
This is not ‘things were better when you were fifteen.’
It absolutely is rose-colored glasses, whether you realize it or not. This entire thread is.
I think people were just relieved to have a viable upgrade path from XP that wasn’t Vista.
I feel like Windows 2000 was peak. Best UI, no spyware, fast… Yeah, it was great
Windows 2000 was peak. XP and 7 were warmed up leftovers in comparison
The whole NT line is crap.
Consumer Windows was just a GUI on top of DOS. NT-based Windows is objectively better than DOS-based Windows. Though both are still equivalent to a pair of brain cells fighting for third place.
NT cleaned up the 2 routes windows was taking and recombined them. If they hadn’t then the consumer windows would have been a lot worse now than it already is. Dave’s Garage/Dave’s Attic, the guy who wrote task manager, explained how the consumer windows was worse than a hot mess until they were brought back into the corporate branch.
tbh XP or 2K was much better. 7 got rid of accelerated classic theme, so the whole experience was laggy when not using Aero. accelerated aero desktops are cool but there’s a noticeable delay.
I dont miss windows at all.
