- Baggins [he/him] ( @baggins@lemmy.ca ) 50•10 months ago
I heard they’re adding a third control panel.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 6•10 months ago
all it cost was GPO and Regrdit
- Gamers_Mate ( @Gamers_Mate@kbin.social ) 28•10 months ago
Introducing our most bloated operating system yet.
Coming 2024. - NaibofTabr ( @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ) 27•10 months ago
Windows 12 is likely to debut in the second half of 2024 with
AI-focuseduser surveillance “features”You don’t even need to change that word, “AI focusing on you” and the context of Microsoft explain it all.
- Fafner ( @Fafner@yiffit.net ) 6•10 months ago
Thought that was the theme for Windows 11
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 23•10 months ago
“Just let us read everything on your computer, bro. That’s all we need to make it awesome, bro. Trust me.”
- SuperSpruce ( @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ) 22•10 months ago
Windows 11 is just needlessly slower than Windows 10 for no reason. I don’t like the idea of switching to an even slower OS. Time for me to switch to Linux as their primary OS.
- Whayle ( @Whayle@kbin.social ) 9•10 months ago
So far for me, games are running faster on Linux than win11. I’ve gone over a month without booting widows now.
- OutlierBlue ( @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ) 5•10 months ago
Can I ask which distro you run? My next build will be Linux based.
- SuperSpruce ( @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ) 5•10 months ago
I’ve never done serious Linux gaming but Lubuntu is lightweight and fairly responsive even on my old 2009 laptop.
- The_Sasswagon ( @The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
I’ve been running MX Linux four a few years mostly for playing games and I’ve had great success with only one game that caused issues, and one that wouldn’t play due to anti-cheat software.
Just enable the high end hardware repos on install if it’s a newer system and use proton for minimal hassle.
- OutlierBlue ( @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
That looks good. I had already considered Debian for the stability and MX being based off it is a good thing.
I’ll look in to it a bit more. Thanks!
- Amends1782 ( @Amends1782@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
Please just do yourself a favor and run Linux mint cinammon. It is the easiest distros to use bar none and super reliable, great for anything gaming included. Tons of support and hell and software options and driver support.
- Swordgeek ( @swordgeek@lemmy.ca ) 15•10 months ago
One of our PCs in the house has Windows 11, and it’s already a nightmare - even after stripping out as much adware/bloatware as possible.
Now we’re going to be getting something far worse, with extra surveillance features and AI interpretation of them. Wonderful!
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 3•10 months ago
If you still have bloatware/adware, you didn’t strip out as much a possible. If you lack the understanding to do so, feel free to ask a professional computer technician for help.
~Sincerely a Windows user without bloatware.
- small_crow ( @small_crow@lemmy.ca ) 5•10 months ago
“Hire a professional to make your computer stop being hostile” is a more user-unfriendly solution than telling them to switch to Linux. It also only works until a Windows Update re-enables whatever they disabled for you, without notifying you or asking permission.
- HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 11•10 months ago
Just when I was ready to upgrade to 11; I don’t think I’ve ever been this behind in Windows upgrade cycles outside of the awful ones (ME, Vista and 8).
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 8•10 months ago
For real. Me too. I have Win 11 on my work laptop and I hate it. They really had the ergonomics down with Windows 10. I could almost use it blindfolded. Win 11 is a mess. Plus they added a lot of features that has me concerned about my privacy.
And now in Win 12, all my info and data are doing to be sent to some AI somewhere? Fuck that.
The day that Win 10 becomes unsupported or that I’m forced to upgrade to a newer version of Windows is the day I go 100% Linux.
- HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 3•10 months ago
I’ve got Win 11 on my laptop on with the last update I think it’s ok to use now. What’s wrong with it?
Not a privacy freak, but still concerned about the overheads with sending unncessary data too. And I really just want an OS, not a nanny on the desktop. Copilot in Edge is useful but I hate the nagging about using it.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
Ever notice how it’s more search focused? Especially the start menu? There’s a lot of data that is being sent without you noticing.
I don’t know how technical you are but here’s an article with some links to videos of people analyzing what’s being sent.
- HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 3•10 months ago
I don’t really care about that as long as it doesn’t interfere with my daily use; that’s what I really dislike whenever MS adds something to Edge, it adds cruft to the UI, and also why I get the complaints about ads in the Start Menu (I’m not in the USA, never had ads in the Start Menu ever). That shit would be so infuirating.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
I care very much. I’m sick and tired of being bombarded with ads and it’s especially concerning when ads about things I only thought about appear coincidentally. In addition, all my information and photos and videos are now used to train AI and I have no idea how my information is used or stored.
Then you have cases like in the US where women are being arrested because the police are using chat records and other stored data on company servers to find out who is seeking abortion services. Or in other places where just criticizing the government ends up with you being arrested.
And this is becoming increasingly common, even in relatively free countries.
Naw man, I’ll be switching to Linux.
- I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 1•10 months ago
I have a few counters I manage, plus my personal laptop. I’ve set all of them to only allow updates up to version 22H2, windows 10 lts. Hopefully that means they will never try to upgrade to windows 11.
Edit: computers. I don’t manage any counters that run an OS, as far as I’m aware.
- unfnknblvbl ( @unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
You’ve inadvertently discovered the Windows Rule: every other version sucks.
- HidingCat ( @HidingCat@kbin.social ) 1•10 months ago
Not true, I’ve been happy with 8.1 and 11.
- Vendul ( @Vendul@feddit.de ) 10•10 months ago
I just want XP back
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 6•10 months ago
They really did peak with NT 3.5
- ares35 ( @ares35@kbin.social ) 7•10 months ago
win2000
- basic_spud ( @basic_spud@kbin.social ) 5•10 months ago
win2k really was the best windows. lots of people seem to like xp, but xp was just a bloated win2k
- unfnknblvbl ( @unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org ) 10•10 months ago
I have a novel idea. How about my operating system just being a platform to allow my games and applications to run? I’m sick of Microsoft adding “new features” that slow everything down.
I swear, every time a company adds “AI” to their product, it makes it dumber.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
Ai isn’t going to be running on your computer
When you first boot it’s going to ask “what wallpaper do you want” then go online and download the image
Then you can do the same in the wallpaper app
Not really any different than the bing in search feature you’ve had since 10
- small_crow ( @small_crow@lemmy.ca ) 6•10 months ago
My laptop came with Windows 11 on it. I installed Fedora pretty shortly after getting it. It doesn’t have working speakers in Linux, and it can’t shutdown - it just restarts on its own - because Lenovo’s Linux support is non-existent outside of a handful of Thinkpad devices.
I accepted the loss. I’d rather use my Bluetooth earbuds when I need them and jump through hoops managing my battery than deal with how hostile Microsoft has gotten towards their customers or their relentless surveillance policies.
- Amends1782 ( @Amends1782@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
I belive you but how strange. Think pads are like the go to budget Linux laptop option. They’ve worked flawlessly for me for various distros over various models and years.
- small_crow ( @small_crow@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
Ah I should have been more clear. I have a non-Thinkpad Lenovo. It’s an Ideapad, Slim 7 Carbon. I bought it for its gorgeous screen and didn’t really intend it to be a Linux exclusive device but here I am.
- Amends1782 ( @Amends1782@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
Ah I see thatn is frustrating
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
I had a restart on shutdown quirk with a dell machine, the fix was adding a kernel quirk number in grub line. You might want to try it. Solved it competely for me. add xhci_hcd.quirks=262144 to grub line or try xhci_hcd.quirks=8192 or you may need both so you add the numbers together for 270336.
- small_crow ( @small_crow@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I tried all three but to no avail. It’s not the worst behavior, I just resort to a less graceful shutdown holding the power button down at the grub menu. Suspend works fine now that I’ve disabled bluetooth wakeup, at least, so I just plug in for a while each day to keep things going.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
Bummer. As for sound there, if it is a separate amplifier that runs the audio there was a package that let you manually reassign hardware speaker pins to the corresponding outputs, but it is trial and error unless you find someone’s notes on which pins worked for them. it is HDAjackRetasker might separate package or be part of alsa-tools-gui. when you run hdajackretask you get a dialog box, try the various overrides, or if that doesn’t work then turn on show unconnected pins and advanced override, then it is trying various pin overrides to components and seeing what works. There ia some limited documentation in the gui, and probably more online.
- small_crow ( @small_crow@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
Yep, I messed with hdajackretasker for several hours a few months ago. There was no combination of pins configurations that fixed it that I could find.
It is the amplifier causing the sound problems, but from my research on this and similar issues with other Lenovo laptops like the Legion, it seems to be the way that Lenovo’s bios identifies the hardware and its pins to the OS. It’s likely possible to write a patch to fix it, but that’s over my head and I got the sense from others who have tried that there isn’t enough information to write the patch without more details from Lenovo, who have been entirely unresponsive to support requests.
They’re fantastic speakers in Windows, so it’s a shame, but I can work this way. In another year or two I’ll upgrade to a laptop with hardware that I know plays nice with Linux.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
Yeah, unfortunate. I have same issue with an HP zbook and the Bang& Olufson sound. Regular LR is fine but the boost is not. When it is upgrade time I’ll be choosey.
- Amends1782 ( @Amends1782@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
I think its weird no one mentioned how new 11 is , for them to be releasing 12 already. Like, their os life cycle is usually way longer.
- maniel ( @maniel@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
You think AI fad will survive that long?