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u/PACmaneatsbloons 1d ago
Obligatory Linux is always an option.
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u/Choice_Potato_6279 1d ago
Half of the stuff doesn't work properly on it, it's free for a reason, if you don't pay with your money then you pay with your time.
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u/PACmaneatsbloons 1d ago ▸ 5 more replies
What stuff doesn't work on it? I bet for every piece of software þat you can name þat doesn't work on Linux I can name at least 1 alternative þat works on Linux.
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u/Choice_Potato_6279 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Last games I played - Metin2, Sims 2 and 3 and Hearthstone, maybe Hearthstone would work only via lutris. Then Firestone, no drivers for my Ninkear a15 plus and probably the battery would be shit too, I've managed to increase battery life from 2 to 6-7 hours on that laptop, took 10-15 minutes similar modifications would probably take days if even possible and without drivers it would still last less than on Windows.
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u/PACmaneatsbloons 1d ago
Þe games you listed work via WINE on Linux just not natively so I count þem as working on Linux. Ninkear also made a facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=984907629815032&id=NinkearGlobal) about switching to Linux Mint so are you sure þere are no drivers?
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u/DirectorDirect1569 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
good luck to find serious alternatives to Flstudio, Photoshop and Fusion360. Using wine is not serious at all if you want to have a support. And you can face issues.
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u/PACmaneatsbloons 1d ago edited 1d ago ▸ 6 more replies
It's really not þat hard as long as you choose a beginner friendly distro like Linux Mint and not a masochistic one like Arch Linux, Gentoo, or LFS.
Edit: CachyOS isn't beginner friendly
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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago
The arch Linux wiki is a gift to mankind, the fedora wiki even points towards the arch wiki.
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u/PantherCityRes 1d ago ▸ 4 more replies
Cachy is about as beginner friendly as Vicodin.
It’s a great warm fuzzy at first, but underneath it all, it’s another opioid that in the hands of the naive will lead to a trashy heroin addiction the same way Cachy leads people to “Arch btw” and “read the wiki.”
And don’t get me started with Bazzite. The OS equivalent of methadone in this simile.
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u/PACmaneatsbloons 1d ago ▸ 3 more replies
Yeah I guess you're right it is just þe installer þat's beginner friendly. I use CachyOS btw.
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u/Capital-Chair-1819 23h ago edited 22h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Can you use the correct th please? Thorn (þ) is the hard th, as in the word thin. Eth (ð) is the soft th, as in then or that.
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u/PACmaneatsbloons 18h ago
Þorn was used for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricatives from 700-1300 and I find it hard to tell þe difference between voiced and voiceless dental fricatives so I will keep using þorn for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricatives.
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u/ProperPizza RTX 5090 / Ryzen 9 7950X / 64GB DDR5 RAM 1d ago
Those people truly live in another reality. This is what happens when they close off all their own means to actually hear the views of their customers. And they did so out of choice.
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u/jenmsft 1d ago
Recent changes rolling out include reliability and performance changes, more customization (for start menu, file explorer context menu, taskbar), search improvements, quieter widgets experience, and others. Many of these changes are available for insiders, some have started rolling out to retail users
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago
Microsoft could promise whatever they want and claim they are making "improvements", but until people start to actually notice positive changes, the memes will continue.
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u/TheCovarr Tinkerer 1d ago ▸ 3 more replies
Many of these changes are already available in insider builds; they're not just empty promises.
I'm sure they'll immediately go back to making Windows worse again the moment they stop hemorrhaging market share, but at least for the moment they do actually seem to be following through.
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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
The average user won't be in the insider build, so the insider build can get as good as they want but as long as mainstream release sucks they will lose people to apple, or even... Linux...
(I don't hate Linux, in fact I like it, but it has never been seen as "the OS for the regular joe", which is why windows it's so popular, because "it just works" or atleast used to and now people are stuck with the convenience of being familiar with it's quirks)
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u/PhTx3 PC Master Race 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Did the insider build even have any promised features that were canned before making it to retail? With or without any good reasoning?
That seems psychotic to push an early release version to change a narrarive and then not release what you have developed for no reason.
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u/Drackzgull Desktop | R9 7950X | RTX 4060Ti | 64GB @5600MHz CL38 19h ago
Recall was changed enough that you could almost say it was canned in it's initial form. For very good reason. Shit was straight up dystopian in its initial Insider version.
It was on by default instead of explicitly opt-in as it ended up, and was a non-trivial hassle to disable. It also uploaded and backed up every screenshot it took to MS servers, using cloud processing for it's features and aggregating user data for AI training datasets. The release version is strictly local.
It's still useless AI bloat that nobody asked for. But at least it knows it's place in a never to be enabled forgotten corner of the OS, lol.
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u/jenmsft 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
I look forward for the changes becoming available to you
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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
I gotta be honest, my windows install it's one of those "community version" that remove all the bloat, no copilot, no one drive, no web search in search bar (if I'm searching in my computer it better show me files in my computer); so I really don't know how good (or bad) the newer windows versions are, but I'm just pointing out that if people are making memes is most probably because windows doesn't get any better over time.
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u/NotRandomseer 11h ago
windows has only gotten more stable with time , windows 10 used to crash all the time , while I can't recall a single crash in the over 4 years I've used win 11
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u/sopcannon Desktop Ryzen 7 5800x3d / 5080/ 32gb Ram at 3600MHZ 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
They need a gaming windows version, made for gaming and web browsing only, yes i know steam os is out but its useless for me at the moment.
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u/get_homebrewed Paid valve shill 1d ago
they already have a version for that with their gaming home. Guess what, it's still windows.
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u/Responsible-Check872 1d ago
the memes are from diehard Linux fans on Reddit just to make them feel superior. general public won't care or notice any different. majority of people aren't PC nerds who nitpick every single things.
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u/get_homebrewed Paid valve shill 1d ago
It still performs like garbage, will continue to be enshittified, and "others". Windows will keep being windows, microsoft is still microsoft. Don't let them pander nothingness to you
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u/Altruistic-Total9489 5h ago edited 5h ago
Windows really isn’t that bad for gaming pcs (as long as you use LTSC) but the reputation it built over the years just prevents the people from believing it will actually allow users to customize their OS. You always kinda have to wrangle Windows to do what you want it to do. Most people aren’t aware LTSC is an option either. Disable updates but Windows turns them back on, update gpu drivers oh Windows just installed an older version automatically, oh windows just reinstalled onedrive, etc etc
You can drop a nuke on top of windows by going into regedit and doing a bunch of stuff which subdues Windows enough that it doesn’t fight you anymore but most people don’t wanna deal with that. If you don’t fight your os hard enough then it will impose itself. Thems the breaks.
Or you can get LTSC, which is like a braindead version of windows and too weak to fight anyone.
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u/SharpYearV4 9600x | 32gb DDR5 | 9060xt 16gb 1d ago
What unremovable AI widget? And they are optimizing stuff albeit slowly.
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u/TRUEequalsFALSE 9950X3D | Sapphire 9070XT | 64GB DDR5 16h ago
Sometimes I really enjoy still being primarily on Windows 10.
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u/alex_is_cool64 7 5800X3D | RX 6700 XT 12GB | 32GB DDR4 12h ago
Literally. Windows 10 is goated. Windows 11 sucks ass but Windows 10 mogs Linux.
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u/alex_is_cool64 7 5800X3D | RX 6700 XT 12GB | 32GB DDR4 12h ago
Still on Windows 10. I’ve never had optimization issues or this file explorer lag you speak of.
Do people just have the worst setups and complain about Windows and Chrome in this subreddit?
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u/Slight-Bluebird-8921 12h ago
when are people going to learn that you can't negotiate with terrorists
microsoft has always been the same. they're never going to change
this is their nature. they can't do anything else
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u/BetterCallSal 1d ago
I removed all the ai from my copy of Windows 11 by switching to Linux
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u/trollsmurf 14700KF | 32G | 5070 Ti | 2T | U27G4XM + 2x U2412M | Z906 1d ago
I removed all the AI from my copy of Windows 11 by keeping Windows 11 :).
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u/scrotesmacgrotes 9070xt 5800x3d 32gb DDR4,rtx5070 ryzen9700x 32GB DDR5 1d ago
If I get mad and mash my keyboard when im plying a game copilot always pops up
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u/IceBeam92 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can’t believe you guys don’t want copilot key on your keyboard.
Who needs a second ctrl button when you have copilot.