Windows 11

MusicForFish · Monday at 9:14 AM

Aldarion said:
Yes, and if we did this society-wide it would fix a lot of problems with the modern world.

Not all of them, but seriously most of them.

Make land lines great again!

Noodleface · Monday at 2:35 PM

ronne said:
The idea that just changing your OS saves you from being 'tracked' is some supreme midwit nonsense.

You willing to turn off your email? Get rid of your cellphone? Caring specifically about whatever nonsense hardware ID Microsoft is keeping in the vast see of data that exists about you is just weird.

I would at the least like to remove what tracking I can from my life, sure. I'm not going to just roll over. I understand I am being tracked through other means.

I don't really think what I said is that midwit nonsense. I'd say not caring about it all is though.

Fucker · Monday at 2:39 PM

All you have to do is create a gooey using visual basic so you can't be backtraced. Perfect anonymity.

Kajiimagi · 2026-07-14T01:55:27-0400

MusicForFish said:
Make land lines great again!

I read that initially as 'make land mines great again!'

Rabbit_Games · 2026-07-14T05:38:29-0400

How long before A.I. can go in an optimize the code for an operating system? If not write one from scratch?

Noodleface · 2026-07-14T09:06:17-0400

Rabbit_Games said:
How long before A.I. can go in an optimize the code for an operating system? If not write one from scratch?

It already can to both

Rabbit_Games · 2026-07-14T09:10:50-0400

Then Win 11 should be "fixed".

Noodleface · 2026-07-14T09:20:12-0400

Rabbit_Games said:
Then Win 11 should be "fixed".

They call them microslop for a reason. They have no idea what they're doing

Borzak · 2026-07-14T10:22:45-0400

Is Windows even a blip on their radar so to speak with the other stuff they make money on? And obviously not gaming now.

Hekotat · 2026-07-14T11:49:39-0400

Speaking of Microslop. My monitors started acting really weird the last couple of weeks, all kinds of animations and noises that I didn't want. Unbeknownst to me Win11 decided to install the LG Monitor App on it's own without any input from me. Might be time to finally switch to Linux, this is not the type of shit I want in a PC.

Control · 2026-07-14T13:49:22-0400

Rabbit_Games said:
Then Win 11 should be "fixed".

Windows doesn't do the shitty things it does by accident though.

Rabbit_Games · 2026-07-14T17:43:43-0400

Control said:
Windows doesn't do the shitty things it does by accident though.

For the most part. There should still be room for analyzing the code and getting rid of all the obsolete shit like drivers, conflicting code, etc.

sleevedraw · 2026-07-14T18:02:03-0400

Borzak said:
Is Windows even a blip on their radar so to speak with the other stuff they make money on? And obviously not gaming now.

They currently have a debloating initiative called K2. Their goal is for Windows to be at gaming performance parity with SteamOS in 2 years.

They have brought back the ability to indefinitely delay automatic updates (it needs to be refreshed every 35 days, but it can be done as many times as you want without the system eventually forcing you to update), and they are also doing a ground-up rewrite of the UI compositor to improve performance

There are some nice Start menu improvements coming, but it's been slow.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-announces-major-windows-11-search-overhaul-that-prioritizes-clearer-local-results-and-removes-ads

But for a lot of people, it may be too little/too late. I have already migrated my laptop onto Linux, and I am (slowly) preparing to move over my desktop as well.

fred sanford · 2026-07-15T09:24:18-0400

I'm going to build a new PC in the coming months and would love to ditch Windows. Unfortunately, my kids use the computer for doing some of their schoolwork. As a test I put Linux on an old laptop and let my son use it. For the most part it was fine, but there were a few apps he couldn't launch from the school portal. Sucks

ShakyJake · 2026-07-15T15:51:53-0400

fred sanford said:
I'm going to build a new PC in the coming months and would love to ditch Windows. Unfortunately, my kids use the computer for doing some of their schoolwork. As a test I put Linux on an old laptop and let my son use it. For the most part it was fine, but there were a few apps he couldn't launch from the school portal. Sucks

What kind of apps? They weren't web based?

fred sanford · 2026-07-15T16:17:44-0400

ShakyJake said:
What kind of apps? They weren't web based?

They were. I can’t remember specifics, it was at the beginning of this year. Maybe I’ll try again. I didn’t put much effort into it since he was trying to do work.

Kajiimagi · 2026-07-15T19:44:52-0400

My wife works for a school system and all their apps are chrome OS based. Seems like using Google chrome would work regardless of OS?

ShakyJake · 2026-07-15T20:12:35-0400

fred sanford said:
They were. I can’t remember specifics, it was at the beginning of this year. Maybe I’ll try again. I didn’t put much effort into it since he was trying to do work.

It's a school system, so my immediate thought was some ancient IE11 ActiveX shit. I'm sure that's no longer used, though.

Right, I would think any modern browser should be fine. Microsoft has their latest Edge for Linux. That could be an option as a secondary browser.

Lanx · 2026-07-15T21:57:34-0400

ShakyJake said:
It's a school system, so my immediate thought was some ancient IE11 ActiveX shit. I'm sure that's no longer used, though.

Right, I would think any modern browser should be fine. Microsoft has their latest Edge for Linux. That could be an option as a secondary browser.

edge has ie mode for legacy

don't ask me more, i only know about it, to help my wife troubleshoot, and when i did, when i was done, i removed that shit fast

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