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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

And local (offline) accounts when?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Still using it that way.

Hoops to jump through on fresh install but still possible afaik.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

🇪🇺the🇪🇺land🇪🇺of🇪🇺the🇪🇺free🇪🇺

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

The home of the brave, and the land of the free.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine living somewhere where those in charge have even there smallest bit of spine.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

This is why when u pirate windows u always pirate the European version. Not that I condone pirating windows that would be immoral and wrong.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

uses Linux to pirate Windows

deletes the iso because it sucks

just because I could!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Pirating windows and adobe is never wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Pirating Windows is wrong, but the lesser evil compared to buying Windows. Ideally, you shouldn't do either

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Microsoft is grudgingly forced to give...*

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Microsoft: "Suck it, Americans"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And again; repeat after me: install Linux already. Just get it over with, demand Linux work stations at work,use Linux for yourself and for the first time ever experience freedom on your computer

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I feel like this is one of those calls that get so repeatedly people get numbed.

Something along the lines of climate change, economic crisis, etc.

They are all true, but people are passivated.

For real though; GET THE DAMN LINUX. SPIN IT UP IN A VM. TRY THE LIVE VERSION. DUAL BOOT IT WITH WINDOWS. YOU LOSE NOTHING, WINDOWS IS STILL THERE. JUST TRY IT FOR ONCE.

It is painful to see people struggle with things that are easily solved.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Perhaps sometime in the future, more people will try Linux and see how good it is. My recommendation based on my own experience:

Want stable, just working. Robust workhorse: Try Debian

Want newest, nicest, good for gaming (need a tiny bit of tinkering if you run Nvidia): Try Fedora

Want easy to install, but a bit older and slower, but requires no tinkering: Try PopOS

Don't like settings, tweaks and fuzz: choose Gnome desktop 😊

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm morbidly eager to see how they'll handle the Win 10 EoL (yeah, yeah, it ain't dyin', just not getting updated, same thing to me tbh) in October. I bet it'll be a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don't want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So being able to uninstall apps on your computer is news?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

No no, on Windows it is not your computer, it is "This computer". The days of "My computer" are long gone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, well ill continue living without all that shit on Linux Mint.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

For those curious, if you can get a European Windows product key, you can install the "N" version of Windows. Be warned, it only works with certain product keys....

The standard Windows installer should give the option of "Windows 10" or "Windows 10 N" (or similar). The N version is basically bloatware free out of the box....

The regular version has a bunch of promos pre-installed, like candy crush, and other things that most people couldn't give a shit about....

Recently I've been playing a "fun" game with my work laptop where I'll remove copilot, and a few days later it will appear again. Weeee. In that case, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a policy in place to enable copilot on my works systems.... I'm sure someone who works here, probably higher up the food chain than me, wants it enabled, and the ham fisted policy maker can't create a policy just for those who want it, so everyone gets it because the bosses son Shane decided that he wants to see how much of his work can get done by AI so he can do even less while on the clock.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Too little too late? Some European businesses have already made the change to open source. Shit should be free to anyone doing business with it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Wanted to play a game on my kid's computer that had windows 11 N or some shit. Couldn't play because it needed the "media pack", which in its turn installs everything N stands for. Clown world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE EU, you can use O&O ShutUp to help you turn off the more intrusive aspects of Windows with ease.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

So.. they’re doing exactly what apple was forced to do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it's users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Make it world wide!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

European Union users

Because the EU at least remotely cares about it's citizens.

Now let's try the USA! How much does the USA cares about it's citizens? Not all at the same time, please!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am i missing something? If i had edge, store and bing forced down my throat my win11 install wouldve been long gone, but imo thst stuff was already removable before?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

From what I've gathered here and elsewhere they never really went full throttle on all that stuff for most of us here in the EU.

Now don't get me wrong, W11 is utter shite, and I had to essentially build a new computer from scratch to even get it running properly, but I still haven't seen any ads or any other bullshit like that.

This is exactly why my old computer is merrily running Mint, and it likes it.

Edit: If it wasn't for the fact that I happen to primarily use Cinema 4D for work I wouldn't even have bothered, probably. Relearning 20+ years of software flow for the other options seemed silly at the time, but I would've reconsidered had I known what a mess W11 would become for me and in general.

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