Slowly but surely we are going back to the days of Yahoo where every single website, search engine included is littered with ads. The only difference is that now we'll also have ads integrated in the OS. What a time to be alive
From my experience with the steam deck, you can play lots of games that are tagged as unsupported, the problem is the anticheat and even that you can bypass, its just a matter of time. I was able to play dead by daylight not long ago on the deck online wich is a epic store game with easy anticheat. For me, the deck was the best thing that happened to gamers in the latest years.
@@shadiandrew "Or just a few select games" lmao, do you still live in 2008? Linux can run everything. The only games I've ran into problems with, are Easyanticheat games, and that's not because of technical issues, it's intentional.
@@soubs242 i understand if youre an indi dev that has a niche game which isnt supported by proton yet. What i dont understand is games going actively out of their way to make it harder. There are Games that utalize EAC and BattleEye what work well with Linux (Arma 3 for example) yet some make the concious decision to not support linux cuz..idk they werent allowed to watch penguins of madagascar as a kid at least thats my best guess :p
Man, steam actually did a great job helping a lot of games to run on an average linux machine, even better, it sandboxes the game files which makes things more convenient Linux gaming is a real thing now (when VFIO also considered)
To me I treat every game that is incompatible with Linux as incompatible with my hardware. If I can't play it on Linux, eh, it's like an XBox game. I don't have an XBox, who cares.
Loved when someone in the beta got ads in the file explorer and Microsoft said it was a test, almost calling it a mistake. Seems the mistake they meant was ONLY putting ads in the file explorer.
I'm an IT professional and i miss the WIndows 7 and prior control panel. You're not just ranting. Due to my job i need to use the most up to date OS so it is of course Windows 11. But on all my older Lenovo Thinkpad laptops, i run either Linux or older versions of Windows. I mean there are Ads everything in Windows 11. This video was really needed to be honest.
For real, trying to find the setting I need to change in the current control panel is darn near impossible. Most of the time I have to edit registries to fix issues.
@@boonkunak I've used Winero Tweaker to make modifications to fix some issues but between the creepy telemetry and ads, it's getting unbearable to use on a daily basis.
Guys thinking it's the end of windows and that many people will go for Linux are just pathetic. Normies will not care, and non normies will maybe get system wide Adblock, which I think might start appearing.
@@kryane99 Personally, I like to bios-mod chromebooks and install peppermint OS or Gallium OS. But ChromeOS is good if you don't want to end up being someone's free tech support.
@@leonidas14775 chrome OS is proprietary adware that spies on you, linux mint or pretty much any just works distro is enough for ant tech illiterate person out there
There will never be a Linux desktop “year” because desktops are over!!!!! in 5 to 10 years. Your phone will replace your PC gaming with a docking system think nintendo twitch.
There’s nowhere else in the world where I’m more productive than on my desk with a big screen and nice chair. No matter how powerful mobile devices become, the desk setup for me is still king.
Normies are so used to being the product that they no longer care about ads and telemetry. The year of Linux desktop in never coming. And that's the sad truth.
We need more Linux devs and more tools on Linux. Drawing tablet support, something as good as photoshop (I know people will think that’s gross but I need it for multiple things so it’s my drawing app), better game support (it’s getting there slowly). So many things are still needed to switch away from the nightmare that is windows and they know it
gimp is on linux (i think) and i dont know if it compares for people who use photoshop for their job, but for hobbyist shit like i do its more than enough. layout looks a lot like photoshop too
@@tomface55 I’m not saying it isn’t. For the games that do work on it, it does very well. There are plenty that still don’t work very well or at all. Plus the stupid anti-cheat is still an issue
@D Reaper It’s mostly shitty online games like PUBG, Destiny 2, Rainbow Six, COD that still don’t work. You are right about the drawing tablet thing though. Most of the tablets do have supported drivers now. So my bad on that one. Old knowledge = me spouting crap that ain’t true haha. I’m still very reliant on photoshop maybe I’ll try the options you mentioned and see how they are.
Oh god. I had a terrible thought. What if Microsoft forces an even more intrusive version of Cortana into Windows 11? A ChatGPT variant of Cortana. May God help us all.
Imagine you're trying to do something on Windows 12 and Cortana is watching it all in real time so she can swoop in and say "as an AI language model committed to fostering a safe and ethical user experience, I can't let you browse that website or install that game because it violates our Community Guidelines. Would you like to play a game of Candy Crush instead?"
My daily driver is still windows for a couple of major reasons: * I have committed a ridiculous number of shortcuts to muscle memory * I have memorized dozens of executable names for system menus or utilities and don’t need to use the crap new menus yet * I have memorized more bizarre interactions between system functions in Windows than I’ve learned actual system functions for Linux - any time windows hiccups, I don’t even notice it anymore, I just workaround it on habit. Not to mention that this also gives me a professional edge, as I’ve never found an issue that I couldn’t debug in a professional setting Couple of fun examples: >CFO walks up “I got a weird problem. There’s like a bar across the top of my screen, I can’t see the top of my programs and can’t close them” > walk in to his office and look > yep there’s a 2-inch black bar along the top of his screen > press Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+B to ‘reload’ display drivers > screen flashes, bar gone > CFO looks at me > “well fuck you then” he says > cackle gleefully, leave his office > elapsed time: 6 seconds Number two story > sitting in office > one of our field guys walks in with a fucked up laptop > says he brought it to a repair shop because the mouse was doing something weird after his kid cracked the screen and the shop broke it worse > mouse borderline unusable now > WiFi also doesn’t work for some reason > boot the thing up, notice rippling on the screen > text inputs keep losing focus > broken touchscreen, inputs getting spammed constantly in a couple of places > find FN+fn# to disable touchscreen > log in, completely disable touchscreen in device manager > calm.jpg > checking on WiFi now > weird error when you try to connect to any network > check Services > a bunch of shit and shit dependencies have been completely disabled > turn it all back on > WiFi working > elapsed time: 15 minutes > give it back to field guy, don’t charge him anything > he’s psyched > comes back in the next day > hands me a beautiful tall bottle of yellow agave tequila as a thank you perks of being a winf*g Bonus reason for windows as a daily driver: * Vidya with no hassle Cons: I’m glowy as fuck Need to run a second machine for other activities
Understandable, don't let the linux freetard that's inevitably going to shit-talk you later get you down.... use whatever you want. Me personally: As soon as steamos gets a public release I'm selling my nvidia card and switching. The only thing holding me back is program/game compatibility, but proton has basically solved that issue.
It seems like a lot of linux users just do it because they hate windows and nothing else. I use bowth because some programs i need for my future job as a game developer don’t work on linux and don’t have any real alternative. And i use linux on some of older computers so they run good and because i actually like the OS and it’s capabilities.
Almost same thing, bro. Working as a Tech Support guy in the suburban of the big city. Fixing problems with Windows in seconds or minutes, doing nothing all the other time. The sole reason I didn't switch is because I have still Windows at work and I need to support it, which is difficult to do from GNU/Linux. Even if I had to switch, I will need to have a Windows VM around.
The biggest advantage windows has over linux is the native support of games. If steam or game devs made a bit more effort into support for games on linux i'd switch instantly. I know there are fixes and compatibility apps to aid, but it's not the same.
That will, and once the ads get into your games, and that will be soon Pc gaming will change in 5-10 years!!! Phones are getting extremely powerful and all you have to do is have a docking system, and It will destroy windows entirely Nintendo switch already does it
if you don't care about multiplayer that has anti-cheat, Proton does amazing work with games, everything works with just one click on the setting for the steamplay, we even have Protondb for some smaller fixes thanks to the help of other users, i had a fear about game before too when i dual boot, but now that i got everything i need, no more performance hits thanks to Linux, butter smooth
Imma be real with you, "compatibility apps" aspect is really dumb. Why? Because Windows uses them too! Any 32-bit app you run on your Windows PC, be it Steam or older games, is NOT native anymore. Instead they run on WoW64 compatibility layer, which by itself is very, very similar to Wine, and works in pretty much the same way.
@@bc-cu4on Maybe I'm naive,but I rembember the emergence of Macbooks in the 90's how they were more feature rich than Compaq. Then Dell and Lenovo emerged, but bringing features to the table. All the above marketed laptops that were upgradable and easy to repair.
Microsoft is like Nintendo now because they know that no matter how annoying or uncool they are to their customers because people will still use their products anyway
it's not that they *will* use their products; it's that they've been convinced that they have to and have become so reliant on them that considering any alternative at all is just "too difficult" because of a never-ending rabbit hole of "industry standard" software.
Nope, people avoid Shitty console. Only console peasants use it. Even still XBox and PlayStation is miles superior hardware. For Nintendo: More People use Emulators than their consoles.
@@dubbynelson Translated from sneed: Almost everything big tech develops is created with Microsoft products and APIs in mind, and the average Microsoft consumer will eat that shit sandwich as long as they don't have to give up their video games or proprietary software compatibility.
I still remember the time that a Windows system update wiped the main Linux partition of my hard drive which was my daily driver with all my files. It was the ultimate middle finger from the virus masquerading as an OS, also known as Windows.
I'm right there with you on the Control panel thing. They've also redesigned most setting windows but with for some reason they have less settings than the OG control panel versions.
Control panel, and every other excellent thing about Windows, dates back to the millions of $ they invested in research for Windows 95. Things like the Start menu, etc. The reason Windows continued to be good up until 7 or so was because they made slight improvements to that original Windows 95 UI formula. Once all the original dudes were gone by the end of the 2010s, Windows became the property of scumbags who have just piled on more spyware and garbage. Linux is getting slightly better, but it isn't nearly matching the pace at which Windows is becoming an abomination.
@@volvodude101 Ubuntu has come a long way and is the best replacement for Windows 10/11 in my opinion. It's not perfect but they're improving every major update. So much so that I run it on my laptop now and haven't had any big problems yet. But I don't think it's completely fool proof yet from which Windows and IOS pretty much are.
"Turning"? But yes, I agree wholeheartedly with all of this. Ads fundamentally do not belong in an operating system. It's just supposed to be the layer between my software and my hardware! I still use Windows 7 for gaming because Win10 makes me sick, but not only is Win10 becoming the average 'minimum system requirement' nowadays, Steam itself is now going to stop working on Win7 too. So now I either have to downgrade to the adware/spyware that is Windows 10, or lose the ability to access my embarrassingly large Steam library. Thanks, Micros***
I'm about ready to just ditch Microsoft. The operating system gets worse and worse in function, yet they always find time to add spyware and advertising. I only kept it for work, but I'm about ready to just sideload an older Windows for that if I absolutely have to.
How much more invasive proprietary malware can the common person handle? It feels so weird to see that this is how the standard computer OS for consumers is being "improved"
There’s a core group at my company that just cannot shake themselves loose from Office. They are woefully computer illiterate and cannot imagine using something else. 90% have already moved to purely web apps. That core group is the only reason we have any Windows machines whatsoever.
You know you might mock such people but Office truly is nice. Modern Office seems janky as heck to me (we use 2019 at work), but I have 2007 at home and my bro has 2010, that stuff is genuinely nice to use for the most part. Also, c'mon, "web apps"? Yeah it's easy to think why someone might want to use local software instead.
Most every company is actively making their products worse nowadays, devs and managers need to justify their salaries somehow, can't do that by admitting that your product has peaked. Open source is immune because any downgrades can always be reverted by anyone who wants to.
@@SirDavid290 That's why they'll rig the game, already appealing for regulations to lock in their market dominance. Companies collab with regulatory bodies and the gov all the time to create monopolies and oligopolies.
I really was a big Linux fan in the Linux vs. Windows "war" of the 2000s, then made my peace with Windows as, let's face it, it offers access to more games, has (sadly still) better driver support from many hardware vendors, and there's really no way around it for ms-office. But now i'm rethinking that again, not only because of the advertising, but also because of MS pushing their microsoft account (it becomes harder and harder to avoid), and their push for SAAS (just look how hard it is to find office 2021). They really want that constant revenue stream from every office user, and my guess is, that'll be extended to Windows users next. Then there is their "cloud drive" (thanks, i'd rather use my own hardware and not depend on that internet connection, and i don't want Microsoft applying whatever countries jurisdiction to my data), and Windows gathering information to the point where it could be called spyware.
@@bettercalldelta There really seems to be some development, good to know for the future. It's a bit sad, that Windows now has wsl, but then messes up with privacy, advertising and trying to tie one to some online account. I paid full price for my hardware, i don't want to rent the OS that runs on it.
The thing I noticed is how companies want MS Teams a lot. But because everything is made intentionally crappy with meeting invitations if you don´t use MS for mail, calendar etc, they are now migrating their Gmail, self-hosted etc to MS en masse. So as usual MS is getting rewarded for making crap. I really hope this is going to spark the next antitrust against MS. At this rate MS will soon have world dominance in email too. Makes me sick...
Teams sucks. What sucks the most about it is the fact it can't handle preformatted text properly - even with the triple-backtick copy and paste doesn't work right.
Well they also do it in partnership with software manufacturers. Certain qualifications are based on competency in software that only runs on the latest windows; and also has negative-interoperability; I'm pretty sure there's a dedicated programming department for countering WINE usage... In short, school pays for shite (or maybe gets it for free); and they get you 'used to' a shite interface which you pay for the rest of your career - or life in the case of the OS... You would not think malware could exist OUTSIDE the computer would you?
@@knm080xg12r6j991jhgtThat's problem 1. Problem 2 is that it's also a nightmare to copy out of. It's realistically impossible if you want to preserve a whole thread.
I dread to think with all the trendy AI stuff going on they're going to essentially install keyloggers and mouse trackers, if they haven't already, onto computers in corporate office settings, and use that input as a dataset to somehow even further automate common office tasks.
I went on my uncle's windows 11 computer to install software for his vinyl printing machine using edge and bing and I got so overwhelmed with pop-ups, even past ublock origin that I visually had a ptsd moment due to my past experiences with adware of my younger childhood. And apparently when I installed the software, apparently I was in S mode so I HAD to use the Microsoft store which didn't even have the software I was looking for. After jumping through many hoops later, I got the software working which should've only been a search & install procedure but unfortunately Microsoft is a pain in my rear even when I'm no longer their customer.
@@leonidas14775 I talked to my uncle about making changes and apparently he didn't agree to the changes I suggested to him even when I laid out the benefits of removing telemetry, ads, and other various annoyances from windows even if his reasoning for keeping such things is pretty illogical. When he inevitably does buckle from the constant annoyances, he knows exactly who to call. Also the keylogger's a conviently built-in feature in most modern CPUs🫠
Big companies seem to keep finding new ways to driving them off their tools. I'm almost fully Linux at this point and once a few more of my tools work well in Linux through Wine or similar I'll be 100% off Windows for good.
‘Improve your own digital literacy’ Yessir. Using gentoo as an OS and Icecat with umatrix as a browser (with tor if possible) is a great way to stay private.
The worst thing about this is that it harms the most people with low-resource computers (4GB RAM, i3 or less, etc). Telemetry is only there to screw the user
As someone who games quite a lot, I'm, so glad I switched to Linux when the Windows 11 was announced with their TPM requirements and mandatory webcams for laptops. There were some games I had to ditch due to anti-cheats (Genshin Impact and Rust), but the rest work perfectly out of the box or with a bit of tinkering. But hey, that's a price worth paying for no ads, privacy and customizability.
@tinyplayerss Windows in my PC uses 6.4 out of 16gb in my Windows11 laptop. I think you should check your settings and disable any sort of suggestions.
@tinyplayerss windows loads in some files in the memory for them to loader faster, but it quickly removes them out of the memory if you need it, so that doesn't really tell anything about windows' performance and in fact, that's better since it's using it to improve the experience(for the most part
I have a person at work search something just to get to one of our pages (cause you know, typing an address is too hard). And of course, they used Google, and there are 4 ads as top results... 4... It was impossible to see the first result without scrolling down. I'm just happy one really old person who called us to get help with licensing word through our stuff said she used libreoffice when she wasn't forced to use Word for school.
Believe it or not, there's a point where you miss the terminal and.... Especially package managers if you have to use windows after getting used to Linux. There's a reason windows is adding a package manager and some sort of Linux like terminal (no, not just the substation thing they already have either)
The Settings GUI makes me happy that I learned Powershell. I'm a sysadmin in charge of many Windows machines and having my collection of scripts on a USB stick is a tremendous help.
At least on Windows 10, the pre installed apps and "Suggested" apps could all be uninstalled or disabled. Then one day my computer decided to "upgrade" to Windows 11 with NO PERMISSION. Now I see ads that are literally impossible to remove. I'm done. Either going back to Windows 10 or switching to Linux. I'm serious.
@D Reaper Yep. I'm fed up with it. Windows 10 is still stable and has supported security updates but that isn't going on forever. If major changes aren't made, I'm sure I'll be a full-time Linux user within the next couple years.
@D Reaper I use it on some of my devices and have for quite some time. I'm happy to switch for the rest of my devices sooner than later if it makes sense for my situation. Don't worry too much about me, you don't have to convince me of Linux's benefits. I'm sold 😊
@D Reaper In all seriousness, I genuinely appreciate the advice and input. KDE will be on my shortlist for my next OS! You've made a good point that I shouldn't drag my feet until it's too late. Have a great day!
They sell customer data, they get money from people who actually pay for a windows key (god forbid), but that's not enough. They MUST shove 10 trillion advertisements in your face.
What are you talking about? Anyone that buys a new laptop or desktop is paying for a Windows license, it's built into the cost of the device. Barely any place will sell you brand new computers and let you have the option of not installing an OS (so you can do it yourself).
Even if they truly mean to make the user experience better, paying people to read the "constructive feedback" from an average windows users feels more immoral and cruel than gathering telemetry. Source: I work IT
@@go_better I work in last level IT support for a big company. Whenever I look into the ticket and feedback queue of the first level (eg. the front line helpdesk) I'm losing my hope in humanity. And the users that get through to me aren't much better. Just last week I did troubleshooting with someone who thought "restarting your PC" means turning the monitor off and on again. Now imagine these people providing feedback to MS about improving the OS...
The 'suggested' ads from Windows 10 can be disabled very easily through a single click (same applies for the suggested apps) and it will never plague you again on that Windows installation.
To avoid ads in Windows: 1. Be a student. 2. Have an email address. 3. Sign up for Azure using student email. 4. Windows Server 2022 from Azure Education hub. 5. Enable "Desktop Experience". (Had to censor my comment because UA-cam deletes it)
the problem with linux is just that it isn't on the big market so there's not much exposure for using them and most people who are aware with linux are littered with very old information thinking its the buggiest and hardest to use in which in some cases that is not wrong but so many devs heard that and their distros are trying their best to be user friendly as much as possible and nowadays it would take me a minute to guess whether someone's using mac, windows or linux. Also the process of installing an OS can be already scary enough as the thought of "touching the bios might break something" so they would not be willing to try.
There's a problematic dichotomy with Linux enthusiasts; that everyone should migrate to Linux, while simultaneously shitting on people who don't enjoy suffering in terminal all day to do basic stuff. Some distros come close to a windows level of usability (ie grandma can use it without ever seeing a terminal window) but there isn't enough polish to completely move into the 21st century.
@D Reaper I don't think your intention was to prove me correct, but in principle that's what you have done. I look forward to the day when Linux is as well polished as windows, because windows itself is now doomed.
That's why i want to get back in early 90's. To see i486 coming out and occupy the world, to see the Pentium revolution, to see Windows 95 giving us a new experience in growing computer world, to see people happy about Windows 98, to use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 as a default browser and see it working fine, to see Windows NT starting to grow, and then just lose everything again after Windows Vista release
Glad to see more people talking about moving to Linux. I switched about 3 years back, to Pop!_OS, and even though I have a W11 SSD that i can boot to via systemd-boot I use Windows about once a year Gaming is my primary activity, Steam-Proton shim is really nice and most games run flawlessly without thinking (Proton 8.x is really good) the handful of games that don't run often don't run because of ridiculous windows plugins that i don't want running regardless
Buddy they did this in Windows 10. Windows 8 was the last time it was software you "own". since 10, it's "Software as a service", that's why you can pirate activated Windows 7/8, and upgrade it to 10/11 and they will give you a legitimate digital license for the OS. they don't aim to make the money off the OS itself anymore, they aim to make it off selling users data and advertising.
I like windows high water mark (98-7) as much as the next guy (as in its preferable but still shitty), but you NEVER owned windows, you owned a license allowing use. its lacking fundamental rights associated with the ownership of software. see the FSFs 4 freedoms for more informaton.
They never really made bank off general users. They always make more selling bulk to businesses and off their Office products. This is true going all the way back to Windows 98.
They will integrate Cortana with another chatting AI to make it incredibly invasive. They will eventually be making Windows a free software, and bloat it with so many advertisements that we will barely be able to recognize it. Pretty good! I'm going to be running Debian as my desktop OS as soon as I get the drivers gathered for all my hardware.
Thank you Valve for Proton and Thank you Microsoft for putting ads everywhere. Both of them gave me a huge push to try Linux and now I have pop os on three systems!
im waiting for the day that Linux starts getting better performance (most games get a 10-20% decrease in performance on linux) and more compatability (im pretty sure 1/4th of my library is incompatible with linux) and where it gets polished enough for daily use without having to tinker with the settings. (when i was using linux i had to constantly change settings for my games to not crash.) edit: also over here in the netherlands you *dont* get ads on Windows, idk why but its cool.
@@herrobriam i wish i could show my intense agreement through your screen but sadly im limited to text.. but yes, roblox is a terrible, scummy, and even predatory platform. A good example of those 3 is Pet Simulator X, it costs HUNDREDS to get to the top of the leaderboards, and ontop of that it takes hours upon hours, days upon days, weeks upon weeks to get to the top even with all the transactions, like you want a limited edition item? 200 dollars. Ya wanna be able to select 8 pets at a time? 10 dollars. You wanna be able to get auto hatching so you dont have to sit there, clicking, waiting, doing nothing, for a rare pet? 8 dollars.
People have forgotten how it is to live outside of the cave. To them this is just the new normal. And its gonna keep getting worse slowly, over time. And they will accept it because they're programmed that way.
Mental Outlaw, thank you for making the vids that you do. I love your style of humour in addition to your updates on tech news and views on computing and software stuff :D I started using Linux 6 months ago because of your vids! I'm on Garuda Linux now using Qtile, though I used KDE at first. Windows 10 was the last version of Windows I used, and I'm grateful that my Windows was beginning to fail (lots of blue screens) so it gave me a legitimate reason to switch. Watching the Windows 11 trainwreck is a great source of entertainment now... things really hit different when you're not on the trainwreck anymore. To those of you still waiting for Windows 10 to reach EoL, I recommend you switch as soon as possible. Your experience on Win 10 will only get worse as MS tries to push you onto your shiny new operating system by making Win 10 harder and more infuriating to use. You either start now or you start never, because 'soon' and ''later' could be anywhere between the next second and the end of your life.
Thats why you make a custom install with NTLite to remove the bloatware and then use powershell commands to perma disable all the analytics crap and tell it not to update the stuff you removed as well as using spybot anti-beacon, after that at idle it doesn't use more than 4gigs of ram and game run perfectly and no ads at all.
Windows 12 will just be an AI powered ads platform. What is more concerning is that there are people that defend this type of practice. I would not call them shills because that would be insulting to the shill community.
I personally won't make the switch until fast file indexing becomes available. When I checked a few years ago, there was nothing that was even remotely close to Voidtools Everything on Linux. I've tried around 10 different indexers, and all of them either sucked entirely, or had huge issues. Some were slow as fuck, some did not update realtime, some just errored out and prompted to remake the entire index, and some did all of the above.
drivers are mostly fine (except the Novideo ones, let's hope they go the AI route and disappear from the consumer market), the bigger problem is with some productivity programs
Can't lie, I'm more an advocate of using what gets my work done which has been windows on my main machine (pop os on my laptops) but all the ads and telemetry have got me planning moving to Linux on my main machine finally. I'll probably get something like a beelink mini and a monitor with a KVM to keep a windows machine around on for office and the random times I absolutely need windows for something so it's not like I'd be totally windows free but MS has been MS's worst enemy in my case.
I am SO glad I switched to Linux three years ago. I never had more sense of control, autonomy and freedom since. Same with switching from primarily using fiat to BTC/XMR. I just looking amazed on the inflationary world blowing itself up with accelerating rate, desperately trying to pump more cash into the economy and back from it by any means.
You don't sound like a real person, no offence... Well, answer this: You boot into Linux for the first time, you decide you want to change something or do something, and because you're not on Windows, you have zero idea how to do it, so, you start from zero, learning how to do things, probably a lot of what you try isn't going to work, unless you find some specific tutorial that is relevant to your distro - maybe you run into an error code or error message, well due to massive Windows userbase, troubleshooting error messages and researching them, always gives tons of results. But with your specific Linux distro? Eh you may get some relevant results, you may not. Yeah... "Freedom" my ass. Maybe after a long time of actually dedicating your brain to learn the ins and outs of Linux, maybe then you are at a solid level. And what did you gain? If you use 3rd party programs and tweaks you can do a whole bunch of not standard stuff in Windows. I mean you can use group policy to completely disable updates, and then download KBs from Microsoft download portal probably, old school style - you can disable all advertising permanently and forever, you can run the vast majority of programs. You can even "attempt" to tackle telemetry, although you may not fully succeed, but still. I like the idea of Linux but it wasn't "freeing" to use it, it was more like stacking arcane magic books and muttering spells, hoping something, anything, would happen.
5:40 you can still get the office suite on a non-subscription basis, they've just made it a lot harder to find and don't push it as much because it obviously doesn't make as much money. But last I checked, you could still get office 2021 without needing a subscription.
I remember there is a stripped down Windows 10 version for gaming that LTT showed us... If ads start popping up, i'm going to start dual-booting that version of Windows, with a kickass distro
Do you know why UA-cam for a day blocked the 'bring back dislikes' extensions, but now they seem like they're back? I'm happy that such a wonderful resource is back but I don't know if this is how things are gonna remain or if we might lose the dislike counter again in the future.
I had windows 11 forced onto me. My windows 10 pc was in sleep mode and I was making food, went back, pressed space bar (not enter), screen turned on and said updating. I thought whatever, but then after a few mins I see it's installed w11 already and it's too late. I never pressed enter, and never got to pick while my screen was on, I just hit the key to turn the computer back on. I could've reverted but I was like what the hell I CBA reverting at this point since the install is already done. I don't hate windows 11 too much it's just the principle. Fuck trying to trick people or making convoluted ass menus that make it hard to NOT upgrade (I never got an option but I know others got fooled).
Windows 11 has a beautiful look to the GUI. I love it over Windows 10. BUT....and i mean BUT it has so much creepy Microsoft telemetry phoning home to the servers in Redmond that it will make you sick. There are videos online showing how much of your data is getting sent back in a simple Wireshark session. After seeing that, it's hard to ignore it.
Hey, man. As always, loved your content. Very informative and well thought of. Your audio needs a little deEssing though. It's a bit piercing even for a 37-year-old guy like me. This would hurt more for the younger generations. You may, 1. Use an EQ and cut with a wide band around 3k. 2. Use a full band deEsser. 3. Use a split band deEsser or dynamicEQ at around 3k. I hope this helps. More power to your Channel. Peace.
Your preaching was my preaching in the 90's, at least there are platforms for you to reach the masses these days even though the sheeple still won't listen.
Not having that problem on my Linux gaming system. If you have a spare PC or old gaming PC you just replaced I'd say try out different Linux flavors to see which one works best for you. If you have to stick with Windows then I wish you luck. Nothing wrong with that choice but still good luck!
Could always dual boot too. With how fast modern SSDs are, it's totally doable to quickly reboot into Windows for a bit of gaming if the games won't work with Proton and back to Linux when you're done.
@@skyler948I made it up after figuring out asinine bugs with iCloud. I formatted over OSX and damned it to hell along with Steve Jobs and his tormented developers.
@@bruhmoment-ib5dz I use a computer for getting work done. If I played games on it there wouldn’t be a separation of work and play and my productivity would go way down. I know this because I used to have a gaming laptop in college and almost flunked out before my finals. My games are all on a separate system.
Historically they have skipped raises for YEARS...but that was back when the stock options were golden handvuffs.. I remember 2=3 years where execs got bonuses, but the lower folk did not. So the "no raises this year" isn't new.... .
The only reason i use windows 10 is for gaming.Although i think you can remove most of the annoying stuff from it. I debloated it , used antispy tools to close telemetry and different firewall that blocks most of windows internet access. I still think that isn't enough but i dont think i am going to spend more time fidleing with it.I also use debian linux mint and i find supperior to windows minus the gaming.
@@eintyp4389 Windows 8 is when it started implementing annoying corporate design choices, no one likes. Windows 7, and past versions, were just a commercial product you bought and had, and it was (somewhat) your own.
@@eintyp4389 I don't understand this Windows 7 hype. The user interface was much more logical in Windows versions before XP. Already in Windows 98 there some annoying things started to appear, for example the filename extensions were hidden from the user by default.
Ghost Spectre FTW. Glad we got people like them who know what the users really want out of Windows. There was originally no way to keep Candy Crush off my PC until I threw in a custom build.
I remember when there was a specific port that you could tell your firewall to block and all the ads disappeared. Used that for an ad-free Skype experience..
Im using Revision OS Windows 11 with startisback and its flawless. No ads no bloatware, no cortana no telemetry and more performance in intensive applications. I'd daily drive linux if it was compatible with anti cheat software.
Wow this is good timing, I started using Linux Mint yesterday because of this UA-cam channel and changed because of the adverts. Yesterday I snapped, I couldn't take the adverts anymore, they all came back when I updated Windows again. The trending news stories being the thing that pushed me over the edge. I'm forcing myself to us Linux Mint for 30 days and it's honestly great, even when running on a mechanical hard drive. No issues so far. Thank you so much for what you do Mental Outlaw!
I barely use Windows for games anymore. In fact, there are Denuvo and BattleEye runtimes ready-to-use yet the developers see a terminal and bar us out wholesale.
You should see outlook. They put in an animation for when you delete an e-mail, so you now have to wait like half a second before you can click again, or you end up opening the fn mail. And besides all of the other shit, there's an ad at the top of your inbox that looks exactly like an e-mail. So, they purposefully disorientate people and then introduce an ad click trap. I'm just about done with mainstream shit, man. I just really don't wanna put in all the work to change a large part of my life, learn new things, adjust, change my details with all the official instances that contact me on it, etc.
This is the main reason why i am using a custom version of windows and switching to linux next year.(i have used linux before but waiting a little bit more for it to get more mature for gaming)
There is no definitive guide, alot of it is just reading what something does or trying it out for yourself. There are many videos about NTLite though if you wanna give it a shot. Anything you can think of this tool can do, its amazing to stop MS spying on you on an ISO-Level
Luckily we have amazing tools like NTLite that let you rip out the shitty components and disable telemetry as a company policy (luckily they can't justify OS surveillance to other companies). Doesn't make it right, but it's still a good tradeoff to get an OS for free with just having to spend one day making the ISO and additional time cleaning up after install.
@D Reaper Not an option for everyone. If you're working regularly with Adobe products, it's not really easy to switch to anything else and since they are not on Linux, you're stuck.
@D Reaper Ah yes, because if someone requires them for a job you can just switch. We can think all we want, but at the end of the day there are still no good alternatives to Photoshop, for example. Affinity photo is getting there, but it's still not as good and Gimp is a joke, because it doesn't even have adjustment layers even when it was suggested years ago. I do primarily software development, so for me the answer was easy - Jetbrains instead of VS. But at the same time I can understand when it's not so simple for others, as Linux is still treated as a second class citizen when it comes to desktop software support.
@D Reaper As I said, Photoshop has no adjustment layers, it's terrible for non-destructive workflow. Krita is good for drawing, not image editing. Both are missing lot of the QoL features that may seem like not much, but make you more productive. Also pull your head out of your ass for once and stop thinking that I'm asking for some sympathy, lmao. Superiority complex much? I already ripped out all of the shit from Windows, it's quite easy and makes it more than usable, you just have to be willing to learn :)
@D Reaper after using photoshop on some rare occasions to do a bit of stuff and then trying gimp for doing simple tasks like adding text to an image of a map for school assignments I can tell you that it is utter shite with horrible controls
Every ad on Windows is an ad for Linux.
I don’t know if you know this but I run Arch.
@@thedoubleop arch fags always reminding us they use it😔
I agree
Definitely
Amen
There is a reason why Microsoft stopped punishing us for not activating Windows. 👀
time to deactivate it
They won't let you move the start menu in 11 if you don't.
@@Samstercraft77or just buy those chepo $0.50 product key
@@Villager_U wait. Those still work?
@@zweitekonto9654 because they are a mass OEM key for enterprise
Slowly but surely we are going back to the days of Yahoo where every single website, search engine included is littered with ads. The only difference is that now we'll also have ads integrated in the OS. What a time to be alive
Not in any OS I use. Sucks to be you and tech illiterate.
I know how you feel, and it sucks, I hated old yahoo, fucking obnoxious, couldn't look at it cuz of all the ads
linux + adblocker go brr
Linux
* laughs in FOSS[free and open source software] *
Once again I'd like to thank Valve for taking Linux compatibility to the next level with Proton and the Deck
how good is this combo? can you play anything on steam? or its just few select games?
From my experience with the steam deck, you can play lots of games that are tagged as unsupported, the problem is the anticheat and even that you can bypass, its just a matter of time. I was able to play dead by daylight not long ago on the deck online wich is a epic store game with easy anticheat. For me, the deck was the best thing that happened to gamers in the latest years.
@@shadiandrew "Or just a few select games" lmao, do you still live in 2008? Linux can run everything. The only games I've ran into problems with, are Easyanticheat games, and that's not because of technical issues, it's intentional.
@@GamingEnding yeah but these programmers and devs and what not are all indi studios. gotta give em a break (and a contract w EAC?)
@@soubs242 i understand if youre an indi dev that has a niche game which isnt supported by proton yet. What i dont understand is games going actively out of their way to make it harder. There are Games that utalize EAC and BattleEye what work well with Linux (Arma 3 for example) yet some make the concious decision to not support linux cuz..idk they werent allowed to watch penguins of madagascar as a kid at least thats my best guess :p
The nice part is with steam putting money into Linux, every ad on windows is a push for every gamer to move over
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I've moved over to Linux myself, great experience.
I would move over if I could get Overwatch working!
Man, steam actually did a great job helping a lot of games to run on an average linux machine, even better, it sandboxes the game files which makes things more convenient
Linux gaming is a real thing now (when VFIO also considered)
To me I treat every game that is incompatible with Linux as incompatible with my hardware. If I can't play it on Linux, eh, it's like an XBox game. I don't have an XBox, who cares.
Loved when someone in the beta got ads in the file explorer and Microsoft said it was a test, almost calling it a mistake.
Seems the mistake they meant was ONLY putting ads in the file explorer.
@tinyplayerssAI generated
@tinyplayerss jesus christ its just an os
I'm an IT professional and i miss the WIndows 7 and prior control panel. You're not just ranting. Due to my job i need to use the most up to date OS so it is of course Windows 11. But on all my older Lenovo Thinkpad laptops, i run either Linux or older versions of Windows. I mean there are Ads everything in Windows 11. This video was really needed to be honest.
For real, trying to find the setting I need to change in the current control panel is darn near impossible. Most of the time I have to edit registries to fix issues.
Can you run the LTSC version, or use a debloat tool?
@@boonkunak I've used Winero Tweaker to make modifications to fix some issues but between the creepy telemetry and ads, it's getting unbearable to use on a daily basis.
@@klwthe3rd but how game? Proton still half work
Guys thinking it's the end of windows and that many people will go for Linux are just pathetic. Normies will not care, and non normies will maybe get system wide Adblock, which I think might start appearing.
Linux keeps getting better, Windows keeps getting worse. I've made my choice of operating system, and I don't regret it.
When it comes to giving a laptop to tech illiterate family, you can't beat ChromeOS
@leonidas14775 chrome OS is linux too, im sure theres a better version in linux somewhere thats tech friendly
@@kryane99 Personally, I like to bios-mod chromebooks and install peppermint OS or Gallium OS. But ChromeOS is good if you don't want to end up being someone's free tech support.
@@leonidas14775chrome os with play store support is actually pretty good
@@leonidas14775 chrome OS is proprietary adware that spies on you, linux mint or pretty much any just works distro is enough for ant tech illiterate person out there
Microsoft is such an amazingly based company, no one is more committed to making the year of the Linux desktop happen than them! 🤡👌
2023 is the year for me. I can't speak for anyone else, but they're not as important anyway.
There will never be a Linux desktop “year” because desktops are over!!!!!
in 5 to 10 years. Your phone will replace your PC gaming with a docking system think nintendo twitch.
There’s nowhere else in the world where I’m more productive than on my desk with a big screen and nice chair. No matter how powerful mobile devices become, the desk setup for me is still king.
Dock your phone to a screen with a mouse and keyboard. Remember the Ubuntu Touch Kickstarter? That was ahead of it's time.
Normies are so used to being the product that they no longer care about ads and telemetry. The year of Linux desktop in never coming. And that's the sad truth.
Never would have imagined needing an ad blocker for my operating system.
We need more Linux devs and more tools on Linux. Drawing tablet support, something as good as photoshop (I know people will think that’s gross but I need it for multiple things so it’s my drawing app), better game support (it’s getting there slowly).
So many things are still needed to switch away from the nightmare that is windows and they know it
gimp is on linux (i think) and i dont know if it compares for people who use photoshop for their job, but for hobbyist shit like i do its more than enough. layout looks a lot like photoshop too
"better game support (it’s getting there slowly)"
Steam with Proton is excellent.
@@tomface55 I’m not saying it isn’t. For the games that do work on it, it does very well. There are plenty that still don’t work very well or at all. Plus the stupid anti-cheat is still an issue
Steam is doing us a really big favor in the gaming side of Linux, thanks to them I can enjoy some games with little to no issues.
@D Reaper It’s mostly shitty online games like PUBG, Destiny 2, Rainbow Six, COD that still don’t work.
You are right about the drawing tablet thing though. Most of the tablets do have supported drivers now. So my bad on that one. Old knowledge = me spouting crap that ain’t true haha.
I’m still very reliant on photoshop maybe I’ll try the options you mentioned and see how they are.
Oh god. I had a terrible thought. What if Microsoft forces an even more intrusive version of Cortana into Windows 11?
A ChatGPT variant of Cortana. May God help us all.
That's already the plan for "The next version of the Operating System" as they have already said they are hoping to integrate more LLMs into windows.
@@Eyevou bruhhh
@@Eyevou they are using AI to learn every user's behavioral impact to "iMpRoVe uSeR eXpEriEnCe"
Imagine you're trying to do something on Windows 12 and Cortana is watching it all in real time so she can swoop in and say "as an AI language model committed to fostering a safe and ethical user experience, I can't let you browse that website or install that game because it violates our Community Guidelines. Would you like to play a game of Candy Crush instead?"
@@augustday9483 imagine being not allowed to install CS:GO because of it
My daily driver is still windows for a couple of major reasons:
* I have committed a ridiculous number of shortcuts to muscle memory
* I have memorized dozens of executable names for system menus or utilities and don’t need to use the crap new menus yet
* I have memorized more bizarre interactions between system functions in Windows than I’ve learned actual system functions for Linux - any time windows hiccups, I don’t even notice it anymore, I just workaround it on habit. Not to mention that this also gives me a professional edge, as I’ve never found an issue that I couldn’t debug in a professional setting
Couple of fun examples:
>CFO walks up
“I got a weird problem. There’s like a bar across the top of my screen, I can’t see the top of my programs and can’t close them”
> walk in to his office and look
> yep there’s a 2-inch black bar along the top of his screen
> press Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+B to ‘reload’ display drivers
> screen flashes, bar gone
> CFO looks at me
> “well fuck you then” he says
> cackle gleefully, leave his office
> elapsed time: 6 seconds
Number two story
> sitting in office
> one of our field guys walks in with a fucked up laptop
> says he brought it to a repair shop because the mouse was doing something weird after his kid cracked the screen and the shop broke it worse
> mouse borderline unusable now
> WiFi also doesn’t work for some reason
> boot the thing up, notice rippling on the screen
> text inputs keep losing focus
> broken touchscreen, inputs getting spammed constantly in a couple of places
> find FN+fn# to disable touchscreen
> log in, completely disable touchscreen in device manager
> calm.jpg
> checking on WiFi now
> weird error when you try to connect to any network
> check Services
> a bunch of shit and shit dependencies have been completely disabled
> turn it all back on
> WiFi working
> elapsed time: 15 minutes
> give it back to field guy, don’t charge him anything
> he’s psyched
> comes back in the next day
> hands me a beautiful tall bottle of yellow agave tequila as a thank you
perks of being a winf*g
Bonus reason for windows as a daily driver:
* Vidya with no hassle
Cons:
I’m glowy as fuck
Need to run a second machine for other activities
Understandable, don't let the linux freetard that's inevitably going to shit-talk you later get you down.... use whatever you want.
Me personally: As soon as steamos gets a public release I'm selling my nvidia card and switching. The only thing holding me back is program/game compatibility, but proton has basically solved that issue.
It seems like a lot of linux users just do it because they hate windows and nothing else. I use bowth because some programs i need for my future job as a game developer don’t work on linux and don’t have any real alternative. And i use linux on some of older computers so they run good and because i actually like the OS and it’s capabilities.
Almost same thing, bro. Working as a Tech Support guy in the suburban of the big city. Fixing problems with Windows in seconds or minutes, doing nothing all the other time.
The sole reason I didn't switch is because I have still Windows at work and I need to support it, which is difficult to do from GNU/Linux. Even if I had to switch, I will need to have a Windows VM around.
The biggest advantage windows has over linux is the native support of games. If steam or game devs made a bit more effort into support for games on linux i'd switch instantly. I know there are fixes and compatibility apps to aid, but it's not the same.
That will, and once the ads get into your games, and that will be soon
Pc gaming will change in 5-10 years!!!
Phones are getting extremely powerful and all you have to do is have a docking system, and It will destroy windows entirely
Nintendo switch already does it
When i switched 95% of my games worked out of the box with proton and Lutris. The other 5% were stupid Launchers or Anti cheat stuff.
if you don't care about multiplayer that has anti-cheat, Proton does amazing work with games, everything works with just one click on the setting for the steamplay, we even have Protondb for some smaller fixes thanks to the help of other users, i had a fear about game before too when i dual boot, but now that i got everything i need, no more performance hits thanks to Linux, butter smooth
Imma be real with you, "compatibility apps" aspect is really dumb.
Why? Because Windows uses them too!
Any 32-bit app you run on your Windows PC, be it Steam or older games, is NOT native anymore.
Instead they run on WoW64 compatibility layer, which by itself is very, very similar to Wine, and works in pretty much the same way.
Proton is constantly improving. A lot of indie games support Linux natively as well. Linux will be good for gamers eventually.
Accurate subject line. Tech shifted from innovation to exploitation.
Always has been.
No its just big Tech starting to exploit everyone now that we all rely on them. Innovation has nothing to do with this.
Welcome to late capitalism...
@@bc-cu4on Maybe I'm naive,but I rembember the emergence of Macbooks in the 90's how they were more feature rich than Compaq. Then Dell and Lenovo emerged, but bringing features to the table. All the above marketed laptops that were upgradable and easy to repair.
@@ithecasticoh yeah
Create the problem. Create the solution. That's what they're doing.
Always be weary of someone who presents both the problem and the solution.
@@azareii You mean like with a virus & then they treat to give you a 💉 for it?
Create Corona Create Vaccine
Wait till you start corporate life
just like robocop
I would like to kindly remind everyone that gaming on Linux is becoming more and more viable by the day, even running Windows programs under Linux.
Microsoft is like Nintendo now because they know that no matter how annoying or uncool they are to their customers because people will still use their products anyway
literal cuck consumer base
it's not that they *will* use their products; it's that they've been convinced that they have to and have become so reliant on them that considering any alternative at all is just "too difficult" because of a never-ending rabbit hole of "industry standard" software.
Nope, people avoid Shitty console. Only console peasants use it. Even still XBox and PlayStation is miles superior hardware. For Nintendo: More People use Emulators than their consoles.
@@dubbynelson no need for mental gymnastics there my friend. They will.
@@dubbynelson Translated from sneed: Almost everything big tech develops is created with Microsoft products and APIs in mind, and the average Microsoft consumer will eat that shit sandwich as long as they don't have to give up their video games or proprietary software compatibility.
I still remember the time that a Windows system update wiped the main Linux partition of my hard drive which was my daily driver with all my files. It was the ultimate middle finger from the virus masquerading as an OS, also known as Windows.
oh my fucking god.
as much as I hate Microsoft, such behaviors seem more like Windows being a buggy piece of crap that can't last too long without breaking anything
you have no idea how much this irritates me . sorry for your loss .
Microsoft: PARRY THIS, YOU F*CKING PENGUIN!
*deletes your Linux*
I'm right there with you on the Control panel thing. They've also redesigned most setting windows but with for some reason they have less settings than the OG control panel versions.
The settings app in windows 10 is literally just a way to force you into turning on windows defender
Control panel, and every other excellent thing about Windows, dates back to the millions of $ they invested in research for Windows 95. Things like the Start menu, etc. The reason Windows continued to be good up until 7 or so was because they made slight improvements to that original Windows 95 UI formula. Once all the original dudes were gone by the end of the 2010s, Windows became the property of scumbags who have just piled on more spyware and garbage. Linux is getting slightly better, but it isn't nearly matching the pace at which Windows is becoming an abomination.
@@volvodude101 Ubuntu has come a long way and is the best replacement for Windows 10/11 in my opinion. It's not perfect but they're improving every major update. So much so that I run it on my laptop now and haven't had any big problems yet. But I don't think it's completely fool proof yet from which Windows and IOS pretty much are.
i always wanted this! now i can view ads without going to my browser
"Turning"? But yes, I agree wholeheartedly with all of this. Ads fundamentally do not belong in an operating system. It's just supposed to be the layer between my software and my hardware!
I still use Windows 7 for gaming because Win10 makes me sick, but not only is Win10 becoming the average 'minimum system requirement' nowadays, Steam itself is now going to stop working on Win7 too. So now I either have to downgrade to the adware/spyware that is Windows 10, or lose the ability to access my embarrassingly large Steam library. Thanks, Micros***
Take the L (pill)
It's really tragic that even not asking for ads is even "a thing", like a point we've come to. Ads in OS were dystopian satire a decade ago.
Update all your games as much as possible and just play in offline mode on your Windows 7 laptop.
Windows 10 LTSC, then use Chris Titus's debloat tool.
Linux + Steam. It works.
I'm about ready to just ditch Microsoft. The operating system gets worse and worse in function, yet they always find time to add spyware and advertising. I only kept it for work, but I'm about ready to just sideload an older Windows for that if I absolutely have to.
You won't regret it.
What do you work with? I have been using Kubuntu on my work computer for 2 years now. Before that I used Mint. Both excellent choices.
just switch to linux already
Do it. You will wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
I only use it for work but I need powerBI which is the only thing I use it for, no way out
How much more invasive proprietary malware can the common person handle? It feels so weird to see that this is how the standard computer OS for consumers is being "improved"
There’s a core group at my company that just cannot shake themselves loose from Office. They are woefully computer illiterate and cannot imagine using something else. 90% have already moved to purely web apps. That core group is the only reason we have any Windows machines whatsoever.
You know you might mock such people but Office truly is nice. Modern Office seems janky as heck to me (we use 2019 at work), but I have 2007 at home and my bro has 2010, that stuff is genuinely nice to use for the most part. Also, c'mon, "web apps"? Yeah it's easy to think why someone might want to use local software instead.
web """apps""" is cancer.
I always thought the ads in the start menu were a gross overstep of boundaries... last time I clicked in that corner lol
Most every company is actively making their products worse nowadays, devs and managers need to justify their salaries somehow, can't do that by admitting that your product has peaked.
Open source is immune because any downgrades can always be reverted by anyone who wants to.
They said themselves they can't compete against open source.
@@SirDavid290 That's why they'll rig the game, already appealing for regulations to lock in their market dominance. Companies collab with regulatory bodies and the gov all the time to create monopolies and oligopolies.
I really was a big Linux fan in the Linux vs. Windows "war" of the 2000s, then made my peace with Windows as, let's face it, it offers access to more games, has (sadly still) better driver support from many hardware vendors, and there's really no way around it for ms-office.
But now i'm rethinking that again, not only because of the advertising, but also because of MS pushing their microsoft account (it becomes harder and harder to avoid), and their push for SAAS (just look how hard it is to find office 2021). They really want that constant revenue stream from every office user, and my guess is, that'll be extended to Windows users next.
Then there is their "cloud drive" (thanks, i'd rather use my own hardware and not depend on that internet connection, and i don't want Microsoft applying whatever countries jurisdiction to my data), and Windows gathering information to the point where it could be called spyware.
with Steam's Proton as well as the Steam Deck, gaming on Linux has been making a comeback recently
@@bettercalldelta There really seems to be some development, good to know for the future. It's a bit sad, that Windows now has wsl, but then messes up with privacy, advertising and trying to tie one to some online account.
I paid full price for my hardware, i don't want to rent the OS that runs on it.
Ur a puss
The thing I noticed is how companies want MS Teams a lot. But because everything is made intentionally crappy with meeting invitations if you don´t use MS for mail, calendar etc, they are now migrating their Gmail, self-hosted etc to MS en masse. So as usual MS is getting rewarded for making crap. I really hope this is going to spark the next antitrust against MS. At this rate MS will soon have world dominance in email too. Makes me sick...
Teams sucks. What sucks the most about it is the fact it can't handle preformatted text properly - even with the triple-backtick copy and paste doesn't work right.
Well they also do it in partnership with software manufacturers.
Certain qualifications are based on competency in software that only runs on the latest windows; and also has negative-interoperability; I'm pretty sure there's a dedicated programming department for countering WINE usage...
In short, school pays for shite (or maybe gets it for free); and they get you 'used to' a shite interface which you pay for the rest of your career - or life in the case of the OS...
You would not think malware could exist OUTSIDE the computer would you?
@@knm080xg12r6j991jhgtThat's problem 1. Problem 2 is that it's also a nightmare to copy out of.
It's realistically impossible if you want to preserve a whole thread.
Yeah, my university migrated everything to Office 365. It fucking suck all now.
I dread to think with all the trendy AI stuff going on they're going to essentially install keyloggers and mouse trackers, if they haven't already, onto computers in corporate office settings, and use that input as a dataset to somehow even further automate common office tasks.
Narrator: They have installed that already.
@@seronymus Narrator: They didn’t know their job existed because the company had already done this before
I don't think that'd work with what passes for AI today. There's too many differing factors involved inthe decision making of office tasks.
McRoSoFt: Now i know your firefox account password :) time to delete your account :)
What are you talking about? Do you not think websites are using timers to count how long elements are on the screen to gauge interest of the user?
I went on my uncle's windows 11 computer to install software for his vinyl printing machine using edge and bing and I got so overwhelmed with pop-ups, even past ublock origin that I visually had a ptsd moment due to my past experiences with adware of my younger childhood. And apparently when I installed the software, apparently I was in S mode so I HAD to use the Microsoft store which didn't even have the software I was looking for.
After jumping through many hoops later, I got the software working which should've only been a search & install procedure but unfortunately Microsoft is a pain in my rear even when I'm no longer their customer.
Gotta love that BS "S" mode!!! Hehehe
Best thing to do with a new windows computer is nuke and reinstall. You don't know if someone in the factory slipped a keylogger on it.
@@leonidas14775 A keylogger is there either way, just the manufacturer gets the data along with Microsoft.
@@shadowcomputing Okay lol. more keyloggers than I bargained for!
@@leonidas14775 I talked to my uncle about making changes and apparently he didn't agree to the changes I suggested to him even when I laid out the benefits of removing telemetry, ads, and other various annoyances from windows even if his reasoning for keeping such things is pretty illogical. When he inevitably does buckle from the constant annoyances, he knows exactly who to call.
Also the keylogger's a conviently built-in feature in most modern CPUs🫠
Dude for me is a fact that when windows 10 goes to end of life i will never install windows ever again and will move 100% to linux
Do it now.
"Windows 10 is the last Windows"
Don't wait, windows 10 has ads, just less
ltsc
@@mskiptr for me, I used Windows 10 as my last before switching a year or 2 ago to Linux but "Windows 7 is the last (best) Windows"
You can turn off ads in Gmail by turning off the promotions category. You can turn on classic view.
or basic html they really dont like you using that option but i think its an improvement.
And to think Nathan Lineback predicted all of this nearly 25 years ago.
Hi fellow Hex enjoyer
Big companies seem to keep finding new ways to driving them off their tools. I'm almost fully Linux at this point and once a few more of my tools work well in Linux through Wine or similar I'll be 100% off Windows for good.
‘Improve your own digital literacy’
Yessir. Using gentoo as an OS and Icecat with umatrix as a browser (with tor if possible) is a great way to stay private.
These darn millennials keep shoving Starbucks and avocado toast in the CD drive!!
Or is that financial literacy?
Install gen2
@digpan Ok at least use tor, you might not need a nuclear fallout shelter to stay private but a simple door lock will do.
i uninstalled my 4 year gentoo and became a manjarochad instead
On todays episode of "The Largest Property Owner in America Needs More Money":
This made my day. Realy boils it down to that yes.
They probably forgot about the moneybags, they sit on.
Been using Debian and Lubuntu as daily drivers for about 7 years now. No complaints. I don’t game and can do anything else I’ve needed.
But muh visual novels...
@@seronymus what
@@seronymus visual novels are very likely to work with Wine, since they're generally not very resource-demanding
@@atijohn8135 almost all of them do work fine out of the box, I can guarantee
The worst thing about this is that it harms the most people with low-resource computers (4GB RAM, i3 or less, etc). Telemetry is only there to screw the user
As someone who games quite a lot, I'm, so glad I switched to Linux when the Windows 11 was announced with their TPM requirements and mandatory webcams for laptops. There were some games I had to ditch due to anti-cheats (Genshin Impact and Rust), but the rest work perfectly out of the box or with a bit of tinkering. But hey, that's a price worth paying for no ads, privacy and customizability.
Genshin Impact and Rust? Nothing of value was lost…
@tinyplayerss Windows in my PC uses 6.4 out of 16gb in my Windows11 laptop. I think you should check your settings and disable any sort of suggestions.
Oh man in your case switching to linux makes you a better person too
@tinyplayerss windows loads in some files in the memory for them to loader faster, but it quickly removes them out of the memory if you need it, so that doesn't really tell anything about windows' performance and in fact, that's better since it's using it to improve the experience(for the most part
@@emachine003 Yeah, I switched like 2 years ago and definitely genshin was the "nothing of value lost" game. Kind of sad about Rust though.
That episode of Black Mirror where he had to watch several ads just to get some quiet time for sleep is starting to look more like the future.
Which episode was that?
@@88Nieznany88 first season, one of the first episodes. Dude was living in a box and working on a bike treadmill with others
he tried to ignore the ad and it wont end until he watches it too, if i remember right.
Good that i always have my trusty hammer in my pocket (smashing the screens)
I have a person at work search something just to get to one of our pages (cause you know, typing an address is too hard).
And of course, they used Google, and there are 4 ads as top results... 4... It was impossible to see the first result without scrolling down.
I'm just happy one really old person who called us to get help with licensing word through our stuff said she used libreoffice when she wasn't forced to use Word for school.
I wish Steve Jobs was still alive so he could roast this in a keynote
Because Apple is so much better, you're a tard
Underrated comment
@@shadowcomputing a
Rated quite fairly for a 2-hour video, in my opinion.
He would do it himself.
Apple is equally as bad. Apple pulls telemetry data 24/7. The Apple ID follows you everywhere.
Believe it or not, there's a point where you miss the terminal and.... Especially package managers if you have to use windows after getting used to Linux. There's a reason windows is adding a package manager and some sort of Linux like terminal (no, not just the substation thing they already have either)
The Settings GUI makes me happy that I learned Powershell. I'm a sysadmin in charge of many Windows machines and having my collection of scripts on a USB stick is a tremendous help.
At least on Windows 10, the pre installed apps and "Suggested" apps could all be uninstalled or disabled. Then one day my computer decided to "upgrade" to Windows 11 with NO PERMISSION. Now I see ads that are literally impossible to remove. I'm done. Either going back to Windows 10 or switching to Linux. I'm serious.
@D Reaper Yep. I'm fed up with it. Windows 10 is still stable and has supported security updates but that isn't going on forever. If major changes aren't made, I'm sure I'll be a full-time Linux user within the next couple years.
@D Reaper
I use it on some of my devices and have for quite some time. I'm happy to switch for the rest of my devices sooner than later if it makes sense for my situation. Don't worry too much about me, you don't have to convince me of Linux's benefits. I'm sold 😊
@D Reaper In all seriousness, I genuinely appreciate the advice and input. KDE will be on my shortlist for my next OS! You've made a good point that I shouldn't drag my feet until it's too late.
Have a great day!
@D Reaper thanks again. I'll keep that in mind!
No tpm2 club
They sell customer data, they get money from people who actually pay for a windows key (god forbid), but that's not enough. They MUST shove 10 trillion advertisements in your face.
What are you talking about? Anyone that buys a new laptop or desktop is paying for a Windows license, it's built into the cost of the device. Barely any place will sell you brand new computers and let you have the option of not installing an OS (so you can do it yourself).
Even if they truly mean to make the user experience better, paying people to read the "constructive feedback" from an average windows users feels more immoral and cruel than gathering telemetry.
Source: I work IT
Could you please explain more on why? Is it because of toxicity? Could they filter out constructive part/messages with a neural network?
@@go_better all criticism filtered out to be an AI yes man
@@go_better it is not because of toxicity, it's because the average windows user doesn't even know how computers work
@@shadesoftime Hm, I see. Makes sense, yeah
@@go_better I work in last level IT support for a big company. Whenever I look into the ticket and feedback queue of the first level (eg. the front line helpdesk) I'm losing my hope in humanity. And the users that get through to me aren't much better. Just last week I did troubleshooting with someone who thought "restarting your PC" means turning the monitor off and on again.
Now imagine these people providing feedback to MS about improving the OS...
The 'suggested' ads from Windows 10 can be disabled very easily through a single click (same applies for the suggested apps) and it will never plague you again on that Windows installation.
Yep!
But that's too hard for normies.
@@igorthelight we here are not normies though, right?
@@shadesoftime That term is more playful that offensive ;-)
To avoid ads in Windows:
1. Be a student.
2. Have an email address.
3. Sign up for Azure using student email.
4. Windows Server 2022 from Azure Education hub.
5. Enable "Desktop Experience".
(Had to censor my comment because UA-cam deletes it)
1. Use Win 10 LTSC
2. ???
3. Profit
How to avoid ads in Windows:
1. Install Linux
2. Profit
i dont see such ads lol idk why ig i disabled some settings, still pretty slow tho
1. disable ads
2. Profit
the problem with linux is just that it isn't on the big market so there's not much exposure for using them and most people who are aware with linux are littered with very old information thinking its the buggiest and hardest to use in which in some cases that is not wrong but so many devs heard that and their distros are trying their best to be user friendly as much as possible and nowadays it would take me a minute to guess whether someone's using mac, windows or linux. Also the process of installing an OS can be already scary enough as the thought of "touching the bios might break something" so they would not be willing to try.
@D Reaper gladly they are, and fedora is starting with lenovo soon as well, I do just hope they time and do things right by the end of win 10 support
@D Reaper I installed Zorin on an old family laptop, they don't tell the difference from Windows! ;)
There's a problematic dichotomy with Linux enthusiasts; that everyone should migrate to Linux, while simultaneously shitting on people who don't enjoy suffering in terminal all day to do basic stuff. Some distros come close to a windows level of usability (ie grandma can use it without ever seeing a terminal window) but there isn't enough polish to completely move into the 21st century.
@D Reaper He's right.
t. used Linux for 11+ years and counting
@D Reaper I don't think your intention was to prove me correct, but in principle that's what you have done. I look forward to the day when Linux is as well polished as windows, because windows itself is now doomed.
I honestly never minded Google adding advertisements to Gmail but having them in the middle, really annoys me.
same I don't mind side ads, the only reason i have adblock is for youtube's ads and popups
Wait, who doesn't use some sort of AdBlocker in 2023? C'mon ppl, don't do that to yourself
adblock + yt sponserblock go brr
@@Samstercraft77 plus bypass paywalls clean
"who doesn't use some sort of AdBlocker in 2023" - normies, bro! ;-)
Im fighting ads everywhere I can, absolutely none on my PC, barely in my phone and I don't watch the TV because of ads
@@Mart-E12 UA-cam revanced go brr
That's why i want to get back in early 90's. To see i486 coming out and occupy the world, to see the Pentium revolution, to see Windows 95 giving us a new experience in growing computer world, to see people happy about Windows 98, to use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 as a default browser and see it working fine, to see Windows NT starting to grow, and then just lose everything again after Windows Vista release
Glad to see more people talking about moving to Linux. I switched about 3 years back, to Pop!_OS, and even though I have a W11 SSD that i can boot to via systemd-boot I use Windows about once a year
Gaming is my primary activity, Steam-Proton shim is really nice and most games run flawlessly without thinking (Proton 8.x is really good) the handful of games that don't run often don't run because of ridiculous windows plugins that i don't want running regardless
I'm so glad I rejected the upgrade. I'm gonna stay on Windows 10 for as long as possible, then switch to Linux if necessary
Oh you'll switch. It's your only hope.
Buddy they did this in Windows 10. Windows 8 was the last time it was software you "own". since 10, it's "Software as a service", that's why you can pirate activated Windows 7/8, and upgrade it to 10/11 and they will give you a legitimate digital license for the OS. they don't aim to make the money off the OS itself anymore, they aim to make it off selling users data and advertising.
I like windows high water mark (98-7) as much as the next guy (as in its preferable but still shitty), but you NEVER owned windows, you owned a license allowing use. its lacking fundamental rights associated with the ownership of software. see the FSFs 4 freedoms for more informaton.
i use windows 10 iot enterprise ltsc, and i saw no ads and its been a journey using this.
I have no idea if ms can even inject ads in this build.
For sure, but I think the take away message from this vid is that it's rapidly getting worse.
They never really made bank off general users. They always make more selling bulk to businesses and off their Office products. This is true going all the way back to Windows 98.
@@mksybr that's why I put it in quotations. You owned it more than you do now by far
They will integrate Cortana with another chatting AI to make it incredibly invasive. They will eventually be making Windows a free software, and bloat it with so many advertisements that we will barely be able to recognize it. Pretty good! I'm going to be running Debian as my desktop OS as soon as I get the drivers gathered for all my hardware.
Thank you Valve for Proton and Thank you Microsoft for putting ads everywhere. Both of them gave me a huge push to try Linux and now I have pop os on three systems!
im waiting for the day that Linux starts getting better performance (most games get a 10-20% decrease in performance on linux) and more compatability (im pretty sure 1/4th of my library is incompatible with linux) and where it gets polished enough for daily use without having to tinker with the settings. (when i was using linux i had to constantly change settings for my games to not crash.)
edit: also over here in the netherlands you *dont* get ads on Windows, idk why but its cool.
If Roblox becomes a available on Linux I’ll definitely switch. For now MacOS is good enough for me
@@Nexalian_Gamer roblox was unofficially supported using grapejuice but due to the new anticheat update its fucked.
@@Nexalian_Gamer just stop playing roblox. they probably will never make official linux support
yeah, i use my pc for entertainment and games and it sucks that most dont work on linux
@@herrobriam i wish i could show my intense agreement through your screen but sadly im limited to text.. but yes, roblox is a terrible, scummy, and even predatory platform. A good example of those 3 is Pet Simulator X, it costs HUNDREDS to get to the top of the leaderboards, and ontop of that it takes hours upon hours, days upon days, weeks upon weeks to get to the top even with all the transactions, like you want a limited edition item? 200 dollars. Ya wanna be able to select 8 pets at a time? 10 dollars. You wanna be able to get auto hatching so you dont have to sit there, clicking, waiting, doing nothing, for a rare pet? 8 dollars.
People have forgotten how it is to live outside of the cave.
To them this is just the new normal. And its gonna keep getting worse slowly, over time.
And they will accept it because they're programmed that way.
It's not that they have forgotten, they never lived outside of the cave.
Mental Outlaw, thank you for making the vids that you do. I love your style of humour in addition to your updates on tech news and views on computing and software stuff :D
I started using Linux 6 months ago because of your vids! I'm on Garuda Linux now using Qtile, though I used KDE at first. Windows 10 was the last version of Windows I used, and I'm grateful that my Windows was beginning to fail (lots of blue screens) so it gave me a legitimate reason to switch.
Watching the Windows 11 trainwreck is a great source of entertainment now... things really hit different when you're not on the trainwreck anymore.
To those of you still waiting for Windows 10 to reach EoL, I recommend you switch as soon as possible. Your experience on Win 10 will only get worse as MS tries to push you onto your shiny new operating system by making Win 10 harder and more infuriating to use. You either start now or you start never, because 'soon' and ''later' could be anywhere between the next second and the end of your life.
I switched in late 2019. I saw the trend. Ubuntu Studio FTW!
Thats why you make a custom install with NTLite to remove the bloatware and then use powershell commands to perma disable all the analytics crap and tell it not to update the stuff you removed as well as using spybot anti-beacon, after that at idle it doesn't use more than 4gigs of ram and game run perfectly and no ads at all.
The improvement thing actually makes sense because it's well known that asking people what they want isn't a good way to know what people want.
I’m so glad I took the plunge into Linux years ago. It was hard at first, but once I got the hang of it I could never switch back to Winblows
Windows 12 will just be an AI powered ads platform. What is more concerning is that there are people that defend this type of practice. I would not call them shills because that would be insulting to the shill community.
I'm so close to just moving to Ubuntu
This is your sign haha
Just do it lol. Linux mint is sooo nice to use, like Windows 7
Do it and put Windows in a Virtualbox on a separate subnet where it belongs.
lol sure, you won’t want to deal with learning how to fix issues when they come up
Ubuntu isn't any better tbh.
I hope a group of genius programmers write good drivers for linux so that everyone can make the switch.
That probably won't happen. What could happen is that companies make their drivers fos, because there is no reason why they can't.
I personally won't make the switch until fast file indexing becomes available. When I checked a few years ago, there was nothing that was even remotely close to Voidtools Everything on Linux. I've tried around 10 different indexers, and all of them either sucked entirely, or had huge issues. Some were slow as fuck, some did not update realtime, some just errored out and prompted to remake the entire index, and some did all of the above.
Too many soydevs. We need more chad devs that actually care about privacy and hate the government.
drivers are mostly fine (except the Novideo ones, let's hope they go the AI route and disappear from the consumer market), the bigger problem is with some productivity programs
It would never happen bcuz linux is just way complicated who would use terminal all the time
The moment I heard "but there is a way for you to be safer online" I thought this was going to be another Guardio sponsorship.
The moment I see an ad in my file explorer I'm double clicking the disk icon in my mint xfce flash desktop.
Can't lie, I'm more an advocate of using what gets my work done which has been windows on my main machine (pop os on my laptops) but all the ads and telemetry have got me planning moving to Linux on my main machine finally. I'll probably get something like a beelink mini and a monitor with a KVM to keep a windows machine around on for office and the random times I absolutely need windows for something so it's not like I'd be totally windows free but MS has been MS's worst enemy in my case.
I am SO glad I switched to Linux three years ago. I never had more sense of control, autonomy and freedom since. Same with switching from primarily using fiat to BTC/XMR. I just looking amazed on the inflationary world blowing itself up with accelerating rate, desperately trying to pump more cash into the economy and back from it by any means.
You don't sound like a real person, no offence... Well, answer this: You boot into Linux for the first time, you decide you want to change something or do something, and because you're not on Windows, you have zero idea how to do it, so, you start from zero, learning how to do things, probably a lot of what you try isn't going to work, unless you find some specific tutorial that is relevant to your distro - maybe you run into an error code or error message, well due to massive Windows userbase, troubleshooting error messages and researching them, always gives tons of results. But with your specific Linux distro? Eh you may get some relevant results, you may not. Yeah... "Freedom" my ass. Maybe after a long time of actually dedicating your brain to learn the ins and outs of Linux, maybe then you are at a solid level.
And what did you gain? If you use 3rd party programs and tweaks you can do a whole bunch of not standard stuff in Windows. I mean you can use group policy to completely disable updates, and then download KBs from Microsoft download portal probably, old school style - you can disable all advertising permanently and forever, you can run the vast majority of programs. You can even "attempt" to tackle telemetry, although you may not fully succeed, but still.
I like the idea of Linux but it wasn't "freeing" to use it, it was more like stacking arcane magic books and muttering spells, hoping something, anything, would happen.
The minute that Windows 7 had stop receiving support, I immediately switched to Linux Mint.
5:40 you can still get the office suite on a non-subscription basis, they've just made it a lot harder to find and don't push it as much because it obviously doesn't make as much money. But last I checked, you could still get office 2021 without needing a subscription.
@@dreaper5813 not disagreeing, but also not exactly relevant to my note lol
Just pirate it who cares. Microsoft sucks so you shouldn't care
I remember there is a stripped down Windows 10 version for gaming that LTT showed us... If ads start popping up, i'm going to start dual-booting that version of Windows, with a kickass distro
"What? Windows User is evolving!"
"Congratulations! Windows User evolved into Linux User!"
Nice Pokémon reference!
Do you know why UA-cam for a day blocked the 'bring back dislikes' extensions, but now they seem like they're back? I'm happy that such a wonderful resource is back but I don't know if this is how things are gonna remain or if we might lose the dislike counter again in the future.
I think they didnt unblock it. I think it counts the dislikes made from users with the extention and an algorythm
I had windows 11 forced onto me. My windows 10 pc was in sleep mode and I was making food, went back, pressed space bar (not enter), screen turned on and said updating. I thought whatever, but then after a few mins I see it's installed w11 already and it's too late. I never pressed enter, and never got to pick while my screen was on, I just hit the key to turn the computer back on. I could've reverted but I was like what the hell I CBA reverting at this point since the install is already done. I don't hate windows 11 too much it's just the principle. Fuck trying to trick people or making convoluted ass menus that make it hard to NOT upgrade (I never got an option but I know others got fooled).
Windows 11 has a beautiful look to the GUI. I love it over Windows 10. BUT....and i mean BUT it has so much creepy Microsoft telemetry phoning home to the servers in Redmond that it will make you sick. There are videos online showing how much of your data is getting sent back in a simple Wireshark session. After seeing that, it's hard to ignore it.
Hey, man.
As always, loved your content. Very informative and well thought of.
Your audio needs a little deEssing though. It's a bit piercing even for a 37-year-old guy like me. This would hurt more for the younger generations.
You may,
1. Use an EQ and cut with a wide band around 3k.
2. Use a full band deEsser.
3. Use a split band deEsser or dynamicEQ at around 3k.
I hope this helps. More power to your Channel. Peace.
Your preaching was my preaching in the 90's, at least there are platforms for you to reach the masses these days even though the sheeple still won't listen.
Not having that problem on my Linux gaming system. If you have a spare PC or old gaming PC you just replaced I'd say try out different Linux flavors to see which one works best for you. If you have to stick with Windows then I wish you luck. Nothing wrong with that choice but still good luck!
Could always dual boot too. With how fast modern SSDs are, it's totally doable to quickly reboot into Windows for a bit of gaming if the games won't work with Proton and back to Linux when you're done.
I’ve never been happier using Ubuntu instead of Winblows or MacNChessy. It’s easy enough to figure out and there’s enough support.
MacNChessy, thats a new one
Canonical is as bad as the other two
Mac really isn't as bad as some people say. It just werks.
@@skyler948I made it up after figuring out asinine bugs with iCloud. I formatted over OSX and damned it to hell along with Steve Jobs and his tormented developers.
@@bruhmoment-ib5dz I use a computer for getting work done. If I played games on it there wouldn’t be a separation of work and play and my productivity would go way down. I know this because I used to have a gaming laptop in college and almost flunked out before my finals. My games are all on a separate system.
after seeing a friends 10 getting force upgraded to a 11 without consent that was all for me to know.
Historically they have skipped raises for YEARS...but that was back when the stock options were golden handvuffs.. I remember 2=3 years where execs got bonuses, but the lower folk did not. So the "no raises this year" isn't new....
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Ever Windows ad may be an ad for Linux, but every terminal command and forum insult on Linux remains an ad for Windows.
The only reason i use windows 10 is for gaming.Although i think you can remove most of the annoying stuff from it. I debloated it , used antispy tools to close telemetry and different firewall that blocks most of windows internet access. I still think that isn't enough but i dont think i am going to spend more time fidleing with it.I also use debian linux mint and i find supperior to windows minus the gaming.
I wish I could remember the exact moment when computers stopped getting better and started getting worse, but we are way past that point.
Windowns 7 was the best Windows there was. Its all downhill from there.
When the MBA runs the show
It turns to 💩
@@eintyp4389 Windows 8 is when it started implementing annoying corporate design choices, no one likes. Windows 7, and past versions, were just a commercial product you bought and had, and it was (somewhat) your own.
It was extremely purposefully done this way.
@@eintyp4389 I don't understand this Windows 7 hype. The user interface was much more logical in Windows versions before XP. Already in Windows 98 there some annoying things started to appear, for example the filename extensions were hidden from the user by default.
Ghost Spectre FTW. Glad we got people like them who know what the users really want out of Windows. There was originally no way to keep Candy Crush off my PC until I threw in a custom build.
I remember when there was a specific port that you could tell your firewall to block and all the ads disappeared.
Used that for an ad-free Skype experience..
Time to install another spicy build of Gentoo. Got a new SDD. Thanks for the content
Im using Revision OS Windows 11 with startisback and its flawless. No ads no bloatware, no cortana no telemetry and more performance in intensive applications. I'd daily drive linux if it was compatible with anti cheat software.
> removes telemetry
> 0 problems with rootkit anti-cheats
Wow this is good timing, I started using Linux Mint yesterday because of this UA-cam channel and changed because of the adverts. Yesterday I snapped, I couldn't take the adverts anymore, they all came back when I updated Windows again. The trending news stories being the thing that pushed me over the edge. I'm forcing myself to us Linux Mint for 30 days and it's honestly great, even when running on a mechanical hard drive. No issues so far. Thank you so much for what you do Mental Outlaw!
Windows, the OS I use only for games. Pop os for everything else
I barely use Windows for games anymore. In fact, there are Denuvo and BattleEye runtimes ready-to-use yet the developers see a terminal and bar us out wholesale.
You should see outlook.
They put in an animation for when you delete an e-mail, so you now have to wait like half a second before you can click again, or you end up opening the fn mail.
And besides all of the other shit, there's an ad at the top of your inbox that looks exactly like an e-mail. So, they purposefully disorientate people and then introduce an ad click trap.
I'm just about done with mainstream shit, man.
I just really don't wanna put in all the work to change a large part of my life, learn new things, adjust, change my details with all the official instances that contact me on it, etc.
This is the main reason why i am using a custom version of windows and switching to linux next year.(i have used linux before but waiting a little bit more for it to get more mature for gaming)
Love when Microsoft brings more attention to Linux so kind off them! And they also do it for free
one of the reasons i create my own isos with all of the telemetry stripped out. NTLite 💙
Link guide pls
There is no definitive guide, alot of it is just reading what something does or trying it out for yourself.
There are many videos about NTLite though if you wanna give it a shot.
Anything you can think of this tool can do, its amazing to stop MS spying on you on an ISO-Level
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No need fore cotume iso go this cannel and look fore Newest script to un blote win
Luckily we have amazing tools like NTLite that let you rip out the shitty components and disable telemetry as a company policy (luckily they can't justify OS surveillance to other companies). Doesn't make it right, but it's still a good tradeoff to get an OS for free with just having to spend one day making the ISO and additional time cleaning up after install.
@D Reaper Linux mint is the best option for new user who are migrating from Windows (also one of the lightest distro)
@D Reaper Not an option for everyone. If you're working regularly with Adobe products, it's not really easy to switch to anything else and since they are not on Linux, you're stuck.
@D Reaper Ah yes, because if someone requires them for a job you can just switch. We can think all we want, but at the end of the day there are still no good alternatives to Photoshop, for example. Affinity photo is getting there, but it's still not as good and Gimp is a joke, because it doesn't even have adjustment layers even when it was suggested years ago.
I do primarily software development, so for me the answer was easy - Jetbrains instead of VS.
But at the same time I can understand when it's not so simple for others, as Linux is still treated as a second class citizen when it comes to desktop software support.
@D Reaper As I said, Photoshop has no adjustment layers, it's terrible for non-destructive workflow.
Krita is good for drawing, not image editing. Both are missing lot of the QoL features that may seem like not much, but make you more productive.
Also pull your head out of your ass for once and stop thinking that I'm asking for some sympathy, lmao. Superiority complex much?
I already ripped out all of the shit from Windows, it's quite easy and makes it more than usable, you just have to be willing to learn :)
@D Reaper after using photoshop on some rare occasions to do a bit of stuff and then trying gimp for doing simple tasks like adding text to an image of a map for school assignments I can tell you that it is utter shite with horrible controls
But who cares? Normies certainly don't, and the rest of us either do the workarounds that limit microsoft's peeping or use a different OS altogether.
If something is free, you are the product.