will preload file exlorer to fix bad performance
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Btw, why is there no round, big-hand facepalm? That one above is hard to distinguish.
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Yea. We really need to get the keepers of unicode to add a Picard face palm.
... at the height of their arrogance, the climax of their hubris, they decided that their own spaghetti was so substantial, so impressive, of such bulk, they confused it for divinity; they believed that it could organize and improve itself.
Such was the nature and extent of MicroSlop's trangressions against the very nature of noodles, against those ancient ones who wove together the very fibers of reality itself.
uninstall workaround
I guess it technically is a workaround for problems with Windows to just uninstall it and use something else.
Windows 11 is literately the best windows ever.
It got me to install Linux, ditch Google as my phone provider and take an even harder stance against all these fucked up billionaire monsters.
Thanks windows 11!
this one was posted here on lemmy (i think) recently
this is just 5% of microslop
The past month that I've spent using Fedora with a 5070ti and playing games like Arc Raiders and KCD 2 has genuinely been the most stable my computer has been in about a decade.
Also a lot of my smaller issues like USB and Conrroller disconnects disappeared completely.
I thought I was going crazy.
Windows is awful garbage.
If only there was an operating system not controlled by evil megacorporations.
Earlier I saw something about Microsoft wanting to earn back lost trust and I actually literally laughed out loud about it.
Super easy to do though.
Extend support for Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.
Wall up Copilot. Make AI integrations optional with granular control for each app and data source.
Double the technical staff at Microsoft and create a large team with the specific job of paring down system resource usage. It's ridiculous that an operating system uses more resources at idle than Skyrim does.
Don't even talk about 12 yet. Even better, annouce that Windows 12 is scrapped in order to provide more resources to fix 11 and support 10.
And... A little extra fun. Sell half of the RAM Microsoft has stockpiled while the AI bubble is still intact.
" We hear you. We see you. Best we can do is Three-Mile Island but stocked with all the world's RAM so you can generate slop code and have lonely chats with a machine that tells you eating glue is a great idea."
--Microsoft
Maybe they had CoPilot code them a time machine to go back to 2004.
I'd love them to all get in there first and let me know how it works out.
Absolutely wild that there was a time when Microsoft had three generally well regarded consumer products in Windows 7, the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 all at the same time, compared to where they are now in all of those product spaces.
Windows was Windows, but 7 was largely consistent and didnโt need to be fought with like its successors.
The 360 was the go-to console for developers and gamers, despite the RROD issues, which Iโd even give them credit for for handling (eventually) after lots of us got 2 free games and a free controller from them following the debacle.
Windows Phone 7 had a superb interface, great hardware and genuinely stood out.
Now they have nothing and are hated more than ever.
I dare say it, too. I really liked that era. Win7 was cool, the gaming division's aesthetic and marketing were cool. Original X-Box? Man that was a JAM.
I mean, part of it was just being young and naive too I guess, because I have plenty of memes from the '95 era about how evil Gates was/is. (Internet Explorer was a hot button topic back then!)
But also I think the landscape was competing for favor of the users (however underhandedly as usual) rather than how the landscape is now: Where end users are more of an afterthought and now it's all just about farming users while billionaires pass money back and forth.
If it was only Windows... All MS products have gone to Win 95 era reliability in the last few months.
Ya, I'm sure the AI code isn't helping, but is it materially any different? I spent way too many long nights trying to unfuck Windows servers after updates failed to install correctly. And that was well before the AI Slop Boom. Even more fun is when the update reported installing correctly but the Nessus scans came back showing the old version of DLLs still in the System32 folder. There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1. At minimum, you give them a week to let the foolhardy and fanboys get their disks slapped by Microsoft, again.
Going back to my days supporting Window 2000/2003, I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever, because of too much downtime due to bad updates. Even today, updating in OT environments can be very difficult due to shitty software running on really old versions of Windows. At least that stuff can usually be kicked off the network and left to rot in isolation.
There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1.
I love how they earned this reputation, so rather than repair that reputation, the next move was to force update their users whether they like it or not.
I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever. . .
That's...definitely a decision that puts a lot of trust in Microsoft's security. Lol
Windows Update: Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
"Prompting mass uninstall workaround" sounds like an awfully complicated way of saying "a lot of people switched to Linux"
So, business as usual.
Patch Tuesday didn't become a thing for no reason.
Still running Win11 on my gaming rig. The very first time an update breaks something again it's gone.