How nice of Windows to spam me with notifications when I temporarily fill my scratch disk, despite turning them off…
I’m also annoyed by it. I get why it exists, as I’ve met people with zero clue about drive space, but Windows really shouldn’t permanently attach training wheels to the bike.
I’d love a Windows hard mode button, but I guess that’s just Linux now. If only work didn’t need me to have Windows.
“Why doesn’t Windows have an ‘expert’ mode?” (2003)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=43043
Feels like his response makes sense on the surface, but ultimately silly. You don’t need to be a guru at Active Directory or GUI development to know how to navigate your OS competently.
Regardless, I’d even just opt for a, “don’t fucking bother me about literally anything,” button. But then Microsoft can’t push whatever bullshit product they’re trying to give you exposure to or sell.
microsoft’s version of ‘hard mode’ is removing gui for settings–hiding them them in registry entries or (unavailable in ‘home’ edition) group policy… or removing them completely and needing actual hacks of binaries to do.
Their hard mode is PowerShell nowadays.
I’ll admit, POSH is quite powerful, especially DSC. I can’t imagine being a Windows sysadmin back in the 90s/2000s before it appeared and fully matured.
Yeah, imagine having to use Batch (or maybe Visual Basic 🤷♂️) for scripts.
It exists as an excuse for Microsoft to scan your files.
VM’s are always an option
Oh, I duel boot. Unless you mean going back to Windows 98, I did that in a VM once to play old shareware games.
How long do the duels last? If your chosen OS loses, do you boot into the winner OS, or do you come back the next day?
The duels last until a Windows update decides a scorched earth tactic wins the day. Destroy the boot and you destroy your opponent.
Are the duels to the death, as was done in the early 90’s? What weapons may they use, or is it just kernel-on-kernel?
Windows plays dirty, it’s never kernel-on-kernel. Once it removed my wifi access in Linux out of spite. Gouge out the eyes and earn easy victory, but for as long as there remains the flash drive there is no true death amongst OSs.
Flash drives are horcruxes for Linuxes.
Never seen it, what does the feature do exactly? Is it new to Windows 11?
If only we had Windows Hard Mode for real. Let’s you break your system as intended. Delete system files, no notifications, nothing.
Too bad not available in this universe.
Yeah that’s basically Linux at this point
So what you are saying is that Linux isn’t a good option for the common user who would break their OS because it doesn’t hold their hand?
creating and maintening 2 windows is hard, and they know that more hard mode people can, and probably going to linux, that’s why they are supporting more and more linux, so they don’t lose that consumer
It would be a simple boolean flag to turn off all of the hundreds of useless spam notifications windows insists on using. Not a hard configuration setting to add.
I would expect there to be some tools that fixes Windows, for instance I got annoyed at the start menu and switched to an alternative.
Or else there were some super slim win2k3 images (~200mb), I hope there’s some slim win 10/11 images available?
Winaero tweaker has some good options.
So sick of all the feedback, rate us, try this feature, what’s new, turn on feature x, etc. that seems to be a part of everything nowadays, even Linux apps. Linux wasn’t this bad only a few years ago and mobile OSs cranked this up to 10.
- If I want to rate an app, I’ll look under feedback in the help menu.
- If I want to see what’s new, show me the changelog…once, right after I update.
- If I want to turn a feature on/off put descriptive toggles in the settings menu.
Everything that can be seen from the default view should 100% revolve around fulfilling the function of the app for the user. Human attention is a finite thing and we shouldn’t be wasting it on shit like this.
If an app asks me to rate it, or checks what my rating is going to be before sending me to either a feedback form or Google Play, depending on my response, then it instantly gets a 1 star review
I hate the ones where I already rated it… and it keeps asking me even more. It’s infuriating.
The best is when you open a newly installed app and it asks you straight away to rate it.
100%
My banking apps CONSTANTLY harasses me with garbage, and the options are either to concede or to “skip for now”.
No, I want to skip for always!
We know you have no money in your checking or savings account… and you’ve said no at least 50 times in the last month… BUT would you like to use this investment brokerage we’ve partnered with?
Same for websites with the popup “how do you like our website?”.
It was cool until i got the popup!
If I want to rate an app, I’ll look under feedback in the help menu.
When apps do this I rate them 1 and leave a note explaining why
I just thought of something that was missing from terminal software… welp, time to get to work.
Do you wish to subscribe to lsblk premium for only 19.99 to see all your storage devices? (Y/n)
Nah I’d rather just guess what device to
ddto.
Weird that my wife got no such notice when her HDD was completely full. Yesterday she came to me asking why she couldn’t install something. I checked her HDD and it was 100% full. No notifications for her at all.
I’ve hit 100% capacity a few times without a notification as well
I don’t get a single one of these popups and annoying things the entire Internet seems to get. No ads, no notifications, no popups, nothing. I don’t get it. It’s like there’s a metroPCS windows that everyone is using.
I’m the same used windows on my gaming pc most of my life and never had any of these popups. I’m starting to think it’s the Linux fanboy herd over exaggerating things to push false news. The Linux fanboys on this site are worse than fucking conservatives.
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Probably doesn’t have auto defrag because God forbid the OS do anything useful for you without a hundred terminal commands and a two hour setup lest all the sweaty arch users barge in with claims of bloat and “reeeeee why can’t I just decide for myself”.
Amen
They love to bring up silly little problems that just straight up have an option in the setting if they cared to look.
My favourite is the “Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more” setting that disable all the ads they like to complain about.
And then they call themselves experts at computers…
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Imagine still using windows lmfao
Edit: damn, this is my most downvoted comment so far lol
Imagine being an adult professional that uses windows programs for their job… I have several Linux machines that are workhorses in my pipeline, but using windows is just not something a lot of people can avoid.
I’m one of those that just can’t avoid using windows at work. At least at work they come with a very useful adition, windows sysadmins. They already learned that giving Linux apecialists admin rights. (It gets harder and harder to deny any Windows knowledge)
Haven’t used windows at home since 3.11.
Get my simulator setup working under WINE and i’ll do a full switch, until then it’s Windows on my gaming PC and linux on everything else lol
What’s your simulator setup?
Portable and pretty budget, a G29 + arduino with a large LCD to show live dashboard data, head tracking with OpenTrack + PS3 Eye webcam (extremely versatile camera, pretty handy for machine vision with its 120FPS support. Only downside is 640x480 max res, and the 4x array mics only work on Linux)
Only outlier is stick shift running via the Arduino for a few reasons, mainly to reduce wires and setup/packing time (need my desk for other things too, sadly can’t afford a permanent rig), and also to avoid mapping the gears in new games. I just switch between usb emulation of a known device, or sending keypresses 1-6, R
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Have you tried Proton?
There’s been a solution of, provided two usable graphics processors, running Linux and virtualizing Windows underneath it with the gaming GPU for only a 5-8% loss.
Way to complex. And also way too much work to have it break the next update. As much as I love Linux (hell, I’ve been using Linux on and off since 2004, when I was 14 and got my first hand me down Laptop…) and as much as I admire the progress…it still isn’t there, especially with peripherals. Getting a DD to work on Linux is a nightmare.
We don’t have to imagine it, 70% of desktop PCs run it.
Global market share held by operating systems for desktop PCs
