You pay for windows?

Who tf pays for Windows these days ? 😂

@@hrr597Every time you buy a laptop, you are paying for a licence key. Sometimes you find laptops with no OS preinstalled and they are cheaper than the versions with an OS. Lenovo legions are like this.

​@@hrr597you are paying for it the moment you buy a pre built or a laptop

Using Windows is bad enough - you pay for it?

Yep it's ridiculous.

The dialog to adjust this was labyrinthine. It's not that it was particularly badly designed. It's that there were so many options you could change and it had to fit on a 640x480 screen with space left over so you could see the effects of your changes.

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 Yea, but back then search was usable and god mode folders were a thing. Also the worst part today, is they keep changing the location of everything constantly.

You couldn't adjust all 3D colors. It automatically calculated the intermediate shades. If you dragged the slider, you couldn't return the original color, and you couldn't make a high contrast scheme from scratch without editing the registry. Some applications do come with decent looking skinnable menus that are similar to native ones. Mostly media players, like MPC-HC (all GUI hacked dark grey), or AIMP4 with dark menus (flickering without accelerated GDI). Also recent Total Commander.

Great distinction to make

i think it's to bring people back to using native apps instead of a browser

Thanks for pointing it out, it's still annoying that they're there

It's hilarious. You are all crying about how bad Windows 11 is. Meanwhile, you continue to use it; so people who choose to use it are part of the problem. Windows 10 (and its crap) finalized my decision to drop Windows about 8 years ago after watching that Windows 8 debacle. Windows 7 (when using Windows was considered to be the definition of sanity) was the last version of Windows I ran. And 11 (soon 12) reminds me to be thankful for making that choice years ago to ditch Windows when the ditching was good. Today, I don't know how people even use their computers today by running Windows at all. And I am glad now that Valve is pushing Linux gaming with their Steam Deck. Because it will make more people realize there is another option than just Windows. Linux is now at over 4% for a reason. Because Valve is proving that gaming on Linux is pretty good, and Microsoft continuously makes their OS less bearable each day. This is why Linux's market share will steadily rise.

@@dreaper5813 linux master race ftw

Switched to Linux 2 years ago, definitely worth it, FOSS programs work fine and basically all my Steam games run without issues, and the rare problems I do have are getting fixed faster and faster

10 sucks

@@charginginprogresss yeah almost as much as 11!

I started using windows 10 ltsc. Much better than win 10 home and i don't have to worry about support.

10 LTSC user here, Working very fine, smooth and stable, No bloat (telemetry still remains though), and all games work really fine. I wanna use Linux but this laptop isn't 100% mine and my entire home thinks Linux is some obscure unstable thing.

Anytime they update a menu panel, I always hate it. They hide most of the useful things behind who knows where, specifically for debugging issues. I can't remember when was the last time, but I remember how infuriating it is to try and find anything.

Anyone who prefers the new settings menu has never actually used windows for anything more than running chrome. Having more than one menu open at a time is far more useful than having a dark mode.

In the new settings you can only add 2 DNS addresses, i needed 3. So i've fired up old control panel and did it. Interestingly enough, if you add something in the new settings you won't see changes in the old ones. In the control panel DNS was blank even though i've set it in the new settings and it worked. Windows is a mess of OS.

Win 7sp1 still works great and you don't need all that blot ware and hiding of menu's Steni !

your probably still in windows 7 bro

@@Fischlity2 ??? no I am not and I'm not your bro

Don't install windows 11 Bro stay with windows 7 ​@@xgf122

Agree xgf I love that you can have multi windows of ctrl panel. Also adding domain printers is so much easier.

Used my sister laptop for a moment, and i literally googling just to find some basic setting. Even linux is more easier to use these day..

I can't stand wordless pictograph icons. Every brand has different versions meaning the same thing.

yea de-modernize the UI back to windows 7 and add a dark theme to that.

@@NightmareRex6 i will use windows xp rather than deal with aero

7 is best

There's always two types of people.

Startallback will do the job for you

Great thing about being a Linux user. We rarely have to worry about this

​@@dreaper5813 But can you run crisis?

@@princevegeta7044 'Crysis' wasn't a game I wanted to play even when I was a Windows user about 8 years ago...

@@dreaper5813 Great thing about Linux is that tech illiterate have no idea how to use it so it will forever remain an OS for nerds and high maintenance people.

@@SMGJohn And you are wrong. In fact, my old boss at the computer shop repurposes older PCs and Macs with Linux (Zorin OS). And he sells them to his customers. Or he has switched people to Linux who have computers that don't support MS's artificial hardware requirements for Windows 11. His customers are happy to not pay an arm and a leg just for the sake of buying a newer computer. One customer literally came in and asked my old boss at the computer shop if there was anything else she could run on her computers other than Windows. Apparently, she wanted more of her privacy back. So, he set her up with Zorin OS. And apparently, according to him, she loved it. So, it seems more people are starting to see MS for what they really are. And so, more people are running Linux.

to be fair, most of the settings are in the main modern settings app. You barely ever need to use the classic control panel. in contrast with almost everything was in the classic control panel - and the modern settings app was mostly useless. May Allah (S.W.T.) bestow upon you His Blessings and Guidance; Ameen.

@@NazmusLabs Device Manager is still best in the old control panel.

Yes because there are always 2 types of people who use windows and Microsoft has to cater to both of them, one wants everything to be modern and consistent and other don't want to let go the old menus, just take a look around in this comment section, it took like 3 seconds to find the 2 types of people.

Learn regedit and you can customize a alot of stuff. I have custom icons for all my windows apps as well. Those settings are still in the og control panel.

@@rano12321 Well, then just force both to use one of the options. That's what microsoft does best anyways.

im in 22H2 February 13 update, and explorer is not stealing focus for me, but it did in the latest March 12 update, and Explorer crashed for no reason sometimes, so i use restore point to remove the update. people in ElevenForum suggested that we should avoid KB5034848 (Feb 29) and KB5035853 (Mar 12) because it has BSoD issue and Explorer crash, And i use Wushowhide.diagcab to block specific update.

There's is a Windows podcast and they discussed that the leadership changed over development recently so we might get improvements.

wait till you see February 29 KB5034848 and and March 12 KB5035853 update, you won't see any improvement because Explorer Stopped working and BSoD when you force restart or shutdown.

Never seen that before, sounds terrible.

Got it! Hopefully they can make it faster because it's not great to use at this moment

@@SurfsharkAcademy They realistically can't. Basically most of winddos users use it and that's a tremendous load for something that already takes up insane amount of resources. Was doomed to fail before it was implemented.

It seemed ok in the browser, just now, but I'm sure that's VERY connection dependent!

There are local chat bots you can run, and they run very well.

Which means Microsoft gets to farm what you type in. Some One sees something don't like they could spin as criminal, they call the police on you. Like that parent who sent a photo of a rash on their child's bottom to their pediatrician to know if it was series and wound up with police and cps and the whole nine yards up in his face.

which Linux did you choose? I moved to Fedora specifically and I like it, but Linux altogether is still not good enough for people who aren't interested in fixing things when they break (when you do not Tinker a lot, it's kinda rare, but than there is "finding and installing a app"). still x times better than windows.

Absolutely! I also had upraded to Linux around the time when Windows 11 came out, mostly because of several disgusting anti-consumer practices introduced in it. But what's more important - this made me find out that Linux fits my workflow much better than any version of Windows

It's no surprise that Linux's market share is rising. MS is just making their OS less and less bearable each and every day.

@@cvoidboyI use Fedora 39 KDE spin

@@cvoidboyI chose Fedora 39 KDE spin, haven't had any issues with it and all my games and apps works great

You can switch to a Contrast Theme and are given a lot more options for colors. Like the menu background. Youre limited in a couple things but the trade off works out I think.

That is basically what he said in the video

all of the work around to install windows 11 without TPM no longer work on version 24H2! There’s only one workaround that currently works… and if Microsoft patches that it’s game over 💀 May Allah (S.W.T.) bestow upon you His Blessings and Guidance; Ameen.

Yeah I’ve done it a simple registry edit

it's not just TPM now, you need processor with SSE4A or SSE4.2 support to run windows 11, and they have no real use of this SSE thing. just a way to remove you from processor older than 4th gen intel or Early AMD FX

to be fair AMD FX is a very slow CPU and 4th gen core is 10 years old now honestly i dont expect to be able to run new windows OS on 10 year old computer

What do you use in place of Adobe?

​@@YountFilm video editing = Kdenlive/DaVinci Resolve Photoshop = GIMP (image manipulation)/ Krita (drawing) Animate = OpenToonz Illustrator = Inkscape Etc

Copilot fetches results from the internet mind you, it has no biases.

It does that with everything. The worst is when it produces completely different results based on the number of characters I type. I'll start typing something like "my thing". By the time I get to "my t" it'll show me what I want. But before pressing Enter it'll be "my thi", which turns it into a web search or will launch some completely unrelated app. Even when I pause it doesn't figure it out. I actually have to delete characters to get it to resolve to the correct thing.

Do yourself a favour and disable web search altogether. There's a web browser for that.

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I at least can turn that off. Don't know if the setting is available everywhere though. You could also turn web search off in the registry editor though.

Move to KDE Plasma as your desktop on Linux. That's where the true power is.

​​@@dreaper5813I can't switch to Linux like that in my situation. I wished, but even with wine etc. not possible.

Because you are too lazy and want to make excuses. Therefore, you are entitled to those limitations of your desktop on Windows.

Enjoy Microsoft's further oppression over you.

As Microsoft pushes more ads on your computer through their sleazy updates.

I hope that there will be a shift to a password based future so people are not forced to sign with a PIN as that should be a choice.

ngl kde plasma need more work, because rn wayland is buggy as hell and kde itself takes more resources than windows (not ram but cpu)

​@@sweetsweetkhajoor Take a look at the latest release

@@sweetsweetkhajoor Plasma works fine on my very low-end kinda old laptop, whereas the pre-installed Windows (10) really had problems with CPU usage. Maybe it depends on the system?

@@Gramini my dads pc had a pentium and 4 gb ram i tried to run kde plasma, and firefox wouldnt even open (its that slow), but xfce works perfectly, even if i use it with kwin

KDE is so ugly... It is the definition of programmer art

Of course not, their businesses is to sell users marketing telemetry to third party scammers, not to bring you a cute and useful OS and/or interface.

The amount of people opening multiple control panel items at a time is probably like 0.00001% which is why it wasn’t brought to new settings app I really like the new app, it’s organised well, very functional and pretty, you basically never need to see Control Panel these days

@@mackstewart4203 it wasn't brought because the people who use it are also the people who turn off telemetry. But it is a feature that is harder not to add than to add, and it is much easier to diagnose issues when you can look at more than one screen at a time. Because fine it is pretty, but there is never enough info on any given screen. If I am diagnosing audio issues on my Bluetooth headphones I can think of at least ten pages where the issue might be and you can't tell me it's not easier to diagnose the issue by having multiple windows open.

Same + We use Arch BTW.

Can it run old windows games out of the box, without requiring the user to fiddle around with settings?

​from my experience, wine does a good job with old windows games. it was able to run stuff that not even windows 10 or 11 could run without tinkering​@@CnCDune

@@VanderA. We've had games (look at the steam deck), and we also have libreoffice which does damn near everything word can

@@CnCDune i've heard that wine actually has better compatibility than windows for some old games. older games are usually the ones that work best because they don't have stuff like invasive DRM or anticheat that might break linux compatibility

True! Thanks for pointing that out

PITA. I'll use Only Office on Linux. So much better.

Since Win7/8 (on certain EU releases), there was an option to select your browser and your search engine

I was able to uninstall Edge on W11, but there's still Edge runtime and Edge webview left that you cannot uninstall (at least not natively).

That's because the European Union has politicians who aren't 300 years old like the ones that we have here in the States, and actually understand how the hell technology works

can I ask how Linux future proofs your computer?

​@@zeenxdownzif he doesnt want to use win11 for example in that case it can be future proofing

I would suggest learning how to use kvm/qemu with single gpu passthrough instead of running dual boot and if someone desides to go dualboot you need to disable secureboot and on windows side fastboot otherwise you will run into problems

But why we need to do that? Why it isn’t just works as expected? Why people need to know about “register” to apply dark theme fully?

What games do you play? At this point, Linux works for gaming for everything except games purposefully blocked by the manufacturer(Typically via stuff like kernel level Anticheat only designed for Windows)

Gaming is already great on Linux. If Valve's Steam Deck is anything to go by.

@@AMidgetWalrus Luckily most of my games are usually older titles such as Dark Souls series and Elden Ring, I also play my childhood games from 2000s era, not all of them work flawlessly on Linux atm so I better wait longer for Wine or Proton to get even matured.

i mean, it most likely will all work for you. i think using excuses like that is regressive, games that currently work with linux will only get better but the games that may not work might also never work without proper support with how advanced it is right now just switch to it if you can, see how it feels. if you dont like it, you may never like it in the future anyway@@admiralcarrot756

@@admiralcarrot756 Im genuinely surprised to hear some games are still not working. Switched over a bit pre Steam Deck and the improvements in the last few years have been crazy

Not to mention Windows and no, I am not talking about though convoluted methods to go about.

I did not have any problems with RA2 (+ Yuri's Revenge) under my old Win 7 system. Other than that you're right that oldies are hit-or-miss.

Just get it from NTDEV(the tiny11 creator) and you will be fine!

Space Cadet Pinball has a reverse-engineered clone available under MIT license though. They _could_ ship that one theoretically.

@@Gramini the question on that is if the MIT license allow it.

@@Zack_Wester I don't see why it wouldn't. It's a very short license text that allows a lot of things.

Those apps were also there on my Win11 test-install (iso sourced from Microsoft). However, those things are only proxies that get installed when you click on them.

Because... it's... it's not a sponsor? Did you see who uploaded this video??

Just configure windows to turn your monitor off instead of showing a screensaver

What's wrong with screen savers?​@@20NBA01

​@@20NBA01that only works if you have a monitor that wakes Quickly, i have a monitor that takes eons to wake up

Do those display have a problem when being turned off or what's the problem?

Me, I still use it

It's the same garbage

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I'm gonna keep using it until something forces me to change to win12. Not gonna touch 11 with 11ft pole. Would much rather still use xp or 7 but they aren't supported at all.

for those who don't understand what is meant here: "Everything Search" is a application, a tool to find almost everything on your system, way faster and more specifically than windows ever is able to, while being kinda resource friendly. there also applications for it, like "Everything Toolbar" etc. to make it more user-friendly to use.

for those who don't understand what is meant here: "Everything" is a application, a tool to find almost everything on your PC, way faster and more specifically than windows ever is able to, while being kinda resource friendly. there also applications for it, like "Everything Toolbar" etc. to make it more user-friendly to use.

for those who don't understand what is meant here: "Everything" is a application, a tool to find almost everything on your PC. there also applications for it, like "Everything Toolbar" etc. to make it more user-friendly to use.

for those who don't understand what is meant here: Everything is a application, a tool to find almost every file. I'd also recommend Everything Toolbar to make it easy to use.

Everything is a search application. I'd also recommend Everything Toolbar as a addition (user-interface)

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Oh that's great, that means you only get ADVERTISEMENTS with a paid product. That's totally better!

Minipcs are better with linux

install a microwin iso maybe

So do scammers

Or people with dialup modems.

@@Blackinterceptor999I don't think scammers even know of this program's existence as they mostly use VOIP services.

Very well put and I could not agree more that's why I could not be happier when I switched to Linux Mint cinnamon on July 28th 2020 100% and have been using it since late 2010 anyways

Meanwhile, I get no bloatware. On top of that, I am playing Windows games from the late 90's on Linux with WINE. Because WINE has better legacy support for such older titles.

I think they would do that until everything goes cloud only.

I also had the same problem! Was really annoying 😑

There is a setting that will turn off this message. Something to do with finishing setting up I think.