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Windows 11 Leaks

Can't wait to fuck up my pc with every major update.
This.
How in the fuck did anyone think that a mandatory and long update at random times with subsequent issues was a good idea?

Imagine you have urgent work to do and your pc goes “nah, I’m gonna update right, it could take 10 minutes just as it could take 5 hours, because fuck you. Oh and your pc is going to get fucked up, good luck fixing that”.

Thank God I disabled that shit.
 

Tschumi

Member
This just in, can confirm all games made before 2010 will be incapable of running on this [fucking -Ed.] software
 

Kadve

Member
XPGood
VistaBad
7Good
8Bad
10Good
11Uh oh
Made a similar list yesterday, but it was never that black and white. To summarize:

95 = Revolutionary but buggy.
98 = 95 but better.
98 SE = 95 but much better.
ME = 98 but much worse.
2000 = Great for those that could access it.
XP = Good but with security issues.
Vista = Great in theory but a serious performance hog.
7 = What Vista should have been.
8 = A failed experiment.
8.1 = A decent attempt to fix 8.
10 = Had problems at start but is now mostly decent.
 

Ovek

7Member7
Wow rounded corners on 80% of the OS if your lucky... it's really just polishing a turd now. And I bet I will still be able to find a icon from Windows 3.11 in it somewhere.
 

Melon Husk

Member
Oh god a Linux icon pack, please no.

The taskbar is even bigger? Get effed anyone with a 16:9 laptop. The trend of MS designing software for MS hardware continues (see the proliferation of touch features vs. the rarity of touch screens in OEM products).

Indifferent towards start menu changes. I stopped using at after 8. It's just a search bar for me.

Did Win 8/8.1 mess up the good/bad count? I'm curious to see how 11 develops since Win10 is a "bad" OS. (Not horrible but I don't love it).
 
This.
How in the fuck did anyone think that a mandatory and long update at random times with subsequent issues was a good idea?

Imagine you have urgent work to do and your pc goes “nah, I’m gonna update right, it could take 10 minutes just as it could take 5 hours, because fuck you. Oh and your pc is going to get fucked up, good luck fixing that”.

Thank God I disabled that shit.
The last major update took literally 2 minutes (21H1). This will more than likely take 10 or 15 minutes. It’s just Windows 10 with a new UI. Windows 10 made everything modular with its bi-annual updates.,
 
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Trogdor1123

Gold Member
Was fallout 3's issues on steam a windows problem or a steam problem? I think it was windows right? Maybe this will finally fix that?
 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous
You can move the start menu to the middle with windows 10 as well, so what. This looks like a theme more than a new windows version.
 

Mohonky

Member
taskbarleft_1.jpg

You can move the start menu. Who would want that thing in the middle?
Much better


In general; eh. I'm fine with 10
 

Soodanim

Gold Member
My (limited) experience of peripherals in Win10 has taught me to understand what they’re trying to do over time. People see it as taking away control, but what they seem to be doing is modernising most of the common settings and functions bit by bit to make things a little less painful than they traditionally have been. You can still access the advanced settings for everything as far as I’m aware, but if you want to do things like pair Bluetooth devices or add a printer it’s probably going to be a lot more plug and play than the old days of finding drivers and someone’s awful software.

Most of us here know our way round a computer so it hasn’t bothered us too much, but if we’re comparing the ease of use compared to smart phones Windows is so far behind, and it makes sense to bring the user experience more in line with what people expect from devices now.

Having said all that, I’m probably going to stick to 10 for the foreseeable future because I see no gain to upgrading.

For everyone talking about Windows selling your data, things like Spybot Anti-Beacon exist.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Can't wait to have three generations of disparate UI elements clashing with each other while they continue to remove basic user controls and any concept of consistency as my preferences are overruled with every update.
We already have this and then some with Windows 10.

For shits and giggles go to ODBC Data Sources, click "Add", then select "Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)" and press Finish. On that screen, press "Select Workbook". Enjoy the instant rush of Windows 3.1 nostalgia slamming you in the face.
 

SF Kosmo

Banned
MS has always realized that the way to keep selling Windows is to make every other version bad. You upgrade from the good one to the bad one and hate it, and then to the next good one and feel relieved.

I like Windows 10. I don't need this.

95Bad
98Good
MEBad
XPGood
VistaBad
7Good
8Bad
10Good
11Uh oh

Expanded this. We can take this all the way back to the start of Windows as a full OS.
 
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Trogdor1123

Gold Member
There are plenty of fixes for everything now, but if you really wanted a clean game you could always pick it up from GOG
I hadn't considered that actually. Does it work great there? Wasn't there also a 64 bit problem?
 
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eddie4

Genuinely Generous
I agree with 7 looking the best. But i have also heard people who claimed 2000 was their best looking. Xp, vista, 7 was way too cartoony.
I always switched themes off and changed the look to classic whenever i used xp, vista, or 7. I didn't like happy colorful themes.
 

420bits

Member
Win2k is the best terms of looks, there is beauty in it's simplicity!
Win10 is nice where its consistent, but its not. Some of the new views for things also make things harder than using the old version. Overall, the best looking Windows-
Win 7 was horrible
 

Blond

Banned
I always switched themes off and changed the look to classic whenever i used xp, vista, or 7. I didn't like happy colorful themes.
I much prefer Mac OS cause it gives me Unix without the russian roulettes of laptops that may or may not work in a year but I HATE how it went from colorful, yet professional to a god damn crayola box.
 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous
I much prefer Mac OS cause it gives me Unix without the russian roulettes of laptops that may or may not work in a year but I HATE how it went from colorful, yet professional to a god damn crayola box.
True it works much better because it was a proprietary OS for proprietary hardware. Windows is just like, here, it might work, it might not, good luck.
 
Centered Task Bar. . .start menu is just a screen of programs "apps". . .

Not even pretending to not be a mobile OS repackaged at this point. At least Windows 10 had tiles to make it easy to customize and arrange shortcuts in the start menu. If you could just drag and drop from the Task Bar icons' recent files it would have been completely fine once you figured out how to get into the real menus and not the shitty mobile-style menus overlayed on them. I bet all the real menus will be gone in 11.

In the tweet itself you can see them using the old run command box.

It's literally a copypasta GUI on top of the same haggard Windows OS. Definitely nowhere near as evolved or forward-thinking as iOS or Android (in reference to it being a mobile OS).
 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous
You guys realize that there's Windows 10 LTSC (no Bing, Cortana, Store apps, advertisements)? right?

edit: this is what it looks like and it only takes about 9GB.

a8T4a3K.jpg


it's an enterprise version, so kind of hard to get legit keys for, unless you have......connections.
 
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420bits

Member
You guys realize that there's Windows 10 LTSC (no Bing, Cortana, Store apps, advertisements)? right?

And pretty much no updates but security ones and I'm not even sure you get all of them, certainly not any performancepatches as they are usually baked into the contentpatches.
Don't think Office 365 works with it anymore and seeing how everything will be cloudbased in the future and more and more integrated into Windows, i don't see a bright future for LTSC in terms of using it at home.
LTSC is for corps who cant afford change 10 years, locked ecosystem and even there its use should be avoided at all costs because not upgrading your platform in 10 years is beyond retarded.

If you (not talking about you-you) hate windows 10 so much, get a mac or use some other OS and see if that works better for you OR just start to disable services and hope shit still works.
 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous
And pretty much no updates but security ones and I'm not even sure you get all of them, certainly not any performancepatches as they are usually baked into the contentpatches.
Don't think Office 365 works with it anymore and seeing how everything will be cloudbased in the future and more and more integrated into Windows, i don't see a bright future for LTSC in terms of using it at home.
LTSC is for corps who cant afford change 10 years, locked ecosystem and even there its use should be avoided at all costs because not upgrading your platform in 10 years is beyond retarded.

If you (not talking about you-you) hate windows 10 so much, get a mac or use some other OS and see if that works better for you OR just start to disable services and hope shit still works.
Yeah, it's definitely a minimal OS that is used on devices that are on an intranet and require minimal function, it shouldn't be used for everyday home use, but I run it in a VM and mess around with it to see how much i can break it. Browsers work on it, Office 2016 works on it, GIMP runs, etc. I have yet to test any games on it, we'll see. There are plenty of forums out there that guide you through disabling a lot of W10 bloatware instead of just running the LTSC version.
 
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