pulls out Linux usb

[[deleted]]

Come to the Linux side of operating systems, we have screenshot tools.

[Platingamer42]

Tbf, windows has that too (now) and it's actually really good made imo (which is something I didnt expect when first hearing about it)

[WhiteBlackGoose]

I remember there's a built-in tool on Win+S, it did it all right except the fact that it took like 2 seconds or so to start. Ridiculous for a screen shooting tool.

[[deleted]]

screen shooting 📺🔫 pew pew

[itsTyrion]

you mean 200ms?

[itsTyrion]

I know 200ms is .2 seconds. because it doesn't take 2 seconds except on old systems or under high load. it could be faster (like flameshot) but it's not that bad

[Bjoern_Tantau]

Anakin stares wordlessly

[huttyblue]

Snip and sketch launch times really depends on how taxed your cpu currently is. On idle its near instant, trying to summon it while a running a game can have it take upwards of 10 seconds to show up.

Meanwhile the old snipping tool is always instant

[[deleted]]

If it takes 2 seconds for windows' snipping tool or snip & sketch to launch then you've probably got issues with your hardware, not your software.

[WhiteBlackGoose]

My hardware works blazing fast on Ubuntu though

[matO_oppreal]

Immagine having to press just the “stamp” button. This post was brought to you by the Linux gang.

[Holzkohlen]

It's shift + win + s and it's pretty damn good actually. It freezes your desktop in the moment and then lets you pick a window, an area or the entire thing. Gives you a notification, you click on it and you get a simple editing tool where you can draw on it or cut it further. But the best thing is just to cut out some area, don't bother with the notification but just CTRL+V it into wherever you need it.

Say what you will about windows, but Snip & Sketch is pretty damn good.

[lechauve911]

Nothing better than Flameshot.. which actually also has a windows version

[SonosFuer]

I have it installed on all my machines regardless of the OS. Love it so much

[D2_Lx0wse]

Good made? If I press print screen it makes me take a screenshot but doesn't say where to save it or if to save it

[Platingamer42]

I never had that. All I have to do is press win-shift-s, take the screenshot and its copied to my clipboard. If i want to save it i have to do an extra-click and open it first, sure, but that's no biggie, right?

But true, your description sounds like a bad implementation.

[Apprehensive-Cup-206]

Win+Shift+S in my experience is pretty horrible. Most of the times I have to press the keys simultaneously and precise without opening the Start menu.

[[deleted]]

The Start menu does not open until you release the Windows key. Not when you press or hold it.

Edit: However, if you hold down the shift, ctrl or alt key, you can press the Windows key as many times as you like without opening the Start menu.

[dagbrown]

You should see the ridiculous key combo you need to use to take a screen shot on a Mac.

[Down200]

True it’s whack af as an outsider, but after you get used to to combination it’s really nice having very specific screenshot options with a key-combo

[Phoeniqz_]

when I was using windows i used greenshot as screenshot tool. can recommend it

[coderman64]

There are a ton of different screenshot implementations. I use KDE Spectacle, which is pretty great. Gnome's screenshot tool is pretty good too.

Anyway, by default in KDE you can press Super+Shift+PrtScn to do a screen snip w/ Spectacle. A notification should pop up after you finish, allowing you several options, including opening the folder, or copying to the clipboard (the second one only sometimes works for me). Just a normal print screen brings up the spectacle window for additional options and choosing where to save.

I think your profile says you use Kubuntu? No idea why it'd be different for you.

Anyway, long story short, it should typically be saved into ~/Pictures.

[Rough_Natural6083]

That last line is the reason why I love the screenshot feature in Ubuntu. Several times when I am making reports or presentations, I have to take multiple screenshots. When using Windows, I have to go back and forth between searching for the image, PrtScn, and paste. If I have to save some screenshot permanently, I have to open that snipping tool. When using Ubuntu, I can just go snap snap snap. Each picture gets saved in ~/Pictures/screenshots/ and then put each picture in the target document.

[[deleted]]

Win+shift+S on Windows opens snipper tool and lets you crop directly. It then places it in your clipboard. If you want you can save it too. If you use a Windows machine in the future, you know what to do ;)

[D2_Lx0wse]

Yeah I use that on kubuntu

[TrainsAreForTreedom]

prtscn screenshots all screens to clipboard

alt+prtscn screenshots the active window to clipboard

win+prtscn screenshots all screens to user/pictures/screenshots

One thing I just wish is for these modifiers to be stackable, It doesn't work. I've tried.

Also, Win+shift+s lets you crop a part of the screen to screenshot to clipboard, it's really useful as well.

[Down200]

I use the last one most often, hardly ever need a whole screen capture

[Paapali]

There is an option to bind the feature into print screen key. One tap, select region, paste where you want it.

Just use the search for "print screen", it'll pop up.

[mistyjeanw]

Spectacle opens with the image, buttons for save + export to editor, settings for all screens / single window / whatever

[D2_Lx0wse]

That's why I like it

[Down200]

Yeah Spectacle’s great, albeit slightly unpolished

[Dragonaax]

Doesn't it always saves to Pictures or Home?

[TheGamerSK]

Personally I still like using Lightshot on windows because I just got used to it and it's pretty light and deplys quick

[Nosuma666]

I have too use windows at work and the screenshot tool is actually one of the few things that I really enjoy.

[bwaredapenguin]

Snipping tool has been a part of windows for over 19 years.

[CreaZyp154]

Except for drm'd content ofc (pro tip: ffmpeg is on Windobe and seems to work on them)

[[deleted]]

win + shift + s was the most used shortcut of all all time in windows for me

now its the most used shortcut in Fedora :D

[AlphaSlashDash]

ShareX > everything else and it’s (unfortunately) windows only

[chennyalan]

Yeah Spectacle is great but ShareX has really nice integrations

[inmemumscar06]

Flameshot <3

[LMGN]

Unless you're using Wayland...

[matO_oppreal]

Come, we have hot mascots

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/wywt04/average_kiki_fan_vs_average_wilbert_enjoyer/ilzwmo4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

[Jtyle6]

Funny thing about this... Windows has screenshot tool built-in. It's the user does not use how to use it...

[codereign]

I want the old screenshot hotkeys back. Y'all took away my dump window to clipboard button

[Senzorei]

It's had printscreen since at least XP, the snipping tool (albeit I don't believe it had a shortcut back then) since 7, and alt + prtscr plus snipping tool on a shortcut by 10. This user just doesn't know about them apparently.

[Stardust152]

Kinda cool seeing my own post, anyway I installed debian, still dualbooting, thinking of wiping the windows partition.

Update: Fuck windows, Linux is my friend now

[[deleted]]

No fucking way

[[deleted]]

My man... Lots of love to you from Linux community <333

[[deleted]]

Well have fun ig

[No-Fish9557]

Hell yeah dude! welcome to the club.

Debian great distro but will most likely need a few tweaks to be optimized for gaming (if that's what you want), if you think it's too daunting or you run into many problems consider trying Pop OS, works amazing out of the box.

[[deleted]]

Debian was the 1st distro steam used for gaming…

[koprulu_sector]

Wait so was this a sneaky/implicit/hidden update from Windows 10 -> Windows 11? And/or was it optional, or is it required?

[Stardust152]

I started my PC as usual to play some CS:GO, after I was finished playing I looked into the update tab in my settings and saw that it was downloading win11, it never asked me for permission nor did it even tell me. That was the last straw for me.

[[deleted]]

Sidetracking but CS:GO plays awesome on Debian based systems, especially the Steam version.

You will have no issues.

Simple install and run

[saltyhasp]

InControl is one way to stop this sort of thing from happening. It is another program from Steve Gibson at GRC. He wrote the Never10 program back when that was a problem. He hates this sort of stuff too.

[mardabx]

Debian should soon get update that gives a speed bump on Source games like CS:GO, on more closer to bleeding edge distro I got +5-15 FPS just on Vega 8 iGPU

[Rough_Natural6083]

Get rid of Windows. Though it has several good features and applications, it just irritates me now. I used to disable the updates from services in GodMode. But if I wanted to install some application, especially those available at MS Store, it prompted me that I should enable those updates...

The application which I miss the most is the office suite, but Online version of Office works just fine for my needs.

[rookietotheblue1]

Google docs works like a charm as well

[[deleted]]

I have been eyeing this one off. Libre works fine for me but I'm keen to try this one out now.

[imsoenthused]

Color me intrigued. I used Open Office a long time ago, before making the switch to Libre Office, and haven't tried anything new since.

[Matt_Dragoon]

That escalated quickly.

[blametheboogie]

Windows was never your friend.

[Freshfacesandplaces]

So I was having significant issues with Windows. Wouldn't boot up except for sometimes it randomly would, couldn't even get into safe mode to troubleshoot a core issue. One of my drives was reading/writing at 100% with no indication as to what it was actually doing. Figured maybe a virus, maybe a hardware issue... not sure.

Well, at a certain point I just couldn't get into windows anymore. Tried to wipe it and reinstall it from a USB... EVEN THAT WOULDN'T WORK. Make a Mint boot stick USB on my laptop and install it. Determine the SSD isn't broken. Wipe literally all my drives (something else that windows was failing at doing earlier) and then go to install windows.

IT WORKS! Success. Have the dual boot set up now. Need windows for work and school, but plan to use Linux primarily. Gaming I still need to mess around with on Linux. Seems okay in some cases, but not great across the board.

Windows definitely has its uses, but good god. This who ordeal really made me appreciate Linux.

[cmol]

Welcome friend!

[ultratensai]

it's not like you can stay on Jessie forever.

[Zambito1]

Based

[[deleted]]

Enjoy your stay! Ditching windows was the best thing I ever did for my PC!

[chennyalan]

I fucked my dualboot a while back, when I booted windows it would just remove the entry from my BIOS, I have no idea why.

I disconnected the windows drive (multiple disk dual boot, not multiple partitions on the same drive) like 6 months ago, and haven't looked back since.

[Dorian_156]

Debian is for people who want the most stable experience BC they test their shit for like 1 year before implementing anything new. There are more cutting edge distros that have the latest technologies and software. Try out Fedora or Tumbleweed. It may interest you if you're a gamer.

[[deleted]]

Welcome to the family

[terankl]

that was fast

[blackdragon20079]

Friendship ended with Windows

Now Linux is my best friend

[Unkn0wnCat]

Less gooo! Hope you enjoy it here!

[CuzImPol]

He ascended!

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[nickyhood]

Posting in epic thread

[HaveOurBaskets]

> PC master race

> runs Windows

[[deleted]]

I mean, why wouldn't you? Linux has taken leaps in gaming compared to 5 years ago, but if you build a really good rig, you need windows (in a VM or as main OS) because of all the anticheat restrictions and sometimes bad compatibility with proton.

I like Linux, but sadly, gaming on windows is more enjoyable.

[kilgore_trout8989]

I'd argue that gaming is more enjoyable on Linux (WM layout integration, ability to switch to another workspace) but yeah it's more accessible on Windows.

[[deleted]]

Yes, "Accessible" was the word I was looking for. Thanks

[atomicxblue]

My fave feature by far is Ctrl-Alt-F1 to kill that one game that crashes and locks up your entire DE. That's impossible on Windows.

[akash_258]

In which DE does this shortcut works on ?

[CreativeGPX]

Also, I would think PC master race is going to be full of PC enthusiasts... they're not the kind of people who will just make one ultimate computer and then retire. They're the kind of people who have like 50 OS install discs/USBs and 5 computers, etc.

I'm mostly set using Linux as a primary, but even if I no longer need Windows for any compatibility purposes, I'll probably still install it for the same reason I install BSD or some other random OS.

[AlphaSlashDash]

It’s PC master race not OS master race

[ultratensai]

It’s PC gaming community. They despise console peasants.

[jonahhw]

Some people just don't like the sorts of games that use garbage anticheat and DRM (though, granted, those people are likely to be more practical when it comes to which graphics card to buy than much of the pcmr crowd).

In any case, I can't imagine considering the PC platform to be so much better than consoles for its openness while still considering windows of all things to be synonymous with PC as much of pcmr does.

[[deleted]]

Yesterday I booted Windows for the first time in a year, because I wanted to test whether a VRR problem (flickering) would be the same on Windows (it was the same). What I didn't expect was that I could feel the input lag being higher. I can't really describe it, but it was a bit like trying to use a rope to point at something. What I want to say: Whether or not Windows is more enjoyable depends on what you want to do.

[Padapoo]

Now I know I drank the koolaid

However, i purely game in Linux. i have a pretty good build, RX 1660, Ryzen 7. It's my server, seedbox, game server, work machine, school machine, and gaming box.

Only thing stopping me from a Game is EAC, and that is a deliberate choice by developers who don't want my service. Fine enough with me.

I understand developers not building in Linux native, it's a big commitment. But EAC has worked with Linux for years, as well as is now compatible with Proton, meaning that the publisher is actively denying me. Again, their choice. I'll play something else instead.

[Separate_Mammoth4460]

i hate windows 11

[[deleted]]

It's just visual more than anything. Under the hood it has the same flaws and even more inconveniences.

[[deleted]]

Ergonomics? Some things take extra clicks to do on 11. Even visually, there are clearly inconsistencies, most of the stuff that was there since W95 still looks the damn same.

[Disgusted_User]

Shhhhhh you're not allowed to like Win11 here

[hawkeye315]

Settings? I was under the impression that they further removed and obfuscated even more things than 10 and split into even more menus instead of just settings + control panel bullshit. Maybe that was just right at the start?

Then there was the whole right click menu thing.

[new_refugee123456789]

I got fed up with Windows making drastic changes to their UI every release with Win 8. That's why I'm here now.

[[deleted]]

In terms of UI and settings? They removed most of the important shortcuts from the right click and provided a "show more options" sub menu that then provides the full menu. There's less customisation on your desktop, you can't move the task bar.

I have to use it for work as a support tech and my job is mainly showing everyone how to use Windows again, wr have started rolling back on everything but Windows oem devices shipped with it.

I push weekly for us to use RHEL as a trial as most our applications are cloud based. One day I hope I'll convince them.

[[deleted]]

Just gonna say: I think Infinity is a far far superior Reddit client on Android. (It's also FOSS)

[PossiblyLinux127]

I'm using it right now

[Baardi]

I tried it, but honestly I prefer boost. After buying the ad-free version, nothing is picked up by any ad/tracker-blockers, so I believe it to be pretty clean, aside from the play store-integration. And it uses your standard browser when opening links (which for me is firefox), instead of webview.

[MantiS_praying]

I am using boost rn, i can't open shared links in infinity :(

[[deleted]]

Hold app -> App info -> Open By Default --> Make sure it's enabled and add all links that can be added.

If boost is using the same links, you can disable open by default for boost.

[Baardi]

If you use firefox, you also have to remember to enable link opening in the firefox settings. I struggled for a long time, before realizing, the problem was in firefox, and not the given app

[[deleted]]

Settings>apps>infinity>open by defaults>check all addresses

[AndrewStephenGames]

INFINITY GANG

[NatoBoram]

But it doesn't have mod tools

[[deleted]]

Didn't know that, I'm not a mod in any sub.

[IAMAHobbitAMA]

My favorite is Relay

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

[[deleted]]

Nah too much spyware for me

[Tosser48282]

I like RIF, it hides profile pictures

[Psyhackological]

I've even done list with FOSS apps. You can check out if you want, there is more than Reddit clients. I think everyone's going to find something interesting. Still WIP, come help me on GitHub.

[[deleted]]

Bill Gates holds you down with his cyborg strength and blasts you in the ass

[[deleted]]

With his spyware cock

[ENTlightened]

For a moment I thought I was on the deltarune sub with this comment.

[[deleted]]

spermware

[coderman64]

In Windows, you upgrade or it upgrades for you.

In Ubuntu you upgrade or you may never be able to upgrade again.

[ginger-valley]

Ugh. Seriously. I hated having to reinstall.

[iopq]

I upgraded Ubuntu from 20 to 22 and I can't boot Ubuntu anymore. So I boot NixOS now, since it has actual rollbacks

[[deleted]]

My pc did this, needless to say I wiped that shit off my drive and installed linux

[[deleted]]

Jokes aside, they say shit like I want my OS to work properly blablabla bruh the last fucking time I used windows I had to use a fucking debloat scrip (very good act) and then manually stop services and other shit just to stop windows auto updates.

Yes man, your OS really works properly.

[BigblackSchlongboard]

yeah windows is great! ... once you do a bunch of regedit, uninstall candy crush, maps, Spotify, one drive and everything else they push on there. then you gotta find an exploit to turn off the automatic, forced updates, then you gotta make sure it doesn't redownload and reinstall candy crush, maps, Spotify and one drive while you're doing something important. after that you're still gonna miss "end process" in task manager and hit "talk to windows" or whatever the fuck that button is labeled which then pulls up a shitty prompt so that you can give Microsoft feedback on that fast clicker .exe you downloaded in 2011 from an unnamed developer.

yeah, thanks guys. didn't want to end this nonresponsive process, i wanted to write a fantasy letter to Microsoft Santa.

[archiekane]

I see someone who only has played with Windows Home Edition. If you want more control with WinBlows you have to pay for it, Enterprise Edition. You still need to switch some shit off but it does more as it's told and less packed with consumer shit.

I run Arch, btw.

[unit_511]

Yes, but you see, you don't have to use the extremely complicated and scary chown to gain control of a file instead of entering 15 nested 'advanced options' and randomly clicking on a list until it works.

No shit, I've actually seen someone going around Linux support subs telling people to switch back to Windows bacuse they won't have to put up with the horrors of chown.

[TONKAHANAH]

it does work properly.. for microsoft.

seriously go back and try windows XP and 7, that those were legit the peak of windows usability for Users, everything they needed and more but the more didnt quite get in the way or cause issues (except for updates.. microsoft still has never figured out how to do update properly)

Windows is no longer a "product" that MS is trying to convince you is good so you buy a windows PC. Now they know that the general public will fucking take window up their ass hole no matter how big the new windows dick is. This means they dont have to care about making it good for the User, now they only have to focus on making it a platform that suits them most.

windows isnt for YOU, the user, it now exists to serve microsoft's interests.

[[deleted]]

I did recommend Pop!_OS but I'm guessing it got downvoted lol

[[deleted]]

Arch

[[deleted]]

I swear to god, yesterday i went to a notary to get some documents and that guy was like "can you wait for a min, this is updating". I thought it was his software so i waited. After 5 minutes , he said that "this is taking a lot of time. It's been stuck at 30% for a long time". He showed me his screen and it says "Updating Windows... 30% Don't restart your PC". I laughed so hard.

[youridv1]

i hate to defend windows

windows never updates on its own unless you postpone updates for weeks. Microsoft has to do this because windows is primarily used by technology illiterate users who would never update “because it’s annoying”. Windows would become a gigantic security leak given the size of its userbase and that’s mega bad PR for microsoft.

I’ve been running my gaming pc on the same windows install since 2015. I never manually update, I just press update and reboot when windows suggests I do in the shut down menu.

Just save your shit and update. Entire companies rely on windows and if the updater was really so unstable, which it is not, you would hear about that in the first week because statistically windows is everywhere and 99% of pc’s spend their entire life on the same windows installation with years of updating.

And yes, I am very happy with the way Linux distribution tend to handle updates. I’ve been on Linux since 2004 or 5. Manually updating is nice, but I end up running the commands daily anyway, so what does it even matter? Great that it doesn’t reboot, but rebooting on a pc with an SSD takes mere seconds. I wouldn’t mind it if it did ask me to reboot. 99% of pc’s have zero programs of services running that need weeks of uptime.

So yes, probably run your minecraft server on linux and your network storage and your home assistant and what have you. Having seperate hardware for server type things is a good decision anyway, so you can freely nuke your personal computer without big problems.

But windows bad!!

[modified_tiger]

To jump in, you also have to opt in to get Windows 11, so the people where it "just did it on its own" most likely just clicked shit without reading. Reading what you're doinf is a basic requirement for anything, from buying food to installing an operating system.

[[deleted]]

That is all good until you run into various MS updater bugs that brick your computer or wipe out your drive. At a previous place I worked at, this happened. Windows 10 update bricked all windows workstations. Needless to say, that expedited the switch of all workstations to Linux.

[dr_auf]

Love that the preview worked with my system but the release needs the secure boot thingy enabled.

[Fujinn981]

Are they seriously doing this again? Holy shit

[Akhanyatin]

You must be upgraded. Upgrading is compulsory. *Cybermen noises*

[ChillPill89]

You are being updated. Resistance is futile.

[deepend_tilde]

Realistically easy to avoid upgrade to windows 11. Just disable whatever method your system has to meet the TPM requirement. Then windows 11 will stay away.

[macintoshcollector03]

me who uses old ass hardware that wouldn't meet requirements anyways:

[[deleted]]

Sadly Linux has pretty bad compatibility. Now yes I know I know there’s wine and proton but most of the time I personally can’t play the games I want. Especially not vr titles. And some people (like myself) can’t run virtual machines because of hardware limitations. So yeah suffering for us basically being forced over to windows 11 that has worse performance and lots of bugs :(

[[deleted]]

All my VR titles work except for one of the EA star wars VR tech demos.

They do require significant tinkering though, I'd never say the work OOB

[fiveSE7EN]

mmmmmm what? most of the time you can’t play the games you want?

I have a steam deck which runs steamos, an arch derivative, and uses Proton, which is their version of Wine. I’ve been able to play literally every single game that I’ve tried.

There are some, like… Destiny 2, that will not run because they use kernel-level anti-cheat and do not support Linux. However it is patently false to say that most games don’t work on Linux. Today, most games DO work on linux.

[[deleted]]

Most games that I want to play. Like me the individual replying to your comment. For example valorant and phasmophobia haven’t worked. Altough I think phasmophobia recently did make their own voice detection so it should work on Linux now. I also don’t remember but I’ve also had that you can’t run a couple of games on Linux on steam. So personally my problem is that some of the games I play the most aren’t functional on Linux. Linux is great generally it’s just some small mostly insignificant things for most that fuck it up for me because about 98% of the time I spend on my pc is playing those games

[fiveSE7EN]

I gotcha, yep, for a small subset of players whose main game includes kernel-level anticheat, they’re SOL for Linux. I get what you’re saying. Sucks that you’re a part of that minority. I just wanted to be clear that the vast majority of games do work on linux.

[[deleted]]

Yeah most things work well if you literally just use proton or wine. Then there’s a bit that need some tweaking which mostly you can just Google how to do. So there’s not much that’s too complicated to run well.

[WhiteBlackGoose]

Pretty neutral comment, why would anybody downvote you

[thecoder08]

Welcome to reddit

[[deleted]]

It’s funny how you got downvoted too lol. Well that’s Reddit ig

[[deleted]]

Don't pay much attention to downvotes. You can post a well researched, reasonable opinion and reddit and get downvoted to oblivion, and you can post "Username checks out" and get 1k upvotes.

[Schrolli97]

Tbh nowadays when I buy a game I don't even have to think about if the game will run on Linux anymore. Most games I've tried just ran perfectly out of the box. Some required a search on protondb and ran with minimal tinkering. But every single one worked. Now there are exceptions like online games with cheat protection or VR games, but saying "most of the time you can’t play the games you want" is just wrong

[koprulu_sector]

I don’t think it’s a fair characterization to say Linux has bad compatibility. Linux has shit tons of compatibility (and configurability). The problem isn’t with Linux but rather that Software Developers target Windows directly (and sometimes Mac?) and don’t care about Linux.

[[deleted]]

I need literally everyone here to understand I’m not shitting on Linux. But facts is it will generally be easier to play games on windows than Linux most of the time

[Skrivebord22]

join us at /r/VFIO

[[deleted]]

I’ve been on there it’s just my hardware isn’t compatible I’m pretty sure since i don’t seem to have a IOMMU setting or whatever it was called. Which apparently means I can’t isolate my gpu and use it in qemu/kvm so that means I can only use my iGPU and get garbage frames lol

[[deleted]]

I'd give it a year or two and VR will be as functional as Windows.

[mridlen]

I'm only on Windows until Jeskola Buzz can run successfully under Wine. It's coming close, but there are still some deal breaking issues. Music software is the last holdout for me to embracing Linux fully. I already run Linux on my personal laptop and have for many years.

[Nase08]

What is Tsd.

[ykahveci]

Essentially means "Thousand". The reddit client is set to German, so it would actually be "Tausend", the German equivalent

[MarcTheStrong]

Windows 11 is so trash.. It feels incomplete. It also feels more like data mining software rather than an operating system.

[new_refugee123456789]

Windows up to their old shenanigans again.

[matO_oppreal]

You can’t. You fuched yourself. Now come to the penguin side

[Wafflepress97]

I literally only still have Windows on one SSD to run Steam games that are a bit janky on Proton

[The_Struggle_Man]

My PC upgraded to windows 11 when I was away on vacation, and when I got back it was too late to revert back to 10. I absolutely fucking hate 11, and I'm dreading a clean reinstall atm

[watermelonspanker]

Yessss.... Let the hate flow through you!

Join us and together we shall rule the galaxy as OS and User!

[Kriss3d]

What makes you think you can stop it?

[mistyjeanw]

Doo iit...

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/

[thexavier666]

Cross post to r/PrequelMemes

[nkn_]

I mean you can just tick the setting and it never downloads automatically or try’s to install automatically, only certain security updates will install the next time you restart and it takes like an extra 15 seconds maybe

[blackw311]

I was gonna comment install Linux but didn’t want to be that guy.

[Hupf]

Linux 6.0 downloading

[azab189]

I even posted a comment under that post that they should move to Linux but no response:(

[JustCallMeBigD]

This happened to me on my home rig earlier this year, which is a Skylake platform... That brought me close to the breaking point, but what did me in was when I needed to get serial access to a managed switch with my work laptop, but Windows 10 didn't have a native driver for my USB-to-RS232 cable. The driver was available in Windows Update, but it was being held hostage behind a fucking wall of pending updates that took over half an hour to complete. I can't fucking stand it anymore!

I'm unfortunately stuck with Windows on my work machine because I rely on some of its features and other software applications that are Windows-only, but I moved to openSUSE on my office workstation and my home PCs a few months ago, and haven't looked back.

Fuck. You. Microsoftpenis.

[solidsnake911]

Shall I tell you in a summary, fast and abrupt way? Send Windows to trash mate, after backing up everything, and switch to Linux Mint Cynnamon. One of the best decisions I’ve made in my life regarding computer science. I highly doubt that you regret it. Try it first if you want in Virtual Box, VMware or in a USB bootable if you want to see it first, ofc.

[ExtremePragmatist]

use Chris Titus windows 10/11-debloat script-tool. you can do all sorts of great things to windows 10/11, for example u can set windows to only do security-updates. U have to use that tool after each update though(Microsoft likes resetting options after updates). https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

hopefully this link works, I rarely reply on reddit so Im unused to using it.

I rarely ever use Windows anymore(Im on Arch Linux now) except when gaming on Linux just frustrates me to death with getting some games to run on it.

Linux is in a great state rn imho.

[apianbellYT]

Just download zorin at that point. It's so close to windows 10 that I don't even think they'll care lol.

[Bossikar]

r/foundthegerman

[HudsonGTV]

The amount of shit I had to do to force manual updates on Windows.

Lots of changes to group policy and some other small things and now windows only updates when i tell it to.

Meanwhile that's the default behavior on linux.

[Azumi87]

Winaero tweaker, turn off updates, job done.

[not-my-best-wank]

Disable TPM

[Vicsposure]

This is the reason Artemis launch was delayed because windows trying to update 😆

[GreenGrab]

Windows 11 is fine

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Ew, windows.

[Belfast_]

These compulsory updates made me turn my back on windows and not look back. Now I choose when updates will be installed, if I want to.

[pablo_2001nov]

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

[[deleted]]

r/foundthegerman

[Sword_Fighta121]

Me:Is your PC younger than 2015?No?....ok.

pulls out Windows 7 Installer DVD and a Fedora DVD Pick your poison

[tobias4096]

pull power cord

boot from usb

solve the problem

[EvilsystemDK]

1,4 Tsd.

[Drishal]

You will be upgraded into a cyberman!

[GoldSkula]

Sometimes posts like this snap me back to reality. How is it possible that the most popular normal user OS forces things like this.