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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (7 children)

To me an os should be something that just let's me run programs of my choice and use my hardware to it's fullest. Eg be as light as possible.

With windows it just wants to suck up all my hardware/battery by itself and puts up a fight anytime I want to install anything myself

Don't know how many times now I've had to take defaults away from things like edge but yeah

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Might want to look into Linux :-)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    While I exclusively use Linux at home and I recommend it to everyone especially on desktop, they mentioned battery life and from my experience that isn't its strong suit.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I really thought that comment was building up to something like "and that's why I use Arch, btw" lol

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As it's kind of implied at this point I thought I'd leave it out for once ;-)

    But yes I do use Arch, btw.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ah, I was thinking of the original comment when I typed that but in hindsight I guess yours does work haha.
    Gotta love good old Arch, someday soon I do hope to outnerd that regularly with "I use NixOS/Bazzite, btw".

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure how secure it is, but Chris titus's windows debloater works wonders for my windows install. Getting rid of edge and other MS clutter really cleans up the windows desktop in a way you wouldn't think.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I actually have used that as well on most of my family's computers also. It sure does beat messing with settings.

    I think next time I have to reinstall windows I'll attempt something like tinywin10.

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