I wanted to use the current Windows logo, but it's so incredibly stupid, you wouldn't even recognize it.

This is what happens when a $100 bn profit/year company is too cheap to hire artists:

The worst way to use Windows is to boot it every once in awhile. It's slow for awhile until all the updates are done installing and downloading. But then people shut it off right away, and next time they open it there's more updates. When I was working at a PC repair shop, we'd get low end laptops that were running really slow. The solution was often to leave it on the bench for a day and let it work through updates.

The best way to use Windows, is of course installing Linux over it.

And "Install updates and shut down" somehow involves restarting the computer three times, which is real fun when by default it boots Linux, so you have to babysit the computer just because Microsoft still haven't figured out how to update their damn OS properly.

once a month

patch tuesday

chat, should I tell them?

I don't even know why I still keep it around. I haven't touched it in like a year now since I made the switch to Linux.

Joke's on you, Windows! I forgot my Windows password and haven't booted into you for months.

I had Windows installed for nearly a year after swapping to Linux.

Until one day I needed more storage space and realized that I hadn't booted into Windows in over 6 months so I shredded the drive, formatted it with ext4 and let Steam have it.

If I have to install Windows on a machine (mostly work-related), I always use Chris Titus' WinUtil to strip out the garbage bits and delay or completely stop updates. It's basically a GUI wrapper around various Powershell commands.

Sent this to my friend who dual boots and their reply was "thats why you use a version thats out of support". It always makes me laugh how much windows users hate security because of the way windows has pushed it on them.

Get rid of windows update by Ameliorating it!

I have never dual booted successfully. I mean, I have set up dual boots. But I am fundamentally incapable of actually switching back and forth. I inevitably just pick one OS and only boot into that one.

I haven’t booted windows in about 2 months and at this point I am too afraid to.

I haven't booted bare-metal Windows in years. Since then, I've only ever used it in a VM with no network connectivity, so no updates.

Y no VM?

I boot into windows every time that one NTFS partition I never converted gets locked for needing a check.. Come on kernel 7.1. I need that new ntfs with the fsck tool!

Yeah I could convert it. But there's some stuff on there I might want to run from windows, once every 1.5 years or something.

Tiny11 in KVM is your friend.

9GB install, barebones. Install with qcow2, add VirtIO guest tools, map a local folder, then snapshot so you always have a clean image.

Since it's stripped down (not even a web browser), updates are super minimal.

I don’t dual boot but recently started using WinBoat in hopes of running Halo Wars 2 once again, Windows in a container is basically the same as Windows in a VM and if you do so choose can be volatile, therefore the data kept in the container will be erased after each time it is killed.

However, Windows setup is a huge PIA so if you have the patience for it.

Windows XP design was so good they went back to it for win7

I always love spinning up the VM to run that one weird piece of software that we absolutely have to use and that only runs on windows, just to have to sit and look at the VM updating for an hour

I would've ripped out its virtual network card, if the application didn't require network access 😩