Say what you will about having an anime girl wrap on your car, but everyone sees you and gives you plenty of space on the road.

I might mock the method, but I can’t argue with the results.

I can feel every old laptop in my vicinity trembling in fear.

Don’t deny them that last chance to live a life of purpose.

Super easy to compete with steam on your own game store.

You can buy your games here, for the same price you can buy the physical disk. It’s the same game you would get if you bought it anywhere else. We guarantee your games will be here forever, and if they aren’t, then we’ll make them playable offline before we shutdown.

Nothing else needs to be done. You don’t need to make your games unplayable from other vendors, you don’t need to add specific rewards for using your storefront. All people want to do, is buy their games, and have a right to play them.

Hence the meme where every digital storefront is shooting themselves in the face while steam looks on with concern.

Yeah. I think Nvidia will be fine. The way I see it, AI either keeps scaling, and Nvidia makes money, or AI collapses, and Nvidia gets to sell a buttload of GPUs to a market segment that has been priced out of upgrading their hardware for the past few years and are desperate for affordable upgrades, and on top of that Nvidia I’m sure has negotiated some kind of payout if their AI customers don’t take delivery of the hardware they are contracted for, so Nvidia gets to double-dip on the equipment they’ve produced. Kind of a win-win for them.

Reliability

LOL, no. Win 11 had 3 major update issues this year alone.

snap layouts

99% of people just used left and right, which was already in 10, and you could already access other layouts in 10, there was just a different interface for it.

widgets

You’re fucking joking right? Widgets have been in windows since Vista, and no one liked them back then either.

improved file explorer,

Improved by turning it into an elecron app? Improved by drastically increasing the ram usage and hobbling the search performance? Improved by unpinning it from the taskbar? The new file explorer is fucking garbage, and is easily one of the dumbest and worst things about 11, right behind the new printer management UI.

really awesome phone integration environment.

You are genuinely the first person I’ve heard mention this, and you’ll probably be the last.

Add on top of that constant updates and upgrades and it isn’t even a close comparison.

See issue number 1, also, the updates only ended because Microsoft declined to continue supporting “the last version of Windows”.

You are right that the comparison isn’t even close. 8 and 7 were closer in terms of performance and market adoption than 11 and 10.

And some tools are objectively worse than others. Windows 11 loses to Windows 10 in every area except for AI integration (if you can call this a loss), and security updates (which Microsoft arbitrarily stopped to force people to switch).

If Windows 10 is a screwdriver, then Windows 11 is a butter knife glued to a 10 lb weight and a flock camera that Microsoft chained to your hand when they stole your toolbox.

This is your sign. I don’t know what kind of help you need, but go get it.

Installing and using Mint is easier than about half of the things you’ve already “fixed” on Windows. You definitely can manage switching. If you can, backup your data on a separate drive and install Mint. If you don’t have a spare SSD (or a few dozen), you can always put Mint on a USB, boot from that, and test it out without modifying your windows operating system.

But, I switched to mint “just to test it” and I’ve only gone back to windows once, and that was to migrate the data from my expensive Samsung SSD to the bargain bin SSD I bought for testing Mint in the first place.

Honestly, Mint has been so easy, I switched my mom’s new laptop to Mint, and she vastly prefers it to Windows 11, and I haven’t needed to touch her computer since then.

Of all the big corpus, m$ is the one that pisses me off the most.

I mean, at least Microsoft produces stuff. Equifax collected all your personal data without your consent and sold access to it. Then they got hacked and leaked the personal data of literally every single adult in the US… And the punishment for that? They got a 7 million dollar contract from the government and were allowed to go back to doing business as usual. You got a few months of “Free identity protection” and then they started auto-billing you for continued protection.

An actual punishment would have been to seizing all their assets, scrub the data off their hardware, send the CEO a bill for the data destruction service, then auction off all the assets and put that money into a fund dedicated to identifying and prosecuting identity theft, and making sure the other two credit reporting agencies stay up to date on their security.

Apparently… From what I have been told… Websites are old-fashioned, and younger generations (post Millennial) prefer apps over browsing the internet, especially on mobile.

Remember, Windows 11 is using an entire Skyrim worth of RAM at startup, usually even more than that, since 8GB is barely enough for Win11 these days, and Skyrim’s recommended RAM spec was 4 GB.

found a Windows 11 install USB I had in the back of a drawer.

next the updates. constant and slow. reboot after reboot as certain updates wouldn’t work unless a previous one was installed.

I mean, you kinda did that to yourself…

Obligatory Windows 11 is absolute trash.

Ignoring what?

Strange that you think “computer” must only mean “PC”.

Still 0/3 btw. Why don’t you quit while you are only this far behind?

My current “beater” laptop Is a Lenovo P71. Wouldn’t take Windows 11, so it got chucked in the recycle pile. I snagged it, provisioned a power supply and an SSD, and it runs like a dream with Linux. I like it enough, that I may even purchase a battery for it, so it doesn’t die when I move it around.

I don’t think that is an 8GB RAM issue. I had a client last year but a bunch of the new surface pros with ARM chips, and they had similar hangups with 16GB of RAM. Frankly, those things never worked “right”, and I think it’s a problem with how Windows emulates x86/x64 apps on them.

8GB of RAM is still not great for Windows 11, but I feel like it’s a separate issue.

Sure, a very small one, with a battery. My smartphone will charge off 5W.

I’ve got a mini Dremel that will charge off 5W USB. It ain’t gonna be fast, but it will definitely work.

You’re batting 0/3, still want to keep trying?

Wrong!

https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/devices/seeed-studio/sensecap/solar-node/

Runs on a 5W panel… So yes, a 30W panel can certainly do that.

Electric fire starter. Mesh nodes. Walkie talkies. Small computer with offline Wikipedia and Google maps. GPS may still be working for a while, so that would be useful to charge and use. Portable fans. MP3 player or other entertainment device. Camera. Small power tool batteries…

Yeah, in an apocalypse, a small about of electricity would be a luxury.

I’ve got an 8GB Windows 11 system for work, and I don’t have (many) issues with using that much RAM…

Mainly because I work from a virtual machine, and also because I had to aggressively trim down startup items to get enough capacity to get a remote desktop connection to work.

Window 11 is a fucking joke. XP worked better with 1/10th the compute power.