In my view, this is unacceptable…
They changed my background (previously there was a default blue window), placed an icon in the bottom corner of the screen that read “Learn more about this photo”, and re-added the search bar that I had previously removed.
Fortunately, I don’t have to deal with this on a daily basis.
Dont say it… dont say it… dont saaaayyyy iiiiitt!!!
Have you considered Linux Mint?
Damn… sorry… was I the first to suggest it this time?
You were, but it appears OP is running Windows in a VM on Linux.
I already use Fedora Linux, and this Windows is in a virtual machine because sometimes my school requires me to use software that simply doesn’t run on Linux
That’s where Windows belongs now, in a VM.
“what is my purpose?”
“you stay in a vm until i need to update my mouse firmware”
In a VM, in a box, at the bottom of the sea.
*Gnome Boxes
I bought a cheap laptop for school just to run their windows anti cheat crap. Do you have to run something similar?
Fortunately, no. My school expects me to use XAMPP (a LAMP stack) and Microsoft Office applications like Word, Access, and Excel.
While in the case of LAMP, I can install the individual services (Apache, PHP, MySQL) myself from command line, Microsoft Office applications won’t work like that.
I guess I should count myself lucky everything is expected in be turned in as a PDF and Google docs is used for everything else. The anticheat recognizes it’s running on a VM and throws and error.
Use Libreoffice where you can and just open it up in Word to verify
They’re trying to tell you to go outside
Oh, didn’t you know? It’s not really your PC any longer.
Fortunately, it’s actually mine, cuz I use Fedora with Gnome, which doesn’t do these magic tricks 😁
The PC might be yours, but that virtual machine is Microsoft’s little bitch
I actually enjoy playing with Windows and Active Directory. I think it is ahead in terms of management and needing hacky workarounds
I use FreeIPA and it works just fine for everything I would need AD for. Your point still stands. I just mean there are good enough alternatives for the Linux environment.
there isn’t active directory for linux?, actually what active directory do diferently?
You absolutely can join Linux machines to AD. You just don’t have the same power that group policy gives you.
what group policy gives that unix filesystem permissions don’t?, i really don’t know, and i don’t have a windows machine to test :b
I used to use Fedora on my Asus gaming laptop, and loved it. More recently I’ve chosen to switch over to Manjaro, because I wanted something based on Arch that was more lightweight than Garuda. Gotta love that Linux life.
Have you tried reborn or endeavor?
I tried EndeavourOS, but it didn’t fully support my hardware like Manjaro does
Interesting. I’ve only had one system that had hardware issue with any of them. And it was of course the finger print reader. Though I suppose it could be a WiFi issue.
I guess Lemmy is mostly tech nerds like myself, but it’s still cool as hell to see another Fedora user around :)
Tricks are something Microsoft does for money.
Coo-coo-ka-cha!
Or candy.
Owning your computer is an ILLUSION
your PC
are they going to backronym PC now that the P can’t possibly stand for PERSONAL
Well yea, you turned off the windows search/Cortana/Bing bar, but now it’s called copilot/recall bar which you haven’t turned off yet.
/S
Soon I won’t have to anymore. This is the last Windows virtual machine I have that sometimes I have to use 😀
I have a virtual machine with WinXP and one with 98, for when I’m feeling nostalgic :)
Sorry to hear you have to use Windows… I’m still stuck on 10 but I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Mint Xfce and I’ll complete the move soon enough!
How would one go about setting up a win 98 at this point? Do you need an ISO of it already, or can you find that somewhere for that specific use?
I ask because I have a game that I want to play for nostalgia reasons (it’s a kids game from waaay back, but I remember it fondly, and I bet I’d do a touch better now) but I can’t get it to play in any compatibility mode or anything. It just flat refuses to launch.
You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I’m not sure about the legality of it, so I’ll say I don’t condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn’t care.
Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I’ve seen.
Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!
At some point M$ allowed the free download of something called “Windows XP Mode for Windows 7”. It was some virtual machine or something. What matters is that it’s possible to extract an XP ISO from this, which I have successfully used to spin up a virtual machine! It still complains about a license key, though.
The reason I mention this is that this is still available on archive.org, and it’s signed by M$, so you know it’s legit. I don’t know if other ISOs available have such a receipt of authenticity. Probably, but I never cared enough to check, especially since I grabbed this from the official website while it was available.
For operating systems https://winworldpc.com/library is easier to find things in and has way faster download speeds
Have you tried React OS?
Is this via a VM on a Mac?
Not macOS, this is Linux with a macOS-like theme.
Easy tell, macOS has the window buttons on the left, and most Mac apps no longer have a full screen button on the title bar. That’s what the green button does, which is also in the wrong place in this screenshot.
God I’m a nerd.
I mean it’s pretty easy to tell that it’s just gnome with different icons if you’re ever used linux. doesn’t even look that much like mac
oh god maybe I’m a nerd too
It even did the same thing with enterprise customers. All our machines suddenly started asking us to enable search. Like why do I need another thing when opening the Start Menu and typing is the same fucking thing?? And to fuck with my group policies and undo the customization I had is mega infuriating.
Test updates before deploying
They didn’t say they deployed it, also enterprise operating systems are generally expected to not suddenly change manually-set policies for users…
This is why you should not trust them regarding Recall. They will not let it go. It will be forced on you eventually.
don’t look now but they’ve probably installed a new version to Teams along with everything else, lol
But the old one will still be installed so you will just repeatedly get popups to switch
I have two versions of Teams installed on my work PC. The regular old Teams that is apparently not long for this world anymore. And New Teams, which is exactly the same as old teams but on a different tech stack (?) That will replace the old one. MS has lost the plot, they have somehow a worse product management than Google.
It was for legal reasons. They split personal teams and work teams to try to dodge an antitrust iirc
Someone else in another thread I read recently, I think they worked for Microsoft at some point, said that it’s due for different departments all competing for corporate attention. Doing the big new thing to keep their job. Rather than just fine tuning for performance or longevity. Something like that.
There’s a third Teams
Teams Classic
Teams NEW
Teams Personal
Time to switch to Windows 11 as Microsoft is going to make your experience as bad as possible
If you need Windows I would create Samba AD DC and then join the machine to the domain. From there you can configure it with group policy
You can set group policy on an individual windows PC without the need for an active directory domain controller
True but the AD can be useful for other things and is separate from the install
I’m struggling to think of anything that a domain controller would be useful for in a single computer setup which wouldn’t be better served by an alternative tool. What are you thinking?
I like to split the roles into separate VMs. I have a few VMs joined to the domain and I can house all the configs and user profiles on the DC. If I need to blow away a machine for whatever reason I do not need to recreate work. I just create a new VM and then join the domain. All the group policy tweaks apply and I don’t need to manually change settings.
This sounds way beyond what the average user would need, most people just want a single windows PC to play video games on or to use Photoshop. It’s fun to mess around with it and it’s good to learn if you work in IT but almost nobody who is just a regular home user would benefit from having an AD DC.
Hey, got a link to the wallpaper for your main OS? Not the windows one, the red and black one we see part of in the image. Thanks!
It’s one of the Gnome default wallpapers
Poor you!
Yeah, I don’t view changing your desktop background when you were using the default as an issue lol.
The fact Microsoft keeps re-enabling features users are disabling isn’t something to just ignore. Imagine if they were the silently turn on a feature like Recall.
Never happened on my systems. And I oversee >200 systems.
This screams the microsoft diashow feature for the background. Those (at times) rarely change and OP probably applied the wallpaper by right-clicking a picture instead of changing it from the settings and that’s at best a bug because Windows didnt notice you set the wallpaper from a different part of the system…I was mostly referring to the search bar and I’ve seen multiple people report Microsoft updates reverting settings.
Microsoft reverting settings never happened to me as well.
Might be US (or non-EU) users getting shafted as per usual.
I agree with you here. As soon as you change something, that should be respected but as long as you use the default theme/wallpaper/… that could just as well mean that you prefer tracking the default or don’t care at all.
Now bringing back the explicitly disabled search bar really is atrocious
I do, it’s userspace. Expectation is that they keep their paws away after user set it up.
If someone didn’t explicitly choose to use the default then they didn’t set it up. They were just using the default.
Yeah, and that’s where the OS vendor shouldn’t meddle anymore.
Ooooh, so meddlesome, the default desktop background changed, big corpo is coming for you. Come on, we shouldn’t mix actually valid complaints with stupid stuff like this. OP specifically mentioned the search bar thing that they turned off. That’s valid. Forgive me if I don’t see the problem with changing the default desktop background, something that literally all OSes and Desktop Environments do fairly regularly that nobody raises a fuss about.
VirusOS
VirOS
That one was programmed by Vir Cotto, and Lennier
Why do you subject yourself to this? Cast off your chains, become a free $USER.
It’s clearly a VM
Shh you’re no fun.
Because it’s not our fucking choice, you imbecile. Corporate does as corporate wants. I can’t install your precious penguin on my work machine, okay??!
Skill issue, get a better job.
All it did to you was cosmetic.
Windows 10’s “feature” updates consistently also re-enable the “fast startup” option on my machine when they install. Which, on my particular motherboard and SSD combination, causes Windows to take about 30 minutes to boot when left enabled for reasons I have never been able to comprehend. A regular cold boot only takes like 20 seconds, so… I definitely tend to notice when it does this behind my back yet again.
It also does it so that you no longer hit the bootloader. My one last dual boot machine is normally a Linux setup, but every so often I have to use the real MS Office tools (some collaborator or publisher demands it), so I boot windows. Then windows patches and stops actually hitting grub so it acts like a windows only machine until I fix whatever Microsoft fucks up yet again.
It’s time to move to a VM for this garbage. I just don’t neet it more than once every other year so I never seem to get around to nuking it.
How’s gaming on Linux working out lately? I have a newer Windows 11 machine and looking to jump ship, asap.
Still no good if you play about 70% of games with an anticheat. Outside of that it’s fine if you’re willing to put up with general Linux issues
Rule of thumb: If your game has kernel-level anticheat, it probably won’t work. If your game doesn’t have any anticheats, there’s a 95% chance it will work on Linux.
Ive been 100% linux since 2016, and while there are some pain points, the games that work, work amazingly well.
I have epic games, gog, steam games all working through launchers that work pretty perfectly. The biggest pain points are developers with intrusive anticheats.
Check the games you/your friends play against protondb.com or areweanticheatyet.com before committing yourself.
It’s really good. Proton works great for everything over tried to play. It’s pretty amazing actually
My favorite part is how it broke the Intel wifi card during my Linux install until I booted back into windows just to turn fast boot off. Maybe some hackery to skip initializing wifi hardware or something?
Dude, you enlighten me, that happened to me too but it was during the time I jumped between win and Linux and one day did the wifi card just stop working and I couldn’t figure out why, I tried many things without luck but some days it magicaly worked again and I haven’t been in windows since and have never had that problem again. I don’t know if I turned off fast boot (but I have done that many times so it is likely), so it could have been an update that turned it on. I will remember this if it happens to someone or myself again. Thank you!
Just passing the tourch I guess. A random post on the archlinux forum saved me and I’m glad sharing my experience helps someone else.
They’ve absolutely gone mad with power
Isn’t this just normal Windows behaviour? I feel like I’ve been reading these kinds of posts forever.
