For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait
Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???
The enshittification of Windows continues apace.
Hahaha!
Actually, I use the search bar a lot to find programs
Find programs to download using bing?
Everything I type on the search bar on Windows 10 gives priority on bing and never local, even if I type regedit.exe
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What else
You didn’t read that pop-up above the search bar asking if it should stay disabled or not?
Almost like Windows caters to the average user, who might have disabled the search bar accidentally and doesn’t know how to turn it back on …
main issue is that it’s “i changed the setting and this is your only chance to cancel it”, dismissing this will agree to the change
OP doesn’t read Italian /s
So it wasnt just me that got the bar renabled
The Kingdom of Torvalds beckons.
I use Linux for my daily driver. It has really come a long way even in the last five years, but especially compared to 10-15 years ago. For the most part, stuff just works out of the box.
My ONLY beef is that many of the games I play (Civ 5, Banished, Sins of a Solar Empire, Frostpunk) are not stable and/or have performance issues under Linux, so I occasionally need to boot into Windows. For example Civ 5 works great until around 20 turns in when the lag between turns grows unbearable. That really sucks in multiplayer.
I am so blessed that all the games I want to play run great or at least fine on Linux. I wouldn’t want to have to go back to Windows.
Yeah I just want to be clear – Linux has come a LONG way with gaming. If anyone tried it a few years ago and just gave up in frustration, give it another try now. It is MASSIVELY better.
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Could it be possible to place a read-only dummy .exe in its place? I think FS attributes should be respected by the update process.
They ought to be. You might have to change ownership of the file to some other local user (and disable permission inheritance for that file so admin can’t touch it), but I bet this would work for most use cases except like a system restore.
isn’t WINE for running windows only stuff on linux? or is the software you use actually utilizing some windows specific API?
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absolutely agree on that last part. but yeah, apparently valve really accelerated the development of those translation layers for the steam deck.
For regular gaming experiences, WINE and Proton are brilliant. For some .NET stuff it’s still lacking. On WINE, MusicBee for example lacks proper CJK font redirection and dragging the tabs on it causes MusicBee to throw errors. You might also run into issues gaming if you have certain setups + controllers too.
.NET stuff
Have you tried using mono? It does winforms by now though apps doing direct Win32 API calls (bypassing the actual .NET stuff) are iffy no matter what.
For some .NET stuff it’s still lacking.
.NET runs natively on Linux now. so newer apps should work fine unless they’re using Windows-specific APIs. For the legacy .NET Framework 4.x, they should work in Mono.
Ooshutup is wonderful
Yup. I just re-started since it had been quite few days since my laptop had a reboot and boom I was shown this.
Like c’mon, even LTSC is Targetted with such BS, then I’m not sure wtf is going with W11.
For the 26482747th time,
Install Linux. Get rid of the microshit malware
windows is malware
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r/redditmoment
O&O shutup 10, get it and use it, you’ll love your windows machine once you disable the bullshit
Is the source code available for that anywhere? I wasn’t able to find it after a quick look over the website.
Just search “O&O shutup 10” exactly like it is in the quotations
Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???****
because you dont own your pc. microfrost does
The OS, not the PC.
If you own a Microsoft product the technical own your balls, read the fine print
I should ask my friend in IT about this to confirm.
Just ask him to return your balls
Bad news. He won’t. :(
This is the real reason programmers are pushing Rust so hard.
With the borrow semantics you have a much better idea who owns your balls than traditional reference models where everyone downstream thinks they own them.
The os controls the PC. As long as it’s running it’s controlling it
if you refer to the hardware as “PC” then you are wrong, the OS utilizes the hardware and uses it. it cannot destroy it, and even if it could by using a lot of resources, “controlling” is the wrong word here. Microsoft owns the OS, not your computer and/or its hardware
control is the perfect word for it. they control the hardware. doesnt mean necessarily that they can break it but they can do anything physically possible with it.
I am sure they just replaced the gpo with another one and accidentally forgot to carry over the setting.
They new one is totally better though and will improve your experience. You should configure it.
Windows: You will use Bing. Resistance is futile.
Me running ClassicShell/OpenShell since Windows 8:
