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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

BirryJoru posted:

If you want to avoid that poo poo don't use Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has spyware in it? oh jeez! but that was the Linux that i liked. it didnt make me learn any command lines, just pretty icons to click on like windows. and it just worked and didn't need any special configuration.

all those other Linux are really scary :ohdear:

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Khorne
May 1, 2002
I've been dodging win 8 updates for weeks. Did you know if you kill the update service it auto turns on every time a usb device is plugged in or when you close the lock screen?? Did you also know that sometimes it restarts windows instantly when one of these things happens, losing all unsaved data? It's a computer crime that windows has to restart for updates in the year 2016.

Rutibex posted:

Ubuntu has spyware in it? oh jeez! but that was the Linux that i liked. it didnt make me learn any command lines, just pretty icons to click on like windows. and it just worked and didn't need any special configuration.

all those other Linux are really scary :ohdear:
Pretty much every modern distro that isn't exclusively for giant nerds or servers has all that stuff.

Linux is pretty easy to use and has been for ages unless you have some exotic hardware, like any amd/ati graphics card, because if you thought their windows drivers were a nightmare then boy you have another thing coming with linux.

You can also just naively google any poo poo you don't know how to do and it has nice little copy paste worthy answers if you run into anything difficult.

Khorne fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Apr 7, 2016

Locker Room Zubaz
Aug 8, 2006

:horse:
~*~THE SECRET OF THE MAGICAL CRYSTALS IS THAT I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE~*~

:horse:
Fun fact, Apple doesn't track you and they take privacy more serious than any other tech company so maybe you should reevaluate what companies you support if you actually value privacy

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

Applewhite posted:

Windows 7 was the perfect windows they finally got it exactly right and then realized no one would ever need to buy their product again. A product you only need to buy once is bad for business.
Windows 98 2nd edition compiled with the /opt:win98 switch on all dependencies from the get-go basically would have been as good for conventional desktop application loading and responsiveness as everyone getting modern SSDs in 1999 (as opposed to their 20% adoption rate, today). There is 0% likelihood that MS software engineers were unaware of this. The consequences of this would have been marginally better adoption of Win 98 2nd and abysmal adoption of every successive version of Windows that can't come close to that level of improvement. Limiting increments of improvement really is key.

KakerMix
Apr 8, 2004

8.2 M.P.G.
:byetankie:

Locker Room Zubaz posted:

Fun fact, Apple doesn't track you and they take privacy more serious than any other tech company so maybe you should reevaluate what companies you support if you actually value privacy

Apple can't play my anime porn video games so get owned Jobbers

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK
Jan 26, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Locker Room Zubaz posted:

Fun fact, Apple doesn't track you and they take privacy more serious than any other tech company so maybe you should reevaluate what companies you support if you actually value privacy

Apple is nancyboy poo poo for california homos. No thank you

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer

gary oldmans diary posted:

Windows 98 2nd edition compiled with the /opt:win98 switch on all dependencies from the get-go basically would have been as good for conventional desktop application loading and responsiveness as everyone getting modern SSDs in 1999 (as opposed to their 20% adoption rate, today). There is 0% likelihood that MS software engineers were unaware of this. The consequences of this would have been marginally better adoption of Win 98 2nd and abysmal adoption of every successive version of Windows that can't come close to that level of improvement. Limiting increments of improvement really is key.

This seems like one of those "ford killed the water powered car" myths

drunk dog
Apr 6, 2014

Resident Millennial
think i got reported itt mods?

e

drunk dog posted:

for the sake of gbs i hope it does

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot
Windows 10 installed automatically on both my laptop and desktop this month, it made me mad but now I'm over it.

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
I don't own a computer

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

vols bitch posted:

I don't own a computer

- sent from my iphone

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

waaaah waaaah change is scary and I'm a big poopy baby waaaah :qq:

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

loquacius posted:

waaaah waaaah change is scary and I'm a big poopy baby waaaah :qq:

Hurr durr baffle boffle Ads on my start menu? Yes please! I want to be kept up to date on the latest bargains! *farts so hard that poo poo comes out*

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!
windows 7 is the point where microsoft should have transitioned to windows as a service. The only end user visible improvement of windows 10 on existing PCs is being able to snap windows to quarter screens, and the only additional relevant improvement on new PCs is more up-to-date drivers.

After windows 7 is when microsoft ran out of good ideas and started breaking poo poo again.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

loquacius posted:

waaaah waaaah change is scary and I'm a big poopy baby waaaah :qq:

Imagine actually thinking this is a good post

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Like, really consider for a second, that there's a person out there that looked at that post and went "yes, this is something people will want to read and think is humorous."

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

CJacobs posted:

Imagine actually thinking this is a good post

change for the sake of improvement is good

change for the sake of becoming shittier is not good

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

CJacobs posted:

Like, really consider for a second, that there's a person out there that looked at that post and went "yes, this is something people will want to read and think is humorous."

It's funny because, like all good jokes, it has an element of truth to it.

Applewhite posted:

Hurr durr baffle boffle Ads on my start menu? Yes please! I want to be kept up to date on the latest bargains! *farts so hard that poo poo comes out*

Wow, that's a thing that happens? It didn't happen to mine.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Wow, that's a thing that happens? It didn't happen to mine.

Fart harder next time.

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK
Jan 26, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

drunk dog posted:

think i got reported itt mods?

e

Good :twisted:

Popular Human
Jul 17, 2005

and if it's a lie, terrorists made me say it
I told it I didn't want to upgrade and my computer stopped bugging me for a few months. Then a week or two ago, it started up again in overdrive - and coincidentally, my copy of Win 7 started getting really buggy out of nowhere.

I ended up dual-booting Win 7 and Linux Mint just as a stopgap while I figured out how to make Windows 10 never upgrade on my PC, but honestly other than occasionally hopping back to Windows to play some Rocksmith or help my friend edit his Let's Play videos I haven't felt the need to leave Mint. It does pretty much everything I want it to do, and it's way faster and less bloated than Windows 7 was.

Installing my Nvidia drivers was kind of a bitch, but then I remember when I did a clean reboot of Windows 7 a year or two ago I had to hunt down drivers on a different computer for my ethernet adapter and sound card just to be able to connect to the internet, lol. Linux literally did everything except the graphics card for me.

Popular Human fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Apr 7, 2016

Marta Velasquez
Mar 9, 2013

Good thing I was feeling suicidal this morning...
Fallen Rib

Professor Shark posted:

Siri, I need you to find the widest, phattest... oh Siri, you know me so well! :kiddo::love:

Applewhite posted:

Be careful what you wish for...


oh Siri, you know me so well! :kiddo::love:

MC Hawking
Apr 27, 2004

by VideoGames
Fun Shoe
I've noodled with most of the links here to prevent a win10 upgrade but insofar as I've experienced the following link is the only way to actually keep it from happening.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351

Yeah you'll have the little gwx.exe running most of the time but the popup only happens when you reboot which is good enough for me.

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


Locker Room Zubaz posted:

Fun fact, Apple doesn't track you and they take privacy more serious than any other tech company so maybe you should reevaluate what companies you support if you actually value privacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
Capabilities>DROPOUTJEEP

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

CJacobs posted:

Like, really consider for a second, that there's a person out there that looked at that post and went "yes, this is something people will want to read and think is humorous."

I know, the OP really is a pile of poo poo

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!

King Gonorrhea posted:

Didn't read the whole thread, but it seems some of you are going to extraordinary lengths to prevent updating. To permanently stop all notifications and 10-proof your Windows 7, just rollback a very specific automatic update:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-stop-windows-10-upgrade-downloading-your-system

Followed these steps myself back when the popups first started appearing and haven't heard a peep since.

This is good poo poo.

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'



Does Mossad get to order from this catalog too? Asking for a friend.

Boinks
Nov 24, 2003



I'd love to try Apple out but they don't make skinny jeans big enough and I've never been in a Starbucks in my life.

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK
Jan 26, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

loquacius posted:

I know, the OP really is a pile of poo poo

Actually, I'm cool.

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


Best Giraffe posted:

Does Mossad get to order from this catalog too? Asking for a friend.

Only the NSA & ants.

Meowbot
Oct 12, 2005

I havent had a plrecription for my eyes in years so the other day I went and got a new one and it hasnt changed. The doctor was like why havent you seen us in 4 years? I told them im scared of op tomietris when the air shoots into your eyes and dilation. They told me my eyes cold get worse....
people who stay on windows 7 are idiots

oh no, a newer better operating system that does everything better and increases my productivity and enjoyment ofm y life is being given away to me for free, better uninstall it and hide inside of a rock like a scorpion in a yard except this time you have no tree to crawl into my open mouth at night and lay your scorfpion eggs mother fuckar

why not get windows 10? its like someone syaing want a blow job and ur like no im not interested in cool stufff

Meowbot
Oct 12, 2005

I havent had a plrecription for my eyes in years so the other day I went and got a new one and it hasnt changed. The doctor was like why havent you seen us in 4 years? I told them im scared of op tomietris when the air shoots into your eyes and dilation. They told me my eyes cold get worse....
my co worker worked at microsoft and he would sit there with his fat laughter and always tell me how stupid windows 10 is and brag about he gets all of his things with rebates so it took him about 2 years to get an i5 computer which bench marked about as good as a squid on a hot day lol

turns out he just got on windows 10 and all the guys at the office are like "ooh windows 10" because we work at a software company and it only took 2 loving idiot managers who upgraded to windows 10 to convince 200+ people that hey windows 10 is actually REALLY good but nope lets stick with antiquated windows 7 that doesnt even do anything right anymore I downgraded to windows 7 because I was bored and I was like well this is dumb and immediately went back to windows 10 its like if you are drinking a orange soda from mcdonalds and when you leave the cup overnight in your car and the next day you go to pick it up and woops the bottom fell out and you get sticky orange soda all over the cup holder and it takes almost an entire roll of paper towels to clean up so someone reminds you you could have used a towel and not paper towels since they aren't as good as abosrding fluid as an actual towel and you feel kind of silly but someone had to clean up the orange soda and when itgets hotter the heat only makes it more sticky and if you left any coins in the middle console due to the stickiness when you try to pick them up they all stick together so you have a lot of coins all stuck together and you can't really use them for anything until you place them in a jar of hot water or even vinegar to break down all the sticky stuff offf but then the coins look like they are all hosed up but they don't really have a vaslue any way, they are just coins.

Meowbot
Oct 12, 2005

I havent had a plrecription for my eyes in years so the other day I went and got a new one and it hasnt changed. The doctor was like why havent you seen us in 4 years? I told them im scared of op tomietris when the air shoots into your eyes and dilation. They told me my eyes cold get worse....
I feel kind of bad about the part where I said people who dont upgrade to windows 10 and stay on windows 7 are idiots, I didnt mean to offend anyone with that post and I would edit it and delete it but I am a new man now and I don't delete mistakes I only fix mistakes like a real man not a coward.

so if you are on windows 7, you aren't an idiot ,but i strongly encourage you to upgrade to windows 10 if you want OTHERS to not consider you an idiot ... merely looking out for my fellow gons

Oh Don Piano
Nov 4, 2009
Fascinating

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Meowbot posted:

I feel kind of bad about the part where I said people who dont upgrade to windows 10 and stay on windows 7 are idiots, I didnt mean to offend anyone with that post and I would edit it and delete it but I am a new man now and I don't delete mistakes I only fix mistakes like a real man not a coward.

so if you are on windows 7, you aren't an idiot ,but i strongly encourage you to upgrade to windows 10 if you want OTHERS to not consider you an idiot ... merely looking out for my fellow gons

I can see why you got fired from first line IT support.

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

Ok it started the upgrade while my computer was sleeping lol.....RIGHT BEFORE A BIG DEADLINE!!!!!!! Wtf.............

this happened to me constantly during finals recently, it happened repeatedly because windows updates were so broken so it would try to upgrade, fail to upgrade, take forever to revert updates, and then try again a day or two later with no option to stop. Someone deserves to be fired over this, or killed maybe

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

I have never once gotten one of these upgrade popups or 'offers' and feel entirely validated in just leaving Windows Update off unless there's a problem now

Police Automaton
Mar 17, 2009
"You are standing in a thread. Someone has made an insightful post."
LOOK AT insightful post
"It's a pretty good post."
HATE post
"I don't understand"
SHIT ON post
"You shit on the post. Why."
I've been dual booting for a long time because gaming is just not a thing in Linux and will probably never be. Even games made with multi-platform engines like Unity have usually various problems in Linux which the developers either don't care to fix or don't know how to fix. With my new computer, I've planned the hardware accordingly that I can run Windows in a VM and pass a graphics card through. As most games and even lots of general usage apps don't really lean on a modern CPU at all anyways these days this works actually really well and the general speed of software (mostly games) is basically as if I would run Windows directly. Besides being incredibly comfortable for me (no dual booting anymore, Windows is basically one command away and can be shut down just as quick while I'm able to just keep doing stuff in Linux concurrently) I can also restrict access of the VM or cut it off the internet altogether. With a proper setup you could for example whitelist steam servers and just let the linux host block everything else. Also, different OS images for different uses. It's a really nice setup.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

loquacius posted:

waaaah waaaah change is scary and I'm a big poopy baby waaaah :qq:

Yeah I hate when my devices don't work because Microsoft is using idiots to test out their new version of something that's already pretty great

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Uxzuigal
Jan 16, 2013

Chill Berserker Dude

Applewhite posted:

Youtube is blocked at work ever since the "Toilet Shoes" incident.

I need to hear more about this.

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