• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    deactivate Bing in taskbar search

    Stop, I can only get so erect.

    Who am I kidding, I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago, and haven’t had to deal with such bullcrap.

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      11 months ago

      I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago

      Ah the sweet smell of, “your computer is not ready for Windows 11. Find out what you can do.”

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      11 months ago

      Last week I ditched windows for linux on my last computer.

      And yesterday and today have been spent working fruitlessly to mod Baldur’s Gate 3.

      I cannot for the life of me figure out what’s going wrong. So far, I’ve gotten a grand total of zero mods to work. If I were still on Windows, I could use one of two or three separate mod managers.

      Sadly, this new laptop didn’t come with Windows 10, only 11. Which was what fueled the drive to ditch it for linux.

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          11 months ago

          Ah yeah, Lamp. I’ve not gotten it to work at all.

          As for Lutris, I tried both Vortex and the BG3ModManager. Couldn’t get either working.

          I even tried a straight wine install.

          So I’ve been forced to do mod entries by hand. And even that isn’t working, but at least I’ve stopped crashing the game.

          Fun fact about Lutris and BG3ModManager, apparently a recent update to Lutris broke compatibility. I’ve yet to track down which version, I’ve just seen posts on various forums from the last few weeks talking about it.

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        11 months ago

        You can download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft. Any version you like, if you use the command line interface.

        You can then use an open source bit of software to commercially license it. This is basically legitimate, for all intents and purposes. It’s how corporate licenses are done.

        A computer built for Windows 11 hardware should work just fine in Windows 10. You might not be able to use the official manufacturer’s drivers for certain bits, but the generic drivers should still work.

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        11 months ago

        Welcome to Linux, where simultaneously the forum “have you tried Linux?” people claims it works perfectly, and they’ve never once encountered an issue ever in their lifetime, and the rest of the users struggle with bullshit error after error that somehow miraculously don’t occur on the soapboxers’ machines

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        11 months ago

        There’s a github installer for mod organizer 2 on linux, which I use for modding skyrim. Maybe that would work for you as well?

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      11 months ago

      I just switched to Linux bcs I couldn’t stand the MS BS anymore. Lol. Plus my computer can’t even update to W11. So only so much longer till I’d need to do that anyways lol.

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        11 months ago

        There’s a good chance MS will have to extend their support for Windows 10 because of that. Either that, or they’ll have to make it easier for non-compliant hardware to run it.

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          11 months ago

          That would be nice. Granted at this point I find it hard to find a reason to switch. Just seems boring at this point. Lol. Like I use the Surface Pro 3 which isn’t supported… which I think at the very least they should try to make sure even their OWN older hardware is supported? Lol.

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      11 months ago

      The setting to disable Bing in search has existed since the feature has been added.

      If only you guys learned to look in the settings…

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      11 months ago

      Until you don’t get anymore updates and you are hacked and botnet infested.

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        11 months ago

        Security updates for Windows 10 are currently set to end in 2025. However, there is a strong possibility Microsoft will continue to support it, given that so much hardware cannot be directly upgraded to Windows 11 (it can be done, but not officially).

        You’re also saying that as if an up to date Windows 11 installation is the pinnacle of security. Last I checked (albeit I can’t remember the name of it), there was a very low level way of hacking out a Windows user’s password, one that Microsoft has no easy way of addressing. This is among any number of other zero days that are prevalent in such a widespread OS.

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        11 months ago

        Maybe the botnet will play League of Legends better then I do. Meanwhile it will have ‘mysterious power outages’ whenever I’m doing real work in Linux ;-)