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binarin · 12 days ago
For my personal computers I was actually buying Windows licenses up to and including Windows 10, but now I switched to alternative acquisition methods again, and mostly run Windows in VMs with GPU pass-through and disabled networking. Just an honest relationship - they don't respect me, I don't respect them.

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rspoerri · 12 days ago
The good thing about Windows 11 requiring TPM is, that's the easiest way to prevent an unintentional upgrade. Typically you can disable TPM in the bios and prevent the OS from updating itself . Which i did as soon as i heard about that requirement :-)
ryandvm · 12 days ago
Wild to me that a company can work on a product for twenty years, have multiple releases, and not have made any significant improvements to it beyond updated hardware support.

Like, y'all could just do a 25th Anniversary Edition of Windows 2000 and people would go ape shit for it.

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LorenDB · 12 days ago
The "location override" feature that the author complains about does not allow apps to access location even when it's turned off. Instead, it gives apps a way to change your reported location; e.g. Remote Desktop can change your reported location to match the remote computer you're accessing.
snozolli · 12 days ago
The Windows 11 Explorer titlebar is always colored depression-gray

One of the most baffling aspects of modern Windows is that it's ridiculously hard to tell at a glance which window is active. It used to be that the active window's title bar was bright blue, and everything else was gray. These days, I have two 2560x1440 monitors, which was unimaginable back in the day, and regularly fail to identify which window is active.

Also, the modern Alt-Tab popup often takes two full seconds to appear on my machine. I can't even imagine how they managed that.

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