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6 hours ago, Dixel said:
It seems you already decided to stay on Win10 long time ago and no matter what , so what's the point ?
I switched over to 10 before I had the correct judgement on making a decision. And even now, I still don't have that judgement. This whole post is to mainly discuss what options people have if they don't like Windows 10, or are confused on the decisions they previously made.
I want to be different than people, but I also don't at the same time. I think that what I have doesn't work, or doesn't do what I need it to do. I overthink what I am supposed to use as an OS, making it seem like its a bigger deal than it actually is. It is just an operating system, and I am making a big deal about it.
I also won't ignore how I reinstalled Windows 80 times in one year.
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Played Undertale recently and I am in love with the OST. (the site embedded the Spotify album.)
My favorite in this whole list is Hopes and Dreams.
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13 hours ago, TrevMUN said:
So, @Tonny52: look into the projects for your desired OS and see who's done what. Manage your expectations, but as Scienceman said, "don't give up using what you like just because someone told you to do so."
I know that Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and the really old versions of 10 like 1507 or 1511 are a no-go for me. I've been with modern Win10 for so long that I have gotten used to some of the features. Absolute oldest I could use would be 1607/1703 era. I'm just so stuck in the whole Windows 10 feature update dilemma, because I have been using it since release, that using something older just feels odd to me. I can do it, but not easily.
11 hours ago, comp_ed82 said:Windows 10 is pretty much the end of the line for me as far as m$ goes. Windows 11 will be a firm hell no on my LAN.
Luckily, I don't have ginormous screens, exotic interfaces or proprietary A/V capture devices that really run best on Windows, so I can abandon modern Windows for a mixture of legacy commercial OSes and FOSS OSes and software.
The issue with Windows 11 for me is that I just don't like it. I've thought about it like this. Essentially, Windows 10 is the OS that I used most. I have been using it more than I did 7, 8.1, and XP. So because of Windows 11, I am in a situation that many people were back in 2015. They wished that Windows 10 didn't exist, and I wish that Windows 11 didn't exist, but that is not possible. My two choices is to stay on Windows 10, or go to Windows 11 at some point. I don't want to do either of them. Now I am just hoping Linux becomes a player in my book in a few years.
10 hours ago, UCyborg said:They compute differently. Software I use by itself sets the bar to Win7 at bare minimum.
Because of my hardware, Windows 7 still supports a good amount of my stuff, but not well.
Essentially, I am stuck having to choose what I like about something I don't like. I don't want to keep using Windows 10 as it is.
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19041 has gone EOL as of Tuesday so I would say its safe to assume, as I said before many times, Aero Glass is dead. Project is dead. We need to move on and find alternatives.
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3 hours ago, UCyborg said:
But realistically, many things in our lives are outside of our control and one has to keep own sanity somehow.
But then the question is, if the answer is so simple, why do so many people out there still use something like XP or Vista? I don't have a problem with that, but it is a question worthy to ask.
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33 minutes ago, UCyborg said:
What I do is not let things I don't have direct control over consume my thoughts.
That is how I have been living with Win10 so far and have been considering moving up onto 11. Just don't think about the things that I don't like and everything will be fine...
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1 hour ago, Mr.Scienceman2000 said:
unfortunately companies do not want to give you that as it would reduce their profit and change to milk off their users.
I am playing Beamng on Windows 7 with Logitec wheel and have not had issues. I dumped discord long ago when it turned into nasty place. These days I am using Mumble or Teamspeak for voice comms and BBS/email for other comms.
Seems you are in school according what you said and I can say from experience that choosing what you will run as OS in college atleast can be hard. For me biggest issue was outlook web access school intra used and I needed intra to access any resources. It felt not work proper on anything. I actually had laptop I used exclusively for studies and had desktop machine at home for any personal work. Luckily those days are behind now.
Just don't give up using what you like just because someone told you to do so. I know it can be hard as young but do not let anyone tell you how to live. I did that mistake when was younger and it was bad idea but also learnt what I really wanted. Now I am running whatever I want and any critics saying it is stupid are redirected to special place called /dev/null.
I can probably use anything 1703 and newer. I don't like using 7 and 8.1 nowadays due to support and stuff, 1507, 1511 and 1607 have problems with me. I don't like explorer in 1709 and 1803. I don't entirely enjoy enablement packages. So that limits it to 1703, 1809, 1903, 2004, and ill add 21H2 into the mix. Linux is missing some useful features I use.
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3 hours ago, Mr.Scienceman2000 said:
1050 was multimedia card. And any cards under 1070 kinda felt lame to me. There was better ones in older gen that worked with XP and vista offically. 980ti swept floor with 1060, 970 or 980 were faster than 1050 or 1050ti with same vram (outside 970 ram bug). 960 and 950 are comparable to 1050ti and 1050 but like said work on older windows too.
For free those cards are very good but if you paid from 1000 series under 1070 was waste of money
I was also wondering did OP actually bought core i7 and cheaped out gpu for 1050? Feels like buying ferrari with fiat punto engine.
I haven't built a PC outright. It has just been upgraded over time. I use a GTX 970 now (the 1050 Ti is in my server) but at the time in 2018 I got the 1050 Ti because I couldn't afford much and I needed something better than a HD 6850.
The i7 came around when I had a 5700 XT last year, but I sold that card expecting that cards would become easier to come by, thinking I would have made a profit. Fortunately, that was not the case and I am stuck with those two cards for the foreseeable future. It runs bad, but I'm used to it now. I dealt with that for 8 years.
10 hours ago, Win10-Hater said:You said that Linux doesn't click in for you, but I'd recommend you to give Zorin OS 16 Core/Pro a try. I have been using it as my main OS for 3 months now and it is quite faster than Windows, safe, easy to use, easy to customize as per your liking, does not disturb you, while still being compatible with most Windows apps and games. I use Office 2010, Adobe Audition 1.5, Adobe Flash CS6 Portable, Photoshop CS5 Full and Open Rails, all of which work near-perfectly. Check this video made by Christopher Barnatt from ExplainingComputers who reviews Zorin OS.
The problem I have with Linux is that it does not feel like it has the UI effort that Windows barely has. Windows, still being a problem, for me feels more refined than a Linux DE like KDE, Gnome or these other derivatives of the main DEs. Plus, to do 50% of things, you need to go to the command line, and even then it takes a few hours to do. With Windows, I apply a registry key to map my user folders and thats it. Especially with how horrible NTFS support is on Linux (even with the new kernel driver in 5.15), by just shutting down the wrong way it gets marked as dirty and you need to boot into Windows to fix it without losing data.
4 hours ago, D.Draker said:New games are simply not possible with his current hardware. I read the OP has GTX 1050 , which was too weak , even at launch . So I'd say win 7 is the max OS that could make sense.
His 6 year old low budget card , very similar to GT950 . Even GTX960 would be faster , esp. 4GB vesrions . And I have GTX980 , new titles don't run well . Poor FPS. Not pleasant at all.
Hell , not only new , I started to notice poor FPS in 2017-2018.
At the time when I grabbed the 1050 Ti, it was miles ahead of my Radeon HD 6850 I was living with.
6 hours ago, Gansangriff said:Describe the tasks, that you expect your computer to do well.
Of course you'll have to shape your expectations somewhat around your OS. Brand new killer game performances on a Windows XP and Linux won't happen.
Is Windows 7 an option? Where do you bump into walls with that now, in 2021?
I want the OS to just work and have support. I don't want to have to keep fixing problems that happen just because they can (which happens to me with Linux) and I don't want to have to jump through hoops just to make the OS not so spyware (which is Windows 10). I didn't mind 10 back then because I was younger and didn't think much of it. Nowadays, I wish I could just go back to 2015, and not switch to 10 the day it came out.
What I have been thinking of doing is just plopping LTSC on every system I have. Not sure what LTSC because 2015 is a big no no from support, 2016 has update problems, 2019 is slowly falling into purgatory with support, and 2021 is hardly considered LTSC. I don't mind the Semi Annual Channel releases, the support length is long enough for me, but I just wish that there was one out there that was super duper slimmed down but also not to the point where stuff stops working. Interestingly, when I ran 10 on a MSFT account, with all the stupid stuff turned on, I had no problems. I only had problems when I realized how horrible that all was and started saying no. And don't forget, I mentioned that NVIDIA support on Linux is still not working well for me.
If you want to know in particular what I use my PC for, I use it for web browsing, playing games (Undertale, BeamNG Drive, Minecraft, Roblox, Detroit, etc, nothing much thats AAA), Discord, sometimes recording screen, managing my servers, doing school work. I don't use it for extreme gaming or extreme productivity. My laptop cannot run Windows 7 or 8.1 well. Read bio for my specs.
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Windows 10 sucks and continues to suck and same as Windows 11 and its spiral out of control. I had hope but was demonstrated the second time that hope doesn't matter. I hate 10 and I hate 11, Linux never clicks in for me and macOS is not possible. What do I even do? I just want to use my computer and not have to think about how the OS I am using sucks so much. I have somewhat considered just stripping the hell out of 1607 or something, installing that on every computer I have and just leaving it like that forever. I just know that may not be practical... What do you guys suggest as an OS that works, is somewhat supported, isn't from a while ago and isn't hell to use?
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I tried playing Celeste on the Vista extended kernel (Celeste supports Win7 minimum) and the error I got was exactly this:
"The procedure entry point BCryptDeriveKeyPBKDF2 could not be located in dynamic link library bcrypt.dll"
Any alternatives to this entry point?
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It's a DLL resource file in C:\Windows\Branding. you can use ResourceHacker to edit that to be whatever you want as long as it fits the same size.
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Windows 11 has officially been released to eligible Windows 10 systems and new computers today. You can find the MCT on Microsoft's site.
Support lengths go as:
Windows 11, 21H2 Home & Pro: October 10, 2023
Windows 11, 21H2 Enterprise & Edu: October 8, 2024You can download and install it on any PC right now, but to get it through Windows Update it may take a while and will only let you on compatible hardware. I'll be testing it on an 8250U with Bitlocker to see how the experience on the stable build goes.
This isn't really a beta software anymore, so I don't think it fits this part of MSFN.
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We are roughly 2 weeks until the release of Windows 11. On the day it comes out I will be testing it on my PC to see how it runs for me. Based currently, it just seems like a reskinned version of 10.
PC Health Check says my PC is 100% compatible, so that's nice at least. They added support for the 7th gen CPUs....but only for the Surface product that they are still selling. Classic. But whatever, if Microsoft will screw over your updates because your CPU is "affected by Spectre/Meltdown" when in reality it was only an issue to enterprises because a normal consumer wont notice any performance downsides from the Spectre/Meltdown patches.
I wish 11 was more of a decent upgrade to do like iOS 15 is. I am already on 15 and it runs pretty much the same as 14. Some improvements to notifications that I like too.
One thing I am excited to see though is how it runs compared to 1904x. 1904x has had many issues for me over the period of time it has been out so I am interested in seeing how 11 runs, and possibly use it later on depending on how my experience goes.
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I bought Celeste on the Microsoft Store so I could play it on my Xbox. There could be times where I am not on 16299 or later (for testing, experimenting, or just messing around) and I would like to be able to play it on versions before then. Is there a way to install the app forcefully? The Steam version and other ones run just fine all the way back to Windows 7.
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anything 1904x (2004, 20H2 and 21H1) has huge issues with integrity. It runs fine for the first month, then after a while it starts decaying with broken C++ and update histories disappearing. This is because 19041.1 was finalized in December 2019, making all those versions about 2 years old now, with almost 24 cumulative updates available.
Avoid 1607. Update system is extremely flawed and its more wasted time than anything.
1507 is possible but no .NET 4.8 so many apps don't work anymore. Same with 1511.
I would say 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903 or 1909 was the period of time where Windows 10 was actually looking somewhat OK.
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As Windows 8 killed off Aero support, we were still able to add it back.
Fortunately does not appear to be the same for the taskbar.
Open Shell does not hook correctly anymore and its possible it never will be. The taskbar was completely overhauled and is now UWP. Press F7 and you can find out. Action Center + Clock + Generic icons have been merged, removing the ability to hide certain ones you want to see which also kills off t-clock.
Not sure if these programs will be able to fix the issues, but if they aren't, they might as well be dead software at this point. DWM also has been overhauled with no sun in sight for bigmuscle to even get 2004 operating. As of right now, Aero, Classic start menus and customizable system trays are gone for good.
Also, Win11 is worse for multiple monitors. They removed the clock on secondary taskbars, which is something I heavily used and will not get used to not having it. It makes no sense to do so.
Windows 11 is just another release of disappointments and killed software.
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Appears that UUPDump fails to integrate the .51 update and leaves you with a weird leak + Win11 insider build of 22000.1. Missing some features but more similar to the leaked build. UUPDump sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't.
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I saw a video on youtube today and its honestly really true.
Makes me like the existence of forums like msfn nowadays, since most of the similar ones died out years ago.
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TPM 2.0 is a requirement on Microsoft's site now. TPM 1.2 is no longer sufficient.
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Yet, they may make older CPUs stopped installing in general in later insider builds.
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11 is now officially destroying a lot of computers. They updated the hardware requirements. TPM 2.0, UEFI and Secure Boot are now all REQUIRED to be enabled and on.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/windows-11-requirements
It's Vista all over again. Plus, they also mentioned that you must have a CPU in the supported processors list to run 11.
11 is officially having a worse announcement than 10.
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Now we have two things I absolutely hate. I am not upgrading to Sh**dows 11.
- Requirement of TPM 1.2 (which basically kills most computers older than 2014)
And now I present....
Microsoft misleading users!!!
Microsoft made a list of "supported" CPUs for Windows 11 when in reality they aren't the full supported list. They are misleading people into upgrading their PC because its "unsupported" even though its only from 5 years ago for more sales and in turn more product keys purchased. That is how they are gonna make money from this. There is no reason why Windows 11 wouldn't even run on a Core 2 Duo.
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30 minutes ago, ArcticFoxie said:
Centered taskbar!? YUCK! That's got APPLE written all over it!
Exactly. This seems like some sort of move to try and win back the XP and 7 users.
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What do we even do at this point?
in Windows 10
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I said 452 at the start because I was trying to remember how much it actually was. I checked my email and went by the amount of times that I was emailed from Steam saying I have logged into a new computer. I do that a lot, saying things are higher than they actually are. Blowing them out of proportions.
It probably has been 452, but not in one year, but more of maybe in the last decade. Win10 does still activate normally, though someone at MSFT probably thinks I am going crazy. I mainly keep reinstalling it because i'm like "oh but i want to use THIS" but then "this!!"; I can never make up my mind.
Oh yeah, upgrading your PC with Open Shell, uninstalling it, then rolling back bricks explorer. I've had this happen three times.