Today i had a segfault that basically froze my entire machine. I was just running some downloads and browsing and all of a sudden i couldn’t open, minimize, raise, or close anything.
Linux users just watching the chaos like it’s a movie 🍿
Just made the jump. No regrats
until the age verification brick hits you in the head
Question. Does it even matter, because a LOT of people (majority of humans, even babies) have their name and picture all over the internet that the AI has scraped and knows everything about you. Why would an age verify even matter? If you buy anything with credit card they have you got already.
I’m all for privacy but let’s be honest, unless you lived under a rock for the last 25 years, they know who and where you are and everything you like and dont.
That being said, the hard one for me will be when fb pushes it because I love marketplace, and also every one of my friends and family only use fb. If I quit it I’ll basically have no one.
It’s the implementation (such as in UK) requiring government ID, making it sound more like blatant data collection.
I’m honestly not the best person to talk about this. But also not every user in a website/social media has to buy something, hence not everyone has ever given their payment info.
But from tiny bit reading on recent essay on the lobbyist of the OS-level age verification law, being Facebook behind it, they kind of want to offload this work to OS so that they themselvs (social media services) don’t be the one who does this, apparently because that may violate some regulation. I don’t remember the details sorry.
As for the motives, why’s everyone suddenly obssessed with verifying everyone’s age since 2025, who knows. But I do have concern that prosecuting critics on the internet will be easier if everyone is well profiled.
I will not use those services. I think im willing to give up any service except email. And if Im forced, I guess I will identify for email since its critical to have. But its all ridiculous and part of building dystopia.
What’s crazy is all this can be disabled in Windows by a power user or enthusiast, but they don’t want to, so they want to move to linex, an operating system designed for power users
What’s crazy is that everything a power user does to disable these things gets UNDONE with the next windows update.
A real power user wouldn’t waste their time with that added maintenance of re-disabling things.
I haven’t had a problem with everything staying off, except one drive turning back on which was annoying but took 5 secs to turn it off again.
Proving the point, it’s a never ending battle with windblowz
I haven’t had this problem except for when I did.
Have a great day
Yeah that overly reductive version of his response is mega cope.
But wouldnt you always need to check, that those settings keep the way you want them? I heard that windows sometimes resets some of those settings.
Yes I’ve had one drive turn itself back on before. Annoying.
Yes. I hate it. If anyone has a good CAD/CAM package for Linux I’ll jump ship in a heartbeat.
Should probably also add that the amount of time I’ve spent rifling through the event viewer, task scheduler, and registry editor has skyrocketed in the past few years.
I don’t know whether it counts as good, but FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are going concerns
Talk to your PC is basically what cortana was
I’m still salty that they killed Cortana. For the short period between being released full-featured and MS gimping it hard in my region, it was the best assistant out of the bunch, by far.
All they had to do was add the option to add the capabilities of Copilot to the existing system and they’d have an actually killer feature.
You forgot forced microsoft account.
And “Age verification”
And “Telemetry”
It’s wild that
peoplepoliticians think they’re going to legislate linux into age verification – as if the community isn’t half DIY techies who’d sooner set up shop in international waters than change their preferred settings.LOL telling the people who created the Darknet that you’re going to control what they do with their computers
If you don’t take 30 seconds to look up the bypass on install. If you’re capable of switching to Linux it’s hardly forced in any way that matters.
On that topic. Weren’t they going to get rid of the oobe bypass nro thing? I reset a computer the other day and it still worked.
If I recall right, they were getting rid of one older unsupported way to do that, but multiple news outlets misread it as getting rid of the ability to bypass at all and then the story got spread from there.
Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.
How it started
How it’s going
Hello? Hello computer! Hello?!
I do feel sorry for them, but they can only lift themselves up. I can’t really do anything to help. Linux has never been easier to set up than today. But it will always be a bit of a hurdle to make the switch.
AI is slowly getting inside the Linux ecosystem (At the top of my head:
Some contributions to Kwinand the entire Lutris controversy). Let’s enjoy making fun of Win 11 until we can’t.Edit: When I said Kwin I was referring to this https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-HDR-KWin-Claude-Code Sorry.
That’s not the same at all though. Complaining about AI “features” being shoved down users throat, and AI being used by developers are very different things.
Both can be complained about, absolutely, but they are completely different things.
If Microsoft was using all artisanal human written code to deliver all the AI crap, I wouldn’t be complaining about it any less.
Right. Productivity tools, like AI or bloated frameworks, can both lead to mountains of slop. I don’t reactively take issue with AI, especially if it eventually produces better work, but I will always choose the more transparent approach. I take umbrage with deceit and will stay away from systems that seem to be careening toward manipulation and more hierarchical, gatekeeping bullshit.
We all need to contend with the possibility that these intelligent systems become far better than most people and adapt accordingly. It doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice our FOSS ideals, if that applies to you.
Though, I completely understand the reactivity, as we watch many peoples’ life trajectories become financially irrelevant, and the oligarch’s prime the population for a return to manual labor, while dangling that utopian carrot.
Good point
TBH I’m very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I’m just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn’t let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I’m reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.
Some contributions to Kwin
Link please
I was referring to this https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-HDR-KWin-Claude-Code
My fault, it was code for the AMDGPU driver.
Let’s enjoy making fun of Win 11 until we can’t.
Yes, for sure.
But we will eventually clean up our AI slop code mistakes. I’m not so sure if Microslop will or not. It might not be profitable.
Also, the good thing of open source software is that anyone can clean off any bullshit code.
But can you clean it up faster than AI can create new bullshit code?
If some idiot don’t automatically add AI slop and the developer have the actual time to check the new code before adding it to the distro release, then sure. Is not like they are forced to run pushing new updates full of slop just to make the investors happy and having the whole sistem flooded with bugs.
…I mean, who would be so stupid to do that? 😁
You don’t need to pull the new bs…
I am very pro Linux and have been trying to migrate all my system but I got to say:
I installed windows 11 LTSC and disabled automatic updates, it’s not good but it’s also not this bad.
If your wondering why, pirating games isn’t very seamless on Linux yet,
Why would we pirate games when we have SuperTuxKart?
Don’t forget SuperTux! It got a larger update just a few days ago.
Huh? Linux is the gold standard for running pirated games, mainly because of flatpaks and its sandboxing capabilities. The games won’t have access to your filesystem and you can disable network access. Installing the games is as easy on Heroic as it is on Windows.
The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)
On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.
Most games work on Linux. The ones that don’t are online games with kernel level anti-cheats, which aren’t relevant if we’re discussing piracy anyway.
But yeah, a dedicated gaming machine with Windows is fine if that’s the way you want to go. I was just arguing against the claim that running pirated games on Linux isn’t seamless, which is wrong.
Works doesn’t always means works well. “Playable” on proton db has wildly different meanings to some people.
Thanks for explaining that! I was rather commenting on how it is for some of my old friends who game. I’m happy to learn that even piracy is better on Linux :) I may convert those to Linux then!
Many pirates do piracy for the lack of money (hence why many end up buying the game when they get money) so this is def an exception of the exception
I mean, those people I know, they are not computer people. So, for them, having a computer is to play games. If they are pressed with money, they’d rather buy a better GPU than games. It’s not like these people are having multiple computers, keeping one to just play games.
Sure, I agree, when the money isn’t an issue, why won’t you just buy the game?
Personally for me, i no long find pirating worth the time to set things up. The only recent good titles are mostly indi, and they are quite cheap. You can also find ultra cheap offers on not-so-old 3A titles. Also, my backlog is already 6-7 times longer of the rest of my remaining lifespan, so i have quite a bit to chose from.
If your wondering why, pirating games isn’t very seamless on Linux yet,
But playing on a SNES emulator is! :D
I pray you are deleting those roms after 24 hours
Nah. Seems like a hassle to go download them every day. Much rather just keep them ready to go.
Why would you even want to delete them after a day?
That’s what I would like to know!
Yep. Imagine that, using the specialist version of the OS strips out a lot of the bullshit.
I’ll never argue that the suck inherent to Windows is OK, but anyone who thinks it’s somehow completely unavoidable just isn’t trying. It’s always kind of shocking to see Linux users, who are at least on paper tech savvy, have complaints that include shit that can be disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Meanwhile they’ll act like some of the arcane hoops needed to fix shit like sleep mode, hdr, or audio on some combinations of hardware and distro is just par for the course.
Personally, I find the better approach to convert folks isn’t to create an insane caricature of the issues with Windows, but to go “here’s the list of all the stuff you need to do to fix Windows, or you can sidestep it entirely with Linux but risk occasional strange hardware compatibility problems”
These are tools, not religion.
disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu.
Until windows decides you really should have that switched on and flips it back after an update.
I have literally never seen this occur outside of:
- it attempting to reset the default PDF viewer multiple times
- twice when the entire group of settings related to cortana/internet search from the taskbar changed and they didn’t attempt to map previous choices to the new settings
That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment.
If you’ve got more hard evidence of MS doing this I’d love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run “SFC /scannow”.
My PC used to turn itself on occasionally after I put it to sleep at night and went to bed. Over a span of weeks, I’d track down the latest reason for starting up and disable it until it would only wake on keyboard or by hitting the power button.
Except I’d have to reapply them because it would just randomly be enabled again.
That was my main issue with Windows. I’m not here to fight with my computer, especially not with a corporation controlling MY computer.
Fake news
One day I will swap to Linux!! One day!!!
You won’t regret it. When I switched, I realised just how much it felt like I was just renting my OS from Windows.
I thought about it for years. Then I did the switch and wished I’d done it years earlier.
Then I thought about switching from Ubuntu to something else for years. Then I switched to Debian and wished I’d had done that from the beginning.
I suck with computers, I have no idea what I’m doing 90% of the time, plus I’m dumb as hell in general but I still managed to do the swap with zero issues. Its easier and more straightforward than what people say. Just do it.
It’s really easy. Linux Mint. Bootable USB. Back up your important files on a separate harddrive. Plug in USB. Reboot. Install. Port old files over. Good as new
Bonus points for looking into how to optimize your partition structure, but it’d be fine to just let it do its thing. Also like… I guess you should probably make sure your audio and video cards are supported, but they like 98% are
Step 1: install Linux Mint
Step 2: everything works
Step 3: profit
The ??? step is only for Window’s nonsense
How to use HDR in Mint?
Cmon man. Join the right side!
what are you waiting for?
That day is closer than ever.
Do it! It’s easy; Linux mint is soooooo easy
I’m a computer dumbass and I managed to install Mint by plugging in a USB and clicking “next” until I had a new OS installed. Maybe something else would be marginally more suited to me, but Mint does everything I want: games, internet, and office software are all I need.
Mint is now easier to install than Windows. With Windows you have to create a microsoft account or run commands in order to skip that step (assuming you didn’t use rufus skip account/tpm check when flashing the image)
- buy a hard drive
- install on hard drive
- now you’re done
My advice is to switch each of your programs to the open source version one by one before you switch to a new operating system. It lowers the barrier since there’s less new stuff to learn at any given point of the process. Also, linux-for-windows subsystem if you’re on windows – then go to mint instead of Ubuntu. If your on apple, learn the terminal there, then go to Ubuntu.
I’ll be running Windows 10 LTSC until late next year on my work machine, but even I have issues where Microsoft Store keeps reinstalling itself after I gut it. If I leave it installed it causes BSOD and super slow startup times (Hours).
Three of those are the same thing (AI features) and all are easily handled through group policy.
You are using a version the has group policy right? Spoofing a Pro license with MAS Grave takes roughly 2 minutes from opening the website to finished, on a slow connection.
It’s even easier if you don’t set up a Microsoft Account during install of the OS. You did take the 30 seconds to look up the current bypass when you started, right?
It’s even easier than that if you just don’t use Microsoft Office. Open source office suites work fine on Windows.
Of course, Linux is the easiest way.
So you have to know 4+ workarounds before you’ve even got an OS installed. Sounds “easy.”
Repeat the meme, but with windows users looking at peripheral driver failures
