I may switch to linux full time in the event that I get a new PC since it looks like itās starting to become better supported (that and I really want a steam deck). I legit have done some poweruser type shit before when I used the registry editor to disable copilot, so it would be right up my alley. if only that tumor of a feature werenāt hard coded into win11
Oh man, I remember the days, probably getting close to 20 years ago now, when I also had programs installing themselves into my computer that I didnāt authorize myself. I thank the efforts of the Linux inventors, engineers, and the community, for making my life better ever since the switch.
If you think that is pointless, remember that whenever a program closed unexpectedly, Windows would offer to āfind a solution onlineā. I have never seen that shit work in my life
It can reset a network adapter but that the only time Iāve seen it do anything useful
Yeah but its usually faster just to reboot the machine instead of letting it dick around with itself.
Yeah in XP that troubleshooter actually helped me with figuring out things like ādude you did not connect the device youāre trying to findā or āyes there is no internet connecting due to this setting being wrongā.
And then in some OS Version it suddenly completely useless.
Itās been surprisingly decent for audio issues for me. Often the scan for audio devices kickstarts some devices back into the land of the living.
yeah, it seems to only work for those https://old.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/comments/hakc3t/in_25_years_of_life_this_is_the_first_time_i_have/ it wont let me post a screenshot.
I recently discovered windows actually has a set of far more specific troubleshooters which actually provide useful information about a problem but you have to dig around in legacy settings to find them.
you have to dig around in legacy settings
Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the āmodernā control panels that barely work at all.
Thatās the Microsoft difference!ā¢
Windows asked me what app I wanted to open a .jpeg with last weekā¦ Just fucking pick one, itās a jpeg.
windows also occasionally has stokes like media player thinking for a solid 5s and deciding itās unable that file format (mp3), but then you close it and try again and a miracle! it opens
Funny you say that. I never touch media player because vlc exists but on my work pc I tried to play a video file someone sent me from their iPhone and it defaulted to media player which promptly demanded I pay 4$ for a codec. I just closed it and opened the video in vlc instead. I could understand not including codecs for some weird formats but it was a fucking iPhone video.
Yup and iPhones use a patented codec (HEVC) by default. No care for compatibility.
