Mildly Infuriating

We're going to restart your computer during active hours. Your work will be interrupted. Fuck you.

Hmm something’s missing. Where is the ai integration?

And why the fuck is windows always "preparing" to do something!? Are you generating a record of my activities to phone home with? Just do the damn thing!

I recommend Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, which is supported until 2032 and has never required me to update my fucking clock or calculator, never crashed my SSD, and never randomly encrypted my hard drive and lost the recovery keys! And, there’s no OneDrive, Copilot, Recall, Cortana, Clippy, or whatever else Microsoft’s cocaine addled executives have come up with this week to FUCK us.

Since thats the standard for operating systems we’re working with now, I’d say this one is pretty good!

Here’s how you can purchase your copy today!

Just a moment

Progress bar at 100%

Progress text reads "complete"

Wait 2 hours

I installed Windows 11 on my new office PC yesterday, and it took hours.

• The initial boot took forever because it decided it needed to do an update as part of the install,
• Then after install when you enter your Microsoft account details so it downloads the entire internet including OneDrive (gross),
• Then you switch to AU locale because despite saying I'm in Australia during install it's set me up as US language and currency and imperial measurements etc but Melbourne timezone (also incorrect),
• Then you uninstall and disable all the stupid Candy Crush and celebrity news (in the start menu?? why??) and LinkedIn and Xbox gaming crap and all this other stuff that just appears,
• Allocate another day to uninstall all the MS Office stuff I don't want (especially OneDrive),
• Then you can install Firefox and Thunderbird and Nextcloud and Libre Office and Irfanview and accounting software,
• And finally everything starts syncing and away we go time to be productive...
• Jokes! Critical update and it's time to reboot multiple times.

I can boot from a Ventoy USB and have a new distro installed and working on my laptop in under an hour ffs.

My wife came to me saying her laptop wasn't working. She was on it last night. It was forcing a Windows account login. Shift-10 disabled so I couldn't bypass.

Microsoft can straight fuck itself after this. Trying to brick an 8 year old laptop with a local account. Fuck that noise. My wife is gonna have to learn Linux.

How long have you been waiting? You'll never know mwahahaha

We replaced "Clock" with ClockPilot. It is so much better! Go ahead ask Clock Pilot what time it is!

You: Clockpilot What Time is It?

🤖 Clockpilot: “Ah, an excellent question! It’s breakfast time in 12 different countries, next week already in New Zealand, and—wait, hang on—did you know Saturn’s day is only 10.7 hours long? If you were there, you’d already be late for bed.

...Anyway. Locally speaking: it’s ... thinking ....did you adjust for Daylight Savings, quantum drift, or whether your cat stepped on your keyboard last spring?

Would you like me to set an alarm for:

Your next existential crisis, The heat-death of the universe, or Dinner? 

You: Clockpilot I said WHAT TIME IS IT!

Clock needs an update? To decimal time, or what?

Or did they have to patch it because they managed to build a security hole into the original?

It's just getting updated to, modern times. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Also Clock is now an Electron app running in its own instance of Chromium, because the devs are afraid of static typing, thus everything needed to be in Javascript.

I installed win11 in a vm just for fun, then ran the deblpat script. The amount of shit that removed was astonishing.

Still sucks ass but at least its not as bad as a damn emachine from 2005. Win 11 performance is so damn shit.

I recently installed Windows 10 after a few years of Linuxing and holy shit, the updater is just bad. I had more fun running Gentoo updates back in early 2000's. How is Windows updater so slow? How is it so bad at informing the user what's going on? How is it that every open source package manager I've used handles update infinitely better? Microsoft has a lot engineers, what are they doing with their time? Why is it so bad? Like, just, why?

Babe, new timezone just dropped.

Modern user-friendly Linux in a nutshell:

"Hey that kernel update finished in the background, unless you were bored enough to stare at this window for the last 3 whole minutes. It would be best to reboot your machine as soon as it works for you, boss! 😎"

Please note however that modern user-friendly linux does not use emojis in notifications about system updates. That was just for fun.

I use mint btw

"Exact time is no longer available. For the precise time, subscribe to Clock com. Thank you for upgrading "