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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I just got a new laptop and was genuinely gonna try windows 11 and wsl for my coding needs. But in first boot, it demands internet to do updates. Ok, I connect to coffee shop wifi. Nope, won't do it because it can't handle the click through screen to accept wifi ToS. Fine. I take it home, where my Internet is great but has a glitch where it drops out for a few seconds now and then. Turns out that windows will literally cancel updating and demand I reconnect and restart for the kind of drop that I barely notice day to day. So I gave up, plugged in my ArchLinux thumb drive, and mkfs.ext4 before rsyncing my entire old computer to it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You use Arch Linux but can't fix your wifi?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Actual autism I know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You sound like a Linux veteran.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I mean you probably want to have internet when you install any OS...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Haha.. NO

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right. Having your OS up to date is not important, I suppose?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There is a difference between asking nicely and shoving down the throat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I didn't say otherwise...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Microsoft tried nicely during the XP era. We all know how it ended. The average user shall never be trusted with security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

the fact the install media can't provide a working desktop by itself is pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm down but if it can't handle a 5s dc then rip

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The fact that it’s a requirement - and moreover automatically creates and integrates with MS cloud services - is what people don’t like.

Nobody is arguing that it’s a bad idea to let your chosen distro installer automatically pull the most up-to-date packages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's great but none of that was mentioned in the comment I replied to.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

They gave it access to the internet twice.