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Best thing about Windows 11 is that my hardware doesn’t support it
Is right click menu one too? After boot, it always takes like 5 seconds for it to show up, recurring times it takes <1 second (not instant). I run last gen ryzen somethingsomethingXD and 4070 so my PC can definitely run a context menu.
On windows 11 or windows 10?
The <win10 context menu is old and poorly designed. Each app that declares itself on the right click menu gets to hold up the entire menu for like 3 seconds each. So if you have one poorly designed app that can appear on that list your right click menu will be super slow. Try to go through the right click menu and disable each app that appears one by one until you find the culprit.
Windows has this official tool, if you go to the explorer tab and find .../contextMenuHandlers section you can easily disable them one by one but i haven't used it personally.
Win11 tried to fix this and moved to a different model but in doing so made the first level right click menu functionally useless.
Win11. I remember it being fine in Win10, though I didn't have that many applications there, now I should have even less though.
Maybe I'll look at what I have there now, in case I indeed have a misbehaving app.
So that's why it is so freaking slow! 💩🤡💩🤡
"great work" 🤭
Thats unironically based
Gosh, after all the hacks I do to Windows I often forget how terrible the experience is for all my users our there raw dogging it. 🪦
This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.
Microsoft why can we not turn this off!
You can just disable web search through the settings app now.
I mean... KDE can do it just fine.
You can. I've had it off for years. It just needs a registry update, and persists across updates.
And people say Linux is not user-friendly
It's simple, really.
If the first results are a web search, you wouldn't notice how terrible the local search indexing is.
I legitimately cannot believe how comically powerful medium level hardware has become yet the windows user experience is so much shittier than it was almost 20 years ago. I remember school machines struggling less to power up on 1gb ram and a one core machine that my gaming rig does sometimes. Windows is such a fucking waste of computing power.
There's a few ways to turn it off, but they require registry editing or using the Group Policy editor if you have a Pro license
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/26/how-to-turn-off-search-the-web-results-in-windows-11/
ive had to learn never to use the 'more info' or 'search' options at all, as it defaults to a web search now instead of what im used to, a hdd search for my file or internal windows help documentation. fuggen 
! something something you are the product smh my head
I remember searching "control panel" and it brings up a brazilian cafe
I have it turned off. But maybe that option is not available outside of EU? I don't know.
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Windows is basically malware now. My wife is forced to use W11 for work and she fucking hates it with a passion (and that’s the pared down IT version).
I pulled out my old gaming laptop that had been unplugged for quite a while and found it somehow updated itself to W11. I immediately wiped the computer and installed Nobara as the main OS. No regrets, no issues, and no half-assed bullshit.
Windows on the ASUS ROG Ally is absolute dog shit. It would constantly reboot to install unwanted updates that offered zero value on a handheld (let alone anything).
Nothing I own will ever run Windows.
Windows isn’t popular. It’s forced onto tons of prebuilt computers and most people wouldn’t know what to use instead. Fuck Windows. Rant over.
If someone can please make Autodesk stuff install and run under Wine, not saying Autodesk to deploy their stuff natively for Linux, I'd be gone with the blink of an eye. And I bet a lot of professionals too.
Maya and Motionbuilder run on Linux, but that happened before they were hoovered up by the monster. Autodesk just ignores that part of their portfolio. I know a few people who work/have worked on the Maya team and they're talented, passionate devs, but management just doesn't give a fuck about Media & Entertainment when Autocad and Revit are making so much money.
The best would be if the open source alternatives got better and more popular, like Blender did for 3D stuff.
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Windows is freemium now. It serves as a vehicle to sell other MS shit.
At least I don't need to pay for freeware. Last I checked, the cost of Windows was included in my laptop and I didn't get the option to not install an OS even though I fully intended to install Linux on it.
I've used Windows my whole life at home. Last year I realized I kind of hate gaming at a desk since I'm at one all day for work, so I bought a used Steam Deck. Literally have not touched Windows since. I probably don't need a home computer anymore and if I need one in the future, I'm confident it won't be running Windows.
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What's Nobara? I've never heard of that OS.
Adding on to the other comment, Nobara is maintained by Glorious Egroll, the same guy that also develops the popular Proton-GE compatibility tool which adds some extra fixes on top of Valve's Proton.
(Proton is the compatibility tool Steam uses to make Windows games run on Linux, in case you're unfamiliar)
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I'm thinking that maybe I should upgrade my old Win 10 Pro laptop to Windows 11 Pro, "just in case", instead of going full Linux everywhere.
And then I read shite like this.
You're not making it easy for me Microsoft.
Linux everywhere and then Windows VM labeled "Shitty Spyware Do Not Open"
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I haven’t used windows in so long, the only thing I know about it is the incredibly high volume of complaints regarding it.
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And yet it's somehow less awful than the Windows 10 start menu. Is it still improvement if you put the bar under the floor yourself?
Is it? Honestly I don't care about it anymore, I've been opening everything from task bar icons and search for ages now.
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Yep it's pretty bad...
It's WHAT?
Microsoft couldn’t think about this while they were developing the OS, no?
I’ll take Business majors making technical decisions for 400, Alex.
Sorry that’s 500..
i use win 11 and i can't remember the last time i used the start button. there is no need.
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