Microsoft's patchwork OS will now sometimes auto-translate Zip files to postcode files for UK users.
    • const_void
      7·
      2 years ago

      I always hear this repeated but I feel like it doesn’t hold up. Most Windows releases are bad these days. Last release that was mostly decent was Windows 7 but they were even fucking that up towards the end with ‘telemetry’.

      • FaceDeer
        5·
        2 years ago

        Didn’t they say that they were planning to no longer release new “versions” per se, but just keep on updating the existing operating system indefinitely? Perhaps they had the bad luck to start that strategy with one of the bad releases.

      • PeterPoopshit
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think they also throttled gpu performance at the kernel level or something. I vaguely remember reading a post about that but don’t have source or anything. However back in the day I was getting dogshit framerates in VR and I had a “pretty good” computer. After trying everything to solve these performance issues for months and failing, I tried out Windows 10 and suddenly all my framerate problems were solved.

    • Joe Cool
      4·
      2 years ago

      They made nothing good since Windows 7. And that was only good compared to Vista.
      XP and 2000 were a lot faster.

        • m532
          31·
          2 years ago

          I hated 8.1 it was way worse than 8 for me.

  • BuxtonWater
    121·
    2 years ago

    As a brit this is perfect, guess the windows 11 dev team just really loves us.

    • const_void
      93·
      2 years ago

      I honestly don’t know how people us it every day. If they’re not trying to shove politics or celebrity gossip down your throat with Edge or that ‘weather’ thing in the taskbar then they’re sending boat loads of data back to Microsoft on your every move. Why does anyone put up with it? And pay for the privilege?!

      • Berserkware
        3·
        2 years ago

        It comes on nearly every laptop and pre-built PC, also software support.

      • amenok@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        I need it for work and am too lazy to set up some sort of VM to limit data sending etc. I also used to game quite a bit and never got Wine working very well – but I don’t really play these days so that’s a moot point.

  • potcandan@lemmy.one
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.

      • LoreleiSankTheShip
        6·
        2 years ago

        Seconding Mint on this, It’s so easy to get used to it that it felt almost as familiar as Windows during my first week of using it.

      • potcandan@lemmy.one
        21·
        2 years ago

        I’m sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I’m annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I’m all set up and have learned it, it’ll probably be better than Windows but I’m just not willing to spend even a minute on it.

        • tarneo
          6·
          2 years ago

          Try Linux for a month and you won’t even think about coming back.

          • potcandan@lemmy.one
            2·
            2 years ago

            Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I’m starting soon I’ll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers

            • Joe Cool
              3·
              2 years ago

              I have dual boot on my work PC. I think the last time I booted into Windows was a year ago.
              I can boot the physical Windows partition in Virtualbox and QEMU. I do that maybe 3 times a month for a few hours.

      • jarfil
        3·
        2 years ago

        Not necessarily too old, but as long as it can boot in “legacy BIOS” mode, I think I’m safe 🤫

    • Amir
      4·
      2 years ago

      Save yourself some valuable braincells & other resources. Seriously consider Ubuntu LTS, this is not a joke.

      • potcandan@lemmy.one
        32·
        2 years ago

        I dunno… I’ve always used Windows, being annoyed by their requests to update me to the newest version isn’t enough to want to learn a new OS or anything.

    • Cromutorium@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m running 10 LTSC on my main desktop pc and get no nagging to upgrade at all. Tbh the only thing stopping me from switching to Linux is lack of driver support for my simracing wheel (still waiting, thrustmaster…)

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    People having to interact with computers with translated UI need to deal with similar bewilderments very often. It doesn’t even need to be AI translated, just shittily.

  • mook
    2·
    2 years ago

    Although I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 12+ years, I do like win 11

      • mook
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t know. The GUI is prettier. Notepad & File Explorer have tabs now. What got me is that a few years ago I had to edit a spreadsheet that had over 12,000 columns and at the time Libre Office couldn’t do it. So I bought a seat of 365 and now I’m here. I do miss Ubuntu though. The other thing is that my day job uses windows exclusively and I felt that since I was using ubuntu at home for 12+ years I needed to brush up on my windowsisms.