>>1611782 >Lot of stuff on my Library doesn't werk with Linux. So what's the usual workaround this? Realize that you're a dumbass who bought into autistic internet hype retards who always say the same shit, check back in 5-10 years and maybe the results might be better

>>1610648 As I've mentioned. 2017 version. I've killed Cortanna too. And probably some other microshills. Somehow everything works, no crying about compatibility issues or anything.

>>1221881 works perfectly fine just install then run defender remover, titus script to set services to manual/remove AI crap and o&o shutup 10 with recommended settings disable windows search service and replace with everything takes 10 minutes instead of fiddling around with linux for hours to get anything to run

Maybe an 8/v/ or 8/g/ guide to deshit Win 11 IoT LTSC is needed.

>>1613621 Deshittify Win11 IoT LTSC guide: Massgravel Activation Script. WinUntil for disabling garbage like Copilot and automatic updates, re-enabling old right-click context menu, etc. Win11Debloat, self-explanatory. Windows Defender Remover for removing this CPU & IO-hogging garbage. Simplewall, must-have security firewall app where you should block internet access to all processes that really don't need it when requested. Windows Powershell should never be allowed internet access long term due to its use in keylogging, crypto wallet hacking, etc. by malicious Powershell scripts running in the background bundled with various pirated software that are usually undetected by real-time AVs.

>>1613621 >>1613898 Why do you need a "guide" when it's a one step process: uninstall Windows 11

>>1613621 Literally just stay on 10 and use MAS to get extended security updates. >>1613898 >Simplewall I was about to call you a retard for that suggestion, but then I kept reading. >Windows Defender Remover >Windows Powershell should never be allowed internet access long term due to its use in keylogging, crypto wallet hacking, etc. by malicious Powershell scripts running in the background bundled with various pirated software that are usually undetected by real-time AVs. Jesus Christ you're a colossal retard, imagine not only being stupid enough to fall for this kind of jeet-tier malware (which is detected by AVs by the way, you of course disabled the AV to install the crack because "false positive XAXAXAXAXAXA"), but you didn't even feel the need to find a better source of warez afterwards, fucking hell this is nigger-tier helplessness. Anyone following your advice deserves anything that's coming to them.

You all probably know Microsoft has been struggling to make Windows 11 happen, and that Windows' market share is in active decline. Windows market share might as well have been 100% 20 years ago - it was only a few points off. Today, Windows struggles to stay above 70%, Mac has seen a decade of continued growth, and Linux has grown 227% in the last 5 years alone into a serious OS contender. Where do you think this ends? Windows isn't on a good trajectory and hasn't been for a very long time.

>>1613314 I'm fine with Mint. I don't lose my shit with any minor inconvenience and having to learn new stuff. Im done with JeetOS

>>1614333 >Windows struggles to stay above 70% Maybe if you count mainframe servers which are all Linux based, or count phones as well, but PC users, at least those that use Steam(and this includes Steam Deck users) are 95.67% Windows based, and personally I think Steam users are a good representation of the average normalfag user. The only "counter argument" would be to say that there is this silent majority of Steam users that never do the survey reports on Steam, to which I will respond with "show me the proof, shoe me that people who even casually play games, are 70% on Windows". t. Linux user Source for the picture: https://archive.ph/sdEaF

>>1613460 THIS Chris Titus is a saint and has told microsoft to go fuck itself several times over. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil Anyone on windows, run this now. You will not regret it.

>>1614413 I'm talking about desktop PCs in general, not Steam. I never mentioned Steam but I guess I understand how your mind drifted to the hardware survey. Go look at StatCounter's data and filter by desktops, they've been tracking this for 16 years.

>>1613460 >>1614479 CachyOS runs fine and barely requires any setup.

>>1614496 >StatCounter You didn't even read their FAQ. They're a web analytics company, they determine OS by user agent: among other things, that means they have no way to distinguish between desktops and laptops. Also, they 2025 non-Windows data is 15% Apple, 9% unknown, and 4% Linux, so how in the fuck did you conclude that Linux is now "a serious OS contender"? >inb4 all the unknowns are actually Linux

>>1614265 >Jesus Christ you're a colossal retard, imagine not only being stupid enough to fall for this kind of jeet-tier malware (which is detected by AVs by the way, you of course disabled the AV to install the crack because "false positive XAXAXAXAXAXA"), but you didn't even feel the need to find a better source of warez afterwards, fucking hell this is nigger-tier helplessness. Malicious Powershell scripts are undetected by all anti-viruses including Windows Defender. Powershell has absolutely no business being allowed any outbound network connections without your supervised permission. Read: https://arxiv.org/html/2401.07995v2 https://hackread.com/fileless-remcos-rat-attack-antivirus-powershell-scripts/ https://www.blackfog.com/knowledge-base/powershell-attack-prevention/ https://gbhackers.com/powershell-loaders-use-in-memory-execution/ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/29930 https://gbhackers.com/powershell-and-visual-basic-to-install-xworm/ https://westoahu.hawaii.edu/cyber/global-weekly-exec-summary/north-korean-hackers-attack-using-powershell/

>>1615079 >posts jeet articles about how some attacks are hard to detect after they've already created and ran their powershell payload >doesn't wonder how the attack could get to that point without getting detected >can't into powershell execution policies to block all scripts not ran by dedicated PSWorker/PSAdmin users Incredible retardation. > Powershell has absolutely no business being allowed any outbound network connections without your supervised permission That's as retarded as saying bash should forbid curl/wget calls, or vim shouldn't be able to save modified text files because that functionality could be used by ransomware. You're on par with Rustfags, trying to make tools idiot-proof with no care for how useless they become in the process.

Considering this has become an off-topic tech thread - what's an actually good browser? I've used a couple, from Pale Moon to Tor, and I think I hate all of them. Two problems with a lot of the Mozilla based browsers is that they don't work with a lot of sites and they experience severe slowdowns before eventually crashing if they're left open too long (on the span of days usually). Chromium based browsers are usually stable and the most compatible, but they're bloated as hell and also >Google.

>>1614625 I don't see why laptops would be an issue and looking at that site, it appears Windows is down no matter what why you cut it. Why be so aggressive and spergy about it?

>>1616901 I personally use LibreWolf, another Mozila based browser, and for the one or two sites that don't work with it, I just use Ungoggled Chromium.

>>1616901 How is anything here off-topic?

>>1616901 I like Brave and Zen

>>1616901 Tor is irreplaceable in its privacy niche but unfit for general usage, Brave is arguably the least bad browser for general usage but you'll have to spend some time turning off the bloat options and suffer the occasional odd bug. >inb4 Ungoogled Chromium A project that doesn't even have the resources to provide official windows builds, it's a bigger joke than Pale Moon. >>1616906 >why would laptops be an issue Because iToddlers are overrepresented there.,

>>1223751 The first time i had to bite the bullet and use Win11 temporally, i was greeted with a screen that told me that my instalation is on hold until i make a Microsoft account. I had to use a powershell workaround to save me from the trouble. Yeah, no, fuck this shit.

>>1223751 Have you not seen pic related yet?

>>1256563 i wouldn't mind turning into a chick, but only if i got to keep my cock

>>1616901 Pale Meme was decent until the guy decided to do opinion grandstanding in his browser by blocking extensions. I still do the 'adblocking' he didn't like (I don't see ads but click them to cost people money because fuck them that's why)

>>1224291 Unironically, not even as a joke, pull the trigger and learn to arch (without archinstall). Just installing arch without a script or gui to do it automatically for you (even if you do use a video guide plus the wiki, and you should) will teach you so much about the linux ecosystem that you will either instantly know how to fix or not even have 90% of the common issues linux newfags run into, and when the other 10% hit you in the face, you will know how to ask for help. Install KDE plasma btw, that's the most windows10-like desktop with in dejewsustomization aside from cinnamon, which is closer to win 7 If you REALLY don't have the time or energy to do it, install mint and be done with it while accepting the fact you only use your OS as a bootloader for google chrome and steam, and maybe pisscord.

>>1340840 Japanese boomers are still running XP or 7 on their office and personal machines. And their zoomers are already moving to linux because of the kewl haxxor aesthetic movement and because mint is piss easy to use for mainstream vidya and 2hu, plus over there piracy is a serious crime you can get persecuted for so they would rather use linux than run any generic windows activation script, or worse, actually buy windows 11. Pretty much their only cucked demographic is millennials and not because they are stuck with windows, but because they are phone drones.

After skimming the thread I do have a legitimate question. >But muh extremely niche use cases that NEED windows, and the few games that are a pain on proton. Unironically why don't just buy a new drive, install linux on it, then load up a VM and plug your windows install directly onto it while doing a GPU passthru? Even if you absolutely need to dual boot for those kernel spyware games, this setup also would make dual boot a breeze and much less of a goddamn pain than dual boot off a single drive.

>>1626534 >Unironically why don't just buy a new drive, install linux on it, then load up a VM and plug your windows install directly onto it while doing a GPU passthru? GPU passthrough is an even bigger waste of time than it's ever been, ironically because there are so few games that need it anymore. But it's also obviously not a real solution for windows niggers because it's about the single most setup specific complicated thing to configure out of all of the esoteric Linux gaming solutions. No one dual boots, it's a joke. And no one is going to switch to Linux because they've been told you can maybe possible configure a really clunky gpu passthrough VM that might possibly work after you run some random github scripts and spend 3 weeks trouble shooting niche issues

>>1626591 100% correct. I've lived through the whole history of VMs and anyone who falls for "GPU passthrough" is just retarded. "Works basically like the real thing!" No, just boot the damn OS natively, folks. Though you're wrong about one thing. I do dual boot. Windows and MacOS.

>>1616901 Firefox but changing your useragent to make sites believe you are using chrome literally fixes 90% of the problems with firefox.

>>1626726 >archfag doesn't know what he's talking about The show-stopper issue with Firefox isn't any individual technical/governance fault out of the 1000s that exist, it's the fact that Mozilla is LITERALLY CONTROLLED OPPOSITION FULLY FINANCED BY GOOGLE, they already fucked over their users every time their owner told them to and they'll never stop.

>>1614413 Steam isn't actually a very good representation because of how it gathers data and some assumptions it makes while gathering said data. For example, if you have multiple computers it will always pick the one which runs Windows as your main one. In my case, the only device I've gotten steam hardware survey on is my shitty ultrabook which can't even run any games beyond some basic puzzle games lol I don't play games on Windows by the way, so my toaster in the hardware survey misrepresents me. It'll probably take like a year of not running Steam on that before it wakes up and counts something else.

>>1269575 Linus comes from a family of communists, he's father is literally a communist politician in Finland. This ia not something anyone forced him to do.