If I have to install Windows on a machine (mostly work-related), I always use Chris Titus’ WinUtil to strip out the garbage bits and delay or completely stop updates. It’s basically a GUI wrapper around various Powershell commands.
I have another way…
I have to use windows for work sometimes, so I got a copy from massgrave and created an xml ISO using this helpful page.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
Boom!
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The worst way to use Windows is to boot it every once in awhile. It’s slow for awhile until all the updates are done installing and downloading. But then people shut it off right away, and next time they open it there’s more updates. When I was working at a PC repair shop, we’d get low end laptops that were running really slow. The solution was often to leave it on the bench for a day and let it work through updates.
The best way to use Windows, is of course installing Linux over it.
I haven’t felt that in years, especially with multicore+decent amounts of ram. Windows can update in the background and its not even noticeable anymore (IMO).
It is on low end hardware. My dual core thinkpad sits at 100% CPU utilization when it does windows updates. IMO this alone makes Windows unusable on that machine. Now it runs Debian flawlessly and I mostly just boot it up to print something on my old HP printer that’s been running on the same refilled cartridge for years now. I possess the only good HP printer left in the world I feel like.
I have never dual booted successfully. I mean, I have set up dual boots. But I am fundamentally incapable of actually switching back and forth. I inevitably just pick one OS and only boot into that one.
Sent this to my friend who dual boots and their reply was “thats why you use a version thats out of support”. It always makes me laugh how much windows users hate security because of the way windows has pushed it on them.
once a month
patch tuesday
chat, should I tell them?
Assuming no out of band patching.
Also the fact that this joke/meme only works now if you opt-in to the extended security updates (since that UI from panel 3 is from w10). So op wants the updates but then is like ‘oh no, updates’. Which one is it, op? Which one is it?
Hmmmm…
Joke’s on you, Windows! I forgot my Windows password and haven’t booted into you for months.
I boot into windows every time that one NTFS partition I never converted gets locked for needing a check… Come on kernel 7.1. I need that new ntfs with the fsck tool!
Yeah I could convert it. But there’s some stuff on there I might want to run from windows, once every 1.5 years or something.
Get rid of windows update by Ameliorating it!
There’s another way to get rid of Windows update.
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Y no VM?
I need tablet mode touchscreen, the only decent thing in Windows
I wanted to use the current Windows logo, but it’s so incredibly stupid, you wouldn’t even recognize it.
This is what happens when a $100 bn profit/year company is too cheap to hire artists:
You think they didn’t pay marketing consultants millions for that logo?
TIL windows 1 logo was the best logo
Srsly wtf I saw that and immediately thought “Well that would be a great modern logo” its flat and sleek but still recognizable enough. Guess the marketing department didn’t want to admit “we got it right the first time”
Yeah that logo is better than the modem logos by far
It’s just the blue screen of death now. Apt.
I think it’s a projection joke. Win12 isn’t even released yet.
Window
s12
