Running an os, then a browser, then everything through a browser feels… Like an unnecessary middle man.

Yeah and chocolaty and winget are both still pretty new and not that popular

I DONT WANNA T_T

Seriously though, I don’t know if I would rather pay the yearly security updates for w10 or just go to 11… Honestly, it’s probably safer for me to stay on 10. Man fuck Microsoft, fuck the ethicsless techies, the spineless selfish investors, and this horrible corrupt world we live in

I have rainmeter and wallpaper engine, but those things are so unreliable resource hogs and old, that, while neat, aren’t worth spending any emotional energy on. But again, I have, mostly just to see the limits of the thing, and have some nifty tools out of them. I wouldn’t be that beat up if I lost them at this point, and probably wouldn’t install them again unless great strides were made in the underlying tech and efficiency. But brute force pinging stuff that wasn’t made to be pinged ten times a second is just… Maybe in the future, core systems will have data i/o just for this sort of stuff XD who am I kidding?

Linux would definitely solve some of my issues, but introduce like a million others. It’s just an os (or rather, a variety of versions of an os), just like mac or windows. I hold no zeal for any, and do know in my heart that someday, I’ll likely switch to Linux and put forth the energy. But I’m not that young anymore and there are things I have to do, mountains to climb, grass to feel, people to taste, politics to survive, teeth to brush, all kinds of mortality to fight, shows to watch, music to make, parents to try to love before they’re gone, siblings to fix, friends to make, places to go… Linux is pretty far down that list.

It’s on the list, just… Not that high. Higher than MacOS hahaha

Yeah I’m not really sure why an old install means not updating it or anything on it.

Also, just because it’s windows, doesn’t mean there aren’t package managers. And I DON’T want to update a ton of stuff for production reasons. I’m not sitting over here blindly. Are there are a lot of Linux users that think Windows users are morons or something?

If there was a way I could like magically gender-swap my pc from Windows to Linux, I’d absolutely try it.

Like take all the programs, and scrape all the internal data and stuff and move it to Linux. Take all the settings and logins and customizations from my ide’s and workstations and drives and directories and symlinks and apos and drivers.

God. That would be like a dream. Just press one button, and copy a system but switch its fundamental kernaling and systems or whatever. Honestly, that ease and already-built-up-systems-and-tools is part of the reason that I LIKE Windows.

Some Linux distros have things like that, but they fall very short of the robustness of windows’s job in these regards. Like, except for all of the MASSIVE GLARING PRIVACY AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS that the windows 11 upgrade kindly offers without compromise, it kind of is like that magical switch.

But you’ve gotta realize HOW much I hate having to tear things out and add things and set them up again. It’s a MASSIVE waste of time to me. And switching to an os that has less options and comes with none? That’s madness to me. Absolute madness. Things running through my head about how to get certain midi controllers to work and stacking audio apos on each other reliably with minimal lag and routing in software… Ughghh… It was hard enough in Windows. I’m traumatized. And I bet random things all over just wouldn’t work.

I’m one of those people that feels limited by my 32thread 128gb ram system. My next build will likely be either epyc or threadripper. Unless the tech (hardware) industry is just nuked from orbit by our inbred nazi conservative drooling overlords. Times are a’ changin’.

Lol you aren’t entirely wrong. You do sound kind’ve like a used car salesperson though hahaha.

The user who responded to you is basically my response though. Plus, I’m used to fixing this house of cards, even if I cry whenever it bsod’s or whatever.

Between 2019 and 2023 I troubleshot so many things to try to figure out what was breaking in my computer. Over that time, I rma’d almost all of the core hardware because it failed or seemed like it was failing. The last piece I rma’d was my gpu, an EVGA 3090. It was causing so many problems. Yet, my partner’s EVGA 3080 still runs fine to this day.

My point is, it’s not always the OS. For me, it’s because of a lot of sketchy shit I do and old hardware that barely works. For example, I’m using a VERY nice but very old firewire audio interface.

Also, I’m not as worried about losing my data, that’ll exist on drives and can be pulled off.

That’s a totally valid path. Which I kinda already do. I have a few distros that I either vm or use as repair/emergency spaces because they’re different and so reliable. Oh what’s that? The index of my os drive is corrupted because I did something stupid? UBUNTU TIME.

But honestly, the amount of pirated software that I’ve gotten to work and all my sql databases and workstation software and licences that work are things that I probably can’t get again. There’s so much stuff. Like I have an installation of postman with almost a decade of just temporarily saved api settings, or that all of my vsts are all setup nearly exactly as I want, or that my Firefox has the css and extensions and settings in those extensions set. That stuff just doesn’t sync.

I could maybe go through and methodically cut out each and every thing, but chances are, you really can’t, it won’t translate, and I’ll forget all kinds of stuff. I’m honestly panicking about losing windows 10 at the end of this year. I REALLY don’t want to switch to windows 11 and deeply deeply hate Microsoft for taking back their word that windows 10 would be the last windows. I’ll never forgive them for that, even though I basically knew they were going to.

Anyways, your idea is a good one, but I’ve already tried it and several distros. I probably won’t switch to linux or mac os because there’s just too much obscure stuff that I use that is either not on Linux/MacOS or is so old that I’m using compatibility and will never ever be updated. I really have tried to use linux before, even the big main distros and the really heavyweights.

Unreal, unity, wwise, visual studio, cubase, protools, flstudio, and a bunch of other editors and stuff that I use all the time, including all kinds of bullshit in ms office (like api extensions and inter-database calculations and backend extensions some that I’ve written!), either don’t have support or the support is worse that it already is on Windows. I’m already trying to keep from blowing my brains out with windows things and keeping them stable. I already have waayyyy too much work to do. Switching os’s is like… Fuck. I don’t have the time for that.

There is no good os for me. They are all all shit. But right now, the one I’ve got, and all the work I’ve put INTO it, is the closest.

Trying to get me to switch to Linux is like going up to the front door of a mad wizard’s lair or castle or something, and being like, “Have you thought about perhaps you might want to build a new house? Our construction company that builds these nice little boutique custom homes could help you with that. We use sustainable, green, all kosher materials, and you can build it however you want!” Like I’m sure for other people that would be great. Or if mine ever explodes and I have to start over (it already regularly explodes).

I’m a power user, I don’t even want to upgrade or have to reinstall because of how much shit I’ve gone through to get it to this point. Easily a decade old install and very active use. I would lose so much random stuff if I ever had to upgrade or switch. Windows is shit and Microsoft are total bastards for that, there’s no denying it. But for me, it is not so simple as one being better or worse. Maybe if I were in a stage to switch I’d consider it, but still windows is not without its own offerings/positives.

Windows user here.

Idgaf as long as it works and isn’t shit. If it has lots of cool clever stuff, all the better.

I wish I could stick one of these in my desktop keyboard.

A fully mechanical keyboard with a nub between W and S so that I can play videogames with a joystick and a mouse, for superior aiming AND moving.

Maybe I could design and print a WASD(QE) section/assembly with custom keycaps with a gap and install a nub as a mod.

Is this…

Violence?