I’ve seen this behavior for the last 20 years. Every release of Windows claims it’s the fastest yet. And in 3-5 years everybody hates how slow they and demand new computers. Its funny because, it’s just accepted. Everybody assumes that computers get old and slow. I’m just going to go out on a limb and say, Windows OS gets slow after 3-5 years and it’s planned obsolescence from Microsoft. Sadly, 90% of users can’t be bothered to care that they’re getting ripped off.
They say that Valve over charges users. How can this be? I went to PC because consoles were too expensive. Games are almost always cheaper on Steam. I’m I missing something here?
Just wanted to say, sometimes it’s easier having two drives. If you have an extra slot I would do that. You could try vm too. I prefer KVM, but virtualbox is fine and easier.
So like in 10 years?
I’ve wondered this too. My only guess is if you mess with US Mail there are strict federal laws that protect it. Plus it gives time to read, research and discuss what you’re voting for. LOL, oh and my wife tells me who to vote for.
Can’t speak for the ballot boxes but there always seems to be some stories about missing ballots. Or people waiting out side for hours in November.
Missed that. Just wait though the next version of Windows will be the best ever. 😂
Not sure that they’re “falling apart”, only 10% of their revenue is from Windows
Like everyone else said, didn’t fix it, if not broken. Admins like distros like Debian and Arch(sorry) because you have more initial control of what’s on them. Why have a GUI, if you didn’t need it? Mix that with a little OCD and next thing you’re doing is recompiling the kernel. Fun stuff 😀
Yeah try opening with Linux live image. Linux mint or Ubuntu should work. Also sounds crazy but rotate the drive around slowly in your hand while it’s plugged in and you’re browsing. If the files show up, stop rotating it and quickly copy you files to a safe place.
About 15 years ago I used to run my work desktop Windows in a VMware instance on Linux. We had Redhat and VMware licenses too use. I swear it ran faster than on bare metal for some reason. I used VMware’s virtual apps for Outlook and IE.
These days i just run what they hand me. No point getting on the bad side of the admins.
Critical mass does what they do.
Another vote for Syncthing. Might be a little too complicated for some though
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Why are people like this? If you didn’t like what a company is doing, didn’t use their products.
See, see, they like Linux now.
I thought I fooled the fridge makers. I bought a model without filtered water. Sadly, I didn’t realize that the ice cubes require a filter. 😔
Hope that ray didn’t break any teeth
Hi, I’m Steve from corp. I need your password to verify some settings…
I install my OS and gui with system packages (minimal setup mostly) and everything else with flatpaks. It’s not perfect. There’s bloat and cleanup evolved, and some packages I didn’t trust. And sometimes you still need to build an app from source. But it fixed a bunch of issues you mentioned. It’s also nice to limit permissions on apps.