The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

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Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds said:
I just ordered a new Lenovo laptop that comes with Win11 installed.
I've been using the same Dell with Win10 on it since like 2017.

Is there any merit to just flashing a Win10 install on it in the year of our Lord 2026 or am I just better off sucking it up and dealing with Win11 and yanking all the bloatware off?

I have slid into my boomer era and my competency levels with new tech have dwindled so any advice or recommendations on cleanup utilities/useful software is always helpful
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I was considering getting the fancy new P16 third gen thonkpad, but the thought of getting it and using Windows 11 is just making me not want to do that at all. Unfortunately, I am more or less married to NetFramework at work, so I am kind of stuck with Windows for a while longer.
PS: HOLY FUCK, I was looking up prices for the highest end model P16 here and there's a store selling one with a core ultra 9 275HX and only 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD for fucking 9K?! That costs more than my car. Jeez dood!
 
Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds said:
Is there any merit to just flashing a Win10 install on it in the year of our Lord 2026 or am I just better off sucking it up and dealing with Win11 and yanking all the bloatware off?
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I did that with my laptop from 2023 (came with 11, downgraded to 10) and it works almost flawlessly. The audio driver leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still fighting it to this day. Goes to sleep too often, has some very brief moments where the audio drops to almost nothing and immediately comes back, weird shit like that. Every now and then I see if there's something different or better but I haven't quite figured it out yet.
 
Jang Joo said:
I did that with my laptop from 2023 (came with 11, downgraded to 10) and it works almost flawlessly. The audio driver leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still fighting it to this day. Goes to sleep too often, has some very brief moments where the audio drops to almost nothing and immediately comes back, weird shit like that. Every now and then I see if there's something different or better but I haven't quite figured it out yet.
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This is surprisingly almost a non-issue for me.

The childhood instruction of 'turn the volume down' has made it so that I almost never play games with the volume up at all. I have played through entire modern games without hearing a peep of sound design.

I played through almost the entirety of Jedi Survivor without hearing what any of the main characters sound like

Edit: spelling
 
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Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds said:
This is surprisingly almost a non-issue for me.

The childhood instruction of 'turn the volume down' has made it so that I almost never play games with the volume up at all. I have played through entire modern games without hearing a peep of sound design.

I played through almost the entirety of Jedi Survivor without hearing what any of the main characters sound like

Edit: spelling
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We would turn the sound off on our Gameboys to keep the battery alive longer.

and to keep mom and dad from remembering we still had them, so we could play through the night
 
long waters said:
I was considering getting the fancy new P16 third gen thonkpad, but the thought of getting it and using Windows 11 is just making me not want to do that at all. Unfortunately, I am more or less married to NetFramework at work, so I am kind of stuck with Windows for a while longer.
PS: HOLY FUCK, I was looking up prices for the highest end model P16 here and there's a store selling one with a core ultra 9 275HX and only 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD for fucking 9K?! That costs more than my car. Jeez dood!
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The HP Omen Max (275HX, 64 GiB, 2 TB, 5090, 240Hz 1600p OLED) can be had at €3,450 here from the HP Renew program with 1 year warranty.
 
That K2 article reads like management making shit up to make executives/shareholders happy.
I highly doubt they actually improve anything.
 
Is it just me or does Windows 11 acts really funny when you boot from sleep mode. Like just now my icons aren't showing up.
originally these where all blank until I l clicked on them.png
Example:These icons were originally blank until I clicked on them. Middle one next to firefox is steam.
Not only that but I've been noticing the search bar has also had this weird delay whenever I tried to look up an application. This only goes away after fully restarting the PC.
Wonder if anybody else has this problem.
 
My laptop at work was upgraded this week to a newer model, complete with the full Win 11/Copilot experience.

I now know what hyperacusis must feel like because this fucking thing is so loud. Not in terms of audible noise, but just the sheer amount of HEY! that is built into Windows 11 and Copilot. I literally can't do a fucking thing without some pop up telling me about how to do the thing that I am doing. Everything seems to try and get in my way of carrying out a task which would be effortless.

I come from a 100% GNU/Linux personal life so it's extremely frustrating. I thought Win 10 was fucking horrible, but it's a dream compared to this current iteration of W11.

I miss Win 2000.
 
Battlefield42 said:
That K2 article reads like management making shit up to make executives/shareholders happy.
I highly doubt they actually improve anything.
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There is a video of someone using the preview of it now that may be of interest:

The caveat is that the K2 improvements are mainly going to be the system setting CPU schedulers like a low latency profile. What this profile does is set CPUs to their max frequency "in short periods of time" whenever the computer needs to open applications. The creator does mention feeling some improvements. I decided to time it to see for myself by opening up File Explorer on my Windows partition at the moment he does in the video. Mine launched noticeably slower, same as the context menu. This was unsurprising to me as they both have had a 1 half second startup delay on any computer I have used Win 11 on for years now, but my Start Menu on the other hand launches as fast as his. The question many seem to be asking is if this more of a hack than a proper fix. The creator claims the change is simply adding a functionality that other OSs have that Windows supposedly didn't, but others are not so sure.
 
>be my pc
>windows 10 updated recently
>EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT and INVALID_PROCESS_DETACH_ATTEMPT
>16GB of hardware reserved ram out of my 32GB for some reason
>both memtest and windows memory diagnostic tool said sticks of ram are fine, even testing one at a time
i fucking hate india.
 
StacticShock said:
>be my pc
>windows 10 updated recently
>EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT and INVALID_PROCESS_DETACH_ATTEMPT
>16GB of hardware reserved ram out of my 32GB for some reason
>both memtest and windows memory diagnostic tool said sticks of ram are fine, even testing one at a time
i fucking hate india.
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>doesn't have a backup pc with linux on it
:smug:
 
Akerman said:
There is a video of someone using the preview of it now that may be of interest:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-zy9s3mpr8
The caveat is that the K2 improvements are mainly going to be the system setting CPU schedulers like a low latency profile. What this profile does is set CPUs to their max frequency "in short periods of time" whenever the computer needs to open applications. The creator does mention feeling some improvements. I decided to time it to see for myself by opening up File Explorer on my Windows partition at the moment he does in the video. Mine launched noticeably slower, same as the context menu. This was unsurprising to me as they both have had a 1 half second startup delay on any computer I have used Win 11 on for years now, but my Start Menu on the other hand launches as fast as his. The question many seem to be asking is if this more of a hack than a proper fix. The creator claims the change is simply adding a functionality that other OSs have that Windows supposedly didn't, but others are not so sure.
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Sounds like a cheap faux-fix to me. There is zero reason that the Start menu should be slow to open in the first place, ever. Pop up a small flat menu of pre-known static icons with basic click action attached to each. This is the simplest, fastest thing there is.

So what are they doing? Creating a special profile to temporarily jack up the CPU performance to handle opening the start menu? It's like saying a door hasn't been hanged correctly and is sticking, so they've decided to push it really hard. No - just fix your fucking doors.

Or, well in this case, windows.
 
StacticShock said:
>be my pc
>windows 10 updated recently
>EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT and INVALID_PROCESS_DETACH_ATTEMPT
>16GB of hardware reserved ram out of my 32GB for some reason
>both memtest and windows memory diagnostic tool said sticks of ram are fine, even testing one at a time
i fucking hate india.
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Try more relaxed timings, lower frequencies.

Generally, memory diagnostics are trash—they do not prove anything, only wasting time and energy. They have repeatedly failed to identify actual issues here that would come up in actual real-world applications.

I instead use system backups to a USB drive and video games to check for correct memory function. If the backup fails verification, or the game randomly crashes for no apparent reason, the RAM very likely has a defect of sorts or needs its timings to get dialed down.
 
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