Recent content by sadsteve

Yes. When I do a Windows 11 install I always set it up to log into a domain. It's on the screen where they want you to setup a Microsoft account. There's a link there that points to other login options. It will let to select logging into a domain. I just did it on 2 machines on Tuesday. I...

Yeah, I got tired of Microsoft's shenanigans years ago so Libre Office has been my goto word processor for a long time now. It works under Linux and Windows so I'm covered on my main OS (Linux) and on my Windows VM.

Eh, I'll stick with QEMU/KVM/libvirt. It was rather easy to get a Windows VM up an running for my games that wouldn't work under Linux (yet!), Affinity Photo and TruboTax.

There's always a better processor down the road. You've got an excellent processor now, just use it!

Well, the Windows 11 incompatible computers I have will become Linux boxes once EoS occurs. There's nothing that they do that requires Windows. My main machine runs Linux already and the only reason I have a Windows 11 VM is to play games that won't work under Linux yet, TurboTax and...

What percentage of the laptop/desktop buys are because of the inability to upgrade to Windows 11?

Hm, I have secure boot enabled and MX Linux installed just fine. It's my main OS and I run Windows in a VM for the occasional game that won't work under Linux (rather few these days).

Eh, I don't really care. My main OS is Linux so the Copilot key won't do anything and I mostly use my Windows VM for gaming. I don't think I've ever used the ALT, WIN and FN keys on the right side of my keyboard (except by accident). And if it does present a problem it'll be easy to fix under...

Eh, don't really care when they release 24H2 since all my computers seem to be working just fine. Having an AI enabled PC is not something I want/need.

Since my thumb drives spend 99.99% of their time in a drawer, why would I want a builtin camera?

I use ExplorePatcher for that purpose. It's rather stupid that you need a 3rd party application to restore the taskbar features you've used for years.

Microsoft account login reqired = application not used.

I did that a few months after Windows 8.0 came out. The switch to Linux for me was actually fairly easy since I'd already been using applications that were available under Windows and Linux (Thunderbird, Libre Office, jEdit, g++, etc). Windows was pretty much only being used for gaming and the...

The only thing that's made Win 11 palatable to me is running Open Shell and ExplorerPatcher. If those programs didn't exist, I'd still be running Win 10.

"Nintendo has a reputation for bringing litigation to companies that it belives harm its brand." Wouldn't that be Nintendo? With all the litigation they do I'd never touch anything Nintendo related. Kind of like how I feel about Oracle.