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[Colif]

The difference is now in Win 11 favour but not by a lot.
Win 11 seems better at 4k than Win 10

 

[Colif]

bah.
So a week or so ago I had to set up the PIN on my PC again as I had updated the BIOS and that resets the TPM which is where the PIN is stored.
'I did that and for the rest of the week my phone wanted me to set it up there as well.
I did that yesterday and it set up a passkey that I assumed was just for the phone. This used my fingerprint
Go to logon today on PC and it wants me to use passkey... on my PC... which has no way to input fingerprints

So I had to set a PIN again. (At least this week I knew what my password was which sped up to process)

This is annoying, I just want to use the Password, I guess, on my phone. Or not bother connecting them. That also works, stupid phone doesn't need to know about PC anyway

Not everyone uses a laptop, Microsoft. Will there come a time desktop PC aren't secure enough? I don't want a camera on my PC.

 

[Colif]

Windows 11 changed the start menu

Start has changed how the All apps screen shows. Its no longer its own tab, now its all under recommended.
Views you can pick from are:

1. Category
2. Grid
3. List

Category self creates the groups and you can't move files between them

1. So it put Diablo 2 in Other instead of the games folder and I can't move it
2. It put Discord in productivity... when do I start laughing?
3. It created a steam folder in the Games Folder, so one extra step
4. Wish I could create my own folders and move some out of tools.
5. Wish I could hide some of the folders, I don't need accessibility or Creativity to always show...

Grid is the same as list, only the layout changes... makes start tab really long to scroll through.
At least clicking the letter in the list/grid still shows the index

wish I could just show a list of categories, or at least minimise the ones I don't use all the time.

tbh I don't spend much time in the Start menu but I still don't like it.
If it really annoyed me, I could use the right click start menu

1. Right click start
2. choose shutdown or turn off
3. Shutdown PC

Its only thing I do in there any day.

some ways to fix it but I didn't use any

 

[Colif]

desktop being odd, just showed a Onedrive choice on desktop that wasn't there the next time I went in to see what Version history showed

The only place that menu shows is in File Explorer and since they the same program, I guess it was just a glitch. The desktop is just a folder after all.

I ran DISM & SFC yesterday so windows should be okay.

It showed up again, version history shows the folders I have backed up to Onedrive.
Now that choice shows Folder colour. and a new choice: Manage Onedrive backup.

I don't see any mention of this in Google

 

[Colif]

Onedrive menu must have been a glitch as its not doing it now

Usual suspects:

• Razer Synapse
• Logitech G Hub
• Corsair Icue

 

[Colif]

Linux isn't as safe as it would seem

1000's of individual authors working on their own code VS 1000's of devs at Microsoft working on the same code.
Potentially more holes in the system of dependencies. Linux is less secure than MS in that regard as more ways to get in.

One of biggest way to get in to systems is through the users trust being exploited. IN the above case, a hacker managed to con the guy who created the ZIP function in Linux. It was used in everything. Lucky it was stopped or you know, internet would have had issues.

If more people use Linux, the chances of successful breaches increases. More eyes looking for holes.

If its gamings future, it will get more attention from hackers. Inevitable.
It was only ignored as most people used Windows... still do.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Linux isn't as safe as it would seem

1000's of individual authors working on their own code VS 1000's of devs at Microsoft working on the same code.
Potentially more holes in the system of dependencies. Linux is less secure than MS in that regard as more ways to get in.

One of biggest way to get in to systems is through the users trust being exploited. IN the above case, a hacker managed to con the guy who created the ZIP function in Linux. It was used in everything. Lucky it was stopped or you know, internet would have had issues.

If more people use Linux, the chances of successful breaches increases. More eyes looking for holes.

If its gamings future, it will get more attention from hackers. Inevitable.
It was only ignored as most people used Windows... still do.

I haven't reviewed the safety of Linux, but it will be higher than Windows for sure. And the nice thing about Linux is that you can probably find one that isn't a growing disaster like Windows. Microsoft is trying to make it all about using your phone for some reason. Windows is genuinely embarrassing compared to macOS and it's steadily getting worse. It's why there are so many people anxiously awaiting SteamOS. The day that launches it will crash Steam and create the largest exodus from Windows yet. But whether it's SteamOS or something else, Windows will eventually die unless they change directions. Other than you, I don't know a single person happy with it.

 

[Colif]

maybe it was the 6 years spent answering windows problems... You know, you get good at figuring out most of them if they aren't yours. Now I just get problems I have not seen before.

Its what I know, I haven't used many others.

Apart from android and BASIC and Python... but that later hasn't been used a lot. And the middle was from 40 years ago. And android is linux... so there I am using it now.

I don't want to change as that time spent answering questions would be even more of a waste of time than it already was.

I mostly leave windows alone, and don't go mad installing loads of programs. That stage happened years ago.

Microsoft have been looking for purpose for years. They missed all the big trends, Mobiles... and so they chased AI and well, its not working so well for them. If mobiles had worked for them, more people would have grown up using it, and ICT level 2 courses wouldn't have to spell out the basics of how to use Outlook (that was funny)

 

[Zed Clampet]

maybe it was the 6 years spent answering windows problems... You know, you get good at figuring out most of them if they aren't yours. Now I just get problems I have not seen before.

Its what I know, I haven't used many others.

Apart from android and BASIC and Python... but that later hasn't been used a lot. And the middle was from 40 years ago. And android is linux... so there I am using it now.

I don't want to change as that time spent answering questions would be even more of a waste of time than it already was.

I mostly leave windows alone, and don't go mad installing loads of programs. That stage happened years ago.

Microsoft have been looking for purpose for years. They missed all the big trends, Mobiles... and so they chased AI and well, its not working so well for them. If mobiles had worked for them, more people would have grown up using it, and ICT level 2 courses wouldn't have to spell out the basics of how to use Outlook (that was funny)

I wouldn't say I go mad with loading tons of programs, but everything is so poorly coded, other than games, that almost any number of programs isn't great unless it's something like Tidal or Discord.

I do install tons of games, but they use Unity or Unreal and don't mess with the system. It's much improved over the way games used to be.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Discovering Microsoft Magnifier was an ongoing curse. It kept popping up without me calling for it. It then immediately crashed, freezing my system for a few seconds. I managed to locate the executable in CMD because Windows refused to let me look in the System folder using File Explorer. I added ".bak" to the end of the executable, so that stops it for now, but I'll have to do that after every Windows update, I suspect.