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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My Windows installation breaks and has to be installed every 9 months on average and its so fun

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Reinstalling Windows hasn’t been fun since Windows 7. The OS already has most drivers and automatically downloads everything else, I miss skimming through pages of drivers to find the correct one.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You're telling me that making a Microsoft account isn't fun? It's truly a process I look forward to. Cortana is literally the friendliest AI ~~waifu~~ assistant I could ever ask for, how can I say no when she asks me to give up my privacy?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Creating a Microsoft account is as easy as “next next done”, where’s the fun in that?.

    Cortana was great on Windows Phone (mostly because I love Jen Taylor’s voice), but they kept taking away features and was basically useless on the desktop which, imho, has no use for an assistant.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sounds like PEBKAC.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Been there, started scripting with PowerShell to have an after-setup-script to change reg entries, install tools (mostly through choco), run them (like dism++ cleanup and o&o shutup10 privacy tweaks) and migrate data from backups. Setting up and migrating took me usually 3-4h of work, sometimes more. With the scripts it's just: Install Windows, update, reboot, update, reboot, run the script, reboot. Done. It's like 30min of work.

    Good thing I changed to linux, cause you can automate the whole process and preseed it into a debian image or kickstart rpm-based distros. It's possible to do customized Windows images too. I have tried a lot of times. It never worked like it was supposed to.