Thursday, September 18, 2025
A new-to-me PC is installed,
and on some points Windows 11 is a PITA. For instance, unless you know to change some settings, anything you save, or copy over, can get 'saved' to Onedisk. Screw that noise. Some other things are different, enough that it's a pain to find what you're looking for until you get used to it. I swear, they look for things they can make difficult.
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The easiest way to get around that would have been to set it up as a local account when you first did your set up. Not linking it to a M$ account is essential - though they are making that harder and harder every update.
It took me hours to get my co-worker's laptop out of "S-Mode" and set-up as a local account. Lots of digging through tech forums looking for the latest bypass work around.
My problem right now is I want to get my own Amazon account, so I am not using my wife's. The issue is I can't finish set-up without having a cell phone. The scam that is two-factor-authorization is preventing me from completing the process. Their loss. Guess I'll just keep buying things off eBay.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Oh my, yes! New and improved! As it has ever been with Microflacid. I'm going to pay the $30 extortion to extend support lite for my Win 10. Also more than annoying, Win 11 is not compatible with my ancient suite of Office 2007, which I, not them, have the bloody CD's for.
Yeah, I hate Microsoft and their products. With a new computer, I usually just blow it off and reload the OS clean. That way you get to set it up how you want instead of how the dealer sold it to you.
Seems like every time they "upgrade" Windows, all the things they change or get rid of are the things I liked about it over other operating systems. They're trying to convince Mac people to switch to windows by making windows more like Mac which is making people who prefer Windows not like it any more.
Genius.
So...I have an old Macbook air (2015 model). Still works great, but can't run the current version (or several previous versions) of MacOS. I took the plunge...wiped the hard drive and installed Linux Mint. https://linuxmint.com/
Wow. I like it a lot. That's what I'm typing this on right now.
It's not like the old days where you had to be a computer engineer to figure out how to install and configure it...it installs pretty painlessly now.
There were a couple of hardware things that I struggled to get to work at first, but that's because Mac hardware is...odd...sometimes...but a few minutes on the Linux Mint forum and I had a solution and got it working. Other than that, installation was painless even on a 10 year old computer.
The User Interface is similar enough to Windows and Mac interfaces that it took virtually no time to figure it out and get used to it. I'm sold.
I can see sticking with Windows if you have to because there's some software or something that isn't available for Linux, but for the vast majority of your needs, Linux is great and will do everything you need.
It's fast, runs on older hardware and doesn't cost you a dime, and there is open source software out there for pretty much anything you might possibly need to do with a computer.
And, no...I'm not getting paid to shill for Linux...I'm just a convert who thinks others could benefit from switching.
Here's a cool feature: You can install it onto a thumb drive, boot to that (assuming your computer will allow booting from USB) and try it out before you take the plunge.
I was actually a little hesitant at first because I'd tried older versions of Linux years ago and never really like it. So, when I decided to try this, I set it up in dual boot mode, Linux Mint and MacOS. That way if I didn't like it I could always go back.
Within a couple of weeks I realized I wasn't using MacOS any more and decided I didn't want to waste half my hard drive space on an OS I wasn't using. Backed up my Linux settings, wiped the hard drive, reinstalled Linux, restored my settings and have never looked back.
Yes. I have a couple of Windows 7 machines I keep around, simply because I intend to get my money's worth out of the Office 2013 suite.
Otherwise, I've been Linux Mint since Windoze dropped support for Win 7, and I never could make friends with Win10 and it's "do it our way or else" ways.
That is why my new windows machine has been converted to Linux.
Thanks, guys, I'll have to consider that.
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