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Oh man, I remember the days, probably getting close to 20 years ago now, when I also had programs installing themselves into my computer that I didn't authorize myself. I thank the efforts of the Linux inventors, engineers, and the community, for making my life better ever since the switch.
If you think that is pointless, remember that whenever a program closed unexpectedly, Windows would offer to "find a solution online". I have never seen that shit work in my life
Windows troubleshooter has never fixed a single problem for me.
It can reset a network adapter but that the only time I've seen it do anything useful
Yeah but its usually faster just to reboot the machine instead of letting it dick around with itself.
Now with SSDs it is but back in the day it took approximately 3 businesses days for my gaming rig to boot up.
I recently discovered windows actually has a set of far more specific troubleshooters which actually provide useful information about a problem but you have to dig around in legacy settings to find them.
you have to dig around in legacy settings
Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the 'modern' control panels that barely work at all.
Windows asked me what app I wanted to open a .jpeg with last week.... Just fucking pick one, it's a jpeg.
You got it
opens WordPad
Wordpad has been depreciated. Please purchase Microsoft wordpad365™
windows also occasionally has stokes like media player thinking for a solid 5s and deciding it's unable that file format (mp3), but then you close it and try again and a miracle! it opens
Funny you say that. I never touch media player because vlc exists but on my work pc I tried to play a video file someone sent me from their iPhone and it defaulted to media player which promptly demanded I pay 4$ for a codec. I just closed it and opened the video in vlc instead. I could understand not including codecs for some weird formats but it was a fucking iPhone video.
i use media player when i need to listen to 20 barely different background drone sounds to pick one from as it opens the fastest (apart from the times when it doesn't)
but yeah to open anything that is a """strange""" codec i use VLC too
Yup and iPhones use a patented codec (HEVC) by default. No care for compatibility.
Yeah I don't care about the reason. They're making more money than God. They can figure it out.
Big-micro soft-brain move.
It's prob not even the first time they did it.
That's the Microsoft difference!™
Microsoft: 'helping' whether you need it or not since 1998.
The Snip tool is moving!
Til it's discontinued. I think I opened that program exactly once
I forgot it existed, because I stopped using the windows start menu after whatever Win 10 did to it. Been using Launchy or just adding it on my desktop.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
It's true, I always upvote people spreading the good word
I always upvote people who always upvote people spreading the good word
You'll laugh but FreeCAD did this exact thing to me on Arch and even worse it did not only associate itself with 3D files, it associated itself with everything that did not have a default set.
Weird Video format? FreeCAD.
Text file with weird file extension? FreeCAD.
Binary File? FreeCAD!
I mean, FreeCAD is a bit of a step-headed red child.
That is true, but sadly the only CAD (besides the very limited Tinkercad) that works under Linux without costing a Kidney
I thought people only ever run Neofetch on Arch.
It's fastfetch now, but yes, we do, when we are not checking for new package updates
Well I had my knee high socks in the wash that day....
I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.
Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.
Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.
“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os” y tho
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
I learned how to edit text pixel by pixel in paint 3d.
I had been skipping out on classes and while I was technically still passing my grades weren't high enough for something my family was doing so I just made a few minor edits. I don't even remember what it was for. Probably a ski trip or something.
They never found out lol.
I used my pixel level editing skills to get a few friends outta some things or into some things.
I'm one of the few people who liked paint 3d I guess.
Out of all the shit Microsoft does, Paint3D is actually ok. I remember it having a cool 3d pen tool.
Microsoft had relatively interesting ideas concerning 3D and VR content, then proceeded to do an extremely mediocre execution, simultaneously dumbing everything down while also making it hard to use, and then proceeded to discontinue their software after almost never touching it again for seven years
I have a Reverb G2 (windows mixed reality headset), it is really a good headset and is still competitive with the Quest 3 in several areas for use on PC. The WMR software itself isn't that bad and I think if it had more care and attention put into it it could genuinely have been great. If they had better home options, user created homes, more customization and the ability to fix things in place so you don't accidentally move them, the ability to add (even just user created) minigames and dynamic objects that stay in the world, and (most importantly) the ability to actually invite other people into the space to play with you and launch into other games. They're Microsoft, they were large enough and early enough that I'm sure they could even have gotten game developers on board with some protocol that automatically brings people you're playing with into a multiplayer session of whatever game you start. I think they were onto something with their home system and could have fleshed the software out into something much better than even the modern competition. Of course it's all discontinued now, the latest version of Windows doesn't even support it, I plan to continue to use the old version until it stops getting security patches in 2026 and then switch to Linux where hopefully the open source people will finally fully support using controllers.
I'm in the same boat, assholes trying to brick a $500 headset that is only 3 years old.
Right click the file, go to settings and change the default program for the file. That's a one time change.
It just doesn't need to be done in the first place though
Clearly it does, but it shouldn’t.
Unless it's the default browser, then you might have to do it every time Windows updates
Installed Windows 8.1. Ran some core updates. Updated drivers. Cleaned and debloated it a bit (it didn't have much). For some reason Windows Update installed Microsoft Edge version 84 and jumpscared me to make it the default browser.
they really wanted me to be an edge user no matter if it was outdated
