YASB Reborn + GlazeWM = comfy TWM experience on Windows.
Also Vimium for your browser and you'll be on the clickity clacker 90% of the time. Very comfy experience, can recommend.

When I grab a screenshot it saves it in Pictures with a date name. Can I change the naming format? Say Screenshot1, Screenshot2 etc.

>>108718674
I’ve had two 24 hour bans in the past week for debunking shit that Linux zealots make up
It seems you’re allowed to shit on Windows all day long and call users Winjeets etc, but as soon as you call someone a Lincuck back or show them they’re making up bullshit, you get banned.
Not for “instigating or participating in a flame war”, but “trolling”. Linux zealots will literally proxyfag reports for “trolling” to get the truth removed.

>>108719574
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4044199/can-i-change-the-way-windows-11-names-screenshots
Nope, you'll need to use something third-party like ShareX.

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Sex with the print spooler service

>>108720258

imagine having 16-bit xps printing in color

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>>108720258
it's manual start for me

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>>108719997
>go into a freetard safespace made for loontroons so insane not even linux forums or reddit will take them
>get banned for hurting the fee-fees of insane loontroons
Seriously anon, I don't know what you were expecting.

Sophie!

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>Windows 12
>Remove all the telemetry
>Remove the AI
>Make it stable and reliable
>Don't add shitty updates that make it worse for the user
>Release it for free for the first year, charge normal price after year one
There, I just saved Windows and made M$ a ton of money. And you could have asked literally anyone else and they would have said a similar thing. Come on, Microsoft. Get it together already.

>>108719997
get a brain retard
this applies both ways
>>108210467

>>108720673
You just linked a Linux user complaining about "freetards" taking bait.
Right Click - "Translate to Hindi" for next time, so that you can understand it fully.

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hit 93% on Level 2
Not much more I can do without breaking my shit.
God-tier configuration for a home user

95+ is easily possible if I didn't use RDP, Xbox services, Bluetooth, the Store and accessing the computer over the network.
But, you have to compromise somewhere so that your shit works.

>>108720695
>You just linked a Linux user complaining about "freetards" taking bait.
try learning out to read nigger
>>108720673
>this applies both ways
brain dead freetards and wintards like you are the cancer of this board

what secure boot keys do I need to dual boot windows and also use bitlocker and also not brick my motherboard?

>>108720782
>try learning out
gms
>>108720817
update your BIOS to the latest firmware, install default keys in UEFI then configure BL

>>108718674
>No nuance or logic allowed, just primal emotions.
Worse than that, these aren’t even true emotions, because the comments you see aren’t even their own opinions, they’re merely regurgitations of group-think to avoid any community pushback. It’s really the “redditisation” of the internet, in which people have been corralled into espousing only ‘correct’ opinions which are dominated by the most vocal terminally-online individuals. These ‘repeaters’ might even be bots, but that’s really a distinction without a difference if the output is the same. If you want them to scatter, just press them on technical details, but they’re worthless, so it’s even better to ignore the noise. Don’t let them suck the oxygen out of the room.

Microsoft’s reliance on cheap Indian H1Bs is a valid critique, and the aggressive push to force-feed copilot into all of their programs is deserving of derision. Yet, Microsoft’s misteps do not magically result in the Linux Desktop somehow becoming a superior product, it’s still the old bloated monolithic kernel and patch-work Frankenstein OS, a paucity of quality software, and now featuring a fractured Windowing system (X11/Wayland). Even quality FOSS tools like KCad have had a hard time with that one.

>>108720854
I added the linux db and KEK keys. I want to replace the PK but worried it might brick my computer.

>>108720817
You can use the tool sbctl to properly set up secure boot keys for your Linux install that the Windows install will be happy with. And if you're using something Ubuntu or Fedora based you already have a pre-configured shim that deals with secure boot properly without any other work to do. Also remember to disable hibernation in the Windows install so you don't accidentally use fast boot.

is there a way to make push notifications less ugly in 10? i dont like how they look

>>108721376
I already have both windows and arch linux installed. I generated the keys manually. I enrolled the db and the KEK manually using the UEFI firmware and all works well, but I'm really worried of replacing the PK because I'm worried it might brick my computer. I use a thinkpad and the bricking is so bad the arch wiki had a warning about it here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#Using_your_own_keys

the PK is the most important key right? since that's essentially who controls the platform. will replacing the PK also break the KEKs and db's. some say it's ok to remove the MS and keep the lenovo ones. others say the opposite. it's confusing. sbctl says you only need the MS CA 2011 keys to not brick your system but I'm still worried which is why I didn't use sbctl.

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Is Windows 10 the last Windows I'll be able to use or is this just some FUD?

>>108721805
It's FUD. You can easily run 11 on non-supported hardware.
Easiest way is to just use 11 via IoT LTSC 2024 which has very loose requirements.

>>108721815
Thanks. Might try to install that one on one of my other drives just to see if works while I wait for the 2027 one.

>>108721831
IoT LTSC 2027 is indeed shaping up to be a great edition if it includes all the fixes coming from MS's new Windows K2 initiative.

>>108721616
I mean I just used sbctl and it automatically updates my keys via pacman hook every kernel update and I can have secure boot on just fine with a Windows dual boot.

>>108721831
What I did is use MAS to enable ESU on my current GAC W10 install, then I'll switch to IoT LTSC 2027 when it releases

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>>108722771

Is there a way to reliably query the alt+tab grid in Windows? I am using AHK to implement window switching using mouse swiping like you can with the touchpad. It works pretty well, but with the touchpad you have the focus stopping at the end of a grid, meanwhile with my script, since I'm just emitting arrow keys, I wrap around the edges of the grid, which makes it a little harder to focus on a specific window.

>>108722945
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/alt_tab_terminator.html

Microslop should bring back the default image/video/music/e-mail settings from 10, dunno why they've decided to remove it. Piss easy way to quickly assign all of the most common file formats to your program of choice. One step forward and two steps back.

Hello, thread. Dumb question.
I have an M2 SSD and an IDE SSD, both have Windows 11 installed. When I boot up it offers me to choose which Windows I'd like to launch.

BUT

If I remove the M2 SSD from my motherboard BIOS won't even let me choose the IDE one as a bootable option (but it sees it and knows that it exists). What do? Yes, windows was installed on the M2 one first but then I bought the new IDE one and installed windows there from the usb flash device.

>>108723666
Maybe that's one of the things they'll fix during K2? We can dream.

How the FUCK do you write a windows iso to a flash drive from linux?
>Ventoy
confirmed malware
>woeusb-ng
pip keeps fucking up and won't let me even install this
>manually partition and copy files
I followed a step by step guide and it still gave me a black screen when I tried to boot it up.

>>108724013
Ventoy isn't "confirmed malware" dipshit. If you want to make a Windows boot USB on Linux you either need to use Ventoy or make a boot USB manually via formatting a USB as FAT32, moving all the files from an ISO to it (besides install.wim in the sources folder), then downloading wimlib to split the install.wim into two 4GB-aiming .swm pieces and putting them on the USB.

>>108723790
nevermind, googled and fixed it

>>108724099
>Ventoy isn't "confirmed malware"
It 100% is and you're retarded if you don't see it. It's literally using the exact same trick as the xz exploit to shoehorn in unverified binary blobs when you compile it, and the chink creator refuses to acknowledge it.
>make a boot USB manually via formatting a USB as FAT32, moving all the files from an ISO to it (besides install.wim in the sources folder), then downloading wimlib to split the install.wim into two 4GB-aiming .swm pieces and putting them on the USB.
Did all that, didn't work.
I'm probably just gonna find a windows computer and download rufus. Fuck microsoft.

>>108719997
>implying jannies in general just don't do a coin flip on what to do for each post/thread report
Ever read /j/? You can't expect logic from them at all, no matter what board

>>108724160
can't you do that manually with the command line like with diskpart on windows?
you don't need to split shit anyway, no file in the iso is larger than 4GB
before I started to use Rufus I used to do it manually, never had any issues but it might be another story on linux

>>108724195
Current install.wim files are larger then 4GB.

>>108724013
Ask Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview at aistudio.google.com and give it as much as details possible.

>>108724212
Ah, didn't know that, the largest file in my 10 LTSC IoT iso is 3.8GB.
Windows 11 bloat I guess.

>>108724160
>It 100% is
By who? Link a source.

>>108724307
You'd think google would catch on to people using 3.1 Pro unlimitedly through AI Studio.

>>108724320
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224
>Guys stop being mean, I make very good quality software, do not look at the blobs whitu piggu.

>>108724398
Damn, that's still getting new posts. I'm surprised.

>>108724013
>I followed a step by step guide and it still gave me a black screen when I tried to boot it up
Wild guess, but temporarily disable secure boot? You might want to do a registry change within W11's setup environment to circumvent the secure boot check, though (BypassSecureBootCheck DWORD value in HKLM\System\Setup\LabConfig)
>unless you use W11 IoT Enterprise or the LTSC variant thereof

As long as you split the .WIM image to .SWM parts or recompress it with LZMS solid compression as .ESD with wimlib, then copy all of the install medium's contents to a FAT32-formatted drive (make sure the boot and EFI folders/files are copied!), everything should be alright

>had to reinstall Windows
>half my visual customization is gone
fuuuck, I remember for some reason it was a huge pain in the ass to get it working last time (years ago) and now I'm not even sure which one it was anymore, let alone how to get it working again.
I have a huge folder full of visual customization related shit, but I feel like I'm too old to torture myself with trying to figure it all out again

>>108724601
SecureUXTheme is how you can load theming files without Windows getting pissy about it

>>108724609
Thanks man, I'll check it out.

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>>108724106
you're welcome

>>108724601
>>108724609
Everything seems to work fine, except the icons refuse to change. And I remember I used to have the exact same issue when I first did this 5 or so years ago, eventually gave up and then it just randomly started working after a few restarts.
I really can't say I like this OS

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I love Windows!

>>108724160
>>108724398
so which blob is malicious?

Hello. I just put a new 1TB SSD in my notebook and then most of the heavy stuff inside it.
But my Windows isn't searching in it when I try to search files. Does anyone know how I make it so searches include the files in it?

>>108724917
All of them, because surprise surprise, every dipshit that yells "Ventoy is malware" is too incompetent and retarded to actually verify if the blobs are just pre-compiled code the dev put out of laziness, or if it's some proprietary code, or if it's genuine malware. All that matters is that it has proprietary blobs, therefore malware.
>b-but these are literal black boxes compiled code they cannot be read
So is malware yet we've been doing heuristics for decades. Almost as if there are methods to decompile and debug such packages, and Ventoy could be brought to the point where these blobs are eliminated with the project compiling properly. But oh no, that takes skill and effort, something 99% of this board doesn't have so yelling about how it's literally installing a CCP backdoor is all they can muster.

Of course no one raises a stink about the metric fuckton of binary blobs in the Linux kernel used to make it work, and it's automatically assumed to be safe just because it's Linux, so it must be safe. Rules for me, not for thee. Either hold every FOSS project to the same scrutiny or shut the fuck up.

>>108724942
add any directories you want to be searchable to the list of indexed locations

indexing options from the start menu/search box

>>108724957
you basically wrote the quiet part of my post for me, that pretty much covers everything i was planning to respond with. binary blobs are super common in the linux and bsd kernels, they aren't inherently malicious, they usually ended up being used for a particular reason (usually to make some thing work), and complaining about proprietary black box blobs in relation to windows which is almost entirely a black box just seems silly. but i was at least going to hear out what he had to say.

>>108724957
i just blobs is all

>>108724958
I tried didn't work, I restarted the computer and now it says the indexing was deactivated and no matter how many times I click to activate it it doesn't

>>108724957
Just don't bother, freetards are so mindbroken by anything proprietary that even the vaguest hint of it will send them into a frenzy.

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my pagefile has been the same size for months now, should I be worried?

>>108725523
I don't know how freetards stand either GNOME or KDE. Just tried out the latest from Fedora 44, and they are atrocious, each in their own unique ways.

>>108726003
GNOME hasn't been tolerable since like the mid 2000s, that's why there are a fuckton of forks of it, KDE has slowly gotten better over time and it's one of the better options today but yeah it still has issues

>>108725985
not unless you've set it to a max size of 11gb and you're encountering programs crashing from running out of memory. if it's system-managed (which it is by default) then it hasn't grown because it hasn't needed to grow.

>>108726022
GNOME at least looks nice, and the applications seem more performant than most of the KDE variants, it's just missing too much. Dynamic resolution matching for RDP clients for instance, something I take for granted with Windows, but is currently not possible with GNOME/wayland. Yet another entry into my list of 'blockers' preventing any potential switch.

>>108726003
I gave KDE a try because it's the most Windows-like, but man it's so boring and clunky out of the box, and every attempt to customize it is so painful. In the end I just settled for Cinnamon, it's still boring but it's more straight forward than KDE

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>Microsoft STEALS yet another feature from Linux
How the fuck can you steal a feature from an OS? So can I scream about how every Linux DE steals Windows' taskbar and start menu? Oh wait, it's okay when THEY do it. And apparently it's impossible to report on Windows without comparing it to Linux and vice versa despite how many times Linuxfags declare they're not Windows.

I hate journoscum so fucking much. They're only getting more and more brazen with their ragebait bullshit.

>>108726238
theft! how shameless! how SCANDALOUS!

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I really need to find a better news source. Or just figure out how not to read anything online nowadays
https://www.techpowerup.com/348651/microsofts-internal-initiative-to-fix-windows-11-dont-rush-features-out-the-door
Every single comment is just hoping Microsoft crashes and burns so that more people switch to Linux, which is just a fucking silent admission that the only way people will switch to that shitheap that makes the jeet shit covered NT layer cake look like a marvel of software engineering is if there's zero competition. And the Star Wars reaction pic just caused something to die inside me.

This complete brain drain of the Internet, plus the approaching global ID verification, and everything else going on in the tech world. Maybe it's time to build that shed.

>>108726238
That Colonel is going to be PISSED when he catches the thief.
>>108726273
A lot of these people are bots, thirdies, or just group-think afflicted idiots. It is annoying to read the same nonsense day in and day out, but the silver lining is this will reach Microsoft investors forcing them to improve.

>>108726238
>an OS based entire on IP theft from UNIX, MS, and Applel cries theft
lol
lmao even

>>108726447
And Windows NT is based on IP theft from IBM and their OS/2. Except adults call it "derived from" or "inspired by", not "stolen", as if this one OS has the sole ownership of intellectual property of UI design and functionality. Not to mention this journoscum mentions KDE and GNOME, the two biggest (and therefore shitties) DE's that go out of their way to copycat Windows.

I miss times when people actually had discussions.

>>108720258
kek

>>108726273
don't read comments expecting anything outside of this shit, people are just venting and are generally very very dumb
no wonder youtubers saying they're reading the comments of their videos almost always end up depressed

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The April 2026 Windows non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, version 25H2 & 24H2.

https://support.microsoft.com/help/5083631

is there a release date for all the fuss for the new ms effort to make their OS less retarded by default? their next feature update? "26h2"?

>>108727414
Nothing concrete has been specified.

Any browsers that save history forever? I was using Vivaldi and it started deleting the oldest entries after my history file grew to 400MB. I realized too late after seeing all my browsing history from 2021-2023 wiped out, then backed up the file and started a new one, but its already at 100MB after just 4 months and I don't trust it anymore.

>>108727555
Chromium based browsers even if history is set to forever be kept will still clip some entries to keep performance.
Firefox through an about:config change can keep as much history as you want without it trimming anything until the file literally breaks.

>>108727421
ok thanks

>>108727555
on firefox a config change is enough
on chromium based browsers : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/history-trends-unlimited/pnmchffiealhkdloeffcdnbgdnedheme?hl=en

>>108727320
Any issues? I usually never install previews but might with this

>>108719322
>>W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2027
>Same as W11 version except:
>UI being rewritten in native WinUI
>ETA: 2027H2
Is this actually true?
Because I might actually give it a chance if it is

>>108727957
As of now yes there's a high chance that the fixes coming to 11 via the Windows K2 initiative will be included in IoT LTSC 2027.

>>108727959
why did it take them 5 years to realize stuff that literally everybody has been telling them since release?

>>108727973
Blinded by AI hype. Now they've been burned by no one liking the forced Copilot integrations or everything being a web wrapper MS actually created a new team with a head that's been around since the Ballmer days to basically give 11 its "Second Edition" like they did with 10 and its Vibranium updates.

>>108727973
MS is huge, this stuff is filtered so the Clevels don't even know there is an issue, especially when some of them are pet projects of this or that manager and when the company itself swims in cash so there is no incentive to look in detail.
Companies that are both huge and able to pivot fast are very rare, Nvidia, maybe Apple, and a few others, but certainly not many.

>>108727320
let's fucking go

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>>108727870
perfect.

>>108726273
I'm somewhat playing devil's advocate, but there's a good argument that Microsoft deserve the scorn for diminishing a useful product at their users expense, firing the QA teams, replacing American workers with cheap Indian labour, and trying to shoehorn Copilot into every one of their products. I don't really like the linux desktop, find the community (and their politics) largely insufferable, but I do see value in more users migrating there because it will cause a counter reaction which should result in a better Windows. Afterall, the onus is on Microsoft to entice customers to stay rather than on passively obedient customers refusing to leave.

>>108720258
jej

>>108726476
>And Windows NT is based on IP theft from IBM and their OS/2.
More of DEC VMS/MICA, to be fair
https://neilrieck.net/docs/Windows-NT_is_VMS_re-implemented.html
hence this was why they had to port NT to the Alpha, train their employees and pay DEC some royalties as part of the settlement
https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_alliance_with_legal_threat

>>108724348
I still get hit with rate limits though

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This was supposed to make Explorer faster and what-not, I don't feel the difference at all and Explorer still flashes white when making a new tab. Love it.

>>108729753
Almost all the changes in that update are under gradual rollout. You have to wait for Microsoft to enable it for you or use Vivetool.

>>108730117
I used Vivetool, same thing, nothing is different. Triple checked everything, it's the same.

>>108719322
Are there any insider builds for "K2" yet?

>>108730391
Are you also using Native Nvme?

I have a Lunar Lake laptop and going to do a fresh install. Is Win 11 the only option due to the scheduler meme?

>>108730743
Use IoT LTSC 2024.