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I was a poor young man, I refused to pay $100 to put windows on a hard drive I had installed into a hand-me-down desktop.

I found linux and made it work, through thick and thin. As a lazy jackass i somehow got skyrim to work through wine via copied and pasted terminal commands. wintetricks and all, i found it wildly difficult. Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.

I have only ever attempted to make a linux ISO bootable drive through windows that one time, more than ten years ago. My wife was given a laptop with windows 11 installed and I wanted to install firefox.

what, the actual fuck, is "S" mode?

ctrl-alt-t "install that shit"!

A computer should not come with a subscription baked in. That's trash. The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it and/or the walled gardens it hasn't found its way into yet. The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.

Thank you to all of the homies that make the weird and sometimes uncomfortable linux/ open-source community work. You guys are the shit.

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Imagine turning Windows into an even shittier version of itself, and you've got S mode.

Can't install shit unless it's from the MS Store. Can't use a browser unless it's Edge. Not sure what other stupid shit it enforces. It's supposed to harden the system, but I find that hard to believe.

[–] notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

S is operationally analogous to using a Chromebook.

There are people who will never need more than that.

We are not these people...

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Nobody should be those people. Those people are constantly giving the industry a reason to water everything down and make things as overpriced and limited as possible.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, like a "stable" mode? Honestly it makes sense from a user support perspective. More locked down, more predictable, easier to secure. In the same way that you can't hack a brick, and similarly useful.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking a "shit" mode but "stable" does sound nicer lol.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Heh, I'm probably in the minority, but I like the idea of different windows "modes". I've long wanted msft to make versions of windows for different users rather than a one-size-fits-all product. I just wanted it because I'm a power user who wanted something more stripped down and configurable, not a boomer who wants something that won't act as a conduit between my ignorance and scammers.

But it's cool, they can do whatever they want with windows now, they've made it clear they don't want me as a user.