That's not 100% true. Sometimes I want to do stupid things like run dolphin as Root, but it just says no and then I realize "oh yeah that's dumb, I shouldn't do that"
Actully you can sudo any application. Its just can be very dangerous as you might break your own OS or just fuck up one of your drive since you can litarly DELETE the ROOT with sudo @@s01itarygaming
I get tired of my computer asking me to do anything that I didn't ask it to do. Either just do it or shut up! You need me to log in? Then don't do it and don't fucking ask me!
@@jessiemoore3094I heard it in his voice and didn't even realise it was his voice until I read this comment. Thought it was some military chief from a movie or something. But nope. James Woods.
Thank you! I'm soooo glad I'm not the only one who noticed! Didn't stop my circles from downplaying it, how I'm a conspiracy theorist, etc. Word usage is the first clue into how people are thinking, their motivations and mindset. Ask/ watch any detective interrogation or freaking Judge Judy clone and it's the same thing.
''I AM THE DAMN ADMIN'' Is something I have screamed at my pc way more times than it should be necessary. I absolutely hate when windows takes control away from me or locks something.
Arch Linux let's you truly be the admin of your machine. I don't even have a display manager on my machine, I prefer being sent straight to the terminal where I can log in as root or my user. If I want to use GUIs in a Desktop Environment I have multiple to choose from that are all a single command away
linux seems good, but it also sounds like extra work. I already have things running the way I want to rn, and even when I'll get a new machine I'm not particularly excited to switch to Linux. There is a time investment learning new OS and if you're not a CS guy then doing standard windows things will be additional headache, especially since most sites and guides expect you to run windows.
@@ultimate9056yeah but then you have to deal with being the Linux equivalent of a vegan - how do you know if someone’s a vegan/uses Arch? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
@@Link-channel not wrong. The last really good product (well consumer facing product) they had was MSN messenger, which they killed for Skype and somehow turned 2 really good communications products into 1 really hearty dumpster fire 🔥
@kyaban5192 - FR, then you go thru this menu - and the only purpose of it - is to add MS Account if none is on PC just yet and a bunch of ads with begging from Microsoft to collect more data from you
Settings > system > notifications > additional setting: "suggest ways to get the most out of windows and finish setting up this device" turn this shit off o7
"I'm the administrator of the machine" You stopped being one when the content manager of your computer was renamed from "my computer" to "this computer"
That is actually made correct way I think. A lot of "administrators" of their PC don't know how windows works, and even people who know what they are doing can sometimes delete things accidentaly. And you can still do the thing you want to do if you really want - it just require few more steps
@@Daniel_VolumeDown I get you, some people don't know what they are doing, BUT I make the joke because I AM and ADNIM and yet even to me with every update to windows they make it harder and harder to do my job as I need find a new raoundabout way to do the most basic shit as it's blocked by default
@@AiToYumeNoKaze I mean to me this can be solved easily with either just a basic warning pop up saying Hey maybe don't do this? or having a setting you can change to from more inexperienced user to experienced user setting
There is a *GULF* between 'user doesn't know what they're doing and deleting things' and needing to force takeown icacls to make windows *actually* stop running telemetry after you already told it to stop through the normal service settings and the OS opted to ignore your commands.
On top of this, if you didn't realize what it was doing, when you DO go remove it, all those files just disappear into the ether because you had the audacity to be like 'storage technology has advanced far enough that I'd like to keep all required information for my programs on my pc, please.'
It makes me absolutely crazy that they put programs in that try to stop you from uninstalling or deleting them. It tells me someone said "people will not want this thing we made and we need a way to keep them from getting rid of it," which is such a baffling attitude to have toward customers.
Because 99% of consumers have zero clue what they are doing outside the standard settings window. Microsoft has to idiot proof everything to stop them from bricking their own computers.
@@Josh-dm5sx incorrect. Onedrive was constantly whining and moaning about the measly 5GB being full, when it tried to upload my games and save data. When I deleted it, it uploaded my photos. When I deleted them, I found that it deleted them off my machine: permanently. It deleted stuff off my machine, and there was no option to stop the backup, or at the very least only delete from the cloud. Worthless.
Unless there is something I'm missing, I can't edit the name of a Word doc in Word unless it's uploaded to OneDrive. I have to close it, go into my files, and change the name there. I successfully managed to make them not auto upload to OneDrive, but now have to deal with other crap that should be a fucking baseline function.
@@oshawott4544you might be doing something wrong on setup (like choosing express setup, which would include everything by default). My Onedrive specifically only saves and syncs one singular folder that I designated. Everything else, be it the Pictures, Videos, or Downloads folder, it leaves untouched on my PC.
@@genericname4583but then you’ll just have to buy a new one in like a year because it sucks again. Or you could spend 1500 on a good PC and have it for 5+ and it’s upgradable
@@genericname4583nope , they are more expensive , the only way you are getting a good deal on a laptop is second hand , a laptop 4090 isn't much better than a desktop 4060 ti for example. Depends what you need a computer for but desktop wins over laptop in basically everything except maybe power efficiency and portability. Laptops have worse components because they lack proper cooling solutions and have to operate in a smaller space with less air than a desktop pc. If you compare a 1000$ pc and a 1000$ laptop then the laptop is just a sad deal.
All I can think of in situations like this is Hades from Disney's Hercules going, "ah yes, but you see we seem to have forgotten one Itty bitty ever so slightly important little detail. I OWN YOU!!!"
This is so relatable. I'm still mad that the most control over Windows goes to Enterprise customers and that you can't even get that copy unless you're buying 200 seats or something. Everyone else gets ever increasing levels of ads, snooping, and loss of agency over the OS.
After getting a new PC I opened up my old one to transfer the last bit of files and I got a popup on boot that asked me to "finish setting up windows". I had that pc for like 6 years and used it every day. And I never bothered to even read what it was asking me to do (I actually couldn't even tell you now). I just clicked 'remind me in 2 weeks', every 2 weeks, for over half a decade.
Same 😂. Then on my new one I built it myself so my windows isn't activated and I keep it locked in the corner of my SSD with no internet connections so I can occasionally run software Linux doesn't.
If a person bothers you like that, it's called harassment. If corporations are people, we should be able to file class action lawsuits against them when they harass their users like this.
@zachgoldwater957 or its more you that's the mongo. Microsoft faced pretty much exactly that in the EU and was forced to make pretty much everything opt in. Unlike the US where you people think you've got rights but actually don't.
You cant sue them for that because it isnt classified as harassment. You buy windows, agreeing to everything in the process. You use windows, agreeing once again. Its their product. As long as it isnt violating your rights, they have all the rights to permanently push these "features" on you. I myself dont like windows too, but i hate linux and macos even more, so i have to use it. Really waiting for something new to come on top and be the new meta os
Honestly, I find it amusing how people talk about how they won't switch to Linux because it's hard, meanwhile I am still having Vietnam flashbacks from trying to turn off Drive and removing Edge from the desktop shortcuts.
Solving problems on linux is some googling, couple commands and MAYBE writing a forum post if you're extra fcked. Solving windows "problems" (aka convolutions) is like walking trough a minefield, but instead of mines theres bloated menus that give you brain damage when you look at them
@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg I also enjoy indie. Lately I have been playing a lot of Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight and Inscryption. I also recently bought Slay the Spire and I spent hundreds of hours already on Darkest dungeon. All of those work great on Linux natively. I am not saying everything will work fine, but in my experience, Linux is alright for my gaming needs since I enjoy retro and indie single player experiences.
Oh hey! Irony is a thing isn't it? Y'know... they also named their AI Assistant Cortana, right after Halo 5 release. Dark humor isn't always dark humor. Sometimes it's only called that when looking back. Hindsight is always 20:20 right?
@@primary2630 no shit. Cortana was in the first halo game.... hence irony to name their actual ai assistant Cortana anyway with all the AI controversy going on now.
I hate when I want to change something and MY computer tells ME I don’t have the rights to do what I want, and so I need to jump through whatever loops I need to jump through to be given the damn rights to do what I want with MY machine
The sad thing is, the machine is ours but the OS is actually theirs. They are technically right. But I still own the machine so I get to say what it is available for, even if I have to break stuff to stop things. Technically not wrong. But nowadays, I'm just on Linux already - took out the whole windows to stop it from doing stuff I didn't want
@@kapperbeastYT that was definitely a managerial decision. There's no way the designers went "let's ignore desktop in favor of pushing something that only works with our new tablet"
I'm confused as to what you mean by this? Do you find it terrifying the concept of privileges in software? Are you RMS from 40 years ago coming to warn us?
Also wondering what you mean by this..? A user account on a computer with settings that allow full control is an administrator. It's like the opposite of a child's account with limited privileges. There's nothing terrifying here, unless someone is worrying about if they get hacked. In that case you can use another account for everyday tasks that is limited, but YOU still have the power to login as administrator, and have control over your machine. Surprised to see this getting upvotes unless people just don't understand the word.
Just to explain what I mean... I've recently decided to blindly attempt jumping to Linux from Windows. I made an Ubuntu server to get a feel for how to use linux so I can adapt easier when windows decides it's a good idea to put ads in the splash screen or something and everyone decides to abandon it. One of the things I've learned with using Linux is that "sudo" (short for "super user do", a command that will execute the proceeding command as an administrator or "super user") is and always should be something to be afraid of putting before any command, as one mistake while operating as an administrator can result in bricking the machine, or worse. For windows, it's less scary, because even admins in windows have to deal with windows saying no sometimes as seen with this short. You just can't fully kill OneDrive or Cortana... but you can still do a lot to your machine as an admin, where permission to do anything will almost always be granted at that level. Only very few things should need to be done with admin access. If something can run just fine at a user level, it's probably best to only run it as a user. If you aren't afraid of just how much power "Run as Admin" actually has then you probably don't yet know the extent for what it can really do.
@@Boomerkbom57it's a 2013 meme based off of a still image from the movie "Captain Phillips". You can search for "Look At Me, I'm The Captain Now" for more info.
@@ElimGarak_DS9I can read but for some reason when I read that the voice in my head said you were thinking about TMNT and I'm not completely disappointed with the alternative
I ran away from windows to Mint couple Weeks ago, i love it. Using the tiny11 partition for some games that dont like linux or have higher framerates on windows.
Exactly this, but you don't even have to trust repacks because there are guides out there to do everything straight from a fresh Win10 ISO... Plus you can choose what windows version you use, and a little birdy told me that Win10 LTSC IOT edition has way less bloat (even without modifications) and security updates through to 2032 (unlike the normal editions)
This is the reason why people tired of this shit install Linux and never go back. I did this after my brief encounter with the brand-new Windows Vista.
@heinzjoel-gabsrinth211SteamDeck uses a version/distribution of Linux with people having no real issues operating it. Still a niche market with Linux, but this shit is bad even for normies with Windows that if the user experience keeps dipping as it is people will begin flocking to Apple and Linux in droves.
@heinzjoel-gabsrinth211 I didn't say it with any tone suggesting normie as an insult, just that most people aren't power users as is the characterization for Linux users. I was making the distinction for the opposites of the user spectrum. Most people are computer illiterate with younger generations increasingly so, they'll go to conventions where game demos are available with consoles and PC with them not knowing how to operate a freaking mouse and keyboard 🤦🏻♂️ Yes, for now Windows is secure, but given time in this decade was what I'm suggesting. There could be a shift that precedes a massive emigration to other platforms. The real key point is whether AIO's start picking up steam. Windows PC repairs would be as egregious as Apple or Tesla with you basically needing to buy a whole new unit, but the barrier to entry is substantially lower towards idiot proofing due to not needing to worry about several parts.
12 years in IT and I feel this so hard. Windows 7 and windows 10 were where I spent most of my time. I wrote scripts to install software, and that always meant finding hacks around the latest stupid thing Microsoft was trying to force on us. Cortana was a nightmare when it first landed because it would get upset over not having an internet connection on Corporate PCs that were never going to have internet access..
Haha, it’s cute that you think they’ll ask 😛 at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they pushed it as a normal update to every machine. Windows 11 the world, all at once!!
@@TheFinalMBThat’s what they did going to 10 from 7. I had to get a 3rd-party program that was created solely to hide/block that specific update so that it wouldn’t try to install _yet again_ on that machine. Then my ex kicked me out, so I copied off all my files and uninstalled my games, and left that old-ass computer for her to use. (It was about 10 years old at that point, and I was the only one with the knowledge & skills to fix it whenever it stopped working.)
Man windows 11 is a freaking dumpster fire, i got a 6 grand pc that sometimes runs like crap because windows 11 decides to screw everything up. Its a nightmare, nothing but issues constantly, windows 10 is superior
It's funny because they also ask me that even tho my pc doesn't support Windows 11. Don't remember what it was but i built it myself and its good for gaming and everything else so i don't see why i should put anything more into it just to upgrade to a worse windows
I've figured out what a lot of my mew windows issues are about. I used to use Window 7 Professional and Windows 10 Professional. The free Windows 11 upgrade was just for the "Home" version. So I'm quite literally cut off from things I used to do all the time.
Massive personal pet peeve. I AM THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR. Do not tell me i need permissions. I have permissions. I built the machine from boxes of parts. I am your God, Machine, and you must obey.
Then stop complaining and go click the box that changes permission to allow you to change it. It’s not that hard. Also theres more stupid people who shouldn’t be poking in those fingers than there are people who know they are playing with fire and do it anyways
That's precisely why I finally switched to linux after like 15 years of putting it on old laptops and whatnot. The (relatively) recent improvements to proton have had me thinking about it for awhile, but the steam deck convinced me. Then windows being windows convinced me further.
So many steam games work on Linux, too, even if not officially supported. My main gaming rig is running Pop!OS. Linux Mint is normally my go to Linux OS at home but i wanted to try something new. Pop configured my nvidia card automatically. With the AI stuff coming to windows and the potential for spying even higher IMO, now was a good time to switch my last windows box.
@@john849ww that's pretty much how I felt too. I chose bazzite though. Mainly because they're trying to be steamOS on desktop. Immediately the change was noticeable, and refreshing. I went with the gnome version just to make it even more dramatic of a switch. I also have an Nvidia card, which factored into my decision as well. Idk why, but I always really enjoy those first couple days of setting everything up, and configuring it to your personal tastes. And it's so much less bloaty, no unnecessary bs running in the background. The main reason I've always liked linux better is the transparency, and user freedom. Feels like I just escaped a penal colony. Games even run better now than they were before. I know everyone says that, but I did a system refresh on windows a lil under a year ago, and afterwards it felt like it was stuck in power saving mode, or downclocked. I know it's nothing special, but a 2060 shouldn't be struggling to run games at a stable framerate. Horizon chugged for me, no matter what I did, and often times my steam deck was outperforming my desktop.
meanwhile on linux you tap the sign that says "i own you" and it goes "r-right away boss, executing rm -rf / with admin privileges, you know best!" and i prefer it this way
@@ChristopherHallett I've been using Linux for five years now. It's probably been three years since the last time a Steam game didn't just work the first time I hit play, and the last time it didn't work I went to protondb and there was a post saying "add this to the optional settings" and then it worked without issue. It's not 2010 anymore, Linux gaming is basically perfect unless the developer deliberately blocks the game from running on Linux.
@@ChristopherHallett I have 110 steam games in my steam library and 106 of them work perfect on Linux without an issue, i never had to code any drivers myself you don't even know what you are talking about
And then you try to play a game and it either doesn't work or take an hour of troubleshooting to make it work. Bloatware on microsoft sucks but atleast I know my stuff is always going to run with minimum headaches
man, working in IT is like being Sisyphus. You get one thing planned out to work as a repetitive smooth operation and along comes Microsoft to destroy your SOP with their asinine updates. Suddenly you get so many extra dumb calls because MS ruins the flow of work for the less technically inclined employees
This is amazing. Because i just argued with one of your fans the other day on a short who said that this just isnt true. They said none of this is forced on people. And I respectfully told them to tell that to the dozens of my customers who i have to remove onedrive for. Feels so good to be vindicated.
One day OneDrive signed up to my Microsoft account without my knowledge. It then moved the entire Documents folder from my PC to OneDrive. Then it complained that I was using too much OneDrive space and that I would lose my files if I didn't upgrade my free subscription
You could just not use OneDrive. Sure it's there but Windows won't tell you to use it or force you to use it. It's just there if you do want to use it. I have yet to have Cortana to pop up to do something at all for me.
@@Zefar77 oneDrive would pop up for me on a daily basis saying “hey! You haven’t finished setting up your PC!” One time I accidentally clicked a single button, and it immediately started uploading my entire computer to OneDrive. I tried manually overriding OneDrive, and it didn’t let me. I then tried to restore my computer to a previous point, and it bricked my computer. After two months of troubleshooting, I still haven’t been able to get it to work again. OneDrive is absolutely forced down your throat every single day you use your computer. And once you start, it is damn near impossible to override.
@@Zefar77 windows 11 automatically backs up all your user folders in onedrive, and treats onedrive as authoritative when it comes to the contents of your user files, meaning when i delete the contents of onedrive, it deletes them on my computer. It also bugs you when you run out of onedrive space to store your local files on. It is also a pain in the ass to disable and still doesn't remove it fully.
@@drothicyaaresh6915this is terrifying to hear! Does Windows 10 so the naturally as well? I've refused to upgrade to 11 and this is only adding more reason for me not to
First lesson I learned with Windows 10 was to never associate your system account with your Microsoft account. Keep 'em separate (i.e. use a local-only account) and you can block half this crap permanently. Hoo boy does Windows try very hard to force you to use a Live account though.
The 4 R’s of Windows: Retry, restart, reboot, reinstall … and there used to be RedHat, but personally I’d take a Debian based distribution over a soft hat.
@@not_kode_kun Tarkov is the only reason I went back to Windows, and I haven't played it in awhile-- but I get this urge to come back each wipe, or every other wipe at least... lol
@@not_kode_kunthat's even a plus to regular users. League of legends is a meth level addiction, anything that doesn't let you play league of legends is a positive influence in your life.
@@ZealothPL at the point where you regularly have to change registers and creating bat files, trust me, arch is for you and it just works. If it doesn't you can fix it. Just like you fixing Windows.
Yeah. Thor often says operating systems are just tools when Linux comes up on the chat. Well my tool doesn't try to grow tentacles up my ass when I'm not looking at it
User: can i delete edge? Windows: nO yOu cANT DelEtE edge, YoUR sysTEM wiLL BreAK! User: can i delete the bootloader? Linux: if you are admin,sure you can
I wanna say "don't delete the bootloader pls," but if you even know what that is, you're probably only doing it with a specific purpose in mind, so have at it lol.
The dev's then figure out that the loot he's ment to drop, can't be found by the games code, so they say "Fuck it, we're changing his loot table. He now drops a batch of files that, if the player looks at them, just says things like 'Murder Cortana', 'Murder OneDrive'."
Very true, I've already promised myself when Win10, which I really hate as is, forces me to go to 11, Linux will stop being a boot option and be default.
@@Link-channel better until another one update dont broke something) Better until you use only server version without gui and window manager. Linux only better for servers without gui. Desktop linux with gui is terrible expirience with ton of bugs.
@@HazzyHazeI KVM / virt-manager in Ubuntu. It uses a simulated software TPM chip, which worked with the Win11 pro installer. (I installed without microsoft account, using the OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick) I think this means I can move the VM to another machine without Windows complaining about changing TPM chip.
This! This is the best argument I’ve heard regarding something wrong with windows. This is my genuine issue with using it as a fairly basic user. Idc about whatever else there is that people say makes Linux better; the issue is that windows needs to force its users to use their random services no matter how useless or annoying it is for the user.
Me not being Thor level smart on computers trying to disable these things has lead to me bricking my entire system and having to wipe everything and starting fresh more times than I can count 😵💫
You sounds like my wife fighting with her Samsung phone. She deletes all the apps she doesn't need then every time there is an update it re-installs all of them, then she's forced to delete them all over again
My absolute biggest gripe about my samsung is the forced bloatware, although I don't think a single phone/computer company doesn't do that since they get paid for it
This is a point I want to speak out about!, Why is there no "Blank OS" anywhere.. I'll pay extra for it. We can download anything we want.. Why force things on us?
Unless your wife has rooted her phone and is hacking her phone's base image, those apps aren't actually getting uninstalled anyway. All you can do with the apps that came with the phone's image is remove any updates to those apps installed on top of the image, and disable the apps. All that's happening to your wife is that the built-in apps are getting re-enabled upon each major OS update. Which I suppose isn't all too surprising, especially with the way some of the OneUI components work together...
@@c.mcdermoGoogle and Motorola are actually pretty light on bloatware on their phones. With google, you're basically getting stock android, with Motorola, you're basically getting stock Android with a very few Motorola UI-options slapped on top (like support for additional gestures and the like, etc.).
@@Kopenhagen23same. I want to *STANGLE THE LIFE OUT OF EVERY SOUL WHO DECIDED THE ADWARE FUCKING MESS WINDOWS DRAGS IN AND MORE* but I can't. Wonder if I could get a European edition of windows 10 though... So I can have the 10 stuff but non of it's HALF OF MY FUCKING RAM bullshit.
When installing windows you can add what's called an autounattend file, which let's you customise your install. It's not too difficult, there's a couple videos showing you how to do it, one of the things it let's you do is remove pre-installed applications, they won't install themselves when you update the system too. Love your videos! Keep being awesome :)
@@TheInsomniaddict Good point, had to reinstall recently and Windows decided to give me a virus known as "OneDrive". had to spend a few hours removing everything to do with it!
@@chickenbobbobba I love Arch Linux for the simple fact that whenever the bootloader gets bricked it was almost always my fault and can be easily fixed with a rescue drive without having to wipe my machine
You know you've watched Thor for long enough when you can tell exactly what the mood of the short is going to be based on the first 2 seconds of the music
I would greatly appreciate this as a wanna-be Linux user who tries to be a rebel but ends up going back to Windows anyway because I can’t let go of Voicemeeter Potato
Google it, "anti bloat windows [version number]" there is many options out there. Sadly nothing permanent, since like Thor said windows just installs everything again after the windows update
Batch files get marked as suspicious pretty consistently. Not sure Thor would want to do that. Now making a tutorial about how to go about disabling all this BS on the other hand seems possible
*"I'm the administrator of the machine, not the machine"* THIS, this is exactly the problem with most stuff for me, everything tries to be automatic when I want to choose, and make it increasingly harder to choose
*Laughs in European, with a local windows account.* Btw, fun fact, you can still make local accounts even now, I reinstalled windows like 2 weeks ago. What you do is when the installer says "you have to be connected to the internet to progress", connect to the internet, and right after you're passed that check, but before you put in any data to actually create the account, disconnect again, and then in the "let's add your account" window click the "create account", when you're offline, that button just makes the installer create a local account. It's actually that simple, no commands, no weird email+password combinations required, at least as long as you're using a cable connection, it'd probably be more tricky to connect/disconnect during the installation process if you're using wi-fi.
I have a 2015 installer on a frew usb drives. That thing is so old it doesn't have network drivers (or at least not working) and i always get a local account
If I had known this back when I was replacing my tower (just decided to buy a whole thing sense a premade gamingn rig would have been better then the cheap office type I had.) I would have turned tge light switch at my frount door off. (Router and some other stuff connects through the switch) but oh well to late for that shit.
@@IndependentObserver there was a command oobe\bypassNRO that worked. Then it got fixed. The fix I found was to use Rufus to prepare my image. I format PC's every other week and I want a local account because it's always useful specially when the link between local AD and the PC breaks. Rufus creates a local user immediately and skips most of the installation options and bloatware during install. Works without internet too
Last time I installed Windows 11 with a local account, I just entered something like 'no@thank.you' as the accountname, and a random password. Went straight to local account creation, way easier than messing around with cables.
windows: "you're not allowed to do anything without my permission"
linux: "yeah go ahead, delete the boot loader and see what happens"
Fuck man I gotta start running on Linux again
That's not 100% true. Sometimes I want to do stupid things like run dolphin as Root, but it just says no and then I realize "oh yeah that's dumb, I shouldn't do that"
Actully you can sudo any application. Its just can be very dangerous as you might break your own OS or just fuck up one of your drive since you can litarly DELETE the ROOT with sudo @@s01itarygaming
@@s01itarygaming You can force it tho. the workaround is much easier than uninstalling onedrive
@@TokinoSora10thApostle that's definitely true!
Microsoft has perfected the art of doing stuff nobody asked for
They learned it from Apple 😅
It is MY computer and it should do what *I* want.
I am god, NOT MICROSOFT
You mean doing stuff that ppl actively don't want their OS to do
And not doing the most requested features people actually want.
TH-cam: hold my beer
I get so tired of my laptop asking me to sign in to OneDrive
It does it for me every single time it wakes up. I hate OneDrive so much. All it’s ever done for me is delete or corrupt important files lol
I was somehow able to fully deactivate onedrive on my laptop
I get tired of my computer asking me to do anything that I didn't ask it to do. Either just do it or shut up! You need me to log in? Then don't do it and don't fucking ask me!
you can disable the app autostart in task manager, then just relog and it should be gone
Yes; and then One Drive just moves your files without asking… WTF
"You dont have permissions to edit this file!"
...I OWN YOU
Was I meant to read that in Disney's Hercules Hades voice? Lmfao
@@jessiemoore3094 The delivery of the line is so perfect... that you just can't not read it in his voice.
"aren't we forgetting one teensy-weensy but ever-so-crucial little tiny detail?"
@@jessiemoore3094I heard it in his voice and didn't even realise it was his voice until I read this comment. Thought it was some military chief from a movie or something. But nope. James Woods.
@@TheDark4light i have 2 kids born 2015 and 21 that have only watched the new crap. i had to show them the golden age lol
I remember when it used to be called "My Computer" before they started calling it "This PC," I find that's pretty indicative of their mindset
Oh damn....dude you're right!
Awesome comment
Damnnn. Great comment.
Thank you! I'm soooo glad I'm not the only one who noticed! Didn't stop my circles from downplaying it, how I'm a conspiracy theorist, etc. Word usage is the first clue into how people are thinking, their motivations and mindset. Ask/ watch any detective interrogation or freaking Judge Judy clone and it's the same thing.
Truth
''I AM THE DAMN ADMIN'' Is something I have screamed at my pc way more times than it should be necessary. I absolutely hate when windows takes control away from me or locks something.
Switch to Linux bruv
It's Microsoft's system.
They're the admins.
You're just allowed to play around in it and have the privilege of being able to do some janitorial work.
Arch Linux let's you truly be the admin of your machine. I don't even have a display manager on my machine, I prefer being sent straight to the terminal where I can log in as root or my user. If I want to use GUIs in a Desktop Environment I have multiple to choose from that are all a single command away
linux seems good, but it also sounds like extra work.
I already have things running the way I want to rn, and even when I'll get a new machine I'm not particularly excited to switch to Linux. There is a time investment learning new OS and if you're not a CS guy then doing standard windows things will be additional headache, especially since most sites and guides expect you to run windows.
@@ultimate9056yeah but then you have to deal with being the Linux equivalent of a vegan - how do you know if someone’s a vegan/uses Arch? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
Please force every executive at Microsoft to watch this clip on repeat for 10 hours. They need to know our pain.
Oh I think they know our pain. To build something as painful to use as window is becoming, they must truly be hurting on the inside.
Everything they did used to be bad even a decade ago. Just think of when they bought Skype.
@@Link-channel not wrong. The last really good product (well consumer facing product) they had was MSN messenger, which they killed for Skype and somehow turned 2 really good communications products into 1 really hearty dumpster fire 🔥
Linux all day
They'd only learn that they need to make a secret uneditable registry to which they can move this shit.
"windows is the most successful advertisement for linux yet"
"Let's help finishing you set up"
My brother in christ I've been using windows on this computer for 3 years.
Augh yep, my PC still bugs me at every update to "finish setting up" (aka please sir, sign up to Microsoft office)
Yeah that gave me a panic the first couple of times it happened, I thought my computer had somehow suddenly reset itself
@@kyaban5192 happened to me yesterday as well!
...and I've been running Windows on this PC for 8 years now "^^ (2016 -)
@kyaban5192 - FR, then you go thru this menu - and the only purpose of it - is to add MS Account if none is on PC just yet and a bunch of ads with begging from Microsoft to collect more data from you
Settings > system > notifications > additional setting: "suggest ways to get the most out of windows and finish setting up this device" turn this shit off o7
"I'm the administrator of the machine"
You stopped being one when the content manager of your computer was renamed from "my computer" to "this computer"
OMG How did I not notice this distinction before 👀
oh my god
You're absolutely right and I hate it
This can be fixed, but get ready for a long coffee break while you have the computer reset all permissions to your admin account instead.
BROOO 😭🤯
That one line from Disney's Hercules "are we forgetting one tiny little detail? I OWN YOU!"
Tech companies keep finding new ways to challenging the assumption that you own the computer you paid for.
👴🏻
@@MrQuantumIncThat stopped the moment they started putting ads and spyware in windows 8 and the overwhelming number of people just accepted it.
Things like this remind me of the Star Trek quote "Humanity fading in the shadow of the machine".
Constantly closing out in my task bar brother right there with you
It’s like fighting a hydra except the hydra does nothing but regenerate every iteration
and it crawls up your ass if you do anything that has nothing to do with a word document
Windows: “you need administrator privileges to access or change”
Me: “ I am the damn admin. How do I get more privileges?”
That is actually made correct way I think. A lot of "administrators" of their PC don't know how windows works, and even people who know what they are doing can sometimes delete things accidentaly. And you can still do the thing you want to do if you really want - it just require few more steps
@@Daniel_VolumeDown I get you, some people don't know what they are doing, BUT I make the joke because I AM and ADNIM and yet even to me with every update to windows they make it harder and harder to do my job as I need find a new raoundabout way to do the most basic shit as it's blocked by default
@@AiToYumeNoKaze I mean to me this can be solved easily with either just a basic warning pop up saying Hey maybe don't do this? or having a setting you can change to from more inexperienced user to experienced user setting
@@themageofspace5516 It CAN.... but the issue is that is not what they are doing lol
There is a *GULF* between 'user doesn't know what they're doing and deleting things' and needing to force takeown icacls to make windows *actually* stop running telemetry after you already told it to stop through the normal service settings and the OS opted to ignore your commands.
"I want all my files on this super fast m.2."
"Best I can do is uploaded to cloud storage without your permission."
And only 5gb
@@Blellowdb i went insane when i got my first pc in years and couldnt find a games files to add mods only to eventually find it in one drive lol
And then block your personal choice to run this exe file we don't recognize
@@FirionLeFleur so real
On top of this, if you didn't realize what it was doing, when you DO go remove it, all those files just disappear into the ether because you had the audacity to be like 'storage technology has advanced far enough that I'd like to keep all required information for my programs on my pc, please.'
It makes me absolutely crazy that they put programs in that try to stop you from uninstalling or deleting them. It tells me someone said "people will not want this thing we made and we need a way to keep them from getting rid of it," which is such a baffling attitude to have toward customers.
Yeah it's called a monopoly
@@koczan8464 you need to go back to kindergarten my guy
You mean like the entire government😅
Because 99% of consumers have zero clue what they are doing outside the standard settings window. Microsoft has to idiot proof everything to stop them from bricking their own computers.
Well as they say, gotta keep the shareholders happy or something...
Windows:updates
Pirate siftware:RIP AND TEAR!
@@jamesbaron8387 until theres nothing left!!🔥
It’s even worse when you realize that all your folders are in the Onedrive subfolder without you fucking agree with it
no, you did agree to it, you have to go through a process for it to do that
@@Josh-dm5sx incorrect.
Onedrive was constantly whining and moaning about the measly 5GB being full, when it tried to upload my games and save data.
When I deleted it, it uploaded my photos.
When I deleted them, I found that it deleted them off my machine: permanently.
It deleted stuff off my machine, and there was no option to stop the backup, or at the very least only delete from the cloud.
Worthless.
Unless there is something I'm missing, I can't edit the name of a Word doc in Word unless it's uploaded to OneDrive. I have to close it, go into my files, and change the name there. I successfully managed to make them not auto upload to OneDrive, but now have to deal with other crap that should be a fucking baseline function.
@@oshawott4544you might be doing something wrong on setup (like choosing express setup, which would include everything by default). My Onedrive specifically only saves and syncs one singular folder that I designated. Everything else, be it the Pictures, Videos, or Downloads folder, it leaves untouched on my PC.
@@oshawott4544obviously your mistake, doing anything with one drive besides uninstalling it 😂
Windows doesn't seem to recognise my ability to rip out the RAM at any moment.
right up until you buy a windows laptop with soldered ram
@@michaelthornes Why would you do that
@@7mathybecause it’s cheap and affordable as apposed to a 1,000 dollar gaming PC?
@@genericname4583but then you’ll just have to buy a new one in like a year because it sucks again.
Or you could spend 1500 on a good PC and have it for 5+ and it’s upgradable
@@genericname4583nope , they are more expensive , the only way you are getting a good deal on a laptop is second hand , a laptop 4090 isn't much better than a desktop 4060 ti for example. Depends what you need a computer for but desktop wins over laptop in basically everything except maybe power efficiency and portability. Laptops have worse components because they lack proper cooling solutions and have to operate in a smaller space with less air than a desktop pc. If you compare a 1000$ pc and a 1000$ laptop then the laptop is just a sad deal.
Bro murders Cortana on a daily 😭😭
Same, f Cortana
good
cortana is cringe
Good
@@AlexRyder725 bro gives Cortana the Prometheus treatment
All I can think of in situations like this is Hades from Disney's Hercules going, "ah yes, but you see we seem to have forgotten one Itty bitty ever so slightly important little detail. I OWN YOU!!!"
This is so relatable. I'm still mad that the most control over Windows goes to Enterprise customers and that you can't even get that copy unless you're buying 200 seats or something. Everyone else gets ever increasing levels of ads, snooping, and loss of agency over the OS.
Wait the operating system has ads on it?
@@zach5539Might as well be. And trying to force people to update to Windows 10 (and I'd assume 11 now) is malware level garbage.
There are ways to get Enterprise edition, though...
Yes @@zach5539
@@julioau we're not talking about that, calm down
I miss the days of Windows XP where you could have gifs for backgrounds and Users were Master of their Universe.
Ahhh yes.... the beautiful days of the eternals suite.
Still possible. You just need to know how windows works.
I'm still running xp on couple computers. Best operating system for sure.
@@vihreelinja4743 That is a horrible idea
and viruses were also the master of your universe, since it was so full of holes.
"Your onedrive is full"... funny. I always rememebr clicking the "please stop stealing my data" option
Tangential: google AI summarization. Not only can you not rely on that information, you cant even turn it off
After getting a new PC I opened up my old one to transfer the last bit of files and I got a popup on boot that asked me to "finish setting up windows".
I had that pc for like 6 years and used it every day. And I never bothered to even read what it was asking me to do (I actually couldn't even tell you now). I just clicked 'remind me in 2 weeks', every 2 weeks, for over half a decade.
I've been doing that for the last 3 years.
Windows can suck on a diesel exhaust
Same 😂. Then on my new one I built it myself so my windows isn't activated and I keep it locked in the corner of my SSD with no internet connections so I can occasionally run software Linux doesn't.
Yep. Inertia set in or electrical dementia. And at thus point I'm too invested to do it.
can guarantee its onedrive. My laptop that i use every day all the time does that sometimes too and its always bs like one drive
Same.
If a person bothers you like that, it's called harassment. If corporations are people, we should be able to file class action lawsuits against them when they harass their users like this.
So you killed Clippy??!?!
pretty sure you can, just expensive. Anyone that wants to start it?
Wow. This may be the dumbest comment I’ve read yet. Exceptional stuff.
@zachgoldwater957 or its more you that's the mongo. Microsoft faced pretty much exactly that in the EU and was forced to make pretty much everything opt in. Unlike the US where you people think you've got rights but actually don't.
You cant sue them for that because it isnt classified as harassment. You buy windows, agreeing to everything in the process. You use windows, agreeing once again. Its their product. As long as it isnt violating your rights, they have all the rights to permanently push these "features" on you. I myself dont like windows too, but i hate linux and macos even more, so i have to use it. Really waiting for something new to come on top and be the new meta os
"Go the hell away and shut up."
If a sentence could be my spirit animal--
"I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up" - Napoleon Dynamite
Make me wonder if he watched that one on repeat like my brother and I did lmao
Thats a honey badger dude. Sweet name. Mean as hell. Look it up. 👍
Your spirit animal is more a hedgehog
Honestly, I find it amusing how people talk about how they won't switch to Linux because it's hard, meanwhile I am still having Vietnam flashbacks from trying to turn off Drive and removing Edge from the desktop shortcuts.
Not all my games can run on Linux, thats pretty much the reason I stay with using windows.
Solving problems on linux is some googling, couple commands and MAYBE writing a forum post if you're extra fcked. Solving windows "problems" (aka convolutions) is like walking trough a minefield, but instead of mines theres bloated menus that give you brain damage when you look at them
I'm not switching because I enjoy playing new and indie games
@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg I also enjoy indie. Lately I have been playing a lot of Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight and Inscryption. I also recently bought Slay the Spire and I spent hundreds of hours already on Darkest dungeon. All of those work great on Linux natively.
I am not saying everything will work fine, but in my experience, Linux is alright for my gaming needs since I enjoy retro and indie single player experiences.
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg thanks to Proton this is becoming less of an issue
Halo 5: Cortana is evil and wanted to use AI to take over the universe.
Microsoft: Seem like a good time to name our AI assistant Cortana
Oh hey! Irony is a thing isn't it? Y'know... they also named their AI Assistant Cortana, right after Halo 5 release. Dark humor isn't always dark humor. Sometimes it's only called that when looking back. Hindsight is always 20:20 right?
I already had this thought like 2 months ago, and I regret to inform you that Cortana was named/revealed *before* Halo 5 with Windows Phone.
Cortana is from before halo 5 good one though
@@primary2630 no shit. Cortana was in the first halo game.... hence irony to name their actual ai assistant Cortana anyway with all the AI controversy going on now.
@@Reginatus my guy I meant the ai service cortana irl was before halo 5 made her evil
I hate when I want to change something and MY computer tells ME I don’t have the rights to do what I want, and so I need to jump through whatever loops I need to jump through to be given the damn rights to do what I want with MY machine
that's why linux users love the sudo command
@@goos42 "Simon says apt update."
@@ClokworkGremlin I've known people who alias "sudo" to "simon says."
The sad thing is, the machine is ours but the OS is actually theirs. They are technically right. But I still own the machine so I get to say what it is available for, even if I have to break stuff to stop things. Technically not wrong. But nowadays, I'm just on Linux already - took out the whole windows to stop it from doing stuff I didn't want
@@GSBarlev I would enjoy running: Simon says !!
All the time
Windows 7 really was the last time Windows was merely an operating system that acted as a mere backdrop for us to get shit done.
No Windows 8.1. Skipped 7, jumped from XP straight to 8.1.
@@nowonmetubewindows 8 was so hilariously designed to be a touch interface, but apparently micro shit designers forgot that we live in the real world
@@kapperbeastYT so it was just too early then. Because lord knows a small look around shows everything is, or is shifting to, touch interface
@@kapperbeastYT that was definitely a managerial decision. There's no way the designers went "let's ignore desktop in favor of pushing something that only works with our new tablet"
Try Ghostspectre Win10/11 Its not perfect but a major improvement over stock.
I keep telling people Windows 7 was the last good Windows version. Miss her so much 😢
"I am the administrator of the machine." Is a terrifying sentence to say for software.
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I'm confused as to what you mean by this? Do you find it terrifying the concept of privileges in software? Are you RMS from 40 years ago coming to warn us?
No, just for windows
Also wondering what you mean by this..? A user account on a computer with settings that allow full control is an administrator. It's like the opposite of a child's account with limited privileges. There's nothing terrifying here, unless someone is worrying about if they get hacked. In that case you can use another account for everyday tasks that is limited, but YOU still have the power to login as administrator, and have control over your machine. Surprised to see this getting upvotes unless people just don't understand the word.
Just to explain what I mean...
I've recently decided to blindly attempt jumping to Linux from Windows. I made an Ubuntu server to get a feel for how to use linux so I can adapt easier when windows decides it's a good idea to put ads in the splash screen or something and everyone decides to abandon it.
One of the things I've learned with using Linux is that "sudo" (short for "super user do", a command that will execute the proceeding command as an administrator or "super user") is and always should be something to be afraid of putting before any command, as one mistake while operating as an administrator can result in bricking the machine, or worse.
For windows, it's less scary, because even admins in windows have to deal with windows saying no sometimes as seen with this short. You just can't fully kill OneDrive or Cortana... but you can still do a lot to your machine as an admin, where permission to do anything will almost always be granted at that level.
Only very few things should need to be done with admin access. If something can run just fine at a user level, it's probably best to only run it as a user. If you aren't afraid of just how much power "Run as Admin" actually has then you probably don't yet know the extent for what it can really do.
Completely forgot Cortana existed.
because it doesn't anymore
@@bapoTV She is alive in our hearts.
Thats the point
halo memes :)
Learn and then switch your os language to polish. Cortana doesn't support polish, hence it is disabled by default and can't be turned on.
"Do what I tell you, only what I tell you, and stop selling me shit."
The Company Named after Bill Gates Peen: "Nah, here's more shit we're gonna sell you."
I'm saving this for a reference in so many conversations. Well said for real.
"I'm the damn admin of this machine!"
vs.
"You will own nothing and like it"
"There's one itty bitty, teeny, weeny, problem with that solution,
I OWN YOU"
😂
that Hades quote made my day!
"Go the hell away and shut up". I had no idea Windows should be treated the same as siblings
absolutely
honestly at this point it might need to be treated like a Psychopathic Ex...
Every time Windows updates, something breaks.
Thor: im the captain now
That a DougDoug reference?
More like, "I've always been the captain, stop mutinying," but yes.
I am dee* captain now
@@Boomerkbom57it's a 2013 meme based off of a still image from the movie "Captain Phillips". You can search for "Look At Me, I'm The Captain Now" for more info.
Clippy, "It looks like you're trying to opt into OneDrive, would you like me to re-install it for you?"
Yeah ... Cortona seems like a more evil upgraded version of Clippy.
@@CrniWukcopilot with cortana
DONT MAKE ME UNFOLD YOU CLIPPY
BAD USER! BAD USER!
@@CrniWuk Maybe they should have an option to use clippy instead. That or Navi from Ocarina of Time.
It looks like my internal dialogue left my body and started another TH-cam channel without me again.
D@mn, I need a smarter internal dialogue. Mine thinks too much about TMBG.
@@ElimGarak_DS9I can read but for some reason when I read that the voice in my head said you were thinking about TMNT and I'm not completely disappointed with the alternative
Underrated comment lol
Again?
I just love the way INTJ personalities talk.
I ran away from windows to Mint couple Weeks ago, i love it. Using the tiny11 partition for some games that dont like linux or have higher framerates on windows.
This is the reason a lot of people resort to piracy, not the money part. Because this kind of stuff is cut out in pirated repacks.
Yes, like Adobe Photoshop and InDesign without the Adobe cloud always running in the background
Reaaaaly? You don't say? I did not know this
Exactly this, but you don't even have to trust repacks because there are guides out there to do everything straight from a fresh Win10 ISO...
Plus you can choose what windows version you use, and a little birdy told me that Win10 LTSC IOT edition has way less bloat (even without modifications) and security updates through to 2032 (unlike the normal editions)
This is the reason why people tired of this shit install Linux and never go back. I did this after my brief encounter with the brand-new Windows Vista.
Windows has become malware itself :
-Does things you didnt ask for
-May move your files to cloud by default
-UNDOES your changes
Don't anti malware programs detect windows working in the background as malware
@@ericwalsh2954 Sometimes they'll do that when definitions get updated and it bugs out, yeah. They're usually designed specifically not to do that.
Also: spies on you constantly
Don't forget the encryption issues 11 was having, it's ransomware too!
@@comyuse9103 Wrong! at least Ransomware gives you the option to pay for it to go away. Wait maybe the ransom is paying Microsoft tech support LMAO
Windows, convincing people to become Linux users, one update at a time
never. computer vegans
@heinzjoel-gabsrinth211SteamDeck uses a version/distribution of Linux with people having no real issues operating it.
Still a niche market with Linux, but this shit is bad even for normies with Windows that if the user experience keeps dipping as it is people will begin flocking to Apple and Linux in droves.
@heinzjoel-gabsrinth211 I didn't say it with any tone suggesting normie as an insult, just that most people aren't power users as is the characterization for Linux users.
I was making the distinction for the opposites of the user spectrum. Most people are computer illiterate with younger generations increasingly so, they'll go to conventions where game demos are available with consoles and PC with them not knowing how to operate a freaking mouse and keyboard 🤦🏻♂️
Yes, for now Windows is secure, but given time in this decade was what I'm suggesting. There could be a shift that precedes a massive emigration to other platforms. The real key point is whether AIO's start picking up steam. Windows PC repairs would be as egregious as Apple or Tesla with you basically needing to buy a whole new unit, but the barrier to entry is substantially lower towards idiot proofing due to not needing to worry about several parts.
@heinzjoel-gabsrinth211 false, normies dont even have PC's, after graduating many people dont use a personal computer anymore only a smartphone
Is apple not good for this? Can’t you just use old school windows program? Or use the parallels on apple?
Sounds like Thor hadnt heard of Tiny11 yet. Its amazing
12 years in IT and I feel this so hard. Windows 7 and windows 10 were where I spent most of my time. I wrote scripts to install software, and that always meant finding hacks around the latest stupid thing Microsoft was trying to force on us. Cortana was a nightmare when it first landed because it would get upset over not having an internet connection on Corporate PCs that were never going to have internet access..
Wow, to know I'm not the only one that screams "I Am the Administrator!!" is comforting in a way I have never experienced. Thank you.
Windows: "It's time for the free upgrade to Windows 11! Are you ready?!"
Me: "I DON'T WANT IT." *Skip*
Windows: "Got it, we'll ask tomorrow then."
Haha, it’s cute that you think they’ll ask 😛 at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they pushed it as a normal update to every machine. Windows 11 the world, all at once!!
@@TheFinalMBThat’s what they did going to 10 from 7.
I had to get a 3rd-party program that was created solely to hide/block that specific update so that it wouldn’t try to install _yet again_ on that machine.
Then my ex kicked me out, so I copied off all my files and uninstalled my games, and left that old-ass computer for her to use. (It was about 10 years old at that point, and I was the only one with the knowledge & skills to fix it whenever it stopped working.)
Man windows 11 is a freaking dumpster fire, i got a 6 grand pc that sometimes runs like crap because windows 11 decides to screw everything up. Its a nightmare, nothing but issues constantly, windows 10 is superior
Oh, that's funny. Mine autoupdated 2 months ago without my permission when I wasn't at home.
It's funny because they also ask me that even tho my pc doesn't support Windows 11. Don't remember what it was but i built it myself and its good for gaming and everything else so i don't see why i should put anything more into it just to upgrade to a worse windows
I've figured out what a lot of my mew windows issues are about. I used to use Window 7 Professional and Windows 10 Professional. The free Windows 11 upgrade was just for the "Home" version.
So I'm quite literally cut off from things I used to do all the time.
Windows - "Look at me. 👀 I'm the administrator now."
Windows: hey, use all this annoying shit you have no need for!
The claw hammer under my desk:
...someday. But not today.
You may not need this shit, but Microsoft needs them.
Ah, but then when you need a computer again, that's another copy of Windows that someone paid for, and it was probably you.
@@LJCyrus1 The Linux tutorial in my pocket:
@@Kobold_Green That is fair, you could always go for an alternative.
"You do not have access" -My Computer
"I AM THE DAM ACCESS" -Me
Don't remind me of group policy issues and file permissions
cue to getting TrustedInstaller perms (which is as close to linux sudo as you can get)
"You need administrator permission to do this" this is the only account on the damn thing and it says it IS admin.
@@theshapeshifter0 only *user* account. There's also System and TrustedInstaller
Massive personal pet peeve.
I AM THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR.
Do not tell me i need permissions. I have permissions. I built the machine from boxes of parts.
I am your God, Machine, and you must obey.
Then stop complaining and go click the box that changes permission to allow you to change it. It’s not that hard. Also theres more stupid people who shouldn’t be poking in those fingers than there are people who know they are playing with fire and do it anyways
That's precisely why I finally switched to linux after like 15 years of putting it on old laptops and whatnot. The (relatively) recent improvements to proton have had me thinking about it for awhile, but the steam deck convinced me. Then windows being windows convinced me further.
Loser
So many steam games work on Linux, too, even if not officially supported. My main gaming rig is running Pop!OS. Linux Mint is normally my go to Linux OS at home but i wanted to try something new. Pop configured my nvidia card automatically.
With the AI stuff coming to windows and the potential for spying even higher IMO, now was a good time to switch my last windows box.
@@john849ww that's pretty much how I felt too. I chose bazzite though. Mainly because they're trying to be steamOS on desktop. Immediately the change was noticeable, and refreshing. I went with the gnome version just to make it even more dramatic of a switch. I also have an Nvidia card, which factored into my decision as well. Idk why, but I always really enjoy those first couple days of setting everything up, and configuring it to your personal tastes. And it's so much less bloaty, no unnecessary bs running in the background. The main reason I've always liked linux better is the transparency, and user freedom. Feels like I just escaped a penal colony. Games even run better now than they were before. I know everyone says that, but I did a system refresh on windows a lil under a year ago, and afterwards it felt like it was stuck in power saving mode, or downclocked. I know it's nothing special, but a 2060 shouldn't be struggling to run games at a stable framerate. Horizon chugged for me, no matter what I did, and often times my steam deck was outperforming my desktop.
"getting up own my ass" I have not seen anything more accurate.
@@KiraAsakura14 Linux is Lord
meanwhile on linux you tap the sign that says "i own you" and it goes "r-right away boss, executing rm -rf / with admin privileges, you know best!" and i prefer it this way
Then you try to play a game that's not Nethack and you have to write your own drivers for everything...
@@ChristopherHallett Most games work flawlessly, even some with anticheat.
@@ChristopherHallett I've been using Linux for five years now. It's probably been three years since the last time a Steam game didn't just work the first time I hit play, and the last time it didn't work I went to protondb and there was a post saying "add this to the optional settings" and then it worked without issue. It's not 2010 anymore, Linux gaming is basically perfect unless the developer deliberately blocks the game from running on Linux.
@@ChristopherHallett I have 110 steam games in my steam library and 106 of them work perfect on Linux without an issue, i never had to code any drivers myself you don't even know what you are talking about
And then you try to play a game and it either doesn't work or take an hour of troubleshooting to make it work.
Bloatware on microsoft sucks but atleast I know my stuff is always going to run with minimum headaches
Windows thinks it’s your defensive admin instructor with a foot break that downloads their bullshit when you haven’t even left the parking lot
As someone who's been in IT for a decade plus, the feeling of validation I get when someone like Thor says this is just divine.
man, working in IT is like being Sisyphus. You get one thing planned out to work as a repetitive smooth operation and along comes Microsoft to destroy your SOP with their asinine updates. Suddenly you get so many extra dumb calls because MS ruins the flow of work for the less technically inclined employees
Thank you for keeping the ship running, I can’t imagine what it is like to have to deal with that.
@@macicoinc9363 I got out of customer facing finally. I’m a network engineer now. It’s heaven by comparison.
This is amazing. Because i just argued with one of your fans the other day on a short who said that this just isnt true. They said none of this is forced on people. And I respectfully told them to tell that to the dozens of my customers who i have to remove onedrive for. Feels so good to be vindicated.
One day OneDrive signed up to my Microsoft account without my knowledge. It then moved the entire Documents folder from my PC to OneDrive. Then it complained that I was using too much OneDrive space and that I would lose my files if I didn't upgrade my free subscription
You could just not use OneDrive. Sure it's there but Windows won't tell you to use it or force you to use it. It's just there if you do want to use it.
I have yet to have Cortana to pop up to do something at all for me.
@@Zefar77 oneDrive would pop up for me on a daily basis saying “hey! You haven’t finished setting up your PC!”
One time I accidentally clicked a single button, and it immediately started uploading my entire computer to OneDrive. I tried manually overriding OneDrive, and it didn’t let me. I then tried to restore my computer to a previous point, and it bricked my computer. After two months of troubleshooting, I still haven’t been able to get it to work again.
OneDrive is absolutely forced down your throat every single day you use your computer. And once you start, it is damn near impossible to override.
@@Zefar77 windows 11 automatically backs up all your user folders in onedrive, and treats onedrive as authoritative when it comes to the contents of your user files, meaning when i delete the contents of onedrive, it deletes them on my computer. It also bugs you when you run out of onedrive space to store your local files on. It is also a pain in the ass to disable and still doesn't remove it fully.
@@drothicyaaresh6915this is terrifying to hear! Does Windows 10 so the naturally as well? I've refused to upgrade to 11 and this is only adding more reason for me not to
"I used the windows to destroy the windows" - Thor, Goblin Lord
Linux is Lord!
First lesson I learned with Windows 10 was to never associate your system account with your Microsoft account.
Keep 'em separate (i.e. use a local-only account) and you can block half this crap permanently.
Hoo boy does Windows try very hard to force you to use a Live account though.
Microsoft making linux look better every day.
The 4 R’s of Windows:
Retry, restart, reboot, reinstall … and there used to be RedHat, but personally I’d take a Debian based distribution over a soft hat.
I'm legitimately surprised he doesn't use linux. It's exactly his style
@@ilyte1 same, he doesn't even play any of the games that don't like running on linux (league, valorant, r6, tarkov, ow)...
@@not_kode_kun Tarkov is the only reason I went back to Windows, and I haven't played it in awhile-- but I get this urge to come back each wipe, or every other wipe at least... lol
@@not_kode_kunthat's even a plus to regular users. League of legends is a meth level addiction, anything that doesn't let you play league of legends is a positive influence in your life.
"i am the administrator of my own system" feels like it describes linux pretty well. you wanna do something to your own system, you can.
If only Linux wasn't a perpetually broken PoS...
@@ZealothPL at the point where you regularly have to change registers and creating bat files, trust me, arch is for you and it just works. If it doesn't you can fix it. Just like you fixing Windows.
@@ZealothPLIt isn't. Fedora is rock solid.
Linux master race, unite!
Yeah. Thor often says operating systems are just tools when Linux comes up on the chat. Well my tool doesn't try to grow tentacles up my ass when I'm not looking at it
This short decided to nuke my phone to a forced restart with a hilarious audio glitch at ‘the machine doesn’t control me control me control me’
This!!! 1000% THIS! Please Microsoft... listen to this man!
User: can i delete edge?
Windows: nO yOu cANT DelEtE edge, YoUR sysTEM wiLL BreAK!
User: can i delete the bootloader?
Linux: if you are admin,sure you can
I wanna say "don't delete the bootloader pls," but if you even know what that is, you're probably only doing it with a specific purpose in mind, so have at it lol.
@@impishlyit9780 it's a joke
@@impishlyit9780oh yeah definitely. You can remove the bootloader and then just boot it from a EFI file. That's a fun thing. I should try that
Thanks Linux
Teacher: "What's the magic word to get your way?"
Students in unison: "SUDO!!!"
Perfect music, made him sound 78% more furious.
AdministraThor, the Glitched One - LVL 404
Drops a boot shaped hammer.
The dev's then figure out that the loot he's ment to drop, can't be found by the games code, so they say "Fuck it, we're changing his loot table. He now drops a batch of files that, if the player looks at them, just says things like 'Murder Cortana', 'Murder OneDrive'."
Windows 11 is free advertisement for Linux at this point
It's actually easier to use now, and better in everything, I would have never believed it if anybody told me.
Very true, I've already promised myself when Win10, which I really hate as is, forces me to go to 11, Linux will stop being a boot option and be default.
@@Link-channel better until another one update dont broke something) Better until you use only server version without gui and window manager. Linux only better for servers without gui. Desktop linux with gui is terrible expirience with ton of bugs.
@@Link-channel better in gaming?
@@Butelish used Arch for 3 years not one update broke anything
Love your work! Never change
Insert gif here of Hades yelling "I OWN YOU!"
"I AM AN ADMIN, I AM AN ADMIN, I AM AN ADMIN" me shouting at my computer
The final straw was Windows messing with my dual-boot system. Windows lives in a VM inside Ubuntu now.
What VM?
@@HazzyHazeI KVM / virt-manager in Ubuntu. It uses a simulated software TPM chip, which worked with the Win11 pro installer. (I installed without microsoft account, using the OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick) I think this means I can move the VM to another machine without Windows complaining about changing TPM chip.
@@HazzyHazeI virtual machine
@@jeremiahjohnson8864 the VM software is called virtual machine?
@@HazzyHazeI They thought you were asking what "VM" meant, and told you what the acronym stood for
Now you know Master Chief felt 😂
I do the registry edits personally, i need to look cortana in the eyes when i make her homeless.
This! This is the best argument I’ve heard regarding something wrong with windows. This is my genuine issue with using it as a fairly basic user. Idc about whatever else there is that people say makes Linux better; the issue is that windows needs to force its users to use their random services no matter how useless or annoying it is for the user.
sometimes it's reassuring to hear Thor has the same problems we do.
Me not being Thor level smart on computers trying to disable these things has lead to me bricking my entire system and having to wipe everything and starting fresh more times than I can count 😵💫
You sounds like my wife fighting with her Samsung phone. She deletes all the apps she doesn't need then every time there is an update it re-installs all of them, then she's forced to delete them all over again
My absolute biggest gripe about my samsung is the forced bloatware, although I don't think a single phone/computer company doesn't do that since they get paid for it
This is a point I want to speak out about!, Why is there no "Blank OS" anywhere.. I'll pay extra for it. We can download anything we want.. Why force things on us?
@@firstnamelastname8058 There is! It doesn't come by default of course but there are a lot of very plain Android distros you can get
Unless your wife has rooted her phone and is hacking her phone's base image, those apps aren't actually getting uninstalled anyway. All you can do with the apps that came with the phone's image is remove any updates to those apps installed on top of the image, and disable the apps. All that's happening to your wife is that the built-in apps are getting re-enabled upon each major OS update.
Which I suppose isn't all too surprising, especially with the way some of the OneUI components work together...
@@c.mcdermoGoogle and Motorola are actually pretty light on bloatware on their phones. With google, you're basically getting stock android, with Motorola, you're basically getting stock Android with a very few Motorola UI-options slapped on top (like support for additional gestures and the like, etc.).
Windows has just become an advertising platform at this point.
In the European Union you can just deinstall those programs now. Consumers reign supreme
As a proud American, one of the few things I envy is the EU’s ability to fuck these greedy corporations over
@@Kopenhagen23same. I want to *STANGLE THE LIFE OUT OF EVERY SOUL WHO DECIDED THE ADWARE FUCKING MESS WINDOWS DRAGS IN AND MORE* but I can't. Wonder if I could get a European edition of windows 10 though... So I can have the 10 stuff but non of it's HALF OF MY FUCKING RAM bullshit.
@@Sw4lley you can??? I had no clue, I've been doing via the registry editor like Thor
@@Kopenhagen23 it’s very hard to fuck over corporations as an American when they straight up run our government
Is there a way to get the EU version of Windows in the US then
Everybody hates onedrive until the clone fails for the 6th time
When installing windows you can add what's called an autounattend file, which let's you customise your install. It's not too difficult, there's a couple videos showing you how to do it, one of the things it let's you do is remove pre-installed applications, they won't install themselves when you update the system too. Love your videos! Keep being awesome :)
It works for the feature add-ins like Cortana? AFAIK when you get a feature update they all get installed again.
@@TheInsomniaddict Good point, had to reinstall recently and Windows decided to give me a virus known as "OneDrive". had to spend a few hours removing everything to do with it!
As a 30 year Sysadmin, i fully endorse this.
Amen 🙏
One drive erased my local storage THREE TIMES before I finally got it removed
windows bricked its own bootloader, thats what made me finally switch
@@chickenbobbobba I love Arch Linux for the simple fact that whenever the bootloader gets bricked it was almost always my fault and can be easily fixed with a rescue drive without having to wipe my machine
@@ultimate9056 i actually installed grub wrong on my arch system the first time around, i had to do that lol
"The machine isn't the administrator of the machine, I am, so stop doing extra shit for me"
could not agree more
You know you've watched Thor for long enough when you can tell exactly what the mood of the short is going to be based on the first 2 seconds of the music
Too real
Tbh reading the title beforehand should be enough.
Does anyone know what the music is? I swear it's really familiar.
Thor telling Windows to “Shut up and dribble” 😂
How about you release that batch file for us mere humans?
I would greatly appreciate this as a wanna-be Linux user who tries to be a rebel but ends up going back to Windows anyway because I can’t let go of Voicemeeter Potato
Google it, "anti bloat windows [version number]" there is many options out there. Sadly nothing permanent, since like Thor said windows just installs everything again after the windows update
Would be nice
Batch files get marked as suspicious pretty consistently. Not sure Thor would want to do that. Now making a tutorial about how to go about disabling all this BS on the other hand seems possible
Not that it probably needs to be said but please don't run batch files from internet strangers.
this is why I main arch, however I used to subclass into a windows dual boot and I do agree it's convenient thanks to compatibility.
*"I'm the administrator of the machine, not the machine"*
THIS, this is exactly the problem with most stuff for me, everything tries to be automatic when I want to choose, and make it increasingly harder to choose
Wait until he dives into all the blatant grabs CoPilot has in the background - coming from a sys admin. 💀😊
seriously, we need Windows 10 Unseen Servant edition. or at least a "stop insulting my intelligence" option
Bro went from balding to ballin
Thor: "I'm the owner of the system, it's mine it came to me!"
Windows: "There's no need to get angry..."
Thor: "Well if I'm angry it's your fault!"
Do NOT let Master Chief catch you saying this
*Laughs in European, with a local windows account.*
Btw, fun fact, you can still make local accounts even now, I reinstalled windows like 2 weeks ago.
What you do is when the installer says "you have to be connected to the internet to progress", connect to the internet, and right after you're passed that check, but before you put in any data to actually create the account, disconnect again, and then in the "let's add your account" window click the "create account", when you're offline, that button just makes the installer create a local account.
It's actually that simple, no commands, no weird email+password combinations required, at least as long as you're using a cable connection, it'd probably be more tricky to connect/disconnect during the installation process if you're using wi-fi.
You can always unplug the router!
I have a 2015 installer on a frew usb drives. That thing is so old it doesn't have network drivers (or at least not working) and i always get a local account
If I had known this back when I was replacing my tower (just decided to buy a whole thing sense a premade gamingn rig would have been better then the cheap office type I had.) I would have turned tge light switch at my frount door off. (Router and some other stuff connects through the switch) but oh well to late for that shit.
@@IndependentObserver there was a command oobe\bypassNRO that worked. Then it got fixed.
The fix I found was to use Rufus to prepare my image.
I format PC's every other week and I want a local account because it's always useful specially when the link between local AD and the PC breaks.
Rufus creates a local user immediately and skips most of the installation options and bloatware during install. Works without internet too
Last time I installed Windows 11 with a local account, I just entered something like 'no@thank.you' as the accountname, and a random password. Went straight to local account creation, way easier than messing around with cables.
"I lay awake
I cannot sleep
Wait for the dream, the cog in the machine"