I’m so happy to live without that dumpster fire… Them insisting on Edge this bad just feels like a meme to me, a bad one. I mean, they were even ignoring rules set in the enterprise and defaulted to Edge, which surely caused a lot of headaches around the globe.
Gosh it’s so nice if your OS actually respects you and your choices, wouldn’t want to miss that any day.
That sounds unnerving. A US company treating US citizens the worst.
After years on exclusively Linux OS (Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora) I am going to install Windows 11 Pro on my Framework 16. It will live on it’s own SSD and will run the programs that I absolutely need Windows for. The rest of the time, I’ll be on Fedora KDE with Ubuntu on a separate partition just in case.
Sometimes you just need a normie OS to do normie things on. Hopefully one day I will be able to use Linux for everything.
Make sure to physically remove the SSD containing Manjaro Fedora Ubuntu before installing Windows to prevent Windows installation from messing with the EFI partition on that disk
Honestly, every next version of windows is usually worse than the previous one. I personally have 2 machines. One with Arch Linux and second with Windows 2021 IoT enterprise LTSC and that’s truly the best Windows you can get.
That version is supported till 2032 and if I have to keep using windows, it will be LTSC.
So my recommendation is to either stay on 10 or go to Linux.
Let’s be real. Edge exists, so you can install a different web browser.
So I managed to get Windows 11 installed on my FW16 and since I was trying to get it to upgrade it was a pain in the ass. I basically had to do a new install. I’m honestly wondering if it was worth the hassle. I’d say if you don’t want to reinstall everything I’d just stick with 10. The TPM module doesn’t have drivers in Windows 10 so the upgrade software won’t recognize it. I haven’t noticed any benefit to the upgrade since I did it but I’ve only used it for a few hours since I got it upgraded. The only thing I can think of is no issues in device manager since everything has a driver now.
This unfortunately bugs certain items such as clock.
Honestly fuck Microsoft for this decision.
I don’t have windows now but when I had, the issue was the clock did not resize with the rest of the taskbar and was weirdly cropped. According to a quick google search, this issue with the reg hack stil
persists.
Still better than the massive taskbar but not ideal.
So it was “fixed”
Same here. Speaking of which, getting an install of Windows 10 is easy, but where is a good place to buy a product key for it? I didn’t see anywhere to do so on Microsoft’s website.
I ended up buying mine from Framwork. It was the same price as if I bought it from Microsoft. Figured if they get a cut of the sale I’d rather Framwork get it. Plus my card info is already there so much easier transaction.
Also, the Windows 10 and 11 keys are the same. So they can be used interchangeably.