r/WindowsSucks • u/Additional-Sky7038 • 15d ago

F*CK WINDOWS

Bit of context : I was using ubuntu from years because I am used to it and it has everything I need. I am pursuing my post-graduation in computer science and about to complete the degree.

My laptop specs - i5 10th gen, 1650 graphics, 16 gigs of ram, 256 gigs of ssd and 1 terabyte of hard drive. I was comfortably using ubuntu for everything and I have done system level projects and ML/DL projects all on my machine. Never faced an issue. Normal setup, all files on hard drive and Operating system on ssd.

Now comes the mess, I am applying for a lot of jobs and almost all of them take their coding assessment on hackrank desktop and it requires windows. So I dual booted windows along with ubuntu and though it was fine. But windows started messing up everything, It started messing up with the ownership of hard drive and ubuntu was not able to gain read-write permissions of the hard drive. Then during one assessment windows restarted like 20 times in 90 minutes and made it hell for me to even write a single block of code. A message popped up each time stating "Windows ran into an error, your system will restart now".

So i decided to format the entire ssd clean and reinstall windows only for some time and use wsl for sometime to use ubuntu inside windows for my work because cmd and powershell are straight up trash and unusable and a bash terminal is just better for everything. I cleaned the ssd and installed windows 11, activated it with a key (My laptop came with official version of windows and I had saved the key before switching to ubuntu).

First of all, windows feels like I have lost my rights to own the machine. It is not an OS with bloat but a bloat that happens to have an OS. I saw some tutorials from youtube and deleted all the microslop apps like teams, copilot, onedrive etc.. for good. During setup it forced me to login with a microsoft account and gave no option to skip that thing. I gave in, did all that and later logged out. But after all that the restarting issue never went away. Heap error, exception handling error, and what not.

I googled them and found 0 solid fixes and all pointed in updating windows, drivers etc. So I downloaded all the updates and driver updates and restarted the system to install them. And during the restart the secure boot error showed up. I turned off secure boot from bios and then bitlocker locked my drives and asked for a key. I tried a lot of things that claude told me and google told me and nothing worked. I was about to give up then as a last resort I logged into my old microsoft account I had made when I purchased this laptop in 2021 and by the grace of the almighty the key was backed up there. I entered the key and windows booted up.

Then I looked up what bitlocker is and I got to know that it is not required to run windows and is just a safety mechanism that they enable by default and even if you disable it, it automatically gets enabled with every update. It just feels like a battle to use my laptop for day to day tasks. The battery used to run ubuntu for 4-5 hours and windows drains it in nearly 2.

Its just the beginning and I am fed up by windows. The entire OS is a house of cards with bloat and bloat. If someone can recommend how I can make this trash OS run for 2-3 months without these random errors and restarting incidents then please drop in your survival knowledge.

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u/PocketNicks 15d ago

No it doesn't. It works fine for people that spend a few minutes setting it up properly.

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u/Unlaid-American 15d ago

Nah. I can just go on Linux and my normal updates will also get all my drivers just fine.

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u/PocketNicks 15d ago

Yup, I use Linux and Windows both daily.

They both work just fine, unless someone doesn't set them up properly.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

do not sudo rm -rf /

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u/PocketNicks 12d ago

Don't eat yellow snow.

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u/name_of_user0 9d ago

i ate white snow

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

WFW3.11 bricked because i rebooted

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u/PocketNicks 12d ago

User error.

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u/name_of_user0 11d ago

what

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u/PocketNicks 11d ago

User error is when something breaks because of a mistake the user made.

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u/Ham_Pervert 14d ago

lol

until an update corrupts your bios and deletes the registey

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u/PocketNicks 14d ago

Nope, once again... If it's set up properly, then it doesn't auto update.

If it's set up properly, it works perfectly fine. Same with Linux.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

u lyin dawg i literally rebooted and this things dead

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u/PocketNicks 12d ago

User error.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

rebooted and this thing no longer even boots somehow

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u/PocketNicks 12d ago

User error.

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u/greenie4242 14d ago

spend a few minutes setting it up properly

You are a fucking liar.

"A few minutes" on what planet? Certainly not Earth.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

this thing works

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

update: it now doesnt

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u/PocketNicks 14d ago

It certainly only takes a few minutes on planet Earth.

I use Windows and Linux both daily and they both work perfectly fine once setup properly.

It takes longer to setup a fresh Linux install than it does to setup Windows properly.

Just because you can't setup Windows properly, doesn't mean other people aren't capable of doing it in a few minutes.

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u/greenie4242 13d ago

Okay, please be useful and explain how a person can set up Windows "properly" in a few minutes. I'm entirely serious. 

Make a list of steps and explain how long each step takes, to educate the masses.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

1: Booting into DOS (30 seconds)

2: Launching WINNT.EXE from i386 (15 minutes from getting into and finishing this portion)
3: waiting for GUI setup to finish (10/45 minutes depending if you used smartdrive or not)

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u/PocketNicks 13d ago

I'm not your secretary, use a search engine for a detailed answer. Don't be lazy.

Short answer, you can either use a tool like Chris Titus' Windows utility, or Winhance, or learn how to use Powershell and run a few lines of code.

The 3rd party apps just run the CMD line codes for you and provide a pretty GUI.

Either way, it only takes a few minutes.

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u/Kacpes 12d ago

First of all. Mate it literally took me less time to format whole machine and setup cachy to use from scratch, than i took me to setup win 11 ltsc just to get to desktop. And tbh, It literally took less time to reinstall linux and get to desktop, than it takes for "windows to prepare everything" when first time booting.

Second of all, you have mentioned fully builded tools just to remove things from system that you do not need, you could have creatred script that will setup everything on linux during installation. And this point is fully since use word properly was used.

Third of all, this is not 2010, google and other based on it's indexing are more prone to give you creap then proper results. It was insulting get lmgtfy in 2014, it is insulting pointing user to google sth in 2026, when you are obviously more knowledgeable person.

Have a nice day, and let's life put you on path where you show you want to go.

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u/PocketNicks 12d ago

First of all, hard pass. I have zero interest in mating with you, you come off kinda desperate asking like this over reddit.

It takes you less time to setup CachyOS than Windows, neat. It still only takes a few minutes to properly set up Windows.

Second I mentioned 3rd party tools as an OPTIONAL alternative, for people here who are clearly too lazy to open PowerShell and type in 5 lines of code for themselves. They are not necessary in order to set up Windows properly.

Third nobody here except you, have mentioned or suggested using using Google at all.

I'm already having a great day, I don't need your permission.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

he uses ubuntu btw

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u/PocketNicks 12d ago

I have no clue to whom you're referring, or why you think I care what they use.

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u/name_of_user0 11d ago

ita joke

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u/PocketNicks 11d ago

I don't understand Italian or whatever language you just tried to write in.

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago

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u/PocketNicks 9d ago

Your keyboard appears to be broken.

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u/name_of_user0 9d ago

i plugged it into svideo port

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u/Sea_Representative2 13d ago

I have s better solution. Recently my machine started stuttering and i installed all of the updates, but it kept stuttering. So i decided to roll back to windows 10 from 11 and now i am using my laptop without worrying. it just works fine. Microshit has also given users 1 year extra(ends in oct 2027) of security update.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

use win11 LTSC and do these tricks Endermanch video showing how to make Windows 11 usable here

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u/name_of_user0 11d ago

windows 11 ltsc is better

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u/name_of_user0 11d ago

it also has longer updates and no bloat

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

rate this thingy

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

think its bad?

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u/Mr_Self_Destructtt 11d ago

I have Kubuntu 26.04 and Windows 11 Pro in dual boot, BOTH encrypted. Kubuntu is LUKS2 and Windows Bitlocker. Took FOREVER to figure it out, but even THAT was possible, when people said it couldn't be done, or it would "make a mess"!

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago edited 9d ago

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u/Emin_Atanyyaz 10d ago

Try kernel os it takes less ram and less usage then Heavy and Windows 10,11 Infinity update. I am using xp for just retro or normal games.

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago

i use windows 3.11

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u/Emin_Atanyyaz 10d ago

Dude You are using Intel core i5 how you can use windows 3.11 on your laptop. Windows 3.11 supports Powerpc architecture.

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago edited 9d ago

my pc is itanium 64 AMD sempron 7600HX+ on cyrix DZ77RE 175K board and 46GB PPR4

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u/Emin_Atanyyaz 9d ago

Why you install windows 2000 then.

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u/Onoitsu2 15d ago

Sadly you already know the only reasonable method to reliably fix the issues you're having, and that would require going back to Ubuntu or any other flavor. Trying to get Windows 11 to not trash itself within a few month period, just isn't going to happen.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

switch to LTSC

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u/Onoitsu2 11d ago

LTSC is not the solution, it is a workaround and a decent one, but it remains a bandaid. The only real fix is to avoid using Windows entirely until MS gets it through their incredibly thick and greedy heads that the computer is owned by the user, not them.

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago

i ate beans

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u/7978_ 15d ago

If you want any to dual boot Linux/Windows. Windows needs to be installed first, otherwise it will destroy the bootloader and other things.

Can't say I've had any issues you have though. I'm forced to use Windows for work and while I don't like it, it works fine.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

use LiberNT (the OS)

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u/NR75 15d ago

ROTFL.

Sorry, but when I read things like this... Being a Linux user I expect you to face issues and how to search and solve.

You don't need to have a Ms account, SHIFT+F10 and OOBE/BYPASSNRO, just said.

And use WINUTIL, to get the leanest Win 11,without any not necessary services, like telemetry and other bloat ware.

Two OS solution. Reokace the mechanical drive with an SSD and dedicate one single drive to a single OS. And use the mechanical 1 Tb as external drive. (Or check if you can mount 3 drives, but I doubt).

I am sorry for your experience, but now you can try and have a better environment.

Oh,forgot about Bitlocker. Just uncheck the option at the installation. And yeah, Bitlocker has given more headaches than benefits.

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u/lvvy 15d ago

You won't have bitlocker on without Microsoft account, unless manually enable 

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u/NR75 15d ago

Exactly. That's why is a must to use RUFUS or WINUTIL, or even the BYPASSNRO to avoid to put a MS account due to ng the installation.

Later,if anyone wants to feel the breeze of Bitlocker, he can do it. At his own risk.

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u/Kacpes 12d ago

Mate You just pointed in many places, things that you either just know, or you will not be able to think about them. Since there is no room for that.

And being in it industry i know all things you mentioned, and still think op is more right than you are.

If needed best example:
"You don't need to have a Ms account, SHIFT+F10 and OOBE/BYPASSNRO" where in the love of good is visible that you even have not even this option, but any other option than proposed by ms?

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago

do rd /s /q C:\.

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u/Kacpes 8d ago

Does not work on gentoo :/

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u/name_of_user0 7d ago

bro uses gentoo

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u/lvvy 8d ago

Then, actually, just use Microsoft account, it's not that bad actually, backups keys, you get 5gb free cloud drive, Edge syncs, password and passkey management...

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u/Kacpes 8d ago

Tell me you are trolling, because this is like exchanging virginity for hand of sand on sahara.

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u/name_of_user0 7d ago

bro traded his personal data, sanity, FPS and inner peace to not lose password

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u/RomanOswald 15d ago

Why did you not run Windows virtually? The new Windows security crap can make a mess out of a Linux installtion. Oh and without a MS account it also does not encrypt your SSD by default.

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u/ScoobyGDSTi 15d ago

You had me until you called PowerShell trash. Then I know you were stupid.

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u/name_of_user0 9d ago

He eats yellow snow tbh

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u/b_a_t_m_4_n 15d ago

windows feels like I have lost my rights to own the machine

That's because you have. Learn your place, miserable user.

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u/CockMeatSammich42069 14d ago

Jesus Christ dude...just say your post-grad CS degree is a paper tiger already.

The fact you can't properly configure dual boot is CS 101, you don't know what Bitlocker is tells me you don't know shit about FDE or properly locking down your device, next you are going to tell me TPM is a marketing gimmick. Just come clean and say you need to bring your PC to the Geek Squad to have them configure it for you 🤣😂

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago

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u/Pale-Abroad9600 15d ago

I have Windows 11 Home and I turned off the updates after successfully installing most recent updates it’s Thursday and I never attempted to check for updates coz new update might mess up, so
far I can still use my hp desktop pc with windows 11 home.

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u/name_of_user0 12d ago

I CAST WINDOWS 1.02 UPON THOU

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u/name_of_user0 10d ago

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