It’s sarcasm.

Fancy.

Would be fine. The problem is, Microsoft is encrypting drives and not telling anybody about it. Average users have no clue what any of this is and are completely unaware they need to create a passphrase for safe keeping.

Exactly this. It always surprises me when people get bent out of shape because there is an option that they don’t like. Even worse when someone makes a choice they don’t like. “Who the fuck cares. Let them do their thing. be grateful you have a choice.”

Don’t be so disingenuous. The same shit happens on Windows. And there is no guarantee that your drivers will work between Windows versions.

No one cares.

That doesn’t stop any of them. Windows users still go, willy nilly, traipsing around the internet downloading and installing random things. There is no money, no checks and balances. I’m sure you’ve read Windows converts complaining, “Linux isn’t ready for the average user because it’s too hard to install programs, they want to be able to download an installer, then click next next next and have the application installed.” They think the security of package management is too much for the average user.

Sure, FOSS could get some bad actors. It would be no different than the closed source community. At least with FOSS, there is still opportunity for people to find and eliminate the bad code. The world runs on Linux and FOSS. The place where you would want to sneak in some bad code the most. You’d have a much bigger impact. And, it does happen on occasion, people notice, and the bad code is removed. Compare that to the much smaller, Windows world, where you need anti-virus checkers and maleware checkers.

It sounds like you have the computing world inverted. You believe Windows and closed source is the most dominant computing paradigm. It’s not.

100% agree. The computer I have now, I only bought because I needed more cores and ram for my docker dev environment. But I had a Yoga 2 Pro. It worked great and was fast for most of what I needed. I gave the machine to my cousin so he could learn to program on it. Still a fast machine. Doesn’t play video games, but it didn’t play video games when I bought it either.

Nobody is expecting them too. That’s all in your own head.

Average users don’t install OSes. They don’t care about OSes. Nobody would ever expect an average user to even think about looking for a gaming distro. I think you need to retune your idea of what an average user is.

Well, at least you got that far. Imagine if you tried migrating to MacOS.

Yeah but that was before Hi-Res images of BBTs.

I’d wager that is true. I know, for sure, you can start one compositor inside another compositor. I do this all the time for gaming with gamescope.

He said nothing. Then he explained that all he had was a bunch of unfounded fears and once he gave it a shot, it wasn’t that hard. i.e. training wheels not required, so nothing.

I wouldn’t.

Started on Slackware too. I remember building my own kernel and having to make sure it fit on a 1.44MB floppy.

make menuconfig

My bad, it’s been a decade. The key should actually be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image. That’s the key I was thinking of.

Not sure if this can help. Seems like you might have it covered for now. But, just in case, If you go to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run you can add a key for the name of the executable that gets run, Ai.exe and the value gets set to another program you want to run. Maybe you can set it to empty. Haven’t used Windows for over a decade, but I do remember setting that value to open an nPipe for debugging with WinDBG.

100% agree.

I could see that being the case. But definitely not the case where the average user needs/uses CAD. That’s a wild one.