• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’m guessing the cheap laptop was running Windows? You didn’t mention, it sounds at first like you’re saying you were using Linux on it.

    What ads were everywhere? Why did it “take 2 hours to get to the desktop” - you mean, that’s how long it took to install or something?

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      6 days ago

      People here so full of shit. I just reimaged my lenovo t570 with windows 11 took less then 10mins to install. Another 5 to remove all the bs built in software like solitaire Cortana etc and then another 10-15 to apply all windows updates. Bam done.

      • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        Yeah, sure. But I don’t run a shop anymore and just picked up an off the shelf machine from a retailer.

        Turned it on, connected it to wifi, then it took forever to try and update itself, which failed, required another reboot, then made me sign in, which also failed, needed a reboot

        I dont want a fucking ms account, I don’t want to wait for every update, just ask my name and take me to the desktop

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          5 days ago

          Sounds like a personal skill issue. Especially if you bought some crappy off the shelf laptop.

          Also you dont need any of that to use windows so again pushing false narrative since you can use windows with an offline account perfectly fine. Since I use mine for school and dont sign into Microsoft.