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I still can't enable the TPM on my AMD Zen 3 PC without getting random hitches (I've applied all firmware updates and tried switching to a hardware TPM), guess back to Windows 10 I go.

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Consider giving desktop Linux a go. Linux Mint and Fedora Workstation are good starters these days.

Windows is a sinking ship.

> Windows is a sinking ship.

I got a kick out of Windows' responses to me installing Chrome on some machines at work.

First, search (good) Bing for Chrome. Get a sponsored result from MS saying something like "Oh, really, no reason to install that, Edge is x, y, z marketing bs, you should just use it instead."

Second, go to Chrome download page. Windows then pops up a notification bubble or something in the top right again extolling Edge, finishing with "and it's Microsoft Trusted!"

Thanks for the laughs MS.

I mean... edge is chrome today lol, its just branded as MS.

I gave edge another shot last year, because it's just chrome right? Sure. That's what it started out as. Until MS middle-managers trying to get promotions added enough shit to onboarding that it repelled me back to Chrome

The AI spyware Recall feature was the last straw for me, even as I mostly use Windows for games and had no intent to go beyond Windows 10. After that announcement and kerfuffle I updated my PopOS partition and got my games working via Steam/Proton. Mostly drama free. Valve is really doing god's work here.

I use NixOS as my main driver on the same system (on a separate NVME drive) but I use Windows for gaming.

What kind of random hitches?

Random micro-freezes (less than a second), typically in-games.

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