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Comment by yndoendo

12 hours ago

Back in my Window days. I would start the driver installation and let it sit. Open the temp folder and copy content the install extracted to a new directory. Cancel the installation. Open Device Manager and install the drivers from there so non of the excessive bloat was installed.

This worked greater with being an IT consultant. The client's machine to run smoother and drivers installed fast since they would buy multiples of the same equipment at once.

Now I only use Linux on personal equipment. You have to pay me to use Microsoft products. Microsoft has become shit-ware.

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IgorPartola  9 hours ago

To be fair Microsoft was always shitware. I don’t remember a time when using a Windows machine just worked, didn’t take up gigabytes of space, didn’t crash, and didn’t get messed up by simply using it requiring a yearly or semi-yearly reinstall.

  • hx8  4 hours ago

    I remember when Windows didn't take gigabytes of space because there wasn't gigabytes of space, and it was still shitware.

  • inigyou  5 hours ago

    Windows in the 95-XP era wasn't exactly high-quality software, but it was genuine technical innovation, doing what you otherwise couldn't do.

  • akurtzhs  8 hours ago

    Windows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks.

    To be fair, I had stretches of 2K, XP, 7 and 10 working acceptably.

    • hx8  4 hours ago

      These eras of Windows had their own dark patterns that were incredibly anti-consumer. No one's lives were improved because they installed the Ask Jeeves toolbar, but people were asked to install it millions and millions of times.

  • LocalH  6 hours ago

    Microsoft BASIC was a pretty decent interpreter, I wouldn't call it "shitware", so there you go?

    • lstodd  38 minutes ago

      I would have preferred a Forth on my C64 seriously. But no, we were stuck with this "38911 bytes free" crap.

ironmanszombie  5 hours ago

When .INF was all you needed (and some .cat / sys)! More recently, I found out that approach can sometimes lead to missing features when using the hardware. Even though the driver is installed correctly. I was probably missing something but didn't dig deeper into it.