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Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC
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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1081761" data-attributes="member: 90494"><p>I think I should update here, I did find something that does not work as well in Linux as in Windows, I could not find a good MP3 player. I tried a bunch of them from the Mint repo and none of them worked very well. One of the main things I do with my laptop is listen to music, whether it is my own MP3 library or Pandora. Every player I tried had one thing or the other that I did not like or did not work the way I wanted. Mostly it was bad sound quality. </p><p></p><p>I also had trouble finding a good MP3 tag editor in Linux. Ntag worked ok but MP3 Tag in Windows is a lot better, has more functions and is easier to use. Media Monkey is the best music manager/player I have ever found, but it only works in Windows. I did not want to try using Wine in Linux to run Media Monkey. I tried to read about Wine and learn how it works but I just did not understand it. I did read a lot of threads from people who are a lot smarter than me that said Wine can cause serious problems. </p><p></p><p>I found a registry edit that helps on the problem with Windows update turning apps back on. In the registry I went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ and set the DWord for SilentInstalledAppsEnabled to 0. This edit stops Windows from turning closed/removed bloatware apps back on after an update. I tested it too by adding the edit first before letting two MS updates run and none of the bloatware has turned back on after the update was done. So that edit seems to work well.</p><p></p><p>Windows updates also change the settings I put in Edge, which I don't like but I don't use Edge so I won't worry about that. What does worry me is if MS will force us all to use AI/Bing GPT/Copilot or whatever they wind up calling it. I hope I will be able to keep my settings and keep AI turned off when 24H2 is put in place. Better yet I hope 24H2 is an optional update and I can just ignore it. If MS makes 24H2 mandatory I will go back to Linux and find some other way to listen to music and manage my MP3 collection. Windows is not terrible, there are a lot of good things about it, I just want to use it the way I like without MS butting in every second Tuesday of the month.</p><p></p><p>C.H.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1081761, member: 90494"] I think I should update here, I did find something that does not work as well in Linux as in Windows, I could not find a good MP3 player. I tried a bunch of them from the Mint repo and none of them worked very well. One of the main things I do with my laptop is listen to music, whether it is my own MP3 library or Pandora. Every player I tried had one thing or the other that I did not like or did not work the way I wanted. Mostly it was bad sound quality. I also had trouble finding a good MP3 tag editor in Linux. Ntag worked ok but MP3 Tag in Windows is a lot better, has more functions and is easier to use. Media Monkey is the best music manager/player I have ever found, but it only works in Windows. I did not want to try using Wine in Linux to run Media Monkey. I tried to read about Wine and learn how it works but I just did not understand it. I did read a lot of threads from people who are a lot smarter than me that said Wine can cause serious problems. I found a registry edit that helps on the problem with Windows update turning apps back on. In the registry I went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ and set the DWord for SilentInstalledAppsEnabled to 0. This edit stops Windows from turning closed/removed bloatware apps back on after an update. I tested it too by adding the edit first before letting two MS updates run and none of the bloatware has turned back on after the update was done. So that edit seems to work well. Windows updates also change the settings I put in Edge, which I don't like but I don't use Edge so I won't worry about that. What does worry me is if MS will force us all to use AI/Bing GPT/Copilot or whatever they wind up calling it. I hope I will be able to keep my settings and keep AI turned off when 24H2 is put in place. Better yet I hope 24H2 is an optional update and I can just ignore it. If MS makes 24H2 mandatory I will go back to Linux and find some other way to listen to music and manage my MP3 collection. Windows is not terrible, there are a lot of good things about it, I just want to use it the way I like without MS butting in every second Tuesday of the month. C.H. [/QUOTE]
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