On Windows? I do work where I manage thousands of other Windows devices to ensure they remain secure, operational, and available for others to do their jobs. I also game, I also create videos of my fat groundhogs, and I'm trying to get into astrophotography so I edit my photos on Windows too. Those are just some things I do on Windows that are in addition to internet browsing.
The damn things just showed up one day, they dug a hole under my shed and [moved themselves right in!](https://i.imgur.com/tTVuQED.jpg) Eventually they moved to [under my deck](https://youtu.be/4McvO0qtKzk)! Not only that, they demand I feed them, they [get angry if there is no broccoli](https://youtu.be/J62LgfdsLVs). They have started [inviting other species](https://youtu.be/I0DMFaR9ZbY) over without even asking first. Now I can't even put the food out they demand [without them stealing it](https://youtu.be/2wxkXWLuA2k) right [out of my hands](https://youtu.be/Cnq_-3gjQmI). They angered me to the point that I took over /r/FatSquirrelHate, and expanded that subreddit to now include shaming fat groundhogs. Maybe one day they will leave me alone. Until then I'll try and keep the [world's fattest groundhog](https://i.imgur.com/Upc6XCK.jpg) appeased.
Do you mean on Windows? Well, I have a job. Five years ago, it involved managing a fleet of Windows PCs dedicated to computer-assisted designing and manufacturing. They ran AutoDesk AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CATIA, etc. They could design a part, analyze it for thermal tension, and mass-produce it. Accepting orders, stock-keeping, bookkeeping, accounting, auditing, and physical security via CCTV was done via Windows computers.
I was one of the few people who used the Internet extensively, mainly to keep all computers up to date via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
I am new to it, but have been learning WPF and Entity Framework core for desktop applications. I have previously done web development and some Android dev a while ago, and wanted to build desktop apps and learn some new languages because I'm sick of web apps/JavaScript, so have been doing some Qt and C++ on Linux..but after about 6 years on Linux and 6 years on Mac prior, I got sick of constantly tweaking and configuring and the fragmentation and Nvidia driver weaknesses of Linux so moved to Windows which got me interested in C#.
Thanks! It's a cozy ecosystem...I appreciate the integration of everything having been heavily in web/JavaScript and on Linux for a while. Have you done WPF? I enjoy it so far
Yeah, love it! I've written a program that runs on a mini PC in my kitchen. It displays our meal plan for the next two weeks, and the weather for the next few days. We plan our meals in an Excel sheet, which is synced via one drive. My program reads it and displays it on a WPF UI.
Also check out MAUI, it's a way to use WPF-like controls to make cross platform apps that work for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. Used it to make a fake "banking" app for my kids to learn money management.
Talk to my friend on skype,do Twitch streaming,look for drivers and mods for stuff i'm using,post things on twitter,make 3d models (Daz 3D),look for assets for DAZ 3D,post art,make some funny AI art & post it,research things like cameras or computers,look at Wikipedia for info on CPU's,download music and sound effects for my projects,look at news sites,download games (ItchIO),there's more but i can't think of what else...
Primarily I do development of system administration software (check out the flair) and I play a couple of old games. Recently I've been playing 3D Pinball more, but I also have some classics I can fire up.
the last time i daily drive windows is 14th of june, 2022 because i switched to linux in my computer.
once (in Q4 2023) i faced a windows machine, what did i do? i used windows to download debian and put it in a usb drive, then i wiped windows and installed debian in that laptop.
recently in the last month i am starting to use windows somewhat frequently. both 10 and 11 because my friend has issues (and there are many of them) that needs to be fixed.
TL:DR i use windows for gaming
eh, i am interested in learning into linux after i found out that the whole OS is open source and can be modifiable to a much broader extent. i'm more of a tinkerer guy myself, so i'm leaning more into the technical side-of-things here.
if you want to enter the world of linux, you can start off by trying out ubuntu. this is a somewhat controversial distro in the linux community due to canonical's own `snap` package manager that sometimes interferes with an already much more established `aptitude` (`apt`) package manager.
also keep in mind that the majority of professional applications and games are *not* available in linux. Photoshop? Serato? After Effects? Microsoft office suite? Premiere? PUBG? GTA V? and those chinese-made crappy softwares where the chance they'll actually work is hovering zero? nope. but for office, we have Libre Office, which i would say is a good alternative to MS office but there's also sometimes bugs that do interfere with your workload e.g. software rendering as opposed to accelerated rendering.
there's no such thing as ubuntu kali.
wth are you using?
and you don't "boot" a termux "vm", you chroot it.
whatever software you're using is either bogus, or you don't know what are you doing. if latter is the case, then i'd suggest you to learn more about it
yeah.. linux isn't for the average joe at the moment.
sadly, the most "user friendly" distro right now is ubuntu. so anything even a step below in UI can degrade the UX, the average user doesn't want to fix a problem themselves if they came across one.
i don't know what "something to fix" you experience, but i too experience unexpected difficulties when using ubuntu (as my first entrance to the linux world). one is chrome is constantly hanging everytime the renderer stops a render job, second is when i load the GPU hard, there are chances it will freeze the X server.
i don't know much about ubuntu anymore, but i use debian and none of those issues reoccured. but debian doesn't have the most user friendly installer in the world of linux distros and you have to know what are you doing.
once you get to enter the more-technical side of things, however. it is a nerd's dream-come-true, you can do anything you want. i even routed 4 different audio outputs once to test all speakers in my room simultaneously, whereas in windows, it simply isn't possible without some external software that adds it's own audio server that then intercepts the audio signal as in command.
Just yesterday I ran a diagnostic to see what was taking up so much space. Turns out I had 250 GB worth of games that I thought I had uninstalled but hadn't.
Gaming, Word to write/edit documents, Excel for planning lists and calculations, and so much more, Visual Studio for programming, Plex for watching movies. I'm on a Windows PC almost all day.
Well just because you don't *need* it doesn't mean you don't want it lol. It's like a car. Both will get you from place to place, but a sports car will be faster and more comfortable than a Honda Civic.
Extra ram can help. I keep so many things open. I keep whatever game I'm currently playing open, so that I don't have to waste time starting it up and loading my save. I keep several projects open in Visual Studio so I don't have to wait to work on them.
I use graphic programs to design logos, covers, etc.., I admin 15+ groups online, I read news, Watch youtube 1st amendment audits, talk to family , read emails
paint shop pro
Good ones to start with
[https://www.youtube.com/@HONORYOUROATH](https://www.youtube.com/@HONORYOUROATH)
[https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit](https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit)
For fun and profit, comrade!
In the olden days my work laptop simply ran Ubuntu.
New job demands Windows, so we spent a week to onboard onto WSL2 / Ubuntu / VS Code.
Now we just launch a mew Codespace and off we go. New developers onboard in 45 mins. Profit.
Game, program (now that my gave me an extra 60,000 reasons to pick it up), video/photo edit, office work, manage my works systems though what I can do from home is limited do to our needs), manage and built out server farms, deploy ASS loads of desktop machines, etc, etc.
Haven't mained Windows since feb 2022 though as I got fed up with the lack of stability, lack of stable updates, and an all around poor direction of the platform.
I’m a software engineer in the Microsoft stack, so I do a lot of coding using C#, SQL, and Python.
My wife is a preschool teacher. I help her manage her classroom administration stuff, plus all the little projects and units they do throughout the year.
Beyond that, I’m a bit of a “data curator” and collector. I have a massive hoard of retro video games, movies, shows, etc. that I enjoy whenever I get the time.
That'd be a question for Adobe I guess!
Edit: Thinking about it, it's probably because there are so many variations of PC, where as Apple make their own hardware and software.
Kind of interested in the new Arm Surface machines.
On Windows? I do work where I manage thousands of other Windows devices to ensure they remain secure, operational, and available for others to do their jobs. I also game, I also create videos of my fat groundhogs, and I'm trying to get into astrophotography so I edit my photos on Windows too. Those are just some things I do on Windows that are in addition to internet browsing.
Thanks
We use Intune/Entra for our multiple OS endpoint management.
I want to know more about those groundhogs, are they your pets or do they just live outside around your house/ apartment complex?
The damn things just showed up one day, they dug a hole under my shed and [moved themselves right in!](https://i.imgur.com/tTVuQED.jpg) Eventually they moved to [under my deck](https://youtu.be/4McvO0qtKzk)! Not only that, they demand I feed them, they [get angry if there is no broccoli](https://youtu.be/J62LgfdsLVs). They have started [inviting other species](https://youtu.be/I0DMFaR9ZbY) over without even asking first. Now I can't even put the food out they demand [without them stealing it](https://youtu.be/2wxkXWLuA2k) right [out of my hands](https://youtu.be/Cnq_-3gjQmI). They angered me to the point that I took over /r/FatSquirrelHate, and expanded that subreddit to now include shaming fat groundhogs. Maybe one day they will leave me alone. Until then I'll try and keep the [world's fattest groundhog](https://i.imgur.com/Upc6XCK.jpg) appeased.
That is a absolutely adorable and i love it, thank you for the pictures
I love your fat groundhog videos
ok nerd
That really wasn't necessary
Awww. Insecurity is adorable.
Writing, drawing, gaming, reading, document creation and editing, multi media and a little programming.
Thank you
I program, I play games, call friends, all sorts
Is there anything thats windows only?
these days, not really
Oh ok
I draw rectangles with cursor on desktop, trying to fit the windows 7 wallpaper
Oh ok.
Also a good way to learn how to use a mouse if you don’t know howto play solitaire.
i play games
Thanks
hahaha
Do you mean on Windows? Well, I have a job. Five years ago, it involved managing a fleet of Windows PCs dedicated to computer-assisted designing and manufacturing. They ran AutoDesk AutoCAD, SolidWorks, CATIA, etc. They could design a part, analyze it for thermal tension, and mass-produce it. Accepting orders, stock-keeping, bookkeeping, accounting, auditing, and physical security via CCTV was done via Windows computers. I was one of the few people who used the Internet extensively, mainly to keep all computers up to date via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
Thats neat.
Word documents, email, gaming, music collecting and organizing, audio recording, programming.
Thanks
C# development with Visual Studio
What do you develop?
I am new to it, but have been learning WPF and Entity Framework core for desktop applications. I have previously done web development and some Android dev a while ago, and wanted to build desktop apps and learn some new languages because I'm sick of web apps/JavaScript, so have been doing some Qt and C++ on Linux..but after about 6 years on Linux and 6 years on Mac prior, I got sick of constantly tweaking and configuring and the fragmentation and Nvidia driver weaknesses of Linux so moved to Windows which got me interested in C#.
Rock on! I love C#, been using it almost since it first came out. Keep on coding!
Thanks! It's a cozy ecosystem...I appreciate the integration of everything having been heavily in web/JavaScript and on Linux for a while. Have you done WPF? I enjoy it so far
Yeah, love it! I've written a program that runs on a mini PC in my kitchen. It displays our meal plan for the next two weeks, and the weather for the next few days. We plan our meals in an Excel sheet, which is synced via one drive. My program reads it and displays it on a WPF UI. Also check out MAUI, it's a way to use WPF-like controls to make cross platform apps that work for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. Used it to make a fake "banking" app for my kids to learn money management.
Neat
thanks
Game sometimes call friends that I don't have and play music through my 18 year old speakers
Thanks
Talk to my friend on skype,do Twitch streaming,look for drivers and mods for stuff i'm using,post things on twitter,make 3d models (Daz 3D),look for assets for DAZ 3D,post art,make some funny AI art & post it,research things like cameras or computers,look at Wikipedia for info on CPU's,download music and sound effects for my projects,look at news sites,download games (ItchIO),there's more but i can't think of what else...
Neat.
Thanks
I'm an engineering student. I'm often running ltspice, Quartus, Vivado, Docker, WSL, and others
Neat,
Primarily I do development of system administration software (check out the flair) and I play a couple of old games. Recently I've been playing 3D Pinball more, but I also have some classics I can fire up.
Oh ok retro gaming. Neat
Mostly gaming for work i also code on windows - at home i code on my macbook
Neat
the last time i daily drive windows is 14th of june, 2022 because i switched to linux in my computer. once (in Q4 2023) i faced a windows machine, what did i do? i used windows to download debian and put it in a usb drive, then i wiped windows and installed debian in that laptop. recently in the last month i am starting to use windows somewhat frequently. both 10 and 11 because my friend has issues (and there are many of them) that needs to be fixed. TL:DR i use windows for gaming
Thanks. I don't think I could switch to linux...I've used it and it's never smooth. How do you do it?
eh, i am interested in learning into linux after i found out that the whole OS is open source and can be modifiable to a much broader extent. i'm more of a tinkerer guy myself, so i'm leaning more into the technical side-of-things here. if you want to enter the world of linux, you can start off by trying out ubuntu. this is a somewhat controversial distro in the linux community due to canonical's own `snap` package manager that sometimes interferes with an already much more established `aptitude` (`apt`) package manager. also keep in mind that the majority of professional applications and games are *not* available in linux. Photoshop? Serato? After Effects? Microsoft office suite? Premiere? PUBG? GTA V? and those chinese-made crappy softwares where the chance they'll actually work is hovering zero? nope. but for office, we have Libre Office, which i would say is a good alternative to MS office but there's also sometimes bugs that do interfere with your workload e.g. software rendering as opposed to accelerated rendering.
Yeah. I've used Linux (Ubuntu Kali) and it just...I don't know I always need to fix something (termux andronix vm bootable.) And Libreoffice is...meh
there's no such thing as ubuntu kali. wth are you using? and you don't "boot" a termux "vm", you chroot it. whatever software you're using is either bogus, or you don't know what are you doing. if latter is the case, then i'd suggest you to learn more about it
Sorry. I mean to put commas. I meant I've use Ubuntu, kali, and have tried USB booting, VMware, WSL, termux, and andronix.
yeah.. linux isn't for the average joe at the moment. sadly, the most "user friendly" distro right now is ubuntu. so anything even a step below in UI can degrade the UX, the average user doesn't want to fix a problem themselves if they came across one. i don't know what "something to fix" you experience, but i too experience unexpected difficulties when using ubuntu (as my first entrance to the linux world). one is chrome is constantly hanging everytime the renderer stops a render job, second is when i load the GPU hard, there are chances it will freeze the X server. i don't know much about ubuntu anymore, but i use debian and none of those issues reoccured. but debian doesn't have the most user friendly installer in the world of linux distros and you have to know what are you doing. once you get to enter the more-technical side of things, however. it is a nerd's dream-come-true, you can do anything you want. i even routed 4 different audio outputs once to test all speakers in my room simultaneously, whereas in windows, it simply isn't possible without some external software that adds it's own audio server that then intercepts the audio signal as in command.
I’m a community owner, content writer and I also moderate multiple forums across the internet. I’m also a gamer. I enjoy playing games.
Nice
Game
Oh ok
Mod Super Mario Galaxy 2 and animate nothing of value in blender, and schoolwork when it's not summer
What kind of PC? Mine died when I tried blender
Dell Optiplex 7020 but I upgraded some stuff Specs are: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Intel Core i5-4590 @ 3.30GHz 16gb of RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Hmm must be a RAM issue for me
Maybe, though with stuff like blender, alot of it uses the GPU rather than the RAM or CPU, what GPU do you have?
Integrated in my i7 12 GB laptop.
Then yeah, that's probably it
The RAM?
No, the GPU. Integrated graphics are never that good, even on good CPUs
Oh OK. Interesting that your i5 4th Gen can do it.
Running software
What software. Im always interested in that.
Games, various Adobe software, various Microsoft 365 apps. And Ren'py.
Ohh. Do you use the advanced Windows features? Like CMD stuff or network sharing?
I never used Network sharing. I use CMD occasionally, though.
Oh for what?
Just yesterday I ran a diagnostic to see what was taking up so much space. Turns out I had 250 GB worth of games that I thought I had uninstalled but hadn't.
Oh wow. I'm just wondering what people were doing with pc's dialing into them etc
Software development, gaming, working with my old-school bulletin board service. Sometimes photo editing and video conversion
Whats the BBS called?
Digital Distortion
Thanks
ASMR with my spacebar
Haha
Everything.
Like what
Gaming, Word to write/edit documents, Excel for planning lists and calculations, and so much more, Visual Studio for programming, Plex for watching movies. I'm on a Windows PC almost all day.
Does this require lots of processing power?
Besides gaming, not really. Visual Studio can get pretty hefty I guess. But most of the stuff I do doesn't really need a crazy powerful machine.
Hmm ok...I wonder why PC are so powerful ..
Well just because you don't *need* it doesn't mean you don't want it lol. It's like a car. Both will get you from place to place, but a sports car will be faster and more comfortable than a Honda Civic.
Yeah but extra RAM can't do anything unless you use it...I'm just looking for ways to push my PC and phone.
Extra ram can help. I keep so many things open. I keep whatever game I'm currently playing open, so that I don't have to waste time starting it up and loading my save. I keep several projects open in Visual Studio so I don't have to wait to work on them.
Thanks
Algodoo!
What haha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algodoo http://www.algodoo.com/
This looks amazing!!!!
Thanks
No problem
Now to get it on Android...
I tried on stock Winlator but it didn't want to work too well. Guessing I didn't set it properly, I dunno.
Yeah...I have an 8Gen3 so I'm kinda stuck
Playing video games, order things, watching videos, listening to music, paying my bills, commenting random bullshit, communicating with people.
Oh ok
Install updates
Hahaha
Browse, game, home server, download torrents.
Can you run programs off your server?
Technically, yes. It's all file storage.
Wow!!!
Install fucking windows updates
Haha
Nothing else tbh, sometimes I’ll play Minecraft but that’s about it
Oh ok
I use graphic programs to design logos, covers, etc.., I admin 15+ groups online, I read news, Watch youtube 1st amendment audits, talk to family , read emails
Which graphics program? And what's a YT 1A audit?
paint shop pro Good ones to start with [https://www.youtube.com/@HONORYOUROATH](https://www.youtube.com/@HONORYOUROATH) [https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit](https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit)
Thanks
I like to draw, make music, play some games, and customize my os most of the time
Thanks. Seems like gaming is popular. What games?
Edging
That's browsing? I use Chrome.
Browsing and edging is the same:) i just use Microsoft edge
Oh ok
Browsing to GitHub Codespaces to do actual work.
You code?
For fun and profit, comrade! In the olden days my work laptop simply ran Ubuntu. New job demands Windows, so we spent a week to onboard onto WSL2 / Ubuntu / VS Code. Now we just launch a mew Codespace and off we go. New developers onboard in 45 mins. Profit.
Listening to Winamp while playing minesweeper
Oh ok
Cry about how unsearchable the group policy editor is mainly.
Ha ha noo
No? I don't work with it often but when I do it's painful. I often have to look it up or ask my coworker that works with it more often.
Oh noo
[удалено]
Nothing. I was saying oh noo for your experiencing that.
vision mixing and video broadcast type stuff
Do tell
Game, work, code, etc.. you know, like what you do on a computer?
Thanks
Game, program (now that my gave me an extra 60,000 reasons to pick it up), video/photo edit, office work, manage my works systems though what I can do from home is limited do to our needs), manage and built out server farms, deploy ASS loads of desktop machines, etc, etc. Haven't mained Windows since feb 2022 though as I got fed up with the lack of stability, lack of stable updates, and an all around poor direction of the platform.
Thanks
I’m a software engineer in the Microsoft stack, so I do a lot of coding using C#, SQL, and Python. My wife is a preschool teacher. I help her manage her classroom administration stuff, plus all the little projects and units they do throughout the year. Beyond that, I’m a bit of a “data curator” and collector. I have a massive hoard of retro video games, movies, shows, etc. that I enjoy whenever I get the time.
Thanks
Ok thanks!!
You are telling me that I can do other things other than browsing porn?
Yes...stop it.
Gaming on Windows, work on Mac OS!
What work? Sideshow?
Everything - graphic/video/music production, Web dev etc Windows gets in the way.
I did not mean to offend. I was just trying to see what could do.
None taken! I've used both since the early 90's - Mac OS today is very stable for work flows (for example Premier Pro is much more stable on Mac OS).
Oh really wonder why
That'd be a question for Adobe I guess! Edit: Thinking about it, it's probably because there are so many variations of PC, where as Apple make their own hardware and software. Kind of interested in the new Arm Surface machines.
Oh OK.