I've spent the better part of the last few hours setting up this Windows 11 beelink PC.

I've spent the better part of the last few hours setting up this Windows 11 beelink PC. This is a fucking nightmare that makes a Linux install look like fucking candyland.

@da_667 the fucking microsecond the cirrus logic audio bullshit and intel be201 wifi card bullshits land in themainline kernel im launching win11 into the sun on my new laptop

@Viss I want to have separate accounts for my parents on this thing. I made my mom's account first. This fucking insists on automatically logging in with her account, in spite of me messing with every applicable configuration and registry setting telling the system to stop automatically logging in.

@da_667 so i learned when did my install, that if you shift-f10 during install and get a prompt, you can run explorer, get a browser open, go to privacy.sexy and run the 'strict' script before the install completes and it completely bypasses the cloud account creation bullshits

@Viss oh, I managed to bypass all that, but it still insists to opening into one account. I've tried netplwiz, control useraccounts2, several Winlogon registry edits, and fuckin nothing stops the system from just automatically logging in as the first created user.

@da_667 i wonder if just ubuntu would be a better call at this point? all they do is use a browser, right? firefox is firefox pretty much everywhere

@Viss hold on, I think i've figured it out. jesus christ this is stupid.

@Viss I want to have separate accounts for my parents on this thing. I made my mom's account first. This fucking insists on automatically logging in with her account, in spite of me messing with every applicable configuration and registry setting telling the system to stop automatically logging in.

I've spent the better part of the last few hours setting up this Windows 11 beelink PC. This is a fucking nightmare that makes a Linux install look like fucking candyland.

oh fuck me, I have to do these setup tasks for each account on this fucking system. fuckin' gross...

ah yes, the new right click context menu completely hides help right-click shellexts like 7-zip -> unzip this shit in the more options portion.

Guess I'm downloading UWT again to unfuck that once again.

why the fuck would you make it the default to hide the shellexts that can do anything useful. Why replace copy/paste/rename with glyphs when the words being in the menu has been the norm for decades. so much of this UI makes no fucking sense.