Another slap in the face from our software overlords.
In the latest W11, bitlocker will be on by default.
Even MS admits to it causing a 45% slowdown in SSD performance.
A vid about it.
All the Best, Jeff
I prefer Truecrypt. Last software NSA and others can’t break.
Mike
Oh, man, I hope that there’s some sort of workaround.
I don’t want my data encrypted. 
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Unfortunately, with Windows 11 requiring TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled, it looks like this was the ultimate goal. I mean, yeah, you can always hack it to bypass the checks with the regkey update during initial install, but not sure how long that would last for, or whether a newer feature update would break that functionality.
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You can always disable it through the UI, it’s just enabled by default, but not force enabled.
Actually, it has been for about 2 years now. When I first installed Win11 on my notebook in December 2022, bitlocker was already default enabled, so these “news” are far from new.
Lowered my IOPS from ~800k down to ~70k. Pretty wild. I ended up forcing Bitlocker to use the SSDs hardware encryption (it’s a self encrypting device after all) instead, and am getting full performance since. In return I have to trust Samsung’s key generation algorithm isn’t substantially flawed.
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Still on Windows 7. Luckily, they’ve forgotten about me.
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That’s a … really bad idea. Win7 has literally thousands of unpatched, security-relevant bugs by now.
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So many things about Windows have been annoying me lately. I will move to linux as soon as possible/practical
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My Windows machines do what I want them to, and I don’t know which flavor of Linux is best, but it looks like people really like Linux Mint.
Apparently, the GUI of Linux Mint is pretty similar to Windows so that the transition from Windows to Linux Mint should be pretty easy.
https://alternativeto.net/software/windows-11/
Linux Mint Cinnamon is an excellent choice for beginners. The UI is very Win7-like and you will feel right at home.
You do not have to use the command line at all if you don’t want to, everything just works straight from the GUI.
You can create a bootable USB image with Linux Mint and thoroughly try it out before installing it (it will not change anything on your hard drive before you actually install it).
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Nice!
If I ever decide to ditch Windows, I’ll try out Linux Mint Cinnamon first.
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Yeah, make a bootable flash drive and you can give it a go and not change anything on your current system.
Libra office does anything MS office can do. Just a few differences in Excel vs Libra Calc. Reads and writes office formats just fine.
All the Best, Jeff
Yep, I already use LibreOffice for Windows.
I like it more than MS Office.
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In the grand scheme of things, most linux distributions are using systemd for its init system, so they are more or less the same. The big difference is the pacakage manager, and the choices the maintainers choose for the default configs.
As far as guis go, you can install any desktop environment on any distro, so it really comes down to which package manager do you want, do you agree with the maintainers choices and how well documented is the distro.
Ive mentioned it before, arch is my choice. Very little is forced on you by the maintainers. In my experience, the pacakage manager (pacman) is way faster than apt (debian based systems) or dnf (redhat based systems). The arch wiki documentation is probably the best linux resource i have found even for non arch distros.
Linux Mint is definitely a good distro. Ive used it a few times but really dont like apt (its so slow in my experience). Cinnamon is a great desktop environment, and its what i used for several years before switching to KDE Plasma.
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yes, already faced this problem. fortunately, the code was automatically saved in your personal Microsoft account.
How to stay on Windows 7 without not being able to run things/browser errors?
email me
It can be done with firewall based or browser based protection, antiviruses have long forgotten about win7
We’re very glad to have you here, electronics101!
Just don’t. Use Windows 11 or use Linux. Don’t feed the botnets with outdated vulnerable operating systems.
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