Microsoft

I have been a fan of Linux since I was young. My favourite branches are these Debian-based. Even though I never officially go full on it, Linux is a part of my daily life, and yours as well.

In daily life, I am using Windows 11, and my main driver is macOS, who derived from Unix. The macOS shares a lot of similarities with Linux, and thanks to the power of the terminal, I can do more than just rely on apps with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

On the other hand, my other devices all rely on Linux. My router is Linux-based (OpenWrt), I got small Ubuntu server helping me explore stuff and a few Raspberry Pis here and there.

The best feature that I admire in Linux based operating system is the option of managing packages (software) installed in the system. With a few commands using apt (Debian) or opkg (currently in OpenWrt), I can quickly update all that I am currently using in the system.

This is a feature that I miss the most on Windows. To support myself in having always up-to-date apps installed, I used various software. Some are crap, some are doing their job, like UCheck, but none of them are doing everything.

Since Microsoft started to take its Microsoft Store on Windows to their advantage, more and more apps appear there. Most of the apps that are installed directly from their developer website appear there as well, even as a direct link to the installers.

In opposition to what I said, from a Mac user perspective, I am disappointed by how Apple is utilising its AppStore on macOS. Where iPhones rely on AppStore in 99% of the time, with macOS, there is plenty of staff missing, and that’s disappointing.

Thanks to the existence of more and more apps through the Microsoft Store, they can be quickly updated through it without any hustles and that great. However, this does not sort out all the problems.

My post about Bing Jail gained a bit of attention (a lot!). With the traction, there is hate, but I could expect that as well. There was a bit of conversation in the comments on Hacker News which gives me valuable feedback.

This short, post scriptum post is not an explanation but rather my experience on the following days. My site reappear in Bing search for one day to be manually removed (blocked) the day after where Bing Support, who surprisingly responded, start looking into the case.

My personal site has been recently penalized by Bing, or if you prefer different naming for it - secretly blacklisted or shadowbanned. Don’t know exactly why but by the end of January 2023 I lost every indexed page that had been in Bing.

If you have updated to Windows 11 from Windows 10, the below steps will help you to clean leftovers in your system and make it close enough to the performance known from the 10th edition.

If you planning (or did) to install Windows 11 from an official ISO, make sure that you using always the latest one. At the time of writing this text, the ISO available is the 2nd since the system has been presented to the world (64v1).

In September 2018, I wrote a few words about Windows Defender, as my default antivirus for Windows 10. It’s been a few years since I’ve used it at work (as well as the rest of the people in the company). I recommend Microsoft’s default solution built into Windows 10/11 to anyone I help with their computer.

So I decided to check if Windows Defender is still a solution worth recommending. After all, it’s free, and you have to pay for all the others, so what’s the catch?

As announced, on October 5, 2021 (to be more precise, at the end of October 4), Microsoft officially presented the final version of Windows 11.

Hell has frozen over once again.

I have been using Avast on my Windows computers for years and it has worked wonders. I have not encountered any infections and it has protected me from several threats that I have encountered.

How to download an ISO image directly from Microsoft servers, officially, without risk and unnecessary fiddling.