There's something magical about getting out a fresh install of an operating system. Be it any variety of Windows, OS X, or Linux, that feeling isn't something I can ever replicate just by rearranging icons, changing backgrounds, reorganizing folders.
When you've got a fresh install Sup Forums, what is the first thing you do?
Install Gentoo? Change your background? Download Firefox/Chrome/Opera? Unpin the default programs from your taskbar?
Feel free to go into detail if you'd like.
Adrian Foster
Judging by that shit resolution of the screen shot, I'd modify the power settings on my laptop.
Then, I'd make my folders, import my files and install superior programs.
Austin Gonzalez
Better?
Adam Long
Install drivers, obviously you're missing gpu hardware acceleration on the destop composition.
Dylan Carter
Already did that, just didn't switch away from Aero Basic because lazy.
Nicholas Morris
Well, next thing on 7 is install the sp2, aka the convenience rollup update with all the fixes and patches from sp1 launch 5 years ago up to today Then go to ninite.com Then install 10 because 7 sucks.
Owen Nelson
Why on earth would you install updates for Windows 7 just to replace it with Windows 10?
Isaac Hernandez
go to ninite, remove the shitty bloatware, then install all I want.
Dominic Myers
What would you consider bloat ware on a fresh install of Windows?
Ian Cooper
kek
Jeremiah Nelson
depends. On win10 I remove automatic updates - if it's a notebook I'd rather remove bloatware than find all those fucking drivers.
Hunter Jackson
1. Relocate user folders to documents partition. 2. Move IE cache to FAT32 temp partition if HDD (don't care if SSD) 3. Install 7TT to ungroup windows in the same application 4. Install MPC, 7zip, CCleaner, standard stuff etc 5. Install ClassicShell if on 8+
Parker Kelly
Why do you use MPC over VLC?
Nicholas Nelson
>ClassicShell Dumb anime poster
Christian Reyes
Because VLC is trash on anything except linux, where it's only sort of trash.
Henry Harris
>linux nothing
>windows install drivers install chrome
Blake Cox
Contemplate using it to serve something and then never doing it.
Christopher Mitchell
If Windows - Start Uninstalling Bloat If Linux - Start Customizing If OSX - Start Sucking a Dude's Dick
Jaxon Smith
How exactly is VLC trash?
Jeremiah Perez
/thread
Benjamin Campbell
Not him, but VLC is not thrash, but software like MPC or mpv has muh placebo filters which I can't watch movies without.
Cooper Kelly
Garbled video, bleeding colors, slow as fuck tracking even on i7-2600k, slow as hell on lower end hardware.
Kayden Martin
>If OSX - Start Sucking a Dude's Dick
Is it ok if I install Linux then start sucking a dude off? Just wanna make sure I know the rules.
Christopher Williams
Depends on the country you live, but given that you're posting on Sup Forums there's a high chance you have the freedom to suck a dude's dick regardless of your OS choice or if you even have a computer.
Asher King
They're not really rules More like 'Guidelines'
Evan Gray
Windows - Remove windows 10 nag, install updates, kms crack, Microsoft safety essentials, chocolatey, enable file extensions OSX - disable SEP, install homebrew, install git, git clone my dotfiles repo Arch Linux - Restore my backup. There's no need to reinstall a rolling release distribution
Angel Bailey
Only if you install Elementary.
Connor Bailey
Windows: >Partition and mount additional drives >Install networking drivers >Configure network >Activate >Update everything, taking care to avoid GWX >Install all my software from a flash drive >Configure all my software >Configure Windows (go through Control Panel, set up libraries, etc.) >CCleaner and reboot
Lucas Williams
Open facebook.
Thomas Smith
>taking care to avoid GWX
>there are people who unironically install non-enterprise versions of windows that are subject to the free upgrade offer
Jeremiah Hill
>>there are people who unironically install non-enterprise versions of windows that are subject to the free upgrade offer I have a valid Windows 7 Professional license, senpai. May as well use it.
Austin Gonzalez
It's funny cause I was actually considering doing that anyway.
Being able to retain my dick-sucking privileges is just icing on the cake.
Jaxon Foster
>not having that integrated in install iso >shiggy diggy but yeah, aegis-voat, drivers, since windows then antivirus and then programs you use, everything else you might use is on the go when you need it
Isaiah Reyes
>virtualbox >laptop
Robert Garcia
Fix the task bar customization
Blake Sanchez
>fresh install >wait a billion years checking for updates
fuck
Jack Wright
Windows: Before attaching it to the internet, WSUS offline update. Antivirus, Then ninite (7zip, chrome, steam, malware bytes, keePass 2, Python, and putty), then ConEmu, Cygwin.
Jeremiah Barnes
Was suffering though subtitle translation loading and bad performance on my low-end laptop until I installed MPC. I was seriously stunned by how well it ran when compared to the struggling VLC.
Never gone back. MPC has got to be light and godly on Windows, and essentially does the same things dash some exotic things.
I'd honestly recommend switching away from VLC, giving MPC a go.
Luke Hernandez
if your pc cant handle vlc, why are you running Windows? lmao
Aiden Rodriguez
I was obligated to follow a charter basically telling me not to change the OS, uninstall any of that, and such.
A number of years on and no one seemed to care about the machines, so I installed Debian GNU / Linux on it.
Asher Howard
> windows 7 > drivers > turn features on or off (disable everything) > daz loader > control panel settings > plug in ethernet cable (until now the pc should be offline) > update >while updating install programs (AIMP, Firefox, Paint.NET, VLC, Office 2010)
Joshua Williams
Services. Disable Error Reporting, Remote Desktop, Remote Registry, Netbios, etc. Install antivirus/firewall. Restart to activate changes. Update with an eye on which are telemetry and Get Windows 10 updates. Browser setup 7zip MPC Steam >Flash Image editor
Logan Bell
Drivers, Ninite and Junk from usb is enough too get my win7 comfy
Camden Johnson
What else then?
Dominic Johnson
wipe it off the drive and install GNU/Linux
Asher Johnson
Activate Install Drivers Install Updates Remove Windows Search, Desktop Widgets, all the extra bullshit involved with a new install Download Firefox Remove IE Disable Boot Flash Screen Remove Page File because I have 32 GB of RAM and SSD
Jack James
git build-essential and cowsay
Christian Ward
Turn User Account Control off. Windows Loader Install drivers+updates Start importing my loli collection Change Power Options Install Photoshop/Deluge/Nightly etc. Turn off IE/WMP/Gadgets etc Shitpost across various boards once I'm all set up
Hunter Russell
Graphic drivers A decent web browser ???? Start shitposting across all the internet
Joshua Cruz
VLC stands for Video LAN Client. It was optimized for streaming online video. It was not meant to be a standalone player. Using it as such is like using a spoon to cut steak.
I just unlock all the chitty Windows software like WMP, IE etc. and completely delete them, and replace it all with good FOSS for media
I also don't and will never use anything past Windows 7
Aiden Turner
And Sup Forums is an animu website. We're not supposed to be discussing technology here.
Jeremiah Anderson
VLC is both a server and a client, the name doesn't stand for anything anymore. The entire application is referred to as VLC media player.
Isaac Russell
Go through System Preferences and tweak everything and turn on disk encryption Install Firefox and NoScript and import my bookmarks and whitelists Install Sizeup and LittleSnitch Setup new home dir folder in path and symlink my scripts from iCloud Import Solarized theme to terminal Import my ssh private key Clear out Dock and Launchpad databases Update OS Reboot
Cooper Miller
I fall upon that small percentage of people who is not 50% happy with any system out there, so I often do switch and fresh install. If I keep a system for more than 4-5 months (notice how I don't have a profession that depends on it) I could consider it ideal.
So normally what I do is just install system, drivers and programs, changing how it looks depends on how bad it looks by default, though wallpaper comes often first and that's maybe a day after installation. Then organizing folders depends on whether I keep my contents on my secondary hard drive or not but it's just a drive with normal folders. Music, Pictures, Games, Documents, Torrents (no web downloads folder, I keep those on whatever the default is on any system and then clean up), Videos, Misc (where I keep really random files or scripts or stupid shit that has no other place).
And sometimes I spend almost a day until I decide which specific application to use for a specific thing. Even nowadays I have problems with browsers, after 5 years of using Chrome and Chropera on and off, then Safari on Hackintosh, I went with Firefox on Windows just recently. After many years of Foobar and gmusicbrowser, went iTunes, then MusicBee. After many years of MPC-HC I went with mpv.
Until the day where Windows dies and support for my computer is -perfect- on a linux distro I might not feel comfort. Or until somehow, someway Apple takes over the gaming market and releases a really expensive mac which is capable of running OSX 100% flawlessly. Which seems unlikely.
Noah Clark
The moment you format that disk The moment you're on a fresh install
Always better, you can look at it on a deeper level of meaning,
attached to nothing and open to the present moment
Sounds so hipster but its true
We need some imaging constant format system for the cloud seriously, this virtualization can corrupt true hardware format but if you could just automate the whole shebang as a git script from independently added components it would be infinitely better