Windows is pissing me off, i'm DONE

I repair an old laptop of mine and did a fresh win7 install, no update, no nothing. Was doing great with it, not even plugged it to the internet. Today i wanted to install python and hexchat or some shit to go to IRC with it, making it my irc machine or something.
Well, turned out i needed something from an update fuck me, some dll was missing.
I knew what i needed so i just open windows update and check "search update but let me decide"
Yeah, FUCK YOU WINDOWS ! As soon as i clic that shit it tells me "Restart for installing update" FUCK YOU WINDOWS ! I DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING UPDATES I JUST WANT ONE FROM THE LIST FUCKER.

So i tried to revert the shit but somehow i failed because now it's restarting and installing something.

I'm fucking done, i quit windows. I'm going to install something like GNU SLASH LINUX or shit and that's gonna be it. That laptop isn't even used for anything else than work stuff and side-project.

But wait it doesn't stop there. So the laptop restart as i rant on Sup Forums about how windows is shit, and guess what.
Guess what !

Guess FUCKING WHAT.

He can't boot, LMAO WITH THE ALIEN.BMP. Fucking shit i hate that, now i'm gonna have to redo everything, wipe clean and shit on it. And wipe the shit.

fucking hell. What distro should i get ? Certainly not ubuntu though because i hate unity. I'm thinking something debian-like maybe ? IDK anything about linux and i feel like a fool now, i should have started this freedom shit long ago...

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Just so you know, Linux also has updates and if you don't like messing with stuff that breaks, then you are gonna have a bad time. Maybe it is time to go Apple.

install gentoo

I'm not against updates per se, when they're useful and actually serves me and not the company who made them.
I don't want the windows updates because most of them are unnecessary shit, telemetry and install bullshit programs like skype.

Debian and Fedora are your best choices for beginner distros if you don't want Ubuntu. If your only reason for not wanting Ubuntu is unity you could try Kubuntu, Xubuntu or any other of the distros based off of it.

That's what is great now about Windows 10. It installs updates with very little hassle. I don't know, nor care what it installs. Ignorance is bliss.

are you crazy, i want control

Arch Linux is a great distro. Difficult for beginners but we'll worth the investment in time to learn it. I've never tried Gentoo but I assume it's a slightly steeper learning curve but you'd get even more control.

you can select every update item manually in linux or set update priorities or whatever floats your boat, its highly customiseable, not like windows at all. also many linux builds are stable enough you dont have to update for years and stuff still werks

>I repair an old laptop of mine and did a fresh win7 install, no update, no nothing.

Install a Linux distribution from July 2009, refuse to update it and see how far you get (Hint: It probably wont even work with some of your HW to even begin using it). Fucking retard.

Idiots like you who think they know better but are actually so stupid that you're dangerous to everyone else online with your poor security practices is the exact reason MS force updates on people today and make you lose control you don't deserve to have.

Not updating a Linux machine is even worse, not just security but shared libs will break leaving your applications and even OS unable to work. Seriously consider just fucking killing yourself.

I told you it's not plugged to the internet. I just today considered using it for irc chatting.

Might try debian and Kubuntu or Xunbuntu on a vm or dual boot before choosing then.

isn't Arch not for linux beginners? i'm gonna die i think with something like Arch. But in reality idk i should try it at least to see how it goes.

enjoy autism and nogames

>it's not plugged to the internet
>I just today considered using it for irc chatting

Who you gonna fucking chat with? Yourself on localhost?

Man you're slow. I repaired that laptop months ago and it wasn't plugged to the internet.
>I just today considered using it for irc chatting
Meaning today i connected it to the world wide web.

Actual lol

Stop being such a fucking retard and let Windows do what it has to do. You aren't so important - nobody is going to want to look at anything you do on your computer. Jesus christ what are you.

>nothing to fear
>nothing to hide

But that's not the point. Why would i want things i don't need to be installed behind my back ? Why would i let windows look at anything i do ? I know i'm not important, i just want my installation to be clean and not filled with shit and programs i'll never need.

Im upset about Microsoft products as well.
I don't even use Windows anymore. I already use GNOO PLUS LONUX.
But I still use Skype.
So the other day I logged into my girlfriend's Skype account (she gave me the password) on my phone. And what happens? It loads all of my fucking address book contacts into her Skype list.
I think ok, it's because of a setting, I'll just quickly disable it.
So I went to disable the setting, but the contacts all remained. And for some reason I couldn't delete them on my phone. And not on Skype for GNU SLASH LINUX either.

As a matter of fact, I had to get out my old windows 7 computer, AND update Skype to the latest version, because the address book contacts simply wouldn't show up on anything but the latest Skype version for Windows.

It was too late already though, my girlfriend saw some girls name and freaked out (it was my cousin though).

It's just incredible how they treat their customers personal data. You don't even need to have windows installed. Just own Skype and bam, everything is compromised

Just stick to Debian stable or something, that's a distro that's unlikely to break during the course of a version's lifetime.

OTOH, Windows 7 would've been fine had you just allowed the update. They rolled all the updates into 1 for easier installation, and since they don't release updates for it anymore (for consumer PC's, anyway), you don't have to worry about those "pesky updates" that got you so worried.

What it downloaded was an update for Windows Update. You can't use Windows Update without installing that first.

One update requires the other you dumb fucktard. Love it or leave it, simple as that. You won't be missed.

>Meaning today i connected it to the world wide web.
>without any updates
You are completely potatoe.

If you can't run Windows, I'm sure you're gonna have a great time with Linux.

Yeah i figured that was the case, i'm installing SP1 package should i install something else?

After that i'm going to install debian and dual-boot from there, probably never gonna use windows again.

Man it's just an old laptop i wanted to mess around with, the computer itself is a potatoes. My main setup is totally different and up to date.

Who is she?

Xubuntu , ubuntu mate

Goes to Windows Update for a dll. Fucking retard.

Go for Apple if you got the money. Windows works better on Mac than on its own.

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Maybe take a look at Ubuntu GNOME (or one of the other "flavors"). That should give you Ubuntu, but without Unity

>doesn't even know how to choose a single update from the windows update application

Yeah you're better of using Linux, we have enough retards on this operating system as it is. The burden of being the most used one I suppose.

Funny thing is, when cloud computing kills PCs in a decade you won't have a choice.

Ubuntu MATE.

Pure debian is a bad meme propagated by freetards.

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Gotta love Windows, hiding folders like that

>RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'M A GIGANTIC RETARD FUGGING NORMANS RUINING MY COMPUTER SKILL DEVELOPMENT (because you're TOTALLY going to use memesnake to do something and not just ""study"" for 10 minutes and give up)
>I'M GONNA INSTALL "GNU SLASH LINUX" LIKE I READ ON Sup Forums ALL THE TIME ABOUT SINCE IT'LL BE SO MUCH EASIER AND FREE AS IN FREEDOM; THIS TOTALLY WON'T BACKFIRE BECAUSE OF MY PEANUT BRAIN

It only loads your contacts phone number, not actual Skype accounts it only on your phone and when you logs in on other devices it won't show up

you know you can call landlines and mobile phone with skype

Just like on linux, only get the dll you need. If I need some binary from linux, I am not going to install anything at all. Some linux machine has the binary and I copy the shit just over. Like aplay for example. The newer version has bug currently so that one of my scripts didn't work correctly. I just copied the aplay binary (older version) from another machine (because it wasn't in the repos anymore) and it works.
On windows, just download the dll from somewhere (there is a site specific for that called "dllfiles") and copy this file into /windows/ or even better in the folder of the program. Windows programs search their own folder for dlls first and then look in /windows/

>I repair an old laptop of mine and did a fresh win7 install, no update, no nothing. Today i wanted to install python and hexchat or some shit to go to IRC with it.
>some dll was missing.
This is all normal.

>I knew what i needed so i just open windows update and check "search update but let me decide"
This is wrong. You don't go check Windows Update when you're missing a dll. You search for info on the dll, and then go find the update/install yourself. It's likely a newer version of .NET or "MS C++ Redistributable" or DirectX or whatever.

>Yeah, FUCK YOU WINDOWS ! As soon as i clic that shit it tells me "Restart for installing update" FUCK YOU WINDOWS ! I DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING UPDATES I JUST WANT ONE FROM THE LIST FUCKER.
Full autism.

>I'm going to install something like GNU SLASH LINUX or shit and that's gonna be it.
If you can't even operate Windows, I think you're in for a world of hurt in any distro.

Stop being an autistic rage monkey who breaks his computer.

>it only on your phone and when you logs in on other devices it won't show up
But that's wrong. It showed up on my girlfriend's devices: her phone and her windows 10 computer.
And oddly enough it didn't show the phone numbers, only some kind of alias names that aren't actual Skype accounts. Im starting to think it might have been email contacts. But it doesn't matter what specific contacts it was. The point is my privacy was breached

Well no one on the internet knows you're a cat behind the keyboard

you're more of a retard than me.

she a sub from some campus, i think the OPs are on some deviantart

>This is wrong. You don't go check Windows Update when you're missing a dll. You search for info on the dll, and then go find the update/install yourself. It's likely a newer version of .NET or "MS C++ Redistributable" or DirectX or whatever.

Yes but, the thing is the dll missing is from the c runtime lib or something and come in a specific update that doesn't work if i don't install SP1. And installing SP1 was supposed to be easier with the update.

>Yes but, the thing is the dll missing is from the c runtime lib or something
Bullshit. I bet if you just installed the latest version of "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable" it would've been fine.

>and come in a specific update that doesn't work if i don't install SP1
Then just fucking install SP1. Windows Update can do that just fine. No shit it requires a reboot to install a major system upgrade. You can't install a 7 year old OS and expect it to work properly without tons of updates and some rebooting.

>installing SP1 was supposed to be easier with the update
>the update
What is "the update"? Why can't you be clear about anything? Stop being such a shitty writer and stop going on Sup Forums. You're clearly a fucking idiot child, or if you aren't a child, you have about the same literacy as one.

The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

Oh god, is this what Sup Forums has become? A bunch of plebs complaining about Windows Update? Just update your computer faggot, those updates are there for a reason. Windows is a giant security hole in itself, it really NEEDS those updates. If you really, REALLY want to run Linux, use upstream Debian and stop being a faggot.

>Debian
>apt

>No shit it requires a reboot to install a major system upgrade
I didn't say that was the problem, if you read correctly my computer just reboot when i told him i wanted to see the list of update. I just wanted to choose the one i needed...

>What is "the update"? Why can't you be clear about anything?
"Windows update", the thing on your computer who DL and install updates.
I forgot the 'windows' and didn't read myself before posting, don't tell me i write like a child because i mistype some words.

>Bullshit. I bet if you just installed the latest version of "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable" it would've been fine.
also vc_redist.exe doesn't install if you're missing SP1, that's what i am telling you.

you can run Ubuntu without Unity

>if you read correctly my computer just reboot when i told him i wanted to see the list of update.
>when i told him
>him
This is what I mean. No one knows what the fuck you're saying because of your shit broken english. Seriously just leave or lurk more.

From the OP:
>i just open windows update and check "search update but let me decide" Yeah, FUCK YOU WINDOWS !
You got mad at checking a box here. Not sure why.

>As soon as i clic that shit it tells me "Restart for installing update"
Oh no! You have to reboot your computer! It might take

More from the OP:
>So i tried to revert the shit but somehow i failed because now it's restarting and installing something.
It started installing an update, which likely would've fixed your dll issue, and then tried to "revert the shit"? Why and how? Again, I'm not even sure I understand what you're saying because it's so open to interpretation and poorly written.