I’ve not owned a gaming PC in 10 years +

[NoBacon]

You have a degree in computer science and you can't build a computer and don't know "what's new"? lmao.

Yes, I haven’t had my own PC since probably 2012, the only time I’m using a PC that isn’t for work I use a crappy HP laptop, because I don’t do anything that needs anything more.

Now I’d like to do some video editing again but when I look at out the box stuff it’s full of stupid fucking bloat. I’ll probably just get a Mac.

When I’m working I don’t have to build the PCs or configure them, or do anything with hardware, why would I?

 

[Patty's Stubby Fingers]

When that anti virus update bricked all those systems recently, I helped our tech support guys fix the affected stations, I clean installed some and it was just dreadful, and these are business units with zero bullshit on.

It’s so off putting battling all the bloat, and just generally how everything is now. I remember just plugging a printer in and it working, now it takes forever to set up, register an account, then the device, then update the proprietary software etc. aids.

Run this. It also removes spyware stuff like Msft recall

 

[BenDovid]

Yes, I haven’t had my own PC since probably 2012, the only time I’m using a PC that isn’t for work I use a crappy HP laptop, because I don’t do anything that needs anything more.

Now I’d like to do some video editing again but when I look at out the box stuff it’s full of stupid fucking bloat. I’ll probably just get a Mac.

When I’m working I don’t have to build the PCs or configure them, or do anything with hardware, why would I?

You're 100% bitchmade.

 

[LockedHDD__Pot]

You're 100% bitchmade.

Forum Clout-2,563

 

[PickleRickle]

You're 100% bitchmade.

You're not black. Going to call us cats next? kike wigger bald guitar hero

 

[NoBacon]

You're 100% bitchmade.

Didn’t you have to commit yourself to a mental health crisis unit because you had anxiety? What are you, a woman?

 

[SpaceEdge]

there's decent services out there but the catch is that you need to know what you're looking at still, so in the end you might as well do it yourself.
if you just don't want a gigantic bother I would just throw a setup in an evo haf. The whole mobo tray pops out, it's big but very simple and quick, good airflow and room for water

you just want a newer core with a good clock speed and a decent card like a 6750xt or a 3070.

 

[goo gobbler]

Now I’d like to do some video editing again but when I look at out the box stuff it’s full of stupid fucking bloat. I’ll probably just get a Mac.

do you mean standard windows bloat you'd have whether you bought prebuilt or built one? even with a prebuilt pc, what would stop you from installing your own copy of windows or a linux distro

 

[SpaceEdge]

oh and make sure you get a mobo with nvme and don't fag out on your main stick

 

[NoBacon]

there's decent services out there but the catch is that you need to know what you're looking at still, so in the end you might as well do it yourself.
if you just don't want a gigantic bother I would just throw a setup in an evo haf. The whole mobo tray pops out, it's big but very simple and quick, good airflow and room for water

you just want a newer core with a good clock speed and a decent card like a 6750xt or a 3070.

I know I’ll be accused of being a retard but I haven’t bought or built a PC since 2010 ish. I have no call to do it at all for my work.

I haven’t kept up with brands, specs, prices - I haven’t worried about drivers or over clocking, bios etc in half my life time.

I don’t have the will power to research everything, put it together and clean install it myself. I also realised it was worse than I could imagine if you buy something from best buy off the shelf where you’re basically just buying an aggressive advertising campaign of useless bullshit they are paid to push on people. T

 

[PickleRickle]

I know I’ll be accused of being a retard but I haven’t bought or built a PC since 2010 ish. I have no call to do it at all for my work.

I haven’t kept up with brands, specs, prices - I haven’t worried about drivers or over clocking, bios etc in half my life time.

I don’t have the will power to research everything, put it together and clean install it myself. I also realised it was worse than I could imagine if you buy something from best buy off the shelf where you’re basically just buying an aggressive advertising campaign of useless bullshit they are paid to push on people. T

Look up the last few years of graphics card prices. Then buy a prebuild with whichever card you liked best at a reasonable price point. Thats the lazy route.

 

[SpaceEdge]

yeah i remember spending hours and hours chasing shit, but now i've only had to do that 2 times in a few years b/c new gen windows auto installs most things. At least the some of the specs above could give you a goalpost on a preorder, shoot for above i7 if possible and google your CPU before hand on game compatibility lists. if it can't run farcry5 it won't run any new gen games either

 

[NoBacon]

do you mean standard windows bloat you'd have whether you bought prebuilt or built one? even with a prebuilt pc, what would stop you from installing your own copy of windows or a linux distro

When I got my laptop it was full of trial versions of stuff like anti virus, shitty pre installed games that wanted money to unlock, pop ups for upselling warranty on the device itself, reccomended settings for alerts about products I want, automated feedback pop ups, recommends settings about intrusive tracking shit.

I

 

[Nick Gerlips]

Once my current PC shits the bed I'm done with it. I'll get some thinkpad for browsing the web and torrents

 

[SpaceEdge]

not gaming but if you need an office computer look up the HP Z series on ebay, they're cheap as shit server cores you can have an amazing coding/media computer for $300 or less and you can get them preloaded

(they will actually run games but you will run into CPU issues around farcry5 era if it's not a very new Z series)

 

[NoBacon]

Once my current PC shits the bed I'm done with it. I'll get some thinkpad for browsing the web and torrents

I’ve always just printed personal stuff out at work, but I can’t now because it’s now all tracked with personal codes.

No problem, I drive and buy a simple printer and some cartridges.

I need it. Turn on laptop, plug printer in, expect it to find new device, link it on printer manager and that’s it.

Nope. Download their software, create an account, confirm account on email, set two factor authorisation with mandatory phone by number, install updates. Ok done.

Nope. It needs me to download an app because I don’t have the right cable to attach it (it’s a separate product and not a standard USB) so I need to do it via the app on blue tooth. Download app, sign into app with two factor authorisation, link printer to app, but can’t yet because I haven’t registered the printer serial number yet.

It’s such. fucking. aids.

There’s a design term for it, which I can’t remember, but it’s basically about when you have something working optimally, it just get innovates to be worse and worse.

That was to print a few pages out. Then I wanted to buy basic Microsoft office software, oh you can’t just buy it now, it’s a subscription service.

Great.

I can’t even begin to imagine the bullshit around steam / Xbox game pass and getting games to work.

 

[DominusOdium]

Dude, you're getting a Dell

 

[goo gobbler]

When I got my laptop it was full of trial versions of stuff like anti virus, shitty pre installed games that wanted money to unlock, pop ups for upselling warranty on the device itself, reccomended settings for alerts about products I want, automated feedback pop ups, recommends settings about intrusive tracking shit.

I

laptops are almost as bad as most android phones. i like the old thinkpads and that's where i draw the line. for a modern laptop i probably would just get a macbook. partly because the cost is including the os it ships with, and some of that bloat might be connected to the functionality, like a surface pro for example. so doing a fresh OS install for a new laptop is unreasonable IMO

for prebuilts i don't know how reputable any of them are, but there are a lot of small companies nowadays doing the ELITE GAMER PRO PC thing alienware pioneered. i would imagine a lot of them do not include any kind of bloatware since they basically are just building a PC for you with the same parts you could've bought

 

[NoBacon]

laptops are almost as bad as most android phones. i like the old thinkpads and that's where i draw the line. for a modern laptop i probably would just get a macbook. partly because the cost is including the os it ships with, and some of that bloat might be connected to the functionality, like a surface pro for example. so doing a fresh OS install for a new laptop is unreasonable IMO

for prebuilts i don't know how reputable any of them are, but there are a lot of small companies nowadays doing the ELITE GAMER PRO PC thing alienware pioneered. i would imagine a lot of them do not include any kind of bloatware since they basically are just building a PC for you with the same parts you could've bought

I also think all these software companies are run by a bunch of retards trying to inflate the stock price by over complicating their product to “create an eco system” which means something that should just work now requires apps, accounts, subscriptions and data collecting schemes.

 

[Mass.gov]

You're the only thing worth reading in this cesspit now...keep it up