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Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)

https://definitelynotwindows.com/
151•jjbinx007•1h ago

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dverlaeckt80•47m ago
LOL. Well made, give me more than a few chuckles :)

"Windows is taking its time for your convenience"..

tosti•39m ago
"Your privacy is important"
thomasmarton•46m ago
> Win 11 parody

I'm sorry but where is the parody?

- A Win11 Home user

w4yai•43m ago
I'm also a Windows user (and a Linux one too, no worries guys), and I must admit, this parody is a little bit real ...
lmc•43m ago
Please add deep linking or something so back doesn't mean starting from scratch
Cyan488•25m ago
I don't know about you but after a few seconds, I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.

I'm glad I didn't have to spam the back button to do it.

crumpled•5m ago
I feel like this would be overprocessing. Is the state really that important or difficult to recreate?
rasse•38m ago
Stop giving Microsoft ideas!
FpUser•38m ago
Lol. Love it but for some reason my windows does not do any of that
throooooo•22m ago
Really? My Win 11 install (sparsely used nowadays) is nag city. Set up OneDrive, activate cloud backups, sign into your Microsoft account, oops Xbox Game Bar popped up because I pressed some key combination, reboot (a few times) to finish updates, set up copilot, error installing update, reboot before installing update, etc.
billfor•12m ago
I have Windows 11 Pro and I've never seen an ad. I don't remember turning anything off but I did upgrade from Windows 10, so maybe that had something to do with it, unless it's just that Pro doesn't contain ads.
bradfitz•36m ago
This is not realistic; the start menu opens way too quickly.
marcosdumay•18m ago
True, but the search fails to reduce the number of options, so some things are right.
metadat•31m ago
Win XP was peak computing for the masses, and most didn’t have a clue!
throooooo•30m ago
I preferred 2000, but admit that didn't make it to the masses.
burnt-resistor•10m ago
2k appeared to retain NT's responsiveness with seemingly separate threads for processing UI stuff where XP appeared to devolve to Windows 98 (pre NT) in terms of UI and app event processing merged together into a single foreground event loop.
cwnyth•16m ago
A mature Windows 7 wasn't terrible. You could easily configure it so that it stayed out of your way, and only the updates were a headache. Windows 8 and those beyond were all downright atrocious. While I had dabbled in Linux for years before then, announcing Win7 EOL finally pushed me 100% into the Linux camp.
paavohtl•29m ago
I can tell this is fake from the fact the explorer context menu and the start menu open in under 2 seconds (on a top end Ryzen CPU, nonetheless).
CobraMode•28m ago
Start menu comes up too fast.
riskable•26m ago
Proving once again that Windows isn't ready for the desktop.
gpvos•26m ago
The "fix everything" button should link to a Linux installer.
kerv•26m ago
who else got rickrolled?
accrual•26m ago
This is insanely good and mimics my personal experience of Windows these days. I literally say "pop-up! pop-up! pop-up!" out loud during a normal workday where one pop-up or prompt is rapidly replaced by another. Same app or different, doesn't matter, there's always something trying to grab attention on a Windows desktop unless you configure the hell out of it (and even that is no longer enough).

My favorite "joke" from this site:

> Scan complete: 1 threat found — ChromeSetup.exe

FWIW, I switched to Fedora in January and have no plans to look back. Only $dayjob relies on Windows anymore.

MarkusWandel•21m ago
"always something trying to grab attention", that's the root problem right there. Even on a work computer unless you've changed your homepage, every time you open a tab on Edge you get a screen full of distraction clickbait. And then you wonder why you never manage to concentrate any more.
cwnyth•18m ago
Welcome to Fedora! I've missed literally nothing about Windows since switching to it about a decade ago now (around the time they announced Win7 EOL), and every time I had to use it for work (thankfully never these days), I grew more and more confident that I never will need to return and that Windows is only getting worse.
chrismustcode•12m ago
It's soul destroying going from personal computer Linux (been figuring out the distro for me) to Windows for work.

Even worse they use Office 365 with sharepoint, they've even turned off web search somehow on copilot and can only search internal servicenow and SharePoint pages making it worse.

Things are pretty dire.

Anybody hiring who uses Google workspace and (preferably) Linux or MacOS let me know.

throooooo•25m ago
I can feel my blood pressure raising. Very accurate to the Windows experience.
eej71•25m ago
Parodies are supposed to be fun!

That wasn't fun. At all.

screams into pillow

Dwedit•25m ago
Back when Windows RG (2001) was considered a sharp mockery.

(Random fact, at the time that flash came out, clicking on the A: drive made your real floppy drive light up)

ICHx•25m ago
so much rage seeing this
jedbrooke•24m ago
It’s too snappy and responsive, real windows I gotta wait with the spinning blue ring thing for a few seconds after clicking ‘x’ on the notifications. That is when they’re generous enough to give an ‘x’ and not force the user through some onboarding flow with no easy way to opt out
burnt-resistor•12m ago
Yes. And some apps should freeze for 10-40 seconds despite having an SSD and 32 GiB of RAM.
sensanaty•20m ago
My mother-in-law bought a new laptop last week and asked me to set it up for her, it came with Win11 by default. I was genuinely flabbergasted at how terrible of an experience it was, screen after screen of "We respect your privacy. Let Microsoft collect every single thing you have ever dared to breath onto this computer?" right in the install screen. After that lovely experience you're greeted with a billion random junkware preinstalled like fucking Candy Crush. I wanted to crash out when I clicked around in explorer and saw every UI element buffer for a split second, and after further research it seems they're using React in explorer these days.

What the hell happened?

miek•16m ago
My aunt pulled a Windows XP computer out of storage recently because she's sick of Win 11. I'm excited to hear updates from my cousin (though unfortunately, I have to expect this experiment will fail)
doawoo•17m ago
> Windows is activated with a digital license. The parody watermark will remain because it is part of the joke.

Thank you for a good laugh

sagarayi•16m ago
this is too much fun. nice one :)
redox99•16m ago
Kinda hate the vibecoded sounds.
javcasas•11m ago
You mean the Copilot-ed sounds?
shivajreddy•9m ago
This is wayyy too accurate!
Levi_Braga•8m ago
Very cool website!
johnecheck•7m ago
Missed opportunity to have that say "365 Microsoft apps installed"
1-6•6m ago
This is a remarkable depiction of a modern operating system.

Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)

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