@Cyros StartAllBack and other projects exist to re-introduce older UI concepts to W11.

@Murz MBR confides to the old legacy BIOS (legacy) standard, which is now unsupported. GPT will be needed. Windows 11 ships with MBR2GPT and diskpart, which you can use to do the conversion.

Don't fall into the installation absolutely blind, configure your UEFI settings to have UEFI enabled (possibly with legacy fallback), then run the disk conversion commands.

You might also want to update your motherboard's UEFI.

Your box has a Skylake CPU meaning it'll most definitely support UEFI and secure boot, instead of going around this, I recommend just to jump into your UEFI settings and turn it on.

As for bypassing the other anti-consumer warnings you're faced with, there's 3 registry keys at play here, and you should probably have all created and set to 1: BypassSecureBootCheck, BypassTPMCheck, and BypassRAMCheck.

Something to note is that once you create the necessary path, the keys and apply the appropriate values of 1, you shouldn't reboot (the image won't write to itself), instead, use the window close button to return from the start and continue onwards again (assuming you're at the point of the error).

This is also not necessary to do for an end-user. Rufus allows you to flash an image with the aforementioned changes already made, except in a persistent manner.

You'll have more of the usual per-generation bloat increase, which means that yes, theoretically it'll be slower than Windows 10. Practically, the difference is negliegible to the point where an average user can't discern. Performance alone shouldn't discourage you.

Your CPU is said to be unsupported because it lacks the fTPM 2.0 needed to satisfy Microsoft's need to DRM your system. Jumping back into the realm of reality, your CPU is fully supported by W11, and you can still install and run it just fine.

Things to consider:

• The display configuration is up to the operating system to decide.
• The BIOS most often doesn't output to anything but the primary display.
• Windows (and other operating systems) feature multiple modes of "display projection", one of which is usually  "PC screen only".

Your list of debugging steps to try in order should be:

1. Use the Win+P (Super+P) shortcut while the laptop is booted, in hopes that it's a problem caused by display projection (Note that you will also need to select another mode, meaning this shortcut will have to be used in the form of Win+P+2+Enter (specifying the option out of the list, or Win+P+ArrowKeyUpDown+Enter to navigate within the list),
2. Boot into another operating system, like a GNU/Linux liveboot distribution, in case it's a problem with your current OS's display configuration,
3. Disassemble the laptop and physically unplug the display (Usually eDP connector) of your "broken" internal display, to remove it as a possibility of a primary display.

Oh good heavens the amount of garbage userbenchmark posts.

The RX 570 is a better buy in (almost) every conceivable way:

1. Polaris features better encoding than Maxwell does, with the addition of HW H265,

2. Much newer card - longer support in terms of drivers,

3. Better performance in games,

4. RSR and FSR upscaling support (I've heard, despite Polaris' lack of dedicated cores).

Then again, might want to re-evaluate what kind of card you can get for your budget, which is I assume around $100 US, no reason to just stick to the first two options you find.

On top of what's already known, there are reasons why a kernel-spaced anticheat is an unlikely development.

Roblox has an already fragmented codebase because of their multi-platform support. More security-focused operating systems (say Android) prevent this from being implemented entirely, even their primary platforms might be difficult to work with (Windows 7 on life support). If they were to try to implement this, it would likely remain platform-dependent and therefore ineffective. Not sure if they really care yet, but it would brick using Wine entirely, too.

Userspace is more privacy (and security) respecting, cost-effective, and easier to maintain across different platforms. Roblox isn't known for their ability to maintain complex features over a longer period of time.

If by both screens you mean that you have 2 connected to 1 graphics card, that's some kind of hardware issue as stated above. Best to do some quick sanity checks on whether you're not using a bad display cable or power supply for your monitor before RMAing or returning it.

@75975 That's very unfortunate. A next logical step is to step out of the individual software level and see as a whole whether it's your current Windows installation that's causing the issue. Grab a Linux-based distro that can live boot (meaning you can boot it from a USB drive without damaging Windows) and see if audio is working as it should there. Linux Mint works for that, and their website has everything you need in terms of resources. If audio doesn't work in the live environment, something happened to your hardware. If it works there, it means your Windows installation has a bad case of "doesn't work as it should", which is often troublesome to debug. Event log might be useful in some cases so I recommend checking whether it has anything noteworthy in the audio section. You can of course try running an SFC scan in case of corrupted or mising files with "sfc /scannow" in terminal/command prompt. If that doesn't work, my personal recommendation is to just reinstall Windows and get over it.

Assuming the headphones work elsewhere, drivers are the primary suspect. I recommend reinstalling both the driver for your onboard audio chip (Realtek, etc.) and your graphics driver (Nvidia or AMD, doesn't matter, both integrate audio processors into their chips). It's a good idea to first uninstall the original driver through device manager (or run the driver uninstaller if the vendor offers one) then install the one on your laptop manufacturer's support website.

$300 is only ever a good deal if it somehow beats the 3060, which it doesn't.

* Neverending driver issues,

* No native DX11 and OpenGL support (driver-level translation layer to DX12),

* Unstable performance per-game - only beats the 3060 in very select situations in DX12 titles.

It's a bad buy unless you're an early-adopter, really love Intel's graphics on Linux/BSD, or your set of games happen to match with the ones the card manages to excel at.

@RiceUsesArchBtw If it was really a surprise, there wouldn't be a load of tools, resources, ecosystems and communities focusing on restoring that fundamental right. It's not normal, neither is it a part of technological evolution - we can have great things without the end user being exploited.

The market is quite saturated with generic email providers: Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, (...). Since there's really no fundamental differences between the options, you can go with whichever you like. Gmail offers a unified login system, Outlook has a "convenient" desktop application, Yahoo! Mail has... I'm not sure. Unless you get into the nitty-gritties of how many different function buttons each service has that you probably don't ever plan to press, or the different ways to log into them, or maybe even how they look, there's no difference between them.

Email is an ancient protocol - send and receive messages between different internet-connected sites. No single email provider can just decide to 1-up this protocol. If you really want the best email provider, you want one that makes full use of it, doesn't compromise usability and privacy, and strengthens the protocol's notorious security-related design issues.

The email protocol doesn't address proper encryption. Emails are encrypted when you send them from your computer to say Google's servers, then Google encrypts the message on its own and sends it to whichever other email service is the receiver (if you're not sending internally to another Google user). In the end, this kind of encryption protects emails from third parties, but not from the providers involved in the process, even though the emails can share very confidential and private information. Google and other providers have access to your emails, and index/scan them to collect information, as mentioned in many of these generic providers' privacy policies.

The above is my take against using a generic email provider. If you want ones that offer you features above the baseline (which some might just consider the bare minimum) - choose a privacy-respecting provider. Proton and Tutanota are email providers which offer you privacy (their privacy policies are restrained, they don't give themselves unnecessary rights to the contents of your incoming and outgoing emails, which may still be improperly encrypted) and even offer you the ability to send end-to-end encrypted emails to other users on those services, whilst also offering encrypted mailboxes.

Providers that don't scan your mailbox and index emails in them, offer easy-to-use public-key cryptography and restrain their own powers in order to better protect your privacy are one level above those that don't. This is especially true when they don't compromise on usability and the user experience.

Famous Windows design flaw. Your disk runs at 100% because there's startup services and user programs doing a lot of disk read work for whatever reason. It's really not that complicated.

Task manager is your best friend here, unless you know how to use other resource monitors. Identify what programs are the culprit and deal with them individually. If it's a user program (Say, some garbage keyboard software) - see if you can disable its "start on login" functionality. If it's a Windows component - see if you can disable it as a service.

If you can't deal with it in a traditional way - look for alternatives. There's scripts and methods to get rid of useless Windows bloat on bulk that you might want to follow if you've got a slow hard drive that causes the high disk usage to be an issue.

Refer to the below:

https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

The most easy-to-use option, a simple script that gets rid of a lot of pre-picked bloat.

https://msmgtoolkit.in/

An advanced tool to create debloated Windows images, essentially allowing you to form an ISO without a lot of unnecessary Windows components, often being used to create "Windows Lite" images. Look up video guides on this tool, there are plenty.

Rust and C are in my opinion unbeatable in their domains. C offers extreme levels of control in terms of systems-level programming and is irreplaceable in the hands of an experienced programmer, while Rust offers both high and low level programming features while being easier to program in due to its safe (spoonfeeding) compiler.

Javascript isn't just for front-end, it's also available in a different flavor for back-end programming: Node.js. Good package management, reproducible software, rich community. It is also the sensible answer to a question such as "what should I learn first for web development?", considering that the language is used extensively both in front-end and back-end web-dev.