Got pulled away from the beauty of code yet again today to moonlight as tech support. Two people in my office got "bitlockered" in the same day... Imagine turning on your computer and finding out it needs a bitlocker recovery key when you never enabled bitlocker. Thanks Windows 10 + Dell.

I would go to the the person with domain administrative privileges and ask for the configured recovery key?

All 0's is apparently a universal key (read: backdoor).
Haven't verified.

@aspenscythe
First thing first
Welcome to devrant!

Don't worry. It's just win10 things. We had so so so so many problems becouse windows 10 figured out to shit itself etc.

We lost actually a TON of time just fixing win10. To point when I said "every machine that can support it gets win7" and everyone liked the idea. So half of company now runs on win7 and we get all the stability of OS that we need.

Worst part is that my boss is Apple fanboi and OF COURSE he uses mac. Not mentioning it broke recently and miracle or some shit it booted somehow (no idea, that was fucking random) so we pulled out data from it (I can repeat myself and repeat "MAKE FUCKING BACKUPS"), often I'm his AppleCare. "This pendrive wont show up" "did you try mounting it?" "mou..what?" *googles mac vs linux mount, mounts pendrive* and other shiet that just works on windows/linux.

If apple fanboi is reading it, sorry, but I had too many examples in this job why to avoid apple.. and that's handling 1 machine.

@sbiewald yeah, I did. Still lost an hour waiting to get them and then fixing it.

@DubbaThony It's funny because at first I was super excited about Windows 10. Until I met Cortana and realized they were giving it away to free for normal users to collect data and use them as guinea pigs. Sadly, even with that, the Enterprise version is still horrible. I agree, MAC is evil too...But at least that kinda feels Linux and therefore slightly more comfortable.

@Root if only it let me enter a code...Had to actually use a USB, as it's the only thing the worthless Bitlocker we didn't ask for allowed.

@aspenscythe Well I remember.. There were streams about win10 before it's release

I was hyped.
I REALLY was hyped. "That's next big great OS" I thought. Oh how wrong I was. "Cortana? I can remove it", I thought. "Windows store? Im sure I can work around it"

Than I installed it. Becouse why not.
Than I spent few hours of my life troubleshoting shit that was broken. UI extremly inconsistant and annoying to point where I was about to yell at screen.

But I gave it a try on release days.
No dice, still same piece of shit.

I bought new PC, that was some time after win10 release. (december 2017)
I gave it 4 months.
Literally.
Every single time I used my PC I ended up pissed and angry. I tried so hard to change my perspective that win10 isn't THAT bad. No, it is EVEN WORSE than "that bad".

Installed windows 7, home, sweet home. Stable OS that works just however I config it, behaves, doesnt spit updates left right and center that rollback my configs. I could continue but character limit...

@DubbaThony I run 10 for my gaming rig because I found Wine+Steam to be more inclined to crash. But I generally blow away 10 for some Linux distro (literally anything is better than 10). Windows 7 is great, but mainstream support ended in 2015, with extended ending in 2020. What this means is no more patches because Microsoft wants to force everyone to 10.

@aspenscythe

Of course they dont want us to use win7 becouse its extremly good compared to w10.

My main rig is on win7. I had to go through so many fictional walls to manage to install it but now i have ICE .wim file and script that unpacks it. It has all the tricks I need and most of stuff I need for daily driver. Also daily full system backups.

I may want to install windows 10 for like one game, apex legends but Im stopping giving half cent of broken fuck about it. Game devs tolerate win7 choice, if not they lose customer. Life.

I have om second SSD weirdo hacky linux install. Its ARCH + Kali + Debian with shared /home partition. But I use it rarely, especially since I discovered cygwin.

Give cygwin a shot, maybe suddenly you wont need to ever exit windows heh (need !== want)

@DubbaThony legit I do like one feature of Windows 10...Windows subsystem for Linux 😂

@aspenscythe

You know, apparently it was released years before win10 release and was community-mase and is named cygwin :P