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Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by KirinDave » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 5:05 PM UTC

serf wrote: post #222

irq wrote: post #219

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6 hours battery life is bare minimum these days. I wouldn't brag about it the way you are. 2560x1400 external monitor? Doesn't sound like a HiDPI display unless it's only 15". This is another bare minimum thing I wouldn't brag about. "good sleep support" has very little to do with activating sleep by shutting the lid. Grandposter is referring to Linux's terrible reputation for successfully going to sleep and waking u…

>6 hours battery life is bare minimum these days. sad to think that 'MacBook Pro' is the bare minimum now.[0] >RAM is plentiful, the fact your idle system fits in 200mb is thus unimpressive too. not true. It is impressive that a modern machine can be ran and coordinated on such a small footprint. Ram isn't eaten up with a zero cost. In other words : memory usage indicates more than just what's available, it's a perfo…

> sad to think that 'MacBook Pro' is the bare minimum now.[0]

Yes! Actually! Older Macbooks have better battery life! Apple's quest for form factor has actually led them to cut into battery life for their top models. This is why people jokingly tell me to "upgrade to a 2014 mac."

> not true. It is impressive that a modern machine can be ran and coordinated on such a small footprint.

It's also impressive that Red Fraggle can balance two pickles on her nose. It's not really relevant to the claim of "performance" though. It's equally irrelevant to security. Unless you define performance as "fitting into a minimal RAM footprint." Something many memory allocators elect not to do because of the compaction cost hurting running time performance.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by unhammer » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

KirinDave wrote: post #126

mediumdave wrote: post #104

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> And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of physical tampering) you basically relegate yourself to terrible battery life, poor display support, dicey sleep support, and the fixes for these often compromise performance. This depends a lot on how well supported your hardware is. I run Linux Mint (MATE) on a Thinkpad T430 and have had 0 issues with displays, sleep,…

Have you plugged in an external monitor and not had an issue? I think that's not the norm even for that setup.

On my Thinkpad's X200 (VGA) and X220 (VGA, DisplayPort), plugging in external monitors has always Just Worked. I've been running Xubuntu on them for about 5 years.

It even worked on the first try from the X220's DisplayPort through a DP-to-HDMI-cable onto a TV.

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I've never had to use xrandr or any command line tool to select displays – on Xubuntu, there's this little graphical dialogue: http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xfce-mini-displays.png that pops up (or you can force it to show by hitting that key on the Thinkpad keyboard with the picture of an external display).

OTOH, I did just a month ago for the first time actually use xrandr, but this time it was because I wanted to write a script that set my windows and monitors up "just right" for how I like it when I'm at the office. I love how easy Linux makes it to do that stuff when I find I do want something automated.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by unhammer » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 5:49 PM UTC

prewett wrote: post #180

andrei_says_ wrote: post #77

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If you do any creative work, Linux is pretty much a desert. Adobe software doesn't run on Linux, capture one doesn't either, so as a photographer I have no choice but windows (cheap hardware and malware os) or OS X (hyper expensive old generation hardware with passable os). Davinci resolve seems to have a Linux version but not enough for someone who does more than video.

Photoshop works really well via Wine, according their testing information. (Which may or may not reflect your experience) https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... Capture One may or may not work with Wine; all the tests in the database are old. Just out of curiosity, though, as a photographer, what does Linux do better than macOS? Apart from the hardware (and my 2012 MBP works great for develop…

Lightroom 5.2 also works really well through Wine (my gf has been using LR via Wine along with GIMP for her photography business for the last 4 years or so).

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by lorenzhs » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 5:51 PM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #244

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #234

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> plug the wires, and it works immediately How does it work immediately? How does it know of I want to clone or extend the display? If I extend, do I want the same resolution on both screens, or different? You'll have to set that somehow, and whether it's a GUI or a CLI tool doesn't matter. Forgetting the invocations aren't really an issue anymore either, my shell (zsh) has autocompletion of xrandr outputs, modes and…

With OSX/Windows, it tends to mirror by default and/or present a window asking you what you want to do. Requiring a CLI to connect a monitor/projector is a UX fail.

There are plenty of tools to automate that. arandr is a very simple and powerful tool to arrange monitors with a GUI. Gnome has its own, much simpler, monitor configuration dialog. My system defaults to extending to the right, by the way, because that's generally what I want when connecting a projector.

None of this is new, and the whole point of this discussion is that Linux desktops are much better than they were ten years ago. It is that old state that many folks have in mind when criticising Linux distros' usability. It's just not a very interesting discussion to have.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by cobalt » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 6:28 PM UTC

tux1968 wrote: post #203

kenjackson wrote: post #50

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What's the problem with telemetry in general? For almost all of the important products I use I like to send usage info -- my expectation is that they're more likely to improve features that I use as a result. And if you use a web app, e.g., Google Apps, they get all this data plus more (and completely not anonymized).

Don't want any extra network usage when i'm connected to my cell phone hotspot and using up my monthly data cap.

windows has a 'metered' mode for network connections. I don't know if this will stop said usage, but you could check

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by CaptSpify » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 6:58 PM UTC

Mithaldu wrote: post #237

CaptSpify wrote: post #159

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Possible and easy? I have to tweak the registry via shitty scripts like this one. Thats the opposite of how an OS should work

Incorrect. You could also use the default windows administration process of editing the Group Policy locally, or setting it via your domain controller. It only uses the registry here because that's the simplest way to do it with a script on any kind of machine setup. If you'd rather do it manually, these steps do the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/HnFpmE6.png Start > [group policy] > [enter] > Computer Configuration…

Which, AFAIR, is only available on certain versions of Windows?

Additionally, has anyone checked to see if these same keys are changed by using lgpe?

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by Mithaldu » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 7:13 PM UTC

CaptSpify wrote: post #256

Mithaldu wrote: post #237

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Incorrect. You could also use the default windows administration process of editing the Group Policy locally, or setting it via your domain controller. It only uses the registry here because that's the simplest way to do it with a script on any kind of machine setup. If you'd rather do it manually, these steps do the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/HnFpmE6.png Start > [group policy] > [enter] > Computer Configuration…

Which, AFAIR, is only available on certain versions of Windows? Additionally, has anyone checked to see if these same keys are changed by using lgpe?

That's why i said "any machine setup". The Home version does not have the Group Policy Editor, because it is not intended for people who should be messing with such things. And for people who have the knowledge, or the drive to mess with such things, keys for both Home and Pro go for ~16€ on amazon.de

> has anyone checked to see if these same keys are changed by using lgpe?

It does not touch the Wow6432Node entry, but given that as far as i know that exists for compatibility for 32 bit programs, i'm not sure it is necessary. Or it might be mirrored in by some kind of maintenance process.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by mreiland » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 8:49 PM UTC

KirinDave wrote: post #27

mnadkvlb wrote: post #3

I had been a long time Windows user, at home (W10) and work(7/Server/Datacenter). Windows had been getting just more and more intrusive like a malware since the last couple years. I hope they do something to stop that. I have recently moved to Fedora and it is just awesome. Pretty much everything works like amazing. Its not a complete replacement if you are gaming, nvidia drivers are a bit painful to install but ever…

"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…

I look at current KDE and compare it to Win10 and I have no idea what you mean by primitive.

And this is comign from a rabid i3 user.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by corndoge » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 9:42 PM UTC

KirinDave wrote: post #250

corndoge wrote: post #169

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It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it. Some will argue that that means it's primitive, but I don't think so. The point about portable computers is also false. You just need to pick a machine with hardware manufactured by friendly vendors who help write drivers. Why would you want to support anyone else? Battery life? My x230 with tpm installed gets 6 hours of battery life…

> It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it. Some will argue that that means it's primitive, but I don't think so. Okay, so... let's just think about what you said for a second. Windows 10 and Mac OS X deliver extremely high end configuration with a lot of extensibility in their Window managers via first and third parties without extensive modifications . I have some unique XM…

at least I don't have to run 300 lines of powershell to remove telemetry and candy crush soda saga from my brand new computer

checkmate

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by rjbwork » Sun, Jan 08, 2017, 10:25 PM UTC

corndoge wrote: post #169

KirinDave wrote: post #27

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"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…

It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it. Some will argue that that means it's primitive, but I don't think so. The point about portable computers is also false. You just need to pick a machine with hardware manufactured by friendly vendors who help write drivers. Why would you want to support anyone else? Battery life? My x230 with tpm installed gets 6 hours of battery life…

>It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it.

Aaaaand this is why I opted away from Linux and back into the Windows world after university. I'm trying to get shit done, I want to install and go and almost never have to touch anything but my code and solving my problems - NOT solving the problems with the tools that I'm ostensibly supposed to be using to solve my problems.

For all the flak it gets, since 7, Windows Just Works for me.