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it's because your preferred image viewer isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and windows is correctly doing what it can to make sure you're using an image viewer that works.
If it wasn’t successfully performing the functions of an image viewer, don’t you think the user would notice?
It's an interesting experiment to ask the average Microsoft Windows user to identify - let's say 5 things - in their current workflows, that they couldn't do in Microsoft Windows XP (or 7, etc - pick the subject's age-appropriate release). Similarly for versions of Microsoft Office products.
PowerShell Network interface bridging Per-application volume control Hyper-V Drivers that run mostly in user space so crashes and updates don't require a reboot
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That's a very bold assumption to make. I said "pretty much any" not "every" since we're talking about regular usage of a computer. OP didn't mention anything in particular so I suggested three alternatives. Before you start calling people out you should first define what "complex" is.
PowerPoint 2016 is listed as “garbage” in winehq, and that’s the latest version listed. Recent Photoshop is either silver or garbage depending on the version. Premiere is listed as garbage for all versions. Newest iTunes is bronze. I’m not even trying to find bad examples. I’m just poking around in their public db for popular software that doesn’t exist in Linux. I’ve run into this every time I try to use wine for re…
So claiming "pretty much any" windows software runs in wine, is the "very bold assumption", not backed up by reality.
Because yeah, there is a lot of windows software somewhat running ... but somewhat running is not enough, when you want to work with it.
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I made the AMD choice and bought a T495 which is Ryzen + Radeon powered and supported by Ubuntu. The GPU drivers shit a brick every 10 minutes. I now own a Macbook Air.
I'm really interested in what happened. because Ubuntu isn't the best distro to choose when you have cutting/bleeding edge hardware.
Which it was. Then it broke.
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If only.
Agree. I wish I could game on Linux. DX12 has really cemented the Windows monopoly. Embrace, extend, extinguish. I have to use Windows to play. If the cloud gaming services supported Ultrawides, I may be off of it altogether.
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Is there RemoteApp ability in any of the linux RDP clients? If so, there's the option of running Windows in a VM on your Linux machine, and having seamless Windows apps on your Linux desktop. It's a bit like what MS are going to offer with their WSL, but in reverse. I've never tried it, but it might work, and give people the best of both worlds.
As you wish https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps "Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration."
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Why would they throw away all driver compatibility and force themselves to rewrite all the userland libraries?
With Intel's acquisition of SiFive... for Windows to support RISC V they'd need to do that anyway. They did it for ARM64 (partially) and are struggling. They have to do bunch of stuff via emulation instead.
Changing to a completely different kernel would be something else.
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I feel the same way. I switched my work machine to windows after I couldn't get displayport chaining to work consistently under linux and had to plug in my monitors in a specific order after booting. Windows is by no means perfect. A bit overly provocative: With windows, if something is bad it is microsofts fault, with linux it's a user error. I don't like ads in the operating system (but I see it is hard to find a p…
> I couldn't get displayport chaining to work consistently under linux But did you try to use hardware designed for Linux?