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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by bee_rider »

tombert wrote: post #160
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try to move to Linux desktop one or twice a year for the last, what, 20 years. I have Linux on all my servers, was an early (very minor) dev on pre-1 kernel and generally love it. The desktop is a walking nightmare. Something continuously does not work: multiple screens, waking up from sleep etc. I really would like to move (we use Outlook but I am even ready to go for OWA) but Windows is considerably better on lap…

Haven't you heard? It's the year of the Linux desktop :) In all seriousness, until about a year ago when I got a discount on a Macbook and changed to that, I had been running Linux for about a decade across different laptops, and feel that since ~2017 the desktop experience has improved substantially . I bought a new laptop in 2017, installed Ubuntu on it...and that was it. I spent exactly zero minutes installing dri…

I'll typically do a minimal starting distro and lots of tuning, which works decently I think in the desktop world. But whenever I tried to apply this to a Laptop it would fail miserably, I think because my various static configurations don't work great for typical laptop use cases.

Boring old Ubuntu with some DE customization works totally fine on a laptop, though. I don't know why I tried to do this hard-mode for years.

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Post by smallerfish »

freeqaz wrote: post #64
pjfin123 wrote: post #33

Linux Desktop feeling extra good today, my sound often doesn't work but I don't have to deal with Microsoft nonsense.

Pipewire has made all of my audio issues on Linux go away, at this point. Maybe it's my hardware (a high-end Dell Latitude that is Ubuntu certified) but it just f*cking works! I'm on Arch, so I find I tend to have fewer issues than with Ubuntu (due to the latter always being on some ancient version). Seriously though when I switched from Pulse to Pipewire... I rebooted and I've never had any issues since! Now, my big…

Switched to wayland today because nvidia drivers were killing performance when I plugged my 4k monitor into my laptop. Barely usable under X, fixed under wayland. Also wayland was able to independently scale the 4k monitor and the laptop monitor, which was nice. Found a couple niggles but so far what I need is working. (Using KDE.)

Worth a try.

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Post by tyingq »

soco wrote: post #77
Guillaume86 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new taskbar UX is a huge downgrade compared to my "always ungrouped" taskbar in Windows 10, hope the add it back before I'm forced to upgrade.

StartIsBack gives you back the left-side placement, drag&drop and grouping.

You can do the left-side placement with just Windows 11. There's a "taskbar alignment" setting that can be "left" or "center".

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Post by cma »

tyingq wrote: post #145
cronix wrote: post #22

So far in the last year or so, I've heard 0 reasons why I'd even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn't even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.

The "wslg" version of WSL, which comes with a Wayland display server built-in, is perhaps a driver. The github page still says it requires Windows 11: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg Though I suppose it's possible they've also pushed it to the insider builds for Windows 10.

Apparently they are only going to allow gpu compute on wsl2 on windows 10 and not allow the full graphics integration.

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Post by seanalltogether »

jagger27 wrote: post #20

United States v. Microsoft was 20 years ago. Is there nobody left at Microsoft who remembers that?

Microsoft probably knows that governments have turned their attention to apple, google and facebook these days.

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Post by handrous »

iso1631 wrote: post #126
InitialLastName wrote: post #66

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That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.

Saw people say the same with XP into Vista. The relationship people seem to have with windows is like someone trapped in an abusive relationship. On the other hand from what I read, XP - good Vista - Bad 7 - good 8 - bad 10 - good 11 - bad I don't have any experience in any of those so I'm not how true it is, but if it is, I guess hope that 12 will be out by EOL of 10?

10 is also quite bad. It adds very little useful over Win7, while making several built-in programs worse and infecting the whole thing with spying and ads.

They're on a bad streak.

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Post by Thiez »

kroltan wrote: post #120
danjc wrote: post #76

Ok I’ll take the contrarian view. Why is it a big deal that a specialized url scheme is specifically intended to launch a Microsoft browser? Only apps built by Microsoft will use that scheme.

You go to your system settings, and set your "default Web browser". You use any feature of the OS that would open a Web page, like Start menu searches, "help" links (that nowadays are just links to Bing searches, another shitshow I won't get into), or dynamic wallpaper info bites. The system says "fuck you" and opens the browser that is more convenient to their economic goals rather than your explicit choice. Is it i…

Why shouldn't it be illegal?

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Post by RosanaAnaDana »

literallyaduck wrote: post #81
dorchadas wrote: post #50

I need a new computer, and I was going to switch to Windows so I could game with friends (while dual-booting into some linux distro for anything programming related), which would force me into 11. It's already a shame that I have to have a Microsoft account to even set up the damn thing, but now I can't even use whatever default browser I want? I'm seriously about the say screw it and pay for another Mac. I love mine…

Just use linux. With proton and lutris, gaming is good. Microsoft can keep it's draconian OS.

Second this. There is no real point in dual booting any longer. Linux as a daily driver is fine. Pop_OS is plenty good.
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