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There never was a "new microsoft". They are still the same shady business that they have always been.
Companies are often made up of teams with differing goals and ambitions. The folks working on WSL, VS Code, Github and other popular projects are quite different than those making predatory decisions like these. They very well may <3 Linux and believe in open-source.
We have only one more Windows device left in our household and this year that one will get replaced as well.
This is the "new" Microsoft - so absolutely hostile and shit that I felt forced to convert everyone from my wife, to my grandmother to move from Windows to Apple and they all feel so happy and keep asking my why they never used Apple before. The integration with their iPhones and iPads is wonderful and the OS really gets out of their way and lets them do the things they care about the most. Things work and don't break.
Since this is a pretty much install-linux thread, I’d like to ask fellow HN-ers which system should I try again. I have a rich experience with linux in the past, but modern OSes turn me off. They are windows-y, just without crap/spyware. Which DE/FM will allow me to configure menus? E.g. “git push” item on a folder containing .git, “npm run myscript” on a folder containing package.json. Which DE has presets for windo…
Dolphin has "services" which allow you to get custom context menu items, though I've never written one so can't vouch for how much effort it is or isn't. It also has an embedded terminal for more adhoc commands.
> Which DE has presets for window placement like FancyZones? E.g. you move/resize a window normally, but when you hold Shift, it suggests (draws) pre-configured zones where you may drop it.
Tiling WMs obviously have options out the kazoo for this, but to my understanding, KDE also has snapping, though it's more akin to Windows 10 built in or Spectacle/Rectangle on OS X, than full on Fancy Zones.
> Which FM allows for in-place folder expansion (like Finder)?
If you mean the tree view features, Dolphin. If you mean the triple pane mode, no idea.
> Do distros support G-sync at all? Many monitors with different DPI? Different refresh rates?
G-Sync/VRR/mixed refresh rates: Yes. nvidia closed source drivers or Wayland required.
Mixed DPIs: I run my monitors at 1x, so can't comment about scaling. Apparently it's a clusterfuck though.
Makes me glad my MacBook Pro can’t run Windows 11 in boot camp…
Unpopular opinion Windows 11 is best device for development + entertainment if you have high end PC/Monitor etc. I cant use mac with my LG OLED cause refresh is limited to 60HZ (WTF apple) i dont have access to CUDA and a few linux based python libs and ofc most games just dont work. I can't use Linux cause 60%+ of games (multiplayer) that i play with my friends just dont work on linux or have random crashes, my Blue…
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Advertisements in the start menu around Windows 8 was my tipping point. It's just a trashy thing to see candy crush and other crap in there that I never asked for, never could remove, etc. I went to Ubuntu and now PopOS and haven't looked back in almost 10 years. Maybe they've cleaned things up and removed the crap in later Windows but the damage is done and I'm never going back.
Didn't Ubuntu have an Amazon link in the Unity start menu for a while?
On other systems, some things are literally (today) impossible to change, unless you have access to the source code, which you as a normal person don't.
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I have five Linux boxes in regular service (not counting the dozens of RPi-likes and VMs), with multiple configurations (mostly different filesystems - BtrFS, ZFS, XFS, LVM or bare metal, depending on requirements) and the only machines that give me surprises are the two Windows boxes, which, really, never do anything "weird".
Out of curiosity, what are you using so many machines for? I can imagine collecting a few, but getting regular service out of them without having a business workload of some kind seems unusual to me.
- a desktop on Arch
- an arm-based NAS on Debian
- a router running OpenWRT
- a backup target on Debian
- a media player (x86) with Kodi/Wine/Dosbox/Mame/other emulators
All are in regular use, but only the NAS and router run 24/7.
I'm still using Windows 7 for specific Visual Studio 2019 developments where I must code. Most of times I'm under Debian.
For Windows specific build-only machine I use the free Hyper-V Server installation with OpenSSH installed via powershell and Add-WindowsCapability. I'ts one of the best Windows IMHO because there is nothing installed.
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't; I develop on Linux. Ignoring this, within my very limited usage of Windows, it seems to me that MS has become increasingly more hostile over the last few years or so. To answer with something actionable: I discourage people from upgrading to Windows 11.
Yeah, the answer is to simply not use Windows. I can only see there being an advantage for some game developers to be using it these days. Linux is actually a much better OS for techies: you can make it look nicer, have a better workflow, and you can really play games now that Steam Deck brought so much focus on Linux compatibility. Otherwise, Mac OS is doing just fine as well.
Maybe for developers writing games in C++ or their own engines (or small time engines), but for many, how is it better?
As far as I know, out of the most popular engines, only Godot actually offers out-of-the-box Linux support. Unreal, Unity, CryEngine and the others don't offer Linux support for their editors, although some give you access to the source code so you can build it yourself on Linux, but that's often not so trivial.