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Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by rbanffy »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #178
rbanffy wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am genuinely interested on knowing your reasons for saying WSL is terrible. It's just that it's poorly integrated with the host environment (because there is a host environment). On Linux and Macs, the Unix side is the machine itself. With WSL1, you have a Windows kernel pretending to be a Linux one (I kind of prefer this approach) but my home folder is not my Windows home folder, but terminal still opens the Win…

Sorry about the VPN trouble (which may or may not be WSL's fault) but having to stick "cd ~" in .bashrc and not liking network drives isn't enough to get close to "terrible".

If you do a cd ~ in your profile, they you need to get to your Windows home in order to see the Downloads folder.

It's death by a thousand paper cuts.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by jsymolon »

barbs wrote: post #169
Ygg2 wrote: post #96

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> Grabbing a random machine and expecting it to work fine Not random, but my current machine. How else am I (or random person on the Internet) to migrate to Linux then? Create an entire new machine just for Linux? That is a pretty hefty price. E.g. You bought an expensive nVidia card. Yeah, throw it away. Get AMD. Want dual monitors. Throw one away... I honestly dread switching to Linux. > Certainly some people have…

> Want dual monitors. Throw one away... I've used dual monitors on my linux setup for years without issues. Is this a common problem?

There is a problem if there is a mismatched DPI between screens.

I've rarely seen it as i usually dock the machine with duplicate monitors.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by Deukhoofd »

capableweb wrote: post #210
prohobo wrote: post #14

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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.

> I can only see there being an advantage for some game developers to be using it these days 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…

Unity has fairly good support for Linux editors. I've been working in Unity on Linux for years now, without any major issues.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by salamandersauce »

prawn wrote: post #219
qbasic_forever wrote: post #105

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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.

Frustrating thing is it's hard to escape. It's petty, but one of the most infuriating episodes of my life was Apple forcing that U2 album into everyone iOS owner's existence and making it difficult (impossible at the time?) to delete. I'd forgotten all about it until, a couple of phones later, it reappeared as the first song played every time I connected my phone to the car. Petty, like I said, but enraging. Having s…

I believe it was impossible. You could hide it but even that was a bit tricky to finding. They did eventually come up with a website where you could scrub it from your account. It wasn't even just iOS owners but everybody with an iTunes account.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by jjgreen »

joana035 wrote: post #227
ivanmontillam wrote: post #218

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Nobody forces anyone to install an OS, but he probably meant that he was pressured into, not by someone but by the very conditions of software. My example: I had to return to Windows a while back because I rely heavily on Zoom Meetings, and Zoom in Linux is just near unusable.

Zoom works okay in Linux via web browser. EDIT: I use Firefox.

I could never get it working on Firefox, but OK with Chrome

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by cesarb »

rbanffy wrote: post #91
misja111 wrote: post #64

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Of course WSL2 can never be as good as running Linux natively. But as someone who needs software that runs on Windows, I like WSL2 a lot. For me the choice was native Linux + Wine or native Windows with WSL2. I have tried both, and I have to say that the WSL2 option runs much better in terms of both performance and stability.

> But as someone who needs software that runs on Windows It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux.

> It boils down to which OS you want to be the "second-class citizen" on your machine. With Wine, it's Windows. With WSL, it's Linux.

That equivalence is only valid for WSL1. Since WSL2 runs the real Linux kernel on a VM, the equivalent for it on Linux would be running Windows on a VM.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by sebow »

I used to be a MS "apologist" a long time ago for the majority of my "history" with computing.As with other bad habits in my life, I learned that there's only one solution: cut the head off.MS is becoming more restrictive precisely because it knows that if they allow even the smallest opening of freedom, users will break out of their grip.That in end of itself is enough of a reason to cut them off, besides shitty performance, de facto a data mining botnet, etcetera.

Sorry if i don't think having zoom and similar crapware is worth the cons of using win.Yes this is a strawman, and yes that's where the rest of the non-garbage software on windows is converging towards.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by wruza »

Macha wrote: post #204
wruza wrote: post #179

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…

> 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. 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 Fancy…

Thanks for your comment, I’ve really lost tracks for recent years!

As far as I understand, not using e.g. stock KDE WM means I’ll lose a big chunk of KDE functionality, or will I not? I’m afraid to go all in on custom WM-panel-tray-menu, because that easily meant weeks of configuration. This I find even coolish at home, but not at work.

Maybe some popular-enough DE invented some sort of WM plugins aince then? I don’t mind working in lighter DEs like Xfce, but not sure if they play nice with modern graphics stacks and Manager things.

If you mean the tree view features, Dolphin

Yep, the tree view.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by arepublicadoceu »

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories?

First: it’s defined not on daily basis. It’s on install or every blue moon update.

Secondly: I vastly prefer dealing with this occasional browser change then spending my whole week trying to discover:

- why my screen is tearing

- why my nvidia laptop is messed up

- why I can’t plug my external display and have the correct dpi on each display

OBS. I also vastly prefer to fix a browser change every once in a while than rebooting into tty to fix an unbootable system after a driver/firmware upgrade.

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