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> 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.
>How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? wuauclt.exe and wuaueng.dll. Add 'Administrators' to permissions, then go back in and delete all permission entries. Basically deny windows access to its update system. Doesn't hurt to run Anti-Beacon as well. NSudo as Trusted Installer to cripple security center and Update medic service, group policies can shut down most of Defender and Customer Experience Imp…
> Basically deny windows access to its update system If that also disables security updates that is not a good advice.
> 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.
Windows is pretty much alive and kicking. The best it has been since Windows XP. WSL2, running Linux on Windows, VS Code, VS 2022, it's all good. Windows 11 is VERY solid and you can play lots of games on it too :) I am dead serious. I have been using Windows since 3, using betas of Microsoft products since Longhorn - right now, Windows is reaching it's PEAK in terms of performance, ecosystem. Sure, they will need 2-…
WSL2 has major IO issues outside of ext4, which is detrimental. It also doesn't support mounting NFS. It doesn't have systemd so lots of stuff doesn't work in a normal way.
To get a terminal that doesn't f*#& up you need to switch code page to utf-8.
Visual studio is almost as garbase as SSMS.
Windows is a pain
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories? My advice is that, unless you are developing for Windows is don't. If you need the Adobe tools, you can get them for Macs and, since M1, Macs offer a lot of bang for the buck while being a perfectly usable Unix machine, they are an excellent choice. If you don't need tools that aren't available on Linux, then Linux is a really good option.…
> If you don't need tools that aren't available on Linux, then Linux is a really good option. The lack of a decent[1] RDP alternative has kept me away for years. I use KDE Neon on a NUC as a secondary PC and I've been very happy with it, but without a viable RDP alternative it's a no-go as my daily driver.
I use this to access/admin a large amount of windows boxes.
The keyboard shortcuts are awesome.
About dealing with Microsoft crap. You customize Windows to your liking and move on. It's certainly not "on a daily basis" as suggested by OP. You don't have to keep anything as suggested by Microsoft. Oh, and you don't upgrade to newer Windows on existing PC until extended support runs out :) If you don't like start menu changes, you install something like Classic Shell (I don't know whether it runs on Win 11 though…
You can work around everything if you want to. The problem is, I shouldn’t have to work around stuff like this, the OS should compliment my PC work and be out of my way, not work actively against me and try to outsmart me.
I also saw number of complaints about Mac OS in recent years. And constant cases of driver/sound/sleep issues with Linux desktops. And still, people use them and are happy. It's not like Windows is the only OS with issues you have to work around.
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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.
Please elaborate. I've been pair programming on zoom for years (Ubuntu, i3wm). So had my colleague on Elementary and another one on Fedora. It's clearly usable. EDIT: via native app that is
> 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.
Only gripes are that I have experienced a few GNOME bugs with no explanation, like mouse gestures randomly breaking until I reboot - still, I just take this as an opportunity to reboot my computer. I also can no longer use Remote Desktop - VNC is too much of a pain and I can’t ‘steal’ my own session, and SSH forwarding is dead slow. (If anyone has a Remote Desktop solution for Linux that just works, I’d love to hear it.)
I can’t imagine ever really using Windows 11 at this point, at least not for a few years and then in passing.
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Indeed. I'm a web developer and my tools genuinely work better just under native Linux than they ever could with WSL etc.
Would love to, but my employer has complex network settings (using 802.11X..), specific vpn client, im software, hw auth tokens with specific drivers and Windows shares and ntlm proxies all of which that makes integrating to the internal network with Linux a part time job. I gave up and set up a vm with Linux keeping windows do its thing.
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…
I had exactly this opinion until the grey beard mentor in my life said "bluetooth is stupid, get another laptop for real work and get a long cable for your headphones".
I still have a windows rig for games with friends (and so does my grey beard mentor).
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> it seemlessly remembers everything I do between my PC, my laptop and my phone That is not a feature, unless you are OK with Google spying on you.
How is this not a feature then? Yes I'm ok with my browsing history and bookmarks and tabs and extensions and everything else being synced using google servers because it makes my life easier. To give another example - my Volvo allows me to track every single journey in the app, seeing the electricity/petrol consumption, mileage, start/end date..... Yes it means Volvo now knows all of my travel history. But it also m…