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I just setup a Win 10 box at home and have finally started to appreciate some of it, but the Edge hooks are all over the place. I've noticed clicking a help link in one of the settings sidebars will open in Edge regardless of your browser choice. It's also the default PDF reader.
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That strongly depends on "your" arch linux setup. My Sway/Wayland only system is not stable at all, but that's not what i need in a desktop/gaming setup
Oh interesting. I’d love to hear more about your setup. I’m on the same stack (Sway, Arch) and it’s absolutely rock solid on a precision 5520, and has been for 4 years now. I usually reinstall every year but I haven’t this time because everything kinda just works. To be clear; I’m not doubting you but it’s wildly different than my experience and I would love to understand how to avoid this instability myself, if for…
Ryzen 5600x AMD rx6600xt MSI B550M pro Zen Kernel
with 3600mhz XMP Ram and auto overclock settings i get a hard crash once a month with some random MCE hardware errors, bluetooth card spams my dmesg on boot with some errors i cant be bothered to fix, firefox sometimes crashes HARD, totally freezing, games sometimes don't start, today i had a random chromium crash and then i couldnt open nemo (file manager) anymore and when i opened a shell (alacritty with fish shell) the shell wouldnt allow any input. Two reboots later and it was fixed...somehow...
but honestly i dont mind its my toy system/work system from home because its so much faster than my notebooks. If I have to reboot once a day thats stable enough for that newscase
Tipping point, for using ms products in general, was malware posing as an Asus driver /s. Fresh windows 10 install. Installed a bunch of drivers fresh off the vendor's site. Asus driver installation installed some GUI i didn't much care for, Armoury Crate. Well, no problem, right? One can extract the cab/inf files and let windows add the driver rather than use the vendor's executable. Wrong. Trying to uninstall the d…
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…
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> 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.
https://remmina.org/ I use this to access/admin a large amount of windows boxes. The keyboard shortcuts are awesome.
Huh? Without asking the user? I received an update, and Edge asked me to update my settings. I respectfully clicked no and nothing changed. For the novice user, there might be a use-case where this is a good solution, to revert settings settings in case you somehow messed them up.
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I've been exclusively using Windows 10 since 2016 on my main rig as well as my laptop. While there are a lot of small annoyances, for me, it's been far from _on a daily basis_. I'd say, from 360 days in the year, I spend maybe 10 days dealing with some Windows bullshittery. These are the things I changed on my system: - Disable Windows Defender real-time scann…
Why do this?
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.
The same kind of rot is already starting. GitHub is now pushing its own CLI tools - in fact they're the only option shown to clone the code when looking at a PR. I wouldn't be surprised if in ~5 years you won't be able to use the regular git client with GitHub anymore.
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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.
I'd definitely recommend checking out Arch or Manjaro if you're a developer btw. Ironically, I've had fewer issues with Linux since swapping. Simple things like being on the newest kernel tends to keep hardware issues at bay. (And switching to Pipewire has fixed all of my audio issues completely) It's ironic that a "rolling release" OS is often more stable than a "mainstream" OS like Ubuntu. That's just been my exper…
I'm also seriously considering Fedora Silverblue once I get more of a feel for how it works under the covers.
oh my god i would be so pissed off. I'm a tab hoarder and I do have Session Buddy to save tab sessions but still.