Are there any good options for me to switch to linux, if I'm forced to work on a windows project in visual studio 2022. I guess I can run a Windows VM but I fear performance degradation. Also I guess I could switch my IDE to Rider, but compiling to .NET Framework 4.8 would be impossible on linux I Guess (again It would be fine in a windows VM).
Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
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Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
#462I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Probably someone' house at Kabo at Microsoft depends on some OKR and metrics to show growth for Edge. Pathethic, short-sighted, but most probably true.
yep, they pull this crap every year or so. Then apologize for the "bug".
They need to be fined for this, every year, according to the number of users affected. The fine needs to outweigh the value of the market gains they make. i.e. it needs to be a real deterrent.
Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
#463I think this is a common practice nowadays until the regulations resolved it. Even Google chrome now asks if you changed the default search engine by mistake.
There is a difference between asking if you want to change something, and going and changing this something without the user consent.
There is a difference between asking, and constantly nagging until the user presses the wrong key by mistake one day.
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It seems to have much better performance than VNC for me, so I don't think it's doing the screen capture thing. Or maybe it is and it's just fast regardless. In my experience it feels almost as good as RDP for Windows, which I think is a great achievement.
Thanks, guess I'll have to try again then. Last time I tried it was definitely orders of magnitude worse than Windows RDP.
Every day that goes by more and more software isn't using rendering compatible with the model of rdp/x forwarding and requires full copies of buffers. The best you can do in this case is probably waypipe as it does some intelligent compression and buffer management but its a young project.
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Thats why I changed to thinkpads. They seen to use less weird hardware with no support. But I had to do some concessions. I don`t use notebooks with discrete gpus, since NVIDIA optimus have shit support.
I think the new Framework laptops might be better than Thinkpads now.
And also impossible to buy in Brazil.
So for a while,, I will still have to relly on thinkpads.
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#467I upgraded to windows 10 a few years ago, even paid for the pro version to have it in my home computer.
I remember spending more than an hour, checking every possible setting I could to reveal less data. At the end, I felt somehow happy with the situation.
A few days later, an upgrade came. I didn't notice immediately but the upgrade has reset all privacy settings to their worst value (of course, default value is the one that benefits Microsoft).
I hated that feeling. I felt betrayed, angry and powerless. This was a terrible breach if trust for me (today, I know I seem like the typical naive user but years ago, I trusted their configuration menus).
I don't accept this feeling that my privacy should be in control of a small group of individuals who have absolutely zero respect for my privacy. I guess the fact that I had actually bought the pro version purposely to benefit from more privacy influenced my experience.
I uninstalled Windows and switched to Ubuntu.
Today, my problem is Android/apple. I'd like to get rid of them but I haven't solved this problem yet...
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Thats why I changed to thinkpads. They seen to use less weird hardware with no support. But I had to do some concessions. I don`t use notebooks with discrete gpus, since NVIDIA optimus have shit support.
I'm on a Lenovo Yoga 5 Slim now. Cheap for the specs, needed some tweaking to get suspend working, otherwise works like a charm out-of-the-box.
My everyday beater is a Thinkpad x250. Small, ligth, not exactly top of the line, but works for most aplications. Only thing I suffer is running Android studio in it.
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Have an XPS 13 9310 running Ubuntu 20.04 and it runs flawlessly. Things like sleep were a little rough when it was first released, but updates by Dell since have made it rock solid.
No popping sounds in headphones/speakers from the realtek driver?
Nope, none.
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I fully expect Microsoft to eventually acquire Canonical, and if you pay attention to behind-the-scenes interactions between the two, it seems very likely.
I suspect something similar. They have a good partnership. While we're dreaming, I'd love to see a version of Windows with a Linux kernel. They could do what they did with Edge, replace the core with something better.
Eh, word on the street NT is expertly engineered. It's all the compatibility layers and crud that gives Windows it's bad name.