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Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by smoldesu »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #191
bombcar wrote: post #169

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They’re called phones and they’re killing the windows desktop like Linux users wanted in the 90s. It’s a very monkey’s paw scenario.

Accidentally Android spies on you to the extent Microsoft couldn't even dream of in their evilest of dreams. And there is no way to root/control it to prevent that spying. Unlike Windows.

> And there is no way to root/control it to prevent that spying.

Can you explain what you mean here? How do AOSP ROMs subject themselves to Google's spying, much less the meticulously-designed privacy distributions?

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Post by Aperocky »

czx4f4bd wrote: post #212
Aperocky wrote: post #134

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Too bad if you're interested in playing Age Of Empires 2 and older titles like Medieval Total War... There are some concern about graphics performance as well, it seems most titles are not tuned for Linux. Do you have the same graphic performance under linux?

What's the problem with AoE II? It's rated gold on https://www.protondb.com/app/221380 and runs fine for me under Proton.

There's a definitive edition now that everyone plays and it also happens to be from literally Microsoft themselves..

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by Maxburn »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #186

I left Windows for Mint about 2 months ago and it's just so much better. All that stupid bullshit you have to deal with on windows just went away, I felt actual relief. No more ads, no more forced updates because you walked away from your computer, no processes that it forces you to run so that it can spy on your mics. It just works. If you want it to look like windows 7 you can, if you want it to look like an iPad y…

Me too my friend, I find mint a decent general desktop OS and I rarely touch windows for personal use. Still struggling with iTunes though.

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Post by viraptor »

actually_a_dog wrote: post #182
bombcar wrote: post #169

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They’re called phones and they’re killing the windows desktop like Linux users wanted in the 90s. It’s a very monkey’s paw scenario.

That’s simply untrue. I have a phone, a tablet, and a laptop. I do different things on each. None has supplanted the others; they all supplement each other.

You do that, but it doesn't generalise. Mobile phone ownership exceeded laptop/desktop ownership in the us in the last 2 years and the latter is in a slow constant decline. A lot of people are going to be happy with just the phone in the future.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

goosedragons wrote: post #114
oriolid wrote: post #79

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If you're a veteran Linux user, you probably know where to look for config files and how to hack them. Trying to use Linux using GUI only, whichever you choose, is awful. It's like the designers copied the worst ideas from both Windows and MacOS on purpose and then added some of their own.

You don't need to hack config files. The big DEs have GUI settings for pretty much everything macOS or Windows does. The only reason it might not seem like it is tutorial websites where it's easier to post a one line command then screenshots for 7 different GUIs.

I prefer using the GUI, but frequently find I have to hop back into the terminal to chmod/chown some file that's ended up without the appropriate permissions. I think a casual user would probably give up at that point.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by redrobein »

For the love of god, if anyone from the windows design team is looking at this, give us taskbar on the side with ungrouped icons and titles, and fix the autohide. It is painful to use windows on laptops without it. That's been my windows setup for over a decade and it was straight up removed from win11 whilst calling it an "upgrade".

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Post by thomond »

Aperocky wrote: post #134
azemetre wrote: post #101

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I will say myself personally, that after I got my steam deck I haven't turned on my desktop in 6 months. Slowly in the process of converting my windows desktop into a media server. My two laptops are not windows machines. I have't looked at the steam surveys but I hope there's enough users to encourage more publishers to make games linux compatible. I know for me personally, all the games I enjoy are available for li…

Too bad if you're interested in playing Age Of Empires 2 and older titles like Medieval Total War... There are some concern about graphics performance as well, it seems most titles are not tuned for Linux. Do you have the same graphic performance under linux?

AoE runs fantastic. Controls are an obvious issue but you can connect up a keyboard and mouse

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by [deleted] »

naiveai wrote: post #145
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #65

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On the contrary, Linux is in a good position for the same reason you think it isn't. As the desktop/laptop market shrinks to advanced users, it loses the long tail of users who weren't technically capable enough to switch. At the same time, WINE/proton and even some native ports have vastly improved the gaming scene on Linux, and a decent chunk of non-gaming applications too. Sure, there will always be certain busine…

Until and unless Microsoft Office products are on Linux natively and are supported by Microsoft, Linux will never be a mainstream operating system. And that's never going to happen.

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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by themoonisachees »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #178

I just run W10Privacy program every now and then, and it disables all the ads, telemetry and bloatware in Windows. Takes 5 minutes. No such program exists for Android or iOS, it just can't exist.

My pro 1 running lineageOS begs to disagree. Android can be customized to your liking if you know what you're doing. You may argue that that is removed from the default experience enough that it's not that valid of a use case, but w10privacy hardly is a common use case.
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