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Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by clairity »

PostOnce wrote: post #324

Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…

i haven't used windows since 2008. the writing was already on the wall back then about which direction microsoft was heading.

you see the same thing happening with apple now. they have enough market dominance that they're no longer constrained to advance tech for the consumer, but rather just for themselves (i.e., their head-long dive into content and advertising). this is exactly what antitrust regulators should be heading off at the pass, but they fail time and again (and again and again).

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Post by dano »

fortyseven wrote: post #396
PostOnce wrote: post #324

Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…

Windows-free Ubuntu guy here, for over a year now. I even kept my old Windows box hooked up to a KVM "just in case". So far it only gets turned on if I accidentally bump my foot on the power switch.

I encapsulated my old windows machine into a VM - it gets fired up to run Quicken and another accounting program for which there are no reasonable client based substitutes. The VM boots fast, I have a "safe" copy of the VM image incase of a viral compromise, and it's out of the way of my normal workflow. Windows machine free for about a decade.

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Post by NovaVeles »

PostOnce wrote: post #324

Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…

I could not tell you the last time I had Windows in the home. I would guess around 2013. After then I kind of went (almost) 'Full Stallman' - I had been moving that way for a few years already.

The only Microsoft product I have is an old Xbox 360 that was updated once and then left permanently offline.

Side story - I remember in late 2001 when the 1st Xbox was coming out and I was in a retail store. There was couple looking to see what consoles where around and what to choose. The husband saw the Xbox and the Microsoft name on it. "I'm not supporting that thing! They have made my life a living hell, Mark my worlds they will do anything to dominate the market and I do NOT support that!" Seeing how they are trying to still buy their way to success, his words ring true today.

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Post by Nextgrid »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #117
323 wrote: post #98

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So why don't you switch it? I've put it to show Weather only and I actually like it a lot.

Not who you asked, but my employer won't allow me to change it.

Surely that's just an oversight from whoever set up the group policy, and notifying them should fix it for everyone in your company.

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #364
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #191

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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.

> 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. https://www.grapheneos.org/

I know, but nobody uses it, for a reason.

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Post by stemlord »

lewantmontreal wrote: post #49
JSRR1991 wrote: post #5

Bad time to be pushing this crap with the Linux desktop wooing the gaming/ power user overlap crowd now that steam deck is on the scene. I have been using Windows my whole life but now I have a PC dedicated to Linux for the 1st time and I'm thinking about seeing one up for my wife, as I'm sure Linux will be perform better on the older laptop I'm considering 'upcycling'. People forget that tech trends often flow outwa…

Off topic but I really wish the regular old mouse and scroll wheel would work ”normally” straight out the box on fedora/ubuntu/etc. It’s really such a horrible experience coming from Windows when using the mouse is all icky not having ”proper” (Windows default) acceleration on and scroll wheel scrolling one line at a time. Like many people I really want to make the jump but still hang on to Windows via O&O Shutup 10.

This is ironic to read as I felt the windows mouse controls were dogshit compared to what I had with macOS

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Post by squarefoot »

brokenmachine wrote: post #438
cageface wrote: post #423

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Bitwig is available on Linux now and works great in my experience. I actually prefer it to Ableton anyway.

What about VSTs? They won't all work on Linux.

Many work 100% a few may have cosmetic quirks on their UI but remain usable, a few don't work at all, but those are a small number. Take a look at Yabridge, as suggested by another user, it's great. A nice aspect of running plugins under Yabridge/WINE is that you can run obsolete plugins that wouldn't load anymore on modern Windows versions, so there's no planned obsolescence that would stop you from using that beloved synth or effect that was never upgraded for example beyond Windows XP. The only problem I encountered with some among really old plugins, and I mean from well over 20 years ago, is that the installer stops as it detects a negative amount of storage available, which is very likely the result of trying to fit a bigger variable carrying the number of bytes free of modern filesystems structures into the smaller one that old code can read. I believe the error could be prevented through a quick & dirty kludge by implementing a WINE executable option that fakes the free storage the installer sees just temporarily until the end of the install procedure.

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Post by crabmusket »

LorenDB wrote: post #167
Helmut10001 wrote: post #95

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Install Keypirinha [1] and you don't need the Start menu anymore. [1]: https://keypirinha.com/

Or use Powertoys Run

It's better than the start menu for sure, but still takes an irritatingly long time to become available after a boot.

At least it's possible to disable all the web search features etc. and have it just open my apps like I wanted.

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