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Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by gitaarik » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:15 AM UTC

tcmart14 wrote: post #126

newzisforsukas wrote: post #86

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I think Proton is a great project (and CodeWeavers deserve credit there as well), but why does it have to be a choice? I have been multi booting for 20 years, preferring Linux distributions the whole time, but other OSes when I want to use them. I recently started using a dedicated Windows system for gaming and other Windows favored tasks. I am running a KVM switch, using AMD Graphics on a Linux system and Nvidia on…

I don't know if I'd say its a choice between a squabble or no squabble, its just a different set of squabbles. For me, there are evenings when I am hacking away on a hobby project for 2 or 3 hours. Then suddenly just go, 'I wanna just veg out for another 2 hours then go to bed.' When I'm in that mood, I don't even want to be bothered changing machines. Just hit the steam icon and veg. Thats also bout the only time I…

Sounds familiar. Dual boot sounds nice but in practice isn't always that nice.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by DidYaWipe » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:16 AM UTC

silverquiet wrote: post #10

About a year ago I dumped Windows from my personal PC for good. I ran a Linux desktop at work for a decade, but my Steam collection get me with at least a bit of a tether to Microsoft. But Valve finally made Linux gaming a reality. I hope more people can make the switch someday because I'm quite happy with the system (Pop!_OS is my distro of choice these days).

Windows is such execrable trash now that, when my late-2014 25-inch 5K Intel iMac got orphaned, I didn't even consider putting Windows on it. Now it's running Mint, and I use my M1 MacBook Pro in clamshell mode connected to a monitor.

That monitor, incidentally, is a 25-inch former iMac. I gutted it after it suffered the widespread burned-out-GPU problem that afflicted many (most?) Macs of circa-2010 vintage, and put an LCD driver board in it.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by josephg » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

TheLoafOfBread wrote: post #249

BarryMilo wrote: post #227

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Thus proving OP's point: it's not your computer.

If you remove glibc in Linux, it will start breaking too.

Onedrive is not a core windows component. It’s not a dependency of other applications. It’s just a Dropbox replacement.

Windows works, and has always worked, just fine without onedrive. Microsoft just doesn’t want you to know that, because they are obsessed with the idea of upselling you on subscription based cloud services.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by hot_gril » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

donatj wrote: post #82

I used Windows from about 1993 to 2006. In 2006 I was given a Mac Mini as a thank you for completing an unpaid internship. I fell in love with macOS and have basically been a macOS user since. At the start of the pandemic I bought a PC to game on. 16-core Ryzen, 64 gigabytes of ram. I'd been kind of pleasantly surprised with WSL and just general improvements in cohesiveness. It's still got that Windows jank under the…

If your gripe with Windows is that it requires TPM, the Mac is strict too.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by hnlmorg » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:19 AM UTC

bongodongobob wrote: post #217

slicktux wrote: post #155

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You’re the ideal windows user…whatever that may be??

It's not fucking with core components that aren't supposed to be fucked with.

It’s software running on your own computer. If you’re not supposed to turn off ads and OneDrive, change the default search engine, etc then that’s a pretty sad state of affairs.

Though as an ex-Windows developer and hacker, I can tell you that NT is pretty modular and is designed to be “fucked” with in various different ways. Microsoft just like to ship defaults that are more favourable for their own business than your typical power user.

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Post by viraptor » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:20 AM UTC

pompino wrote: post #259

Just to put things in perspective - MacOS forces you to run on their update treadmill for the OS, and you can't even update your xcode dev environment if you refuse. Ditto with Linux, you can't refuse OS updates if you use a package manager because eventually you can't update anything without accepting all the dependencies. Windows for all its warts did do something well with binary compatibility. I am happy as a pig…

Sorry, but the Linux part doesn't make sense. If you want to update system components from the system repository, it makes sense that the dependencies are rolled into it. But if you don't want to upgrade everything, you don't have to. Install a specific app version from flatpak, download binaries, or compile it yourself for your current system. You have so many ways to do this - same as you're doing on windows.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by hot_gril » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:20 AM UTC

nox101 wrote: post #205

Nothing electronic I own feels like mine anymore My Mac, iPhone, and Apple TV are owned by Apple. My Sony TV is owned by Sony and Google. My Windows PC is owned by Microsoft. My Quest 2 is owned by Meta. My Kindle is owned by Amazon. At best, the Mac and PC I could install Linux on to make them mine. The rest, not so much

I feel like I own my Mac because it doesn't bother me for anything and lets me do what I want. The iPhone, less so because it's secured against me in many ways.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by gitaarik » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:20 AM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #75

> Linux Respects Its Users Maybe I'm just ranting, but Ubuntu seems to be by far the most common distro for Windows users, and they're definitely not perfect in this respect. I've been running Linux as my main OS for about 20 years and I can't rid myself of snaps. Synaptic will show that the package provided by Mozilla is the latest version and the snap is the installed version. If I reinstall, it goes back to the Mo…

Use Linux Mint, it's Ubuntu without snap and some other crap.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by ant6n » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:21 AM UTC

grogenaut wrote: post #102

There's basically 2 reasons I haven't been able to switch to linux: 1) Fusion 360 - Just can't get it working under linux well enough. 2) Monitors - Always issues mixing highdpi and low dpi monitors in linux, my main is a 4k 144hz 43", the sides and tops are all 2560x1440 27s. Oh and there's my Ceiling 4k projector which I turn on to watch movies or baseball when I lean back and think. Which leads to the other issue,…

There’s basically 1 reason I haven’t switched back to Mac: I want a non reflective screen - I don’t want to look at an outline of myself when working, and I want a laptop I can work with in any position, not just where light sources and reflections behind me are carefully removed.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by rkagerer » Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 6:21 AM UTC

accrual wrote: post #103

OptionOfT wrote: post #14

I can't even remove 'Recommended' from the start menu, not even on a Pro for Workstations. Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable? I install Edge Beta to test something, and the I uninstall it. All of the sudden my search provider in my normal Edge is reset. And the nagging everywhere. No I don't want 'back-up' my files (OneDrive is not backup, it's…

> Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable? YMMV, but this is what I used to disable web search on my Win 11 Pro workstation: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions"=dword:00000001

On an older version of Windows I used the Classic Shell start menu. It's rockin', and works how you'd expect a start menu to.