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I’ll tell you why I still use a Mac: it’s because my non-techie wife still uses one. Even then I still have to provide her with regular tech support. For someone like her using Linux is not yet a viable option.
My 75 years old mother can do it completely unassisted…
Until the time when Microsoft realises this and creates a privileged API just for Microsoft Recall so that It can see the screen. Better switch to Linux. It's not perfect but I am sure that you will be fine using Linux(Unless you want to use Adobe Suite or Few Corporate applications which won't be used by many)
Well for those who are stuck with Windows because of some applications or simply because of familiarity. My suggestion is to stay on an older release as long as possible. If that isn't possible I would recommend keeping the computer turned off most of the time and only briefly using it for your purpose and try to keep from doing anything embarrassing or personal too much. Another thing that might help is calling up y…
Unless someone breaks that cycle of Windows being the dominant OS.
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I'm not who you asked, but the reason I migrated to Macs years ago, and the reason I stay, is that I don't want my computer to be a maintenance hobby unto itself. I need to do actual work. I also enjoy the polish Apple provides in other ways -- the platform features you get if you're on a Mac, use an iPhone, have a Watch, etc, are all pretty great. Cobbling together something like that on my own under Linux probably…
Use a stable distribution like Debian and maintenance only happens every 4-5 years, if you don't mind staying with older software.
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Well for those who are stuck with Windows because of some applications or simply because of familiarity. My suggestion is to stay on an older release as long as possible. If that isn't possible I would recommend keeping the computer turned off most of the time and only briefly using it for your purpose and try to keep from doing anything embarrassing or personal too much. Another thing that might help is calling up y…
> Well for those who are stuck with Windows because of some applications or simply because of familiarity its a pain for most people at first but its never too late to do the switch.
> We tell the operating system that every Brave tab is ‘private’, so Recall never captures it. Without this loophole Recall could take pix of password managers and other such sensitive windows. So it doesn't seem closeable without per app exceptions. But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child. Brave could have a toggle on the feature if it wants to serve that market.
How does it help parents/teachers/children to have Microsoft spy on your children? I have trouble thinking of a use case.
If you're thinking "just ask", unfortunately students often don't have that level of introspection.
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Bitwig works on Linux, but the problem I had was that my pro-audio soundcard [1] didn’t have supported drivers and I couldn’t get the open source drivers to work. I tried switching to a Dante based solution: none of the Dante based apps worked, so I tried AES67 (open source Dante), still no joy — I just could not get my Dante/AES67 AD/DA converters (which attach to everything in my studio) to be ‘seen’ on Linux. So a…
"It works BUT" summarizes my experience with running my top applications on Linux, unfortunately :(
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At least on OneDrive for Android, a bizarre thing is that search is _not_ equivalent to find . -iname. It is able to find search terms in the _content_ of documents but not their filenames.
Well, you can have the same functionality with find if you want it: find -type f -exec grep -Hn "_content_" {} \;
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It seems it enables Copilot to assist the user in finding things on their PC. Somehow find . -iname has worked for years in Linux without AI
They are where I put them. Never used a search function once like this. Perhaps it’s because I lived in the days before search was even a thing.
I'm on Brave 1.80.122 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromium: 138.0.7204.157 I can't find this option under brave://settings/privacy Why is that ?
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Use a stable distribution like Debian and maintenance only happens every 4-5 years, if you don't mind staying with older software.
> if you don't mind staying with older software. The problem is: it depends a lot on the specific program whether I want the newest or stay with some older version of some program. Many GNU/Linux distributions make this hard, while Windows makes this easy.
Or did you mean that you want to pin an app to a specific version? This can be done also, trivially - not that it is a good idea in general.