I have a Windows box just for playing a few games, but even for that Windows is freaking rubbish. It keeps asking me to sign in with some BS Windows Live account!
How painful is the Steam on Linux/Proton experience on average?
Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#212https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect
That should fix it, right?
I use it for quite a long time now and it works with the search bar in the startmenu.
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This is what I want personally. I use different browsers for different things: let me fucking chose which browser to use. I am currently wondering how easy it would be to build a "shim browser" that you can set as default but does not actually open the page, it only list the urls apps tried to open and lets you copy them to whichever browser you prefer.
I'm currently experimenting with "link eye" from FDroid on Android. There's also [finicky]( https://github.com/johnste/finicky ) for MacOS.
Do you know if there is something similar for windows?
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#214To me this isn't a huge loss as I have set firefox as my default browser, but I really use Chrome. The net result is that all of the tracking links I click in email get opened in a browser that I hardly use and that has hardly any context about me - no cookies, etc. Then I can copy the actual destination url into my real browser.
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I don't know if it's still happening, but for a while windows updates were helpfully "fixing" the EFI boot partition (or maybe it was a boot firmware thing, I never figured it out) by making windows primary and breaking my Linux entry . My friends would be like "do you want to play games?" and I'd be like "yeah hang on while I make some boot media so I can recover afterwards."
Windows 10 updated my laptop's BIOS and in the process reset it to defaults. This basically bricked my laptop. Yeah I know how to go in and set a boot drive again, but not everyone should have to understand how that works.
This is 100% on your laptop manufacturer.
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#216Google has been trying to do this for years in Android. They're absolutely anti consumer trying to get you to use their app or their thing.
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#217The final straw for me and Windows was when I took the time to remove some annoying feature, cortana or edge, can't remember. Then an update replaced my work. It wasnt some 'uninstall program', but a multi-step process that involved registry editing. I don't feel like I have control over Windows.
I don't know if it's still happening, but for a while windows updates were helpfully "fixing" the EFI boot partition (or maybe it was a boot firmware thing, I never figured it out) by making windows primary and breaking my Linux entry . My friends would be like "do you want to play games?" and I'd be like "yeah hang on while I make some boot media so I can recover afterwards."
Windows and GRUB will both compete for who gets to own \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi; but that file is only used when you tell your firmware "boot off this hard drive".
If Windows is removing another OS's entries from the boot list (displayed when you run 'efibootmgr -v' in Linux) then that's 100% deliberate anticompetitive behaviour from Microsoft; this list is where the entires like Windows, Fedora, and so on appear in the list of boot entries your firmware shows you.
Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
#218> "No more disruptive switching"
How about you don't decide that for everyone, Microsoft?
This is the same BS that pushes 'conditional acces' based on what browser you happen to be using, or their idea of SSO where your console login also dictates all other logins... and it happens that you must use Edge. Turns out people don't give a shit if they have to pick an account more than once. That used to be a big point of friction on LanMan networks and when there was no Kerberos, but the same principles simply do not transfer to the web.
Just like Teams and all their other packaged nonsense (Intune): they are creating a fake ecosystem where usage isn't based on requirements or best tool for the job, but on 'what else happens to come with the package', making the UX worse for everyone. Entry-level admins and middlemen don't actually need (or want) to know how any of it works, delegate responsibility and defects to the vendor (Microsoft) and then essentially stall all local wants and needs because they cannot actually fulfil anything themselves.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steam on Linux is like that 99% of the time. Download the game and play it.
What distro would you recommend for maximising gaming performance and compatibility do you think? Valve seem to have gone for Arch but
I think Manjaro is a great choice for gaming rigs. You get easy access to latest kernels and drivers without having to babysit your computer.
Only problem with Linux gaming is that you don't get stuff like fan, voltage, frequency control for newer AMD hardware. This hasn't been an issue for me until I got a 6800XT. I thought about RMA until I remembered their Adrenaline software exists. I wish I could save my settings to the card's BIOS.
I no longer use this machine for anything but gaming. Going back to windows sucks