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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by hobos_delight »

chris_wot wrote: post #192
serf wrote: post #131

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while these can be made to work .. Fusion360/SolidWorks/CATIA/Siemens NX are notoriously hard to make work, and when they do the fixes usually only last a single patch; and these softwares (aside from SolidWorks) are all always-connected and auto-updating. and unfortunately a lot of that software is simply career-making. It's simply an arms-race that can't be won from the consumer perspective without applying adequat…

Fusion 360 has a webassembly version, runs remarkably well!

I remember there being a browser beta version, but I thought this was pulled.

Has it come back? Because that would be wonderful!

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Post by GhettoComputers »

throaway46546 wrote: post #244
GhettoComputers wrote: post #237

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Look up Windows LTSC, it’s like Win10 that acts like Win7

LTSC now

I went from Win7 to LTSB, then upgraded to LTSC (for gpu passthrough) but still hated it for some reason, mainly needing to undo windows changes and various issues that should have been defaults. I went to KDE and use windows only for some Win software that didn’t work on VM or wine.

I miss Windows 2000 Pro, it wasn’t bloated, pretty fast, didn’t crash and had the fewest problems.

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Post by extr »

dijit wrote: post #232
pojntfx wrote: post #85

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If you like i3 but want to try Wayland pain-free - Sway uses i3's config file syntax, so you shouldn't have to change anything to try it out :)

Caveat emptor: your normal apps might struggle still. Some common things have wayland native replacements but it might be jarring. Redshift (automatic Color temperature change) -> gammastep Dunst (notifications) -> mako Rofi (launcher) -> idk I just used kitty+fzf with some special options.

there is a wayland replacement for rofi called wofi. i didn't use rofi for anything particularly intensive so it was a drop in replacement for me

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Post by bachmeier »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #134
bachmeier wrote: post #106

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Microsoft is no longer a monopolist. The world has changed dramatically since 1995-1997.

They have 75% of desktop/laptop OS market share. That's plenty.

The first step in antitrust is to define the market. It seems unlikely that desktop/laptop would be considered a separate market - mobile is just too capable (how do you even draw the line between an iPad Pro and a laptop?) But even within desktop/laptop you have Apple plus Chromebooks and to some extent Linux as substitutes. There were no serious substitutes in the 1995-1997 time period that led to the antitrust proceedings.

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Post by franczesko »

ArnoVW wrote: post #207
InitialLastName wrote: post #66

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That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.

After 30 years on Windows I switched this month to Linux, for pretty much the same reason. It's great. And it feels so fast . All my software exists natively on Linux (minecraft and game emulators for the kids, KNIME, Intellij, and Blender is a lot faster on Linux). No Word or PowerPoint, but there's Libre Office and it's good enough. Who'd have thought that 2021 would be the year of Linux on the desktop. Not because…

With Google Docs, Microsoft Office (maybe besides Excel) is pretty much redundant.

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Post by PretzelSweat »

ArnoVW wrote: post #207
InitialLastName wrote: post #66

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That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.

After 30 years on Windows I switched this month to Linux, for pretty much the same reason. It's great. And it feels so fast . All my software exists natively on Linux (minecraft and game emulators for the kids, KNIME, Intellij, and Blender is a lot faster on Linux). No Word or PowerPoint, but there's Libre Office and it's good enough. Who'd have thought that 2021 would be the year of Linux on the desktop. Not because…

What distro did you choose to run?

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Post by gentleman11 »

cronix wrote: post #22

So far in the last year or so, I've heard 0 reasons why I'd even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn't even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.

It will be the same reason you updated windows years ago: some driver or piece of software will only work in windows 11, and you will be forced to switch.

I have two machines: windows for gaming and work, Linux for everything else. My Linux machine is wonderful, sometimes even for gaming, but my windows machine won’t stop doing web searches via bing when I try to use the search bar, and won’t stop trying to swap my browser, and keeps reverting my privacy settings

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Post by smoldesu »

xxpor wrote: post #201
smoldesu wrote: post #176

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Photoshop CS6 works pretty reliably on the majority of setups, I remember having an... ahem, perfectly legal copy installed without needing to use any install helpers whatsoever. WINE just downloaded all of the dependencies before launching the installer and it worked like a charm. According to WineHQ[0], the only features it seems to be missing is the updater that came with it. Creative Cloud seems to be a bit more…

Does low latency audio work through WINE? I don't care about the specific tech used, as long as midi->hearing audio works well enough to actually play a piano.

Depends on what you consider low, Live reported that it was around 45ms of latency using the default settings on the DirectAudio driver, I didn't bother to install ASIO4ALL and try it that way though. You could also bring it down by reducing the buffer size, but I didn't really mess with that either. Native DAWs can hit 5-10ms of latency though, I'd bet with a minimal amount of tinkering you could get it to hover around 15ms through WINE.

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Post by milkytron »

jccalhoun wrote: post #114
cronix wrote: post #22

So far in the last year or so, I've heard 0 reasons why I'd even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn't even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.

I updated to 11 on my laptop but kept 10 on my main machine. I see zero reason to update my main computer to 11. I was willing to give centered start button a try but the fact that you can't turn off grouping of applications in the taskbar is a deal breaker. If I have two firefox windows open I want to know it and to be able to pick which one I want without having to hover my mouse over the icon for a second while th…

I wonder if something like Cairo is compatible or will be with 11. It has good support for grouping in the taskbar.

On my 10 machine I use it and find it so much more pleasing than the default desktop.

https://cairoshell.com/

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