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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by scruple »

westpfelia wrote: post #129
scruple wrote: post #109

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Thankfully we have options. I'm planning on moving my main desktop to Arch over my Christmas break from work. It's been a while since I ran Linux as my main desktop, my only complaints have been around gaming performance. I have a friend who plays the same games as I do and he's got everything working on his Arch install. That's really the only thing that holds me on Windows and if it's as smooth of a transition as I…

Check out https://www.protondb.com The only games that I really ever struggle with are ones that have anticheat. And EasyAntiCheat is going linux friendly so something like 95 of the top 100 games on steam will either work natively or via proton. And with Valve pushing the SteamDeck is see that number going to 100 soon.

Thanks for that!

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Post by RealStickman_ »

medlazik wrote: post #221
arepublicadoceu wrote: post #210

Windows 11 was an absolute downgrade to my Windows 10 experience. To the point that I went back to windows 10 in less than a day of Windows 11. 1. I can't ungroup the taskbar windows. So now I have to hoover the taskbar to see multiple instances of the same software; 2. Who the hell thought it was a great idea to couple all the commands like WiFi, power energy, etc under the same menu? On Windows 11 I needed to click…

It's still Windows, we can tweak everything exactly how we want it. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-on-windows-11-wi... I've been using 7taskbar for years, it's rock solid. ExplorerPatcher is a new requirement, works great and adds tons of features.

Maybe it's just me, but tweaking Windows extensively always feels like you're fighting against the OS.

I don't have these issues with my Linux installs.

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Post by gentleman11 »

modeless wrote: post #196

Firefox should go all the way on this. Exploit bugs, modify binaries, whatever it takes. With user consent of course. If the user says they want Firefox to be their default browser, Firefox is justified in modifying the operating system to achieve that. Ultimately Microsoft is powerless to stop this except by using their antivirus to block installation of Firefox in the first place, and I'd like to see them try that…

Microsoft already warns you that Firefox might be malware and that edge is more secure sometimes. It’s only one step away from a full ban. Decades ago, they got the monopoly treatment for this stuff

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Post by PeterisP »

Levitz wrote: post #224
iso1631 wrote: post #126

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Saw people say the same with XP into Vista. The relationship people seem to have with windows is like someone trapped in an abusive relationship. On the other hand from what I read, XP - good Vista - Bad 7 - good 8 - bad 10 - good 11 - bad I don't have any experience in any of those so I'm not how true it is, but if it is, I guess hope that 12 will be out by EOL of 10?

Calling 10 "good" is a stretch. I'd still be using 7 if it wasn't for security updates. The snip tool and multiple desktops are the only things I use, and in exchange I have a truckload of stuff I have to disable to even make my OS usable, a useless search function and obscured menus, absolutely not worth it. I have no hope of win12 being anywhere near good and will probably switch to about anything else.

Well, it's clearly better than Windows 8.

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Post by helmholtz »

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.

wlsunset was a lot simpler for me to get to work compared to gammastep, which I thought had too steep a learning curve. I only need it for the yellow light, thought.

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Post by outside1234 »

gentleman11 wrote: post #274
modeless wrote: post #196

Firefox should go all the way on this. Exploit bugs, modify binaries, whatever it takes. With user consent of course. If the user says they want Firefox to be their default browser, Firefox is justified in modifying the operating system to achieve that. Ultimately Microsoft is powerless to stop this except by using their antivirus to block installation of Firefox in the first place, and I'd like to see them try that…

Microsoft already warns you that Firefox might be malware and that edge is more secure sometimes. It’s only one step away from a full ban. Decades ago, they got the monopoly treatment for this stuff

But then Apple

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Post by Decade »

tombert wrote: post #160
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #127

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I try to move to Linux desktop one or twice a year for the last, what, 20 years. I have Linux on all my servers, was an early (very minor) dev on pre-1 kernel and generally love it. The desktop is a walking nightmare. Something continuously does not work: multiple screens, waking up from sleep etc. I really would like to move (we use Outlook but I am even ready to go for OWA) but Windows is considerably better on lap…

Haven't you heard? It's the year of the Linux desktop :) In all seriousness, until about a year ago when I got a discount on a Macbook and changed to that, I had been running Linux for about a decade across different laptops, and feel that since ~2017 the desktop experience has improved substantially . I bought a new laptop in 2017, installed Ubuntu on it...and that was it. I spent exactly zero minutes installing dri…

I’m using an AMD system as an OBS Studio streaming system, and Linux was not great.

I first set it up with a Ryzen 5 3600 and Radeon HD 6750, running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, because I thought I didn’t really need that much processing power. After un-blacklisting the driver for such an old GPU, I discovered I was using upwards of 80% CPU and dropping frames while streaming at 1440p, so I decided to upgrade.

Then, I tried a Ryzen 7 5700g with integrated Vega 8. First, I needed to upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10 for such a new GPU, and then OBS Studio was randomly crashing while switching between scenes. Also, hardware video encoding wasn’t working well, so it was still taking upwards of 80% CPU while streaming at 1440p. And the video outputs were finicky, sending windows to the wrong screen on power up. Random crashing is unusable, so I switched to Windows.

With Windows 11 on the Ryzen 7 5700g, the hardware video encoding works well, so the same scenes are taking less than 50% CPU while streaming at 4K (2160p) and not dropping any frames. Now I can do other things on the stream.

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Post by stonemetal12 »

tombert wrote: post #160
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try to move to Linux desktop one or twice a year for the last, what, 20 years. I have Linux on all my servers, was an early (very minor) dev on pre-1 kernel and generally love it. The desktop is a walking nightmare. Something continuously does not work: multiple screens, waking up from sleep etc. I really would like to move (we use Outlook but I am even ready to go for OWA) but Windows is considerably better on lap…

Haven't you heard? It's the year of the Linux desktop :) In all seriousness, until about a year ago when I got a discount on a Macbook and changed to that, I had been running Linux for about a decade across different laptops, and feel that since ~2017 the desktop experience has improved substantially . I bought a new laptop in 2017, installed Ubuntu on it...and that was it. I spent exactly zero minutes installing dri…

>Haven't you heard? It's the year of the Linux desktop :)

Nah, Steam deck got delayed to next year. I plan on going Linux then. :)

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Post by prox »

gentleman11 wrote: post #274
modeless wrote: post #196

Firefox should go all the way on this. Exploit bugs, modify binaries, whatever it takes. With user consent of course. If the user says they want Firefox to be their default browser, Firefox is justified in modifying the operating system to achieve that. Ultimately Microsoft is powerless to stop this except by using their antivirus to block installation of Firefox in the first place, and I'd like to see them try that…

Microsoft already warns you that Firefox might be malware and that edge is more secure sometimes. It’s only one step away from a full ban. Decades ago, they got the monopoly treatment for this stuff

Isn’t Microsoft gonna get slapped hard by the EU as anti competitive practice? They are already got a fine for that when IE6 was around.
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