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Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by adamddev1 »

rbut wrote: post #120
adamddev1 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately laptop driver support is often rough. I used an XPS 9343 (one marketed as supporting Ubuntu) but I faced issues with popping speaker sounds and mobile data tethering sucking GBs of data for some crazy reason.

Have an XPS 13 9310 running Ubuntu 20.04 and it runs flawlessly. Things like sleep were a little rough when it was first released, but updates by Dell since have made it rock solid.

No popping sounds in headphones/speakers from the realtek driver?

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by adamddev1 »

tata71 wrote: post #399
adamddev1 wrote: post #35

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Unfortunately laptop driver support is often rough. I used an XPS 9343 (one marketed as supporting Ubuntu) but I faced issues with popping speaker sounds and mobile data tethering sucking GBs of data for some crazy reason.

Buy hardware for the software you want to use for your comfort and security. It can't be an afterthought. Same goes for phones. Buy the right phone, don't be upset you can't load GrapheneOS on your cheap Samsung handset.

Right, that's why it was disappointing that a laptop so clearly marketed as supporting Ubuntu (XPS 9343) didn't even have decent sound support.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Ygg2 wrote: post #199
Dylan16807 wrote: post #157

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If it's a desktop nothing should go wrong. If it's a laptop then buying an entire machine is the norm. If you want to test hardware you already own, then just do it. No need to do any real research there.

> If it's a desktop nothing should go wrong. Should isn't won't. https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M

I don't recall that series having much in the way of hardware problems, excluding the goxlr and such because that's not part of the desktop.

If it was unclear that my sentence was in the scope of hardware, sorry.

I remember Luke saying multiple monitors broke at one point on his laptop, but that was a laptop.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by hnlmorg »

dTal wrote: post #424
hnlmorg wrote: post #410

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> Arch is needy; it commits seppuku if you abandon it for too long. It's certainly introducing more risk but these days I only update my Arch systems a maximum of once every 6 months (usually less than that) and never have an issue. This meme largely came about from ~10 years ago with the filesystem changes and migration to systemd. But it's been a pretty smooth ride since. > Every update on Arch is a "risky distribu…

>This meme largely came about from ~10 years ago with the filesystem changes and migration to systemd. But it's been a pretty smooth ride since. It's not a meme. Just this week I attempted to update an Arch system that had been left unattended for only a couple years. It got caught in some kind of cycle where it didn't have the GPG keys required to download the latest GPG keys. Then there was some package conflict is…

A minute ago you were complaining about updating Arch every day and now you're talking about not updating it over time spans lasting years! Talk about hopping from one extreme to another...

Yeah, if you're not going to update Arch in 3 years then I'd expect some issues but in fairness to Arch, the duration you're talking about here is literally the entire support life for some distros. So I certainly wouldn't call Arch "needy" for that. I mean there does need to be a cut off point somewhere and the fact that it's still possible to recover from that state at all -- even if it isn't a smooth ride -- is pretty fscking impressive in my opinion.

So yeah, I agree that if you're the kind of person to install an OS and then not touch it again for three(!!!) years and expect it to still update then a bleeding edge rolling release distro isn't going to be your best choice. But nobody was suggesting that Arch (or any distro for that matter) is perfectly suited for every edge case out there. And while I'm sorry you've been burnt in the past, I do think the way you've presented your arguments here is rather disingenuous.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by Gravyness »

gruez wrote: post #375
cortic wrote: post #331

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My advice would be to take control of your own security. Microsoft do not have your best interests at heart.

take control how? installing adblock and not downloading from shady websites isn't going to save you from stuff like BlueKeep.

I find it very strange that a computer can boot up with some ports open, that's beyond stupid. Nevertheless all my modems have had the default config to block all incoming requests.

Imagine a port open connected to a program with admin priviles which sole purpose is to give people full access to your computer and your desktop. Hidden in plain sight, maybe?

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by tjalfi »

thorin wrote: post #304
qbasic_forever wrote: post #105

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Advertisements in the start menu around Windows 8 was my tipping point. It's just a trashy thing to see candy crush and other crap in there that I never asked for, never could remove, etc. I went to Ubuntu and now PopOS and haven't looked back in almost 10 years. Maybe they've cleaned things up and removed the crap in later Windows but the damage is done and I'm never going back.

I've used win 8 and win 10 exclusively for years but have never seen an advert. Is this because I have the business (enterprise) edition, not the home version? I'm not sure how good or bad Bing, Edge etc are as I only use them occasionally, but it does seem concerning that Microsoft has changed these defaults during an update. Is this even legal, post anti trust etc?

Your company may have removed the crapware; that’s what our image team did.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by jiggawatts »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #378
jiggawatts wrote: post #130

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Microsoft broke their own right-click menu integrations in Explorer by doing this. "Open with Code" and "Open with Visual Studio" have both been relegated to the "Show more options" submenu. It absolutely boggles the mind that any of this was shipped. This is Beta level software.

Well, if you want to go down this road, let's really talk about the entire right-click menu paradigm. I do almost all of my development on a personal MBP, but I make sure that my work PC laptop can _do_ everything I would need it to do for my job. On this minimally-functional, bog-standard corporate Dell machine, it takes about a third of a second to bring up the right-click menu. Juuust enough time to make you wait.…

Microsoft's error was the dynamic DLL part of the whole thing. They should have used a simple rules engine with which programs can register an icon, text, and an action. Processing ~1 KB of contiguously stored rules for each right-click would take less than 1ms even on the slowest budget laptop running on battery.

There are many similar design decisions in Windows that cause many orders of magnitude slowdown. For example, start menu indexing is also absurdly slow, despite processing only about 100 KB of data in total.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by amon22 »

w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #290

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I've been exclusively using Windows 10 since 2016 on my main rig as well as my laptop. While there are a lot of small annoyances, for me, it's been far from _on a daily basis_. I'd say, from 360 days in the year, I spend maybe 10 days dealing with some Windows bullshittery. These are the things I changed on my system: - Disable Windows Defender real-time scann…

It takes you 10 days per year to disable defender and tweak some settings?

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by easton »

magicalhippo wrote: post #361
easton wrote: post #353

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FreeRDP is a wonderful RDP server replacement: https://www.freerdp.com/ It's so good that Microsoft uses it for WSLg.

Last time I checked, FreeRDP was screen capture-based like VNC, with the associated horrible performance. Has this been improved now?

It seems to have much better performance than VNC for me, so I don't think it's doing the screen capture thing. Or maybe it is and it's just fast regardless.

In my experience it feels almost as good as RDP for Windows, which I think is a great achievement.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by swaranga »

eptcyka wrote: post #248
prohobo wrote: post #121

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I think the new Framework laptops might be better than Thinkpads now.

I'd use one in a heartbeat if they had a trackpoint.

I have been using the HP Elitebooks provided by my company and works well with Ubuntu. No complaints. I even upgraded my RAM to 64 GB.
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