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Post by 4gotunameagain »

jacquesm wrote: post #408
Levitz wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>That whole way of thinking isn't appropriate. 5% is an insane number of people, when you are that large these things are no longer optional. And hardware compatibility issues are? The fact that orders of magnitude more people don't use Linux at all, disabled or not, because of lacking features or usability is optional? If 5% of people is an insane number of people, surely usability for them all is more important tha…

Hardware compatibility issues are just a distraction in this discussion. You can do both . If all of the hardware compatibility issues would be resolved there would be some other excuse.

The entirety of this discussion has been about what should be prioritised in order to increase Linux adoption. You cannot do everything together all at once, especially with the limited resources of open source.

Since you're such a noble white knight, why don't you code up those accessibility features you think are the most important missing part ? I'll wait.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by Brett_Riverboat »

anticensor wrote: post #426
Brett_Riverboat wrote: post #206

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

> Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter. > Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter. Why do we have to delete them?

defaultUser0 is used by windows for the OOBE if you don't delete it along with the registry keys it will just boot back to the OOBE again. defaultUser0 gets removed by the OOBE after setup leaving your system vulnerable. The administrator account is a built in account that is disabled by default but won't be disabled if you completely bypass the OOBE or don't use the old local account setup which you no longer can do because of microsofts removal of the feature.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by breve »

MangoToupe wrote: post #285
breve wrote: post #75

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Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...

Obviously missing things: 1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner…

1. You can configure the keyboard shortcuts in KDE. Or use something like Toshy: https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy

2. KDE Autostart

3. KDE Discover. Supports flatpak for example: https://flathub.org/en

4. SysD Manager (https://github.com/plrigaux/sysd-manager). Can be installed from Flathub. SystemdGenie is another one.

5. KDE Plasma System Monitor

6. KDE User Manager

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by devnullbrain »

flipthefrog wrote: post #382
breve wrote: post #2

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Gimp is NOT a good image editor for someone who uses Photoshop professionally. This idiotic claim keeps coming up, year after year, along with suggestions for opensource replacements for InDesign, Illustrator, LightRoom - there really really arent any valid opensource alternatives to most creative software apart from Blender, and Krita for a linited subset of what Photoshop covers. I would have switched to Linux imme…

That may be true but, as you've not given any reason, it will come up again next time.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by devnullbrain »

m_rpn wrote: post #193
SirFatty wrote: post #134

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If that really was the case, then this would finally be the year of the Linux Desktop(tm).

Every year is the YOLD!

I've not seen the claim you're satirising in years. But I am still seeing the satire years after Windows became the third most common user operating system.

The first is Linux.

The only reason Microsoft can afford to treat Windows with such disdain is that desktop operating systems became an afterthought.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by NoPicklez »

ryandrake wrote: post #347
saghm wrote: post #307

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I guess I'm old and out of touch after only a bit over three decades, because I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here. I could see screenshots maybe being slightly helpful, but to having this sort of thing as a video feels like an extreme inconvenience; I'd much rather see all of it at once and be able to visually scan (or even better, ctrl…

It's telling that most of the responses to this question center around why the YouTube video creator would want to make a video instead of a simple text description, not what the OP asked: why the user would want to intake the information by way of video. Says a lot about what is broken, incentive-wise, about the modern Internet.

How so? People like to learn in various ways, some people like to read, other people like to inspect someone else doing it in real time.

I don't see an issue with there being multiple ways to learn how to do something, whether it be textual, images or video.

For this type of thing having a video running in the background while I punch in the commands makes sense, I can perform the actions at the same time the video does.

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Post by SilverElfin »

hulitu wrote: post #402
SilverElfin wrote: post #398

YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities. Otherwise the abuse will continue.

> YouTube and other large platforms should be regulated like public utilities But they are in private hands, aren't they ? Welcome to capitalism my friend. And don't forget to vote on the next election.

We regulate many privately owned utilities. They aren’t allowed to just deny you power or water based on your politics or pressure from another corporation or whatever.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by chongli »

bmn__ wrote: post #93
chongli wrote: post #51

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Anyone have a good suggestion for Linux dictation software? My friend wants to switch to Linux but he does all his writing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Dragon in Wine. A lot of the Talon users do it that way.

Okay the fact that Talon Linux use Dragon via Wine successfully is a big vote of confidence. I was reluctant to recommend that to my friend after seeing Wine's status page for Dragon but I'll give it a go!

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Post by 1718627440 »

dylan604 wrote: post #334
esbeeb wrote: post #240

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People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.

> People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux They do? How else does one use Linux if not via CLI? You mean those kiddies that like GNOME/KDE? pfffft, they're not "using" Linux. They're just using Linux to run other apps no different than using a ChromeBook

Unless you are somehow manually issuing syscalls, you aren't "using" Linux either. I guess you mostly use GNU/Linux.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Post by 1718627440 »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #246
Brett_Riverboat wrote: post #206

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff. I can see why google would be concerned about malicious versions of these videos being posted, and being difficult to differentiate quickly from ones with the legitimate instructions. Or if those malicious videos were posted and reported, then I can see why a…

It is easier to understand what a command does, than to derive how it is called from first principles.
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