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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by greggman3 »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #442
stormbrew wrote: post #420

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The problem is cmd-tab brings everything up. For example, if you have a terminal window and a browser window next to each other that you're flipping between, but there's a browser window under the terminal window, cmd-tab will obscure the terminal.

Ah, sure, that makes sense. I guess I tend to be running 2-3 different browsers for different kinds of tasks, Chrome for work, Firefox for personal browsing, Brave for gmail, so I don't typically end up with multiple browser windows in the same browser. If I do for some reason, I tend to minimize all but the one I have been using with cmd-m.

I use one browser with multiple profiles. But even if I ran different browsers to solve that issue I'd have to do the same for everything else. Run 3-5 different editors instead of one editor with 3-5 windows. Run 3-5 different terminals apps instead of one Terminal app with 3-5 different windows. etc....

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Post by randomNumber7 »

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.

You'll be forced to update sooner or later anyway. So microsucks doesn't give a shit about that.

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Post by throaway46546 »

Kerbonut wrote: post #414
GhettoComputers wrote: post #262

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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.

There’s a docker image that you can spin up and then RDP into. Windows 2000.

Using Win2k as your daily driver seems like an exceptionally poor decision.

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Post by [deleted] »

ranguna wrote: post #499
FourthProtocol wrote: post #490

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Always with the Linux. I can't use Linux, I work in a Microsoft world. I can turn off the keylogger, and virtually anything else I don't want/like. I cannot (assuming I used their products) stop Google from storing my (MY!!) data on their infrastructure and having their way with it.

Have you tried libre office? And if you really need offline editing, you can still have all the pros of Linux + office if you install a Windows VM escape hatch just for Word.

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Post by ArnoVW »

PretzelSweat wrote: post #267
ArnoVW wrote: post #207

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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?

Ubuntu LTS. It also serves for my wife and (small) kids so something easy that works out of the box.

It's great because it gives the kids a computer that's 'theirs' but I can manage their freedom to the level that they're ready for (access to internet etc). And the oldest one (9y) already started to meddle with shell scripts so the experiment seems to work =)

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Post by afarviral »

tyingq wrote: post #378
soco wrote: post #331

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It's not "a setting" but an obscure registry entry. And have you actually tried it? I did and it's a joke - you get the taskbar there but no icons on it lol. And how about drag and drop? Or grouping?

For me, it's a setting, and yes, I tried it and it works: https://imgur.com/a/QSxE92W I didn't mention the other two things because they aren't available settings. I mentioned the one that is, because I thought it might be helpful. Aside: Why do people jump to snark so fast?

Theres left alignment and then theres left position (left side of display rather simply left aligned but still on the bottom). On my Win 11 machine you can only position the bar on the bottom, and no setting is offered to change it other than icon alignment.

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Post by chris_wot »

hobos_delight wrote: post #261
chris_wot wrote: post #192

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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!

It’s active.

https://fusion.online.autodesk.com/

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Post by tyingq »

afarviral wrote: post #517
tyingq wrote: post #378

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For me, it's a setting, and yes, I tried it and it works: https://imgur.com/a/QSxE92W I didn't mention the other two things because they aren't available settings. I mentioned the one that is, because I thought it might be helpful. Aside: Why do people jump to snark so fast?

Theres left alignment and then theres left position (left side of display rather simply left aligned but still on the bottom). On my Win 11 machine you can only position the bar on the bottom, and no setting is offered to change it other than icon alignment.

Ah, yes. If you want it running vertically on the left or right, or horizontally across the top, there is no setting for that. There are some registry settings documented by third parties, but I haven't tried them.

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Post by Prophasi »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #493
Prophasi wrote: post #450

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I don't love it (yet). It's probably a combo of my Windows background, my ignorance of MacOS tricks, and actual limitations/flaws. * Cmd+~ from a fullscreen window does nothing, and non-full windows of the app cycle only among each other. If I have fullscreen windows anywhere in my setup, it breaks my flow and (afaik) makes me mouse to the Window menu. I feel like MacOS's fullscreen paradigm is more to blame here, be…

You’re totally right that fullscreen breaks cmd ~. It also breaks cmd tab in unexpected ways. You’re also right about lack of visual feedback, which is disappointing given the various stuff that I think is still currently branded Mission Control, where obviously the fundamentals are already there. Cmd ~ isn’t statically ordered though, it’s either application specific or based on recent use in a weird (easy to confus…

To your third point, is this a setting somewhere? I tested before I posted w/ 4 Brave windows, but they stay in the same order.

Makes sense, since cmd+~ immediately switches on key down to the next window; cmd+tab (like alt+tab in Win) lets you keep the selection open and choose an out-of-order app, which alters the MRU. How would you do that here? The only way I've affected it is creating/killing windows at points in the cycle. Using cmd+shift+~ for me just goes backward in the same static order.

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