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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by tim333 »

eitally wrote: post #136
nine_k wrote: post #92

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The best gaming machine indeed runs Linux, and is called Steam Deck. I don't like macOS, but I'd take it over Windows without much hesitation. MacOS is like an authoritarian but tidy country. Windows is more and more like a corrupt third-world country :(

I would compare them, perhaps at my own risk, thusly: MacOS:Windows::Singapore:Brazil* (*The US is probably a better comparison, in all honesty.)

I was thinking as a Mac user who quite likes Mac and also quite likes Singapore that that's quite an apt analogy. I gave up on Windows a while back. I guess Linux would be like the metaverse where you can be/do anything but not many people go there.

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Post by listenallyall »

ekianjo wrote: post #170
listenallyall wrote: post #109

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- stock is at all-time high - "all the people" is probably actually well under 1% of users - successfully switched all corporate accounts from single-purchase w/ occasional renewal to ongoing monthly subscription - also a lot of of consumer subscriptions - Azure - Github - LinkedIn - OpenAI investment I actually agree with you that the Windows experience is getting worse, quickly. But on balance, seems more is going…

making profits and having a good product is 2 different things

yes but making huge profits (and employee compensation rising w/ stock grants and options) explains why nobody there is all that worried that users are unhappy with Windows

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

noprocrasted wrote: post #537
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #486

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They are in Europe, and heavily criticized on HN everytime they regulate. I love GDPR, yet so many complain about it for cookie banners, which are not even what the law requires: There Is No Cookie Banner Law ( https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law )

Only problem with GDPR is that while the spirit/intention of the law is great (and it even prohibits malicious compliance such as consent prompts that make it more difficult to decline than accept), enforcement is significantly lacking which means it's still more profitable to breach it than respect it.

I would say the problem is rather that companies are becoming too big to cares. Meta has been fined several times, in total for more than 2 billions. Amazon ? 746 millions. Tik tok? 345 millions. And yet it's a small price to pay for them

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Post by Workaccount2 »

depressedpanda wrote: post #536
Workaccount2 wrote: post #502

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Skyrim doesn't work well at all either. I'm blown away that probably the most re-released game of all time never added Linux support. Even before MS took over.

What makes Skyrim not work well at all for you? I haven't tried that game, but I know for a fact that Fallout 4 works quite well, and it -- like Skyrim -- has a gold status on protondb.

There is no music or NPC dialogue. I spent a few hours scouring for all manner of fixes before giving up. So many "This is what fixed it for me:" that didn't work on my machine.

There were also some rendering issues, but I could let that slide given my GPU is ~10 years old.

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Post by lelanthran »

sseagull wrote: post #435
yonatan8070 wrote: post #317

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> stored in various random places in the filesystem What config files have you found outside of `/etc` and `~/.config`?

There’s still a few on my machine. The main ones I’ve edited: ~/.gitconfig, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.vimrc ~/.ssh/config ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

> ~/.gitconfig, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.vimrc

> ~/.ssh/config

> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

None of those settings are going to be edited by a non-technical human, even on Windows.

OTOH, all of those are easier to edit in their respective files than via a registry hack.

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Post by Krssst »

FredPret wrote: post #76

- no more solitaire - cortana - ads… ADS… in the OS - forced updates - windows live accounts (or is it microsoft.com? wait, no, I think it’s office.com?) - two system settings screens - major new versions after “last version of Windows ever: 10”

> two system settings screens

I dread the time when they remove the old one. Small settings that I like to tinker with are hidden here and I doubt program managers will care about them at all.

Example: customizing the mouse theme. Seems frivolous, but without changing the text cursor, increasing the cursor size too much makes it very difficult to pinpoint text since the effect point is on the center of a big cursor rather than on a clearly defined edge.

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Post by nativeit »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #513
namanyayg wrote: post #295

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PS sucks so I've always installed git bash and used it instead since I first discovered it ~12y ago Starship seems quite promising, this is the first time I'm seeing it. But I'm a bit confused on how it works, can you go into a bit more details? Can I use starship+ps to get all Unix and git tools or should I stick with my existing workflow with windows git bash?

powershell is light years easier than bash. like, im fluent in bash enough to get stuff done, but i only got there over years, while i picked up powershell fairly quickly. also wayyyyy more readable. i'll admit the object vs text thing is annoying, i feel like bash is more straightforward there, but PS will let you do the same thing eventually.

My experience is almost exactly inverted. WTF is Invoke? Am I a sorcerer? I want to call a function, I think…

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Post by pompino »

hot_gril wrote: post #277
pompino wrote: post #259

Just to put things in perspective - MacOS forces you to run on their update treadmill for the OS, and you can't even update your xcode dev environment if you refuse. Ditto with Linux, you can't refuse OS updates if you use a package manager because eventually you can't update anything without accepting all the dependencies. Windows for all its warts did do something well with binary compatibility. I am happy as a pig…

MacOS doesn't force updates for general users. But if you want to run the latest Xcode, yeah you need the latest OS.

Its funny that a compiler forces you to update your OS.

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Post by [deleted] »

0dayz wrote: post #478
pndy wrote: post #400

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> All this fuzzy language That's not the exclusive problem to Microsoft - it happens all around us within the IT world. The corporations stopped acknowledging the permanent "No" anymore and the actual user choice. It's a plain harassment up until you give up and agree to what you get shoveled with. Whenever I read comments regarding last two Windows versions and issues people had or have with these, or news about new…

You get what you vote for. If you want less government interference then less regulatory power will exist.

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