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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by pompino »

viraptor wrote: post #266
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…

Sorry, but the Linux part doesn't make sense. If you want to update system components from the system repository, it makes sense that the dependencies are rolled into it. But if you don't want to upgrade everything, you don't have to. Install a specific app version from flatpak, download binaries, or compile it yourself for your current system. You have so many ways to do this - same as you're doing on windows.

>Install a specific app version from flatpak, download binaries, or compile it yourself for your current system.

Then you can't have those dependencies managed by a package manager, which means you'll constantly be compiling (and dealing with conflicts yourself). This is not a viable path forward as it seems to be presented here.

>You have so many ways to do this - same as you're doing on windows.

On Windows I copy a binary and run it w/o giving a crap about the OS updates. Vastly different workflows for it to be called "same".

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by wvenable »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #547
wvenable wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft care quite a bit because security vulnerabilities of end user machines that were out of date was a huge issue. Since they basically stopped allowing users to run outdated versions, that problem has effectively disappeared.

So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users. Got it. Suggest reading up on the history of personal computing, and then ask yourself if this is how it was supposed to go. At this point, even Mac and Linux users are starting to feel the loving embrace of their OS vendors' paternalism.

As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

> So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by TheBozzCL »

I know the feeling. Recently I switched to Linux because of it. Now I’m running:

Manjaro Cinnamon LTE: I know there’s some controversy with Manjaro, but it’s been working fine for me and it drastically increased my laptop’s battery life.

AtlasOS, a trimmed down version of Windows 11 for gaming: I know it’s a bit controversial as well, but I’ll never install or store anything sensitive in it. Only games.

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by pxc »

bongodongobob wrote: post #216
soared wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try completely removing one drive to understand the rest of our pain. Even if you manage to get the program gone, somehow the default file save location for many applications is still a (now deleted) one drive folder. If you forget and click save.. well now you have one drive again.

Don't. Do. That. Leave it alone, that's why Windows is breaking for you. You keep fucking with core components. It's not Linux. You can't do that and not suffer consequences.

> core components

A Dropbox clone is now 'core OS compinents'? That's just as much a valid criticism of Windows as anything else in this thread

Re: My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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Post by sandreas »

nativeit wrote: post #558
red-iron-pine wrote: post #513

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I would have thought Microsoft on is dotnet multi-platform journey would find a way to make PowerShell just POSIX compatible, supporting at least standard all day commands like `grep`, `wc`, `find` and others. All it would have taken is to create aliases or replacements for the top 50 shell commands.

Instead they re-invented the wheel. It's not a bad wheel, but the wheel is completely different than most people would expected to be and for POSIX enthusiast it just does not feel right.

With wsl or git bash you can do this but it feels slow and clunky most of the time.

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Post by wishfish »

ZunarJ5 wrote: post #444
wishfish wrote: post #343

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You can replace the Kindle with Kobo. For the most part, Kobo just gets out of your way. Integrates tightly with Calibre. Easily hackable. Many extensions available with installation as simple as dropping a file on the device. Not a perfect device but good enough that I feel like I own it.

Is there a guide for this you can point to? Exciting to hear, hope it works on older models.

This Reddit post will give you a good high level overview, and has links if you want to explore further.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/18yizux/i_finally_cav...

Here's a detailed guide on how to use Tags in Calibre to set up Collections on Kobo. This was the primary reason I bought a Kobo this year. I have over 1k books. They were mostly unsorted on Kindle. Amazon wouldn't let me use Calibre to organize them, and I didn't want to organize them on the device with its slow interface. With Calibre, I just got everything tagged and they were instantly organized upon upload to the Kobo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/qlgha1/how_to_create_...

If you end up getting a Kobo, make sure you set up the Calibre Kobo plugin to auto convert every book to the kepub format. Just makes things smoother on the ereader and the plugin does it intelligently. Only sending the kepub to the device but preserves disk space by keeping the books on your desktop in their original format. The first link I mentioned links out to a guide on that.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

hot_gril wrote: post #303
kjkjadksj wrote: post #188

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The unfortunate side effect of valve supporting linux better is they seemingly gave up on mac os.

Apple was also kinda asking for it

Well as of a couple of years ago they have some of the most overpowered hardware. Its not the intel era anymore. The fact I can run many of these unsupported games on max settings through an emulation layer no less is saying something.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

kalleboo wrote: post #354
catach wrote: post #340

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I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.

And the corresponding deprecation of 32 bit which killed so many games

Valve updated most of their other ports to 64 bit recently. Save the mac port of course.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

wvenable wrote: post #562
CamperBob2 wrote: post #547

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users. Got it. Suggest reading up on the history of personal computing, and then ask yourself if this is how it was supposed to go. At this point, even Mac and Linux users are starting to feel the loving embrace of their OS vendors' paternalism.

As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others. > So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users. I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

I don't think you want to go there, broheim. Wait'll you hear my opinion of how "safe" your computer is, and whether it should be allowed on a network.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

A personal computer, along with its operating system, should do what its owner tells it to do.

That was kind of the original idea, anyway.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

catach wrote: post #340
kjkjadksj wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The unfortunate side effect of valve supporting linux better is they seemingly gave up on mac os.

I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.

Why? Arm macs run that software fine through emulation. The transition was an excuse to also drop support of x86 mac ports for companies that used to put these out as part of doing business. I run mac ports of x86 games through rosetta. Max graphics. The only cap is a seemingly frame locked 40fps that I think rosetta has something to do with. Seems to me if that cap were lifted the fps would rocket considering how cool and quiet it was, and this is through emulation not a native arm port.
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