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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 lelanthran »

epolanski wrote: post #398
stavros wrote: post #349

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I find it curious that you say things like "Docker runs better on Windows" but also "MacOS is worse than Linux for development". It reads like you think you have two choices Windows or MacOS, and that it's very unfortunate that they're both worse than Linux. Why isn't Linux one of the options? And yes, Docker and most other development works better on Linux than any other OS.

> Why isn't Linux one of the options? Because WSL 2 satisfies all my Linux needs, and yes, it runs Docker perfectly and Windows is a better desktop OS, with more tools and software. I used to run mint, ubuntu and some others up to Windows 10 I never considered a productive machine on my desktop but this has changed during the last years and Windows is an incredibly productive machine for software development. Anyway…

> Windows is a better desktop OS, with more tools and software.

What tools are you using on Windows specifically? Visual Studio, maybe?

I only ask because, other than workflow-specific tooling (Photoshop, etc), no one is creating non-Electron GUIs anymore, and with non-GUIs Windows used to be far behind for Windows-specific software.

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

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Post by lelanthran »

bongodongobob wrote: post #217
slicktux wrote: post #155

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You’re the ideal windows user…whatever that may be??

It's not fucking with core components that aren't supposed to be fucked with.

> It's not fucking with core components that aren't supposed to be fucked with.

I suppose the problem for many people is that advertisements are now "core components", when they really shouldn't be.

First-party upsells are now core components when they shouldn't be.

Third-party resellers are now core components when they shouldn't be.

Look, I get it: minesweeper is no longer free, and I'm okay with that. But FCOL, now the start button is ad-supported?

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

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Post by bigboy12 »

silverquiet wrote: post #10

About a year ago I dumped Windows from my personal PC for good. I ran a Linux desktop at work for a decade, but my Steam collection get me with at least a bit of a tether to Microsoft. But Valve finally made Linux gaming a reality. I hope more people can make the switch someday because I'm quite happy with the system (Pop!_OS is my distro of choice these days).

Why in gods name would I use windows in the first place!! 40 years of patch Tuesdays?? Get a Mac.

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

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Post by jjav »

Hikikomori wrote: post #456
Zambyte wrote: post #429

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Windows is free unless you value your time... or your money

You just use Mac or Linux without changing anything?

> You just use Mac or Linux without changing anything?

Mac, no. It's almost as bad as windows in terms of having to chase perpetual change for no reason.

Linux though? Absolutely. Nothing changes unless I want it to change. Here's an admittedly extreme, but very real example: I build my parents a simplified Linux desktop setup ca.1996 (neither had any computer experience so wanted to keep it very simple).

Today ~28 years later, my remaining parent is using the exact same setup. The last thing you want to impose on a 95 year old with fading vision is an interface change. So it is exactly what it was in 1996. Through several hardware replacements, countless updates and even distro changes, it is still exactly the same.

This is what user-friendly means. I, the user, own the experience. Neither microsoft nor apple are able to respect that.

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

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Post by tryptophan »

creshal wrote: post #543
patrakov wrote: post #460

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Raiffeisen in Russia let one do everything in a browser on Linux since 2008 for personal accounts. Possibly earlier, I did not have an account with them back then. For business accounts, it's since February 2016.

Raiffeisen is a generic name used by several semi-independent groups of banks.

Raiffeisen is european for credit union.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

MacrohardDoors wrote: post #497

I followed tutorials to remove the search using the internet. Three days later the computer rebooted and had undone all my fixes and now search was back to using the web! Definitely never felt like MY system. It feels like a creepy corporation changing my settings. Which is exactly what it does. Another three days later, Recall was announced. Three days later, I wiped Windows from all my computers. All going well for…

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

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Post by Derbasti »

mihular wrote: post #255
Derbasti wrote: post #215

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Photo editing is my last holdout. And a European-compatible banking software. Everything else works well on Linux. Gaming included. I've run Linux many years, in fact. But Capture One and Lightroom are not available over there, which is what draws me back to MacOS. Of course I could just use darktable. Have done that for several years. But at the end of the day, I just prefer Capture One, and that's enough reason for…

What banking software do you mean? For home use? Isn't browser based good enough?

A good, HBCI capable software that can list transactions and make transfers from and to multiple banks. Think Quicken or MoneyMoney.

The browser will only ever log in to one bank per tab, and with different UI per bank. If you have more than one bank, it becomes a hassle quite quickly.

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

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Post by pndy »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #486
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…

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 )

Author says what I'm repeating since day one when GDPR and these so-called banner with "preferences" were introduced: this should be handled by the browsers.

The idea was good but the interpretation and implementation of this law failed - the banners, cookies aren't as permanent and universal as browser sending the header.

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

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Post by viraptor »

pompino wrote: post #561
viraptor wrote: post #266

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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…

> On Windows I copy a binary and run it w/o giving a crap about the OS updates.

You don't just copy the binary on windows. You copy the binary and its dependencies. Unless it's based on .Net-framework, then yeah, you still care about it being updated through windows.

> Then you can't have those dependencies managed by a package manager, which means you'll constantly be compiling (and dealing with conflicts yourself).

That's not right. You don't need to use dependencies from the system. If you're compiling yourself, you can either make them static, or use your custom location. In either case, there are no conflicts to deal with.

If you're using whole app packages, then you don't care about system deps at all. Flatpak apps ship their whole environment. AppImage apps do too, just without full isolation. (https://appimage.github.io/apps/ entries are all "download-and-run")

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

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Post by Tao3300 »

zer0zzz wrote: post #579
Tao3300 wrote: post #55

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And you need to get bent. Pardon my French, but someone had to say it and you needed to hear it.

I wonder when the HN police are gonna show up to tell you you’re violating site policy. Any day now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They're always hot on my trail... but between you and me, you want to know what they can do? :)
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