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This is just simply untrue. Go to System Settings, General, Software Update, then click on the "i" next to Automatic. Turn off "Check for updates".
Your suggestion doesn't solve the problem. I want to know about updates without being forced to install them to avoid being badgered. AFAIK that's not possible.
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Cause it's not fun having to reboot every time you want to run a Windows program, especially if it means dealing with Windows nagging.
It's actually a pretty good thing to compartmentalize your computer. I use it to reduce procrastination. Put all your fun things on one OS (or user account), and all your business stuff on another (possibly blocking distractions via hosts or firewall rules); and you've added a bunch of friction to switching from work to play. Not that it can't be done, but it needs to be a deliberate choice and you can't just bounce…
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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? :)
People need to get over the in OS ads. They’re easily removable honestly. Personally I’ve never seen windows look this good in years. The whole system shell looks really good and well designed these days. On top of that the included features like wsl2 and hyperv are great.
And you need to get bent. Pardon my French, but someone had to say it and you needed to hear it.
I can't even remove 'Recommended' from the start menu, not even on a Pro for Workstations. Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable? I install Edge Beta to test something, and the I uninstall it. All of the sudden my search provider in my normal Edge is reset. And the nagging everywhere. No I don't want 'back-up' my files (OneDrive is not backup, it's…
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But with the terminal you still have to learn commands, it's not as discoverable as the windows 95 environment. There you could do things as a noob by just looking around and after a while you could do things without even thinking. Every windows version after that has broken that flow in some way. In Linux I keep forgetting what file to edit to get what I want. I need to look up location and syntax for most things ev…
I like to describe the shell and commands as a big dashboard with many levers and indicators compared to a much simpler one with just a small bunch of ON-OFF switches. They're indeed complicated, until the day you need to change something that isn't on the simple panel, or isn't a simple ON-OFF choice, because every operating system is complicated; you can hide some of its complexity behind a graphical interface, but…
You can scroll, use pages, tabs, nested menus, guided wizards, Chrome or VS code style searchable settings lists, buttons which appear or disappear dynamically when necessary.
> where on Windows for years (I have no experience with its new shells) many people would have to load Office, import the text, write a macro, and export back the text.
If you can assume office, why can’t you assume gvim or any other text editor with a gui? And why is text editing your yardstick? At least you can do that with a gui somehow, image processing you can’t do with a cli - yes you can write the code for ffmpeg or graphviz but you can’t see the result without a graphic interface.
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To be fair, Linux configuration is not exactly straightforward in comparison to Windows. Dozens of obscure config files (each with a different syntax), stored in various random places in the filesystem, with the general expectation that every user should be able to run a terminal command once in a while to fix something. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Linux lover and user, but from an outside perspective Windows registry…
> stored in various random places in the filesystem What config files have you found outside of `/etc` and `~/.config`?
[1] https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/8596/warning...
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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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This is just simply untrue. Go to System Settings, General, Software Update, then click on the "i" next to Automatic. Turn off "Check for updates".
Your suggestion doesn't solve the problem. I want to know about updates without being forced to install them to avoid being badgered. AFAIK that's not possible.
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I would need to check if it’s the DE or which, but I’ve played a good bit of AoE2 on Linux through proton about two years ago without any issues. It was whatever version was recommended by the AoE2 YouTubers, not sure if that was DE. The only problems I’ve had are that the intro video and menu for supreme commander forged alliance runs at very low frame rate (but the actual game runs without problems), and that Gothi…
Probably DE. Singleplayer is fine, multiplayer desyncs.