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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 Numerlor »

tremon wrote: post #634
bravetraveler wrote: post #345

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On Ryzen, in particular with their use case (gaming), the fTPM was known to introduce issues. Lag spikes of some sort. I don't remember how or why, but there's a bit of a concert where this is concerned I'm pretty sure it's fine now with updates applied... I went and bought a discrete one since my platform was in a weird middle ground. New but not integrated

I thought every TPM has issues like that, because interaction with the TPM puts the CPU in System Management Mode to prevent the OS/application from performing timing attacks against the TPM. Or does that only apply to TPM 1.2?

I don't think there's any issues with TPM on recent CPUs/firmware, but people often misattribute random stutters from things like a bad over clocks to TPM. The old amd TPM stutters made games basically unplayable because it happened continuously

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Post by tekknik »

the__alchemist wrote: post #520
atemerev wrote: post #289

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And half of software engineers (the other half have Linux laptops). I only use Windows as a game launcher (and I’m still on Windows 10), I don’t understand why anyone would need it anymore except games.

Here are some thoughts: #1: Apple locks you into their ecosystem, and feels even creepier than MS. #2: The Linux distros I've used are designed in a way so you shouldn't have to use the CLI and sudo for normal tasks, but you end up having to anyway in practice. It's a combination of annoying, and I, sooner-or-later, end up in a state where the system is "totaled"; easier to do a clean install than get it working agai…

How, on macOS, does apple lock you into their ecosystem when you can run whatever you want?

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Post by tekknik »

hnbad wrote: post #637
docmars wrote: post #545

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Why would engineers need to use the same OS platform as the designers? Most designers use Figma these days, which has clients for Windows and macOS, and can be used fully in a web browser as well.

Figma's valuation is a fragment of that of Adobe. Saying most designers use Figma is as distorted as saying most designers use macOS, even if both things may be true in a specific niche (e.g. tech companies in the US). In my experience of the rise of macOS among developers, the biggest driving force was mobile app development and mobile web development because Apple refused to provide first party developer tools or e…

No, developers flocked to macOS because it runs unix and has a complete and nice looking UI with sensible design patterns designed by an actual designer instead of an engineer.

Development across the board is better on a mac for some / many people.

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Post by ZunarJ5 »

wishfish wrote: post #566
ZunarJ5 wrote: post #444

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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,…

Thank you!!!

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Post by hot_gril »

gary_0 wrote: post #541
hot_gril wrote: post #258

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Windows is like Carthage right after it got burned and its earth got salted, if that actually happened.

Fenestrae delenda est.

Omnia systema in tres partes divisa est... Fenestrae, Linos, Pomum

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Post by helpfulContrib »

alexruf wrote: post #375
helpfulContrib wrote: post #325

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MacOS is not without its issues - the delays in application launch while it checks Apples whitelist for apps you've installed on your own machine, yourself, are pretty obnoxious.

What delay are you talking about? I never encountered such issues. Apps are launching extremely fast. With an ARM Mac almost instantly. But maybe it’s just an issue if you are using the App Store variants of those apps. I don’t have experience in that. I am using zero apps from the App Store.

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Post by docmars »

hnbad wrote: post #637
docmars wrote: post #545

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Why would engineers need to use the same OS platform as the designers? Most designers use Figma these days, which has clients for Windows and macOS, and can be used fully in a web browser as well.

Figma's valuation is a fragment of that of Adobe. Saying most designers use Figma is as distorted as saying most designers use macOS, even if both things may be true in a specific niche (e.g. tech companies in the US). In my experience of the rise of macOS among developers, the biggest driving force was mobile app development and mobile web development because Apple refused to provide first party developer tools or e…

I think that's a fair take, it really does depend on which platform(s) you're developing for too.

And you're probably correct that Adobe has a larger share overall, but I would highly doubt that Illustrator or XD are being used more than Figma for UI design these days. Even less so, Photoshop, since it's a raster tool. Adobe was about ready to phase out XD when they were getting ready to purchase Figma.

Figma is free starting off, and their basic plans are extremely affordable compared to anything Adobe offers.

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Post by navjack27 »

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

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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.

I completely agree. Removing vital parts of the Windows subsystem just leads to unintended consequences.

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Post by navjack27 »

DrSiemer wrote: post #276
bongodongobob wrote: post #216

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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.

Leave it alone? It's unnecessary bloatware, that performs absolutely zero required functionality. It's continuous prominent presence in the _always_ visible part of the file tree on the left of _every_ explorer window is a constant reminder that what used to be my favorite OS is now user hostile. At least in Europe it did get a proper uninstall a while ago, which proves that it really was just there for promotion. I'…

Unnecessary bloatware? Bloatware really? What does it bloat? You can make all of these things disappear without removing them from Windows itself. You also have to remember that an inaction is an action. Ignoring a pop-up or not reading something and then just clicking x doesn't equal this thing will not bother me anymore. You can make the weather snippet widget thing just not be there anymore and it's not hard. I have more than just edge installed for my browser and I could switch between them even though I favor edge and use edge as my default browser. Cortana hasn't showed itself on my computer for... I have no idea how long and that's just because I went through every setting and read everything... No group policy changes, no registry hacks, just using Windows. If you are on professional or higher of windows then you could just pause updates over and over and over. If an update is waiting then go into Windows update in the settings and click pause and then it doesn't install it. I've postponed updating since January because I'm on an insider build that has a known blocker where it can't be updated from.

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Post by pompino »

viraptor wrote: post #589
pompino wrote: post #561

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>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).…

>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.

Sure, but I can install s/w built for Windows XP into Windows 11 and it will just run 20 years later w/o modification - And I can do this with a large amount of commercial software, so its not a special case example which you can demonstrate on any OS. Simply not possible on any other desktop OS. Even if you have the source (which you won't for commercial s/w), its not just a simple recompile after 20 years.

>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

Static linking glibc.. yeah. :)

>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")

Yet another "standard" that ultimately will fracture the deployment of software. These are just buggy half-baked standards anyway. Vendor releases 32bit AppImage and goes out of business, it stops working on 64bit OS.

I don't think you guys really get the insane backwards compatibility effort that Microsoft does to help keep line of business applications running.

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