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Try Manjaro with KDE. Manjaro is way better than Ubuntu; KDE is way better than Xfce.
Try debian with i3. Debian is way better than Manjaro; i3 is way better than KDE.
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Windows needs a change in priorities
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#842Like every Windows user, I have had a lot of frustrating experiences with the abusive behavior and dark patterns that have taken over the platform. Like when they started having Skype silently run in the background logged in with the user's Microsoft account without any notice or human intervention, and removed the setting to disable it from launching at startup so that it couldn't be prevented. I had to completely u…
As far as the Skype thing is concerned, isn't that the exact thing they got sued for with Explorer for in the 90's?... or somewhat similar?
It is, as is the embedding of Edge as a default browser. The attitude seems to be that it doesn't matter anymore or that it's worth doing even if they do get in trouble.
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Just checked VS subscription page and didn't find it, maybe it's kinda hidden? I'm chatting with a sales representative regarding this.
The Visual Studio web site is impossible to decode. I think this is the page: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/#software-a... Basically they give you every version of Windows so you can test your code. So 10 LTSC is in there. I run it in my VMs because it uses so little memory and CPU compared to the regular one. I don't know which flavor of subscription you need to get it. I got my sub free as an MVP…
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#844This made me feel a lot of schadenfreude and also made me feel better about the “Upgrade to MacOS Monterey” notification on my incompatible Mac.
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#845Yeah, ads are annoying, sort of like someone taking a feather and tickling the back of your neck every few minutes. As for the inconsistencies, haven't really noticed and don't really care. If enough people make noise, someone may get a bug up their xxx and do something about it. The main game I play is on Windows, so windows it is. I get enough programming at work that I don't really want to do it at home anymore (and I'm on Linux / UNIX at work).
A lot of what we are seeing is most likely due to Microsoft's eventual transition to Windows as a subscription. I suspect that's inevitable. As long as I can play my games and read my gmail ... meh.
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I still miss Firefox's "View Image" context menu option. There is no suitable replacement. No, I do not want to open the image in a new tab. No, I do not want to use some janky extension that re-implements it but places the option at the very bottom of the context menu.
What did "View Image" do? I only know "Open Image in new Tab"
Left clicking on "View Image" would open it in the current tab, Middle clicking on it would open it in a new tab. I used both options regularly.
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Yes, useful and destructive/fatal configuration should be separated. If you have to remove a load-bearing pillar to install a light-switch, the design is poor, to say the least.
There are two separate levels - root access - doesn’t disable SIP - Disabling SIP requires you to go through many contortions. People didn’t need to disable SIP to install Chrome. They were doing it for other reasons.
Yes, and those reasons are why I mentioned poor design.
This morning I was reminded, my work Mac has a dozen daemons trying to contact things I don't want, such as icloud, itunes, google, etc. A fraction of these are ostensibly useful, but I had to resort to Little Snitch to block them because the OS is read-only, i.e. insanity.
Even the user-hostile mess of Windows allows me to turn off the worse services... although even that is dwindling.
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#848Yeah, I switch to Linux as my main OS about a month after Windows 8.0 was released. I definitely didn't like the direction Microsoft seemed to be taking. I now run MX Linux and have a Windows 10 VM (with GPU pass through)for the games that won't run under Linux and for the occasional photo editing session (I really dislike Gimp!). Linux has had way fewer issues for me than the recent chain of Windows releases.
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What is wrong with Linux nowadays? I've used it as my main driver for long enough that I can't see the big problems that are preventing everyone from switching. Like, it seems easier than even WSL to me. Beginner friendly distos seem to have solved the package management problem, and there are adequate desktop environments, office suites, browsers, gaming, and everything else. If a person has good hardware compatibil…
>What is wrong with Linux nowadays? Linux is great for doing things on your own. Where it fails is when you have to sync up with other people's proprietary norms. For example, I'm a researcher who gets funding from the US government. I can do my day-to-day technical work in Linux. But I'm forced to still use Windows to present PowerPoint slides over Teams to my funding overlords, because that's what they use, and I h…
Can you use the online version of PowerPoint and Teams? If not, what is causing the issues?