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Glad that they specified WindyPlop11. Linux wins in every branch of every one its splendid variations
If they were actively trying to push people towards Linux, would their choices look any different? Perplexing.
IMO they'd be wise to take every step they can to make the OS feel like it belongs to the user, but more and more the attitude seems to be "it's our OS, so we do what we want" which is their right, but it's shit marketting that makes them feel more like Apple every day.
Good for them. Chrome needs a corporate competitor, and the recent lawsuits that (I think) prevent Google from giving FireFox hundred million dollar bribes might lead to a diminished product.
If my school didn't absolutely require windows I would be fully Linux at this point.
I do have a few other pet peewees too for Linux, despite having that on my ThinkPad.
default, and how exactly, just found a massive issue with Evdev, etc.).Honestly (and probably naïvely), what exactly is it that Windows can do that you couldn't do on another OS? Why would a school need to force such a retarded requirement?
Ease of management and surveillance (most such tools marketed at schools are Windows only), first class integration into active directory for user and computer account management, hardware agnostic (rules out macos), and it's already integrated into the IT team's systems and processes so switching would be a major effort.
Run kernel level anticheat like EA Javelin.
I assume there's an implicit /s here 😅
Its sometimes fun to watch this drama from the otherside. Windows is 'that other OS' for me now. I was switching between Linux and Windows a while ago, and made a permanant switch around 2021-ish (I think). I only use Windows at work as I don't have a choice, and in certain instances where I'm forced to use a Windows device e.g. for online exams, etc..
That's me too. Every time someone tells me that windows pulled off another shit move, all I can do is laugh at how they choose to deal with that and keep getting fucked.
Funnily enough I actually have Firefox open by default whenever I boot up my PC.
I have no taskbar or desktop items. I always default to a specific workflow of pressing the windows key (or whatever we call it for Linux), and searching for everything. I have since early windows 10.
I realised that 90% of the time, I was opening Firefox, so now it just opens. I have a pretty minimal toolbar setup for it, so it's basically just an address bar that automatically focuses when I start typing.
One day I'll set up something where I have multiple search hotkeys for web search, file search, application search, music etc, that will sort of replace this.
@echo off
timeout /t 60 /nobreak >nul
tasklist /fi "imagename eq msedge.exe" | find /i "msedge.exe" >nul
if not errorlevel 1 (
taskkill /f /im msedge.exe >nul 2>&1
)
exit
My first thought was Power Automate, the same thing is probably pretty easily doable with it.
Ye olde active desktop for you noobs
I dual boot Linux with windows 10 for more than 10 years now, networking from windows is just unacceptable for me, on Linux you can also add any games that you want, if Adobe wouldn't keep resisting I would be totally free of Windows! They were always trash
At this point I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is paying Adobe to not work on Linux. For most people I know, Adobe is the main reason for not switching.
Maybe you can try Adobe through CrossOver Linux's demo and see if it works? They contribute lots of work towards Wine, but also sell a more 'hacky' commercial software that isn't as strict about how it does stuff.
After switching to Linux, I will try out their software and decide whether to buy a lifetime license.
I ll check it out for sure, thanx!
I recommend FOSS alternatives to Adobe's garbage. GIMP for a photoshop alternative. Krita for digital art. Inkscape for an Illustrator alternative. Ruffle for the Flash Player Standalone Client. So on and so forth.
Mypaint and Krita are favorite programs that I use daily, but still I can't import those photoshop brushes I accumulated over the years in Krita, the last time I tried the program didn't load anything.
Mint guy here, since 6 months ago, best choice I have done. If you make some research, in few time you realiese you do not need Microsoft to live in the majority of the cases.
I have an idea. Linux should start automatically everytime you boot you PC.
When I bought a new gaming PC a few weeks ago (where I live the pre-builts that were assembled before rampocalypse are still at a reasonable price until the stock runs out), I asked if I could get it cheaper without the Windows 11 license. The sales guy said, "well, it's already installed." I told him, "I'm literally going to take it home and wipe it for Bazzite." He said, "good call, but seriously, they're practically giving these licenses away, so even if we could it would only take like $20 off the purchase price."
Kind of a bummer to waste that $20, but honestly the satisfaction of hitting "reformat" on a brand new, slop-infused, bloatware-infested, data-harvesting-ready SSD and watching it all vanish before I even used it was almost worth the money.
EDIT: Not to mention, I got back a significant amount of space. 15+ GB.
How is Bazzite these days for gaming? I mostly use my steam deck these days and my desktop still has windows but I’m always interested if I should make that swap
I honestly feel like I'm doing Linux wrong, because with one exception it's been seamless. No driver issues, no framerate problems, no game compatibility problems for anything I play. I thought I was having issues with Bluetooth dropping randomly, but I've tracked that down to a hardware issue with the antenna.
The exception is that my Wi-Fi chipset has a bad driver that I think causes it to sleep after every packet, meaning that my Wi-Fi speeds are so slow that a speed test times out. This isn't an issue for me because I was planning to be hardwired anyway, but if you're going to put it on a mobile device you should check your Wi-Fi hardware; I think a fix is coming soon, though.
In fairness, I'm not a cutting edge guy (I mostly play stuff a few years after it's released, patient gamers style) and I don't play many games that have any kind of anti-cheat. But I regularly get three-digit framerates on highest graphics settings.
Same. When bought a new laptop recently, I didn't give a single chance for Windows to run. The first time I launched it was with Arch installation flash drive plugged in.
I ran windows on my new build (it was cheaper to get someone else to build it than to buy the same exact parts myself 😩) just to make sure everything works and my god, I could barely get past the setup before getting annoyed. Linux is just waaaay easier to deal with, even with having to troubleshoot driver installs. Windows is set up now to where you can’t really do anything to your own computer.
Some senior VP obviously has his annual performance bonus tied to increasing Edge market share, and is pulling shit like this to artificially inflate the numbers.
Ditto for Bing, Copilot, etc.
I honestly might switch to Linux. I know people say that a lot, but gaming has been the only thing keeping me on Windows.
But I've also come to realize I just don't have that much free time to game any more. Most of my computer use is putting YouTube on in the background or web browsing. I still occasionally game, but Linux support keeps improving and even if I only pick Linux supported games... I still won't have enough time to play them all.
I've been gaming on Linux for over ten years now: It has gotten to the point where the only major hurdle is kernel-level anti-cheat. Which does work in Linux, but the developer has to enable it to work in Linux, and most don't. This is only a factor in competitive multiplayer games. I'm not into those so basically I haven't noticed, I want to run a game, it runs.