Notepad isn’t safe from AI.
  • Zink@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Is nothing sacred?

    At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).

    And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.

      • WagnasT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        7 hours ago

        not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It’s really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 hours ago

          How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
          Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/

          • Balder@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I don’t have experience with it, but I’m sure it’s possible to pass the GPU control to the VM, I don’t know how well this sort of thing works.

            I think in general, VMWare is the best at working for Windows images.

          • WagnasT@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            nyan answered your question, I just want to add that older photoshop allegedly runs well in wine and for me personally i’ve had a lot of success with photopea although I’m a terrible example because I don’t do much with it.

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            5·
            6 hours ago

            It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn’t free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.

            • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Thanks, that doesnt fill me with a lot of hope, but thats why i have dual boot set up with linux (mint) as main os. Ill try wine regarfless before going to windows though

    • Eagle0110@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Love Kate on Linux, but is it just me that Kate on Windows is extremely slow to open compares to literally everything, even Sublime? My system has i7-12800HX and everything is installed on gen 4 NVMe SSDs so specs shouldn’t be an issue.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        KWrite hasn’t been released by KDE on the Windows app store, Kate has. Using the app store means seamless updates in the background.

        Maybe KWrite is available on winget which would make it a bit less inconvenient than manually downloading each update.

        Edit: KWrite isn’t available on winget

        C:\> winget search kwrite

        No package found matching input criteria.

  • Tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    483·
    13 hours ago

    Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

    Keep going M$! You’re the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    11 hours ago

    Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That’s why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      11 hours ago

      Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

      The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    I will only use this if it uses Clippy’s animations.

    Thats… what this is, right?

    Clippy 3.0?

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    310·
    11 hours ago

    When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):

    net stop usosvc
sc config usosvc start=disabled
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled

    … be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.

    Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that…)

    Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.

    • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      Those are update services. Upgrading your os is a basic security measure nowadays. You recommend to sacrifice some security because of a minor inconvenience. It’s alright if you can live with that tradeoff, but please don’t recommend it on the internet. Windows assumes a user is not knowledgeable enough about this topic, so it’s enabled for them.

      Other hint, because it seems you are also not very knowledgeable about this topic, usually you can disable these things with group policies if you really want to, so you don’t have to run it after each boot. Or you can also set up a scheduled task or create a service with nssm.