For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait

Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???

  • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Classic microsoft move.

    Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.

    I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It’s honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Great, I play a lot on it and the only game I had to use windows for so far was titanfall 2 because it kept stuttering on linux and troubleshooting stutter is hard.

        • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          In my experience, much of the studdering comes from the desktop environments. If you’re using Gnome, try KDE or one of the others. If it changes then it’s probably the Compositor settings. It’s a pain but once you find the right settings, oh yeah it’s great

          • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Thanks, I use KDE on X already (thank you nvidia) and find gnome’s design absolutely asinine, so I’ll try to fiddle around with the compositor settings.

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    really looking forward to getting another SSD and just installing linux on it so I don’t have to deal with that kind of bullshit anymore. The bullshit I will be dealing with will not be privacy related, just compatibility related.

    • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s probably the best way to try it. First get comfy and still have a fallback solution if you don’t like it.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is it hard to get two monitors running on Arch w/ i3wm? I can’t really read another bullshit thing about microsoft again and thats all I am worried about for the switch.

    • rasensprenger@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hey, I used to use that before switching to sway a few years ago. It isn’t hard at all: There is not a single line in my config concerned with monitors, it just works by default.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Windows, on my work computer, decided Monday morning was a good time to turn my default pdf reader to Microsoft Edging. Turns out you can’t delete Edging from add or remove programs.

    • RandomPancake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I use Linux for my daily driver. It has really come a long way even in the last five years, but especially compared to 10-15 years ago. For the most part, stuff just works out of the box.

      My ONLY beef is that many of the games I play (Civ 5, Banished, Sins of a Solar Empire, Frostpunk) are not stable and/or have performance issues under Linux, so I occasionally need to boot into Windows. For example Civ 5 works great until around 20 turns in when the lag between turns grows unbearable. That really sucks in multiplayer.

      • theonyltruemupf@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I am so blessed that all the games I want to play run great or at least fine on Linux. I wouldn’t want to have to go back to Windows.

  • HerrKai@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As someone running a windows 10 update right now that I procrastinated to let install I am now having a bad day already. Can’t wait for this to happen to my pc!