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    I must admit, “Linux becomes the refuge of luddites” was never on any bingo card I could have conceived of for 202X.

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      Huh? Isn’t this about Microsoft changing out a button with a well established use, in order to take advantage of muscle memory and the unobservant?

      Don’t think it’s much to do with people opposing technological advancement, but rather with opposing another company wanting to making a fool of them.

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        More over being a luddite on Linux is like a fish trying to breathe in a public swimming pool; it works until the chlorine poisoning sets in.
        Linux adopts new technology constantly.

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          The difference is that Linux generally adopts new technology because it enhances the user experience in some way, and not because it maximizes ad revenue and telemetry.

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            Yes, but eventually that LTS goes EOL and you’ll have to move from that abandonware.

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                Yes, 10-12y to swim, slowly in-taking chlorine overtime…
                Then when you do finally switch, you find yourself in a similar yet vastly different swimming pool and the cycle starts over.
                Imagine when eventually the LTS goes Wayland only and Luddites go : “I’mma just stay with my abandonware forever.”
                Luddites hate adapting to new technology as a character trait, it’s what makes them a Luddite.
                Luddites will often choose to deal with decrepit, vulnerable, abandonware then change to something new because they don’t want to spend a week learning new “muscle memory”.

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        This is just another gripe about how Microsoft is putting AI into everything. If it’s really just about the position of a button (which apparently can be changed in the settings if you still want it there) it’s even more petty. Certainly not worth posting about on a general technology community.

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          I work in IT, and every time I do an install (sometimes new computers, sometimes not) for someone I see Microsoft’s little News widget they put on the Taskbar, the one that pops up a huge window if you mouse over it. Every time I see that, I ask the person if they ever use it, and they always say no. Then I ask them if they want it gone, and they always say yes, usually with some kind of relief. It’s a matter of two clicks to do it, easier than going into the settings menu like your screenshot, but every computer I haven’t been on previously has it. Now, I’d wonder why Microsoft would put something on the Taskbar that is, in my experience, universally disliked. To me it reeks of the pathetic, groveling, “I’ll suck your dick” energy they have when someone installs Chrome.

          Windows 10 changed a lot over the course of its lifetime, and while some feature are good, like Dark Mode, they’re mostly useless or downright bad. So putting something that most people will never use and will greatly confuse and annoy the average user in a place that has been dedicated to a single function for at the very least Windows 10’s entire lifetime (I think it’s there in 8 and maybe 7 also) for seemingly no reason other than to fuck with people’s muscle memory is just one more move very worthy of griping about, no matter how easy it is for users to turn off. Because 99% of users just won’t, because they aren’t confident enough to go futzing around in the settings. But they’ll still get whatever god awful popup this button shows every time they try to show desktop like they’ve been doing for over a decade. It’s yet another change that nobody asked for, nobody will use, and that the user will have to remember that it’s different now for no reason.

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      The Luddites of Linux are one’s desperately trying to convince people that Xorg is perfectly flawless and that Wayland is vaporware.

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        Why would people you call luddites even care about your opinion really?

        Come back with your Wayland ad when there’s something like CWM or FVWM for it.

        It’s simply functionally inferior now. Calling people luddites won’t change that.

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          Why would people you call luddites even care about your opinion really?

          Literally, YOU right now.
          Also, this is the linux community; everyone has an opinion on everyone else’s opinion.

          Come back with your Wayland ad when there’s something like CWM or FVWM for it.

          LabWC, Enlightenment, Wayfire, Weston, Sway, Hyperland, Vivarium, DWL, Velox, etc.

          It’s simply functionally inferior now.

          It’s functionally superior in many ways, and here’s the real kicker, its actually maintainable and expandable.
          Xorg HDR when? How many decades and still don’t have HDR? LMAO.
          I’m done waiting for Xorg to improve and implement features that simply will never be.

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            Just fyi this isn’t the Linux community. It’s just “technology”.

            Granted on lemmy it’s basically just one big Linux community.

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            Literally, YOU right now.

            I’m improving the community by answering demonstrably stupid opinions. So I don’t care about you in particular.

            Sway, Hyperland, Vivarium, DWL, Velox, etc.

            Wrong.

            Xorg HDR when? How many decades and still don’t have HDR? LMAO.

            I don’t use HDR and I don’t care. Just like you don’t care about what I use.

            its actually maintainable and expandable.

            Yes, I’m sure somewhere 10 years after I’ll use it after it’s been finally expanded to something usable.

            I’m done waiting for Xorg to improve and implement features that simply will never be.

            Too bad

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              I’m improving the community by answering demonstrably stupid opinions

              You answer you’re own opinions? funny.

              Wrong

              CWM : stacking window manger
              LabWC, Enlightenment, Wayfire, Weston, and Sway, etc.

              FVWM : Tab Window Manager
              DWL, Hyprland, Sway again, etc.

              You’re factually disproven.

              I don’t use HDR and I don’t care…
              I’m sure somewhere 10 years after…

              Luddite : one who is opposed to technological change.
              Thanks for proving my point. For further discussion you can TELNET me @ www.megaboomerenergy.com::80

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                This is incomprehensible, you are arguing not having seen once what you are arguing about.

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                  If you want a 1:1 equivalent WM, then you’ll just have to build it yourself scrub.
                  The WMs I listed can already do everything CWM & FVWM can, then some.

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        You people are fucking crazy and will literally find anything to fight about. Normal users don’t care about this sort of shit and it’s the thing that turns people completely off when they inevitably run into a problem with Linux.

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          inevitably run into a problem with Linux

          This has nothing to do with any of kind of Linux problem.
          It’s just Luddites crying because Linux is moving on from outdated flawed software that has a bunch of unfixable problems.
          Same shit happens with windows, my guy. “WHAAAAAAAA MY WINDOWS XP/98 WHAAAAAA”, at least it’s often partially valid for windows…
          Luddites are not exclusive to any particular OS.

          If someone is having a Linux issue, they just need to ask. Literally just ask me, or the vast major of other users, we’ll literally provide better tech support than Windows will ever have.

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          Yeah, I don’t know why they devolve back to tribalism. I just installed the thing and the programs I had to use and just…kept using it since I didn’t want to pirate windows xd. No need to shout to others what’s my favorite fake non Unix distro or anything.

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            This is not tribalism.
            This is people crying because Windows moved from 95 to 98 for comparison.

            Xorg has a plethora of unfixable issues, and people are mad that we can’t & don’t want to stick to it for all eternity, crippling the hell out of Linux growth & innovation.

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      It would mean corporate software support. And while you might still choose FOSS, it means money pouring into Linux—which is always a good thing.

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    I’ve been using Linux since Ubuntu was in the single digits. Looks like windows entering the double digits is finally the end. I thought win10 would be able to stay relatively unmolested, but nope, copilot button and bullshit right there in the bar. Why can’t you just leave us the fuck alone. Your driving everyone away who doesn’t have a professional obligation to use your OS. I’ll still have to keep a old win10 boot drive that never connects to a network so I can play games and use CAD that Linux can’t. As a KDE fanboi they’ve added pretty much everything I’ve always wished for and plasma 6 is launching.

    Now is my time. Fuck you Microsoft. I won’t miss you.

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      10+ years with Linux as my daily driver (yeah I’m old). When my os updates, it’s almost always with some feature that’s pretty neat.

      Nowadays the steamdeck or some combo of Linux with steam can play my games, do my work, and I actively make other people’s lives better when I contribute.

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      I flirted with gnome this install around. I’m so lazy to reinstall yet again to get back to my previous plasma. Seriously Linux is a way better experience these days, I wish those that could would just give it an honest shot. The learning curve isn’t too bad once you understand a couple things.

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        Gnome is awful. It’s almost as bad as windows. Basically 0 customization, and getting worse every release. I can’t even fathom how you would voluntarily switch from plasma to gnome and not immediately switch back

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      Have you tried gaming on Linux lately? You don’t need Windows anymore except if you use GamePass, because MS has locked that software down to Windows. The only problem game I had was The Finals until recently, and it now works on Linux. Besides that the only issue is I can’t mod Baulder’s Gate 1 because it requires injecting things and that doesn’t work with Linux as far as I can figure out. The game runs fine.

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        Yes, and holy shit has it come so far. Unfortunately in the professional world you often just need the native program to open the file. Even just for compatability, but rolling back and/or modifying is only possible within its native software.

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          Would OnShape be an option for you ? I haven’t booted up Windows since I was able to work with OnShape to replace Solidworks. But I just do hobby projects. I didn’t have to worry about compatibility for collaboration.

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        FreeCAD…is getting there. They’re actually heading toward a 1.0 release, and bringing usability and convenience features. I’d say by 2025 it’ll be a better value proposition than the “Free non-commerical use drawbackware” tier offerings from Onshape or Fusion360.

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    Switch to Linux!

    As a Linux user myself, let me tell you that telling people what they should/must do this is how you make people plainly ignore you and think you’re just an annoying person.

    People will keep using what works for them, be it Windows/Linux/MacOS even if with minor inconveniences. Same goes for browsers/services/etc…

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      “Microsoft continually makes their OS worse, but every time they do, Linux users come into the comment section telling me I should switch, so I’m not going to.”

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          True, the biggest sore points of Linux is Windows software support. This probably won’t work for you because you seem to use AutoCAD for work, but for me I was able to just find alternatives to programs that were not available anymore when I switched to Linux.

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        The thing is, is that it really doesn’t affect people in the way you guys seem to imagine.

        I’ve used Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Currently use Windows for work as a C# . net, SQL / GraphQL, and React TypeScript developer and although I was shocked they’re all pro windows, coming from MacOS. Once you get used to it you don’t really notice the shit stuff as you just do what you’re doing.

        I would still rate my experiences in this order though: MacOS, Linux, Windows. Best to worst, but like I said even though in now use the worst in my opinion it really doesn’t have much of an impact. Plus if I were to use Linux I’d need to geek out and waste so much time configuring it and I’m past that stage.

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          I work in healthcate and use windows, at work and at home if I need to do work related stuff. I don’t mind windows at work as it’s been configured for the purpose and all the shitty bits are switched off - something Microsoft let’s it’s business users do. It’s a decent operating system when it’s set up to do what it needs to do, and I’m very familiar with it from using it since Windows 95.

          I used to use windows at home and had Linux for occasional interest. But in the last few years I’ve moved away from windows and now I’m on Linux as my main driver on multiple devices.

          For home users Windows is getting pretty shitty - it steals data all the time with numerous privacy settings you have to set to try and stop it, it tries to force you ads, it tries to force you to use its Web browser, it bundles lots of sponsored apps and when it does a big update it resets alot of your choices on privacy plus reinstalls removed bundle apps. It also throws new “features” at you which take up resources and impact privacy. Like Xbox gaming - I didn’t ask for it, I don’t want it, stop installing it every year and stop forcing an overlay on my own games.

          It’s really a chore to use windows now; it feels like a constant battle to make sure it’s not intruding on your data and privacy or showing you ads. I now use windows as the exception when there is a specific game that doesn’t work in Linux. The rest of the time I boot into Linux, or use a separate work provided Windows device for home working.

          I know it’s probably a case of “who asked” but I guess I just mean I get that windows can be decent for work related stuff (or necessary) but when it comes to personal stuff it’s a bit of a nightmare. And I guess it also comes down to whether the privacy invasion and advertising bothers users. Bothers me a lot, but some people don’t seem to care how the customer has become the product.

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            Most people don’t care because most of your problems are all privacy related. And that’s what Linux people don’t seem to get. They rant and rave about how much better Linux is… for privacy. But the average Joe doesn’t know or care that data is being collected and for the most part it doesn’t affect them. It’s just some Boogeyman being thrown at them. What they care about is ease of use and convience. They don’t dig into those details because, for the most part, they’re not even aware.

            When Linux people say it’s a “better experience”, they largely mean detailed customization and more privacy.

            When Windows people say it’s a “better experience”, they mostly mean that it’s the same relatively easy to use experience on every device and it Just Works®.

            They’re both right. But each side argues their side of the conversation not seeing that the other side has a perfectly justified use case for theirs. It’s like arguing that everyone should drive a van and not understanding why someone might not want one.

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        People don’t switch just because of some minor inconvenience (as if Linux didn’t have any) and outside of Lemmy/the Fediverse echo chamber very few people are concerned about privacy. They will switch (maybe) if the new tool works better for them than tge previous tool. Otherwise, why should they bother. Linux is my primary OS since many years, but it isn’t everybody’s cup of tea.

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        I for one enjoy salty Microsoft tears, just makes me feel better with my choice completely ditching them.

        Keep 'em coming.

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      Exactly. As a musician many paid music plugins simply don’t work on Linux because of all the installers attached to them. Also, I design with the Adobe suite for my work, also not viable on Linux (I believe?). I would love to use Linux, but for my needs it’s simply a no go.This is what annoys me about all the “just use linux” comments. There are usecases where it’s simply not an option.

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      I’m gonna keep eating unhealthy food in large quantities, nobody should tell me what to do or what works for me…

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        Hey, just keep doing whatever you want. Just rest assured that virtually everybody is going to plainly and silently ignore you.

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        This is the problem with Linux. People that know how to use a PC and are not tech illiterate still can’t use it very well. Just the fact that you offered means you know they are probably having some issues.

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          I know how to use a PC and I am tech literate and I can use Linux just fine so I don’t get what your point is.

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            I have used Linux off and on for almost 20 years.

            I install it, see if I can do everything I want.

            Get lost in terminal hell.

            Give up and uninstall it.

            Until I can browse to a webpage, download a program and click on an icon and have it install and work, the OS is shit for the general user. It’s not that fucking difficult of a concept.

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              I mean, for most distros you should be about to install and use the OS without touching the terminal. Yeah, you may want to use it for some things (idk what you were trying to do) but it’s kind of the same thing in Windows with registry edits and such. It’s a tool and if you don’t know how to use it, you’re probably gonna get lost.

              Also how is it easier to go to a webpage to download an installer instead of using a store? Even microsoft is trying to move in that direction.

              I don’t want to say your experience is invalid because I definitely think Linux can improve in terms of user experience. But it’s not very helpful to just complain about stuff vaguely.

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              You’re right. It’s not that difficult of a concept and luckily Linux works just like that. I will admit that Linux wasn’t always user friendly but it’s made leaps and bounds in that department. A bit less than a year ago, I decided one day to wipe my SSD completely and install Linux and I’ve been using it ever since. I’m doing everything I was doing for. Obviously this is going to depend on your specific needs but for me it’s been just fine.

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                No it doesn’t.

                My last attempt was six months ago. Still had a few key programs in a tarball. Dow

                Then there’s always the random hardware incompatibility. This last attempt it decided to flip the screen upside down on my laptop screen. Fun times…

                It’s come a long way, but for the average user, it’s not anywhere near polished enough.

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              The issue you’re having is it sounds like you don’t understand package managers. On your phone you go through the Play store or Apple store, and they manage your apps and keep them updated. It’s the same for Linux. You download and install things through the package manager (using the terminal or through the Discover application, assuming your distro has that). On Windows you go to a website and download an application, and that application has to keep track of updating itself. It has to check online for updates every time it launches and then ask you to download and install it then. Package managers are much more convenient. It may take a minute to get used to, but it’s better once you do.

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          This is the problem with Windows. People that know how to use a PC and are not tech illiterate still can’t use it very well.

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            That’s not a problem with windows it’s a feature. Even the barely tech literate people can use it to bumble their way through to get the job done, eventually.

            They don’t use it well but they still use it. They also rarely break it anymore.

            Those of us who worked with these people with win 98 and XP… Shudder. They ways they screwed up the system was truly remarkable at times.

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          I’m extremely technically literate, build my own PCs and write my own software tools.

          I don’t use Linux at home because I don’t want to fiddle. I want to sit down, open steam, and play a game.

          I use Linux for many things, but my personal computer uses windows because it just works all the time.

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        Twitter sent me to Mastodon. Reddit sent me to Lemmy. Windows has sent me to Linux. These things are basically promoting the better versions of themselves by becoming shittier versions of themselves.

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          Same here. But I had always been on Linux since I was a kid because Ubuntu (Gnome 2 days) was very pretty compared to Windows XP to me.

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      How much searching did you have to do? Be honest. Ever try to mount a network share permanently yet?

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        As someone on Manjaro for over a year, I did have a few searches, but they were rare and mostly related to obscure things I needed.

        Not even close to the “search a fix every 10 minutes” experience I was promised.

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        No searching at all. I got a new computer last month.

        1. Install open-ssh server on the old computer
        2. Copy the IP address of the old computer
        3. Paste it into Dolphin
        4. Copy paste everything
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          And how would a new user know to find this specific app in the repo? Have you ever actually searched “how to permanently mount a network dive in Linux”? I didn’t see a single one saying dolphin.

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            I don’t know how to mount a network drive in Windows. So what’s your point?

            btw I just searched how to do it in KDE. First result is a Reddit thread explaining how to do it in Dolphin.

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        I did, and it was fairly straightforward according to the documentation I found. This was a couple of years ago but I’m pretty sure I needed to figure out how to use nano, then type some magic words into fstab along with the IP and password, and I haven’t had to mess with it ever since.

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    … You guys might shit on it, but that’s incredibly smart on their part. Ten years or more of that button being there and now suddenly something else replaces it, just imagine the amount of people accidentally hitting the button and being introduced to copilot. This was a very deliberate change.

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    You can still re-enable it in the taskbar settings. Personally I like asking an AI to do stuff, so I like the Copilot icon in my taskbar, BUT NOT ON THE FREAKING BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER GODDAMMIT THAT’S FOR LIKE NOTIFICATIONS
    AND NOW NOTIFICATIONS GO OVER COPILOT BUT NOT QUICK SETTINGS FOR SOME REASON AND IF YOU BRING UP QUICK SETTINGS IT SHIFTS TO THE LEFT AND HIDES NOTIFICATIONS??
    at least I won’t accidentally hide my desktop while clicking copilot in a place where it shouldn’t have been
    except oh no signing in to unlock copilot doesn’t even fucking work

    time to grind on my giant arch migration checklist and hunt for a good foobar2000 alternative which i’ll likely never finish

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      For a Foobar2000 alternative have you seen Deadbeef . It doesn’t replace everything but has the same sort of modular interface.

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        I’ve actually asked about alternatives in the EndeavourOS forum and talked about it there:

        I just found out about DeaDBeeF. Unfortunately, it’s not what I’ll be using.
        It is quite a one-to-one match to foobar2000! It has the same modularity and customization. However, the plugin ecosystem is nowhere as big. There’s no Coverflow plugin.
        And there was a lyrics plugin, forked after an earlier plugin stopped development. However, the developer quit after decreasing passion coincided with the DeadBeeF developer removing the already finished Russian translation in the wake of the Russian war for whatever reason. Needless to say, I am not comfortable with it both feature-wise and ethics-wise.

        Strawberry and all Clementine (or should I say, Amarok?)-likes don’t strike my fancies. They seem to be in pretty good hands, but I just don’t like the side-tab layout (plus the aforementioned problem with lyrics). Amarok seems to have switched their design, and since I plan on using KDE either way, if the usage is good enough and I can’t find anything better, I’ll either use Amarok or Sayonara, which also seems promising.

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      For me, there are 2 on the top left and too right of the start menu pop up and they don’t even look the same. Whoever is in charge of UI/UX needs to be shot. Holy shit. Windows just feels like a taped together heap of shit. The competition is way better.

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        Holy shit. Windows just feels like a taped together heap of shit.

        I thought that was pretty much an open secret since Windows ME. As a begrudging Windows user who loves Linux infinitely more, my impression has been that they’re just dialing that shit to 11 (hah) while they complete their transition to being the high-margin SAAS empire known as AzureCopilotGithubOfficeGamepassSoft. I kind of doubt that Windows revenue is even worth labeling on their pie charts anymore.

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          It felt less taped together (in the UI sense, anyway) before Windows 8, honestly. Mainly because they didn’t do semiannual or annual (or whatever the schedule is now) feature updates.

          Windows 8 was… Windows 8.

          Windows 10 never felt finished, especially whenever they shifted the UI design between updates. Some things would follow the new look, while others wouldn’t.

          And now they’re repeating that with Windows 11.

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            Windows 7 was alright, except for nearly every aspect of its 64-bit infrastructure. But it was also basically a $100 patch for Vista that took 2.5 years to make so they could put that house fire in their rear view mirror while there were still people inside. Oh, and probably to fuck up government work for the better part of a decade.

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    Just once I would love to open one of these threads without seeing people shitting… on Linux.

    Linux is not even the one doing anything wrong but people gotta rag on whoever recommends it as an alternative. This is getting more annoying than however annoying they say Linux users are.

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        I don’t think this meme applies here. The person who’s mad isn’t the one using Windows. They got mad about a “problem” someone else was having and decided to use it as an excuse to push Linux.

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          I’m upvoting you because I know what you’re trying to say. Personally I don’t have a lot of time to game anymore but I vote with my wallet and I try to only buy games on steam that are linux native. I have found a lot of great indy games this way and I don’t feel like I’m “missing out”. Still, I get it.

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          What??? Do you have a statistic on this like does most of the population of earth play call of street fortnite 20 or whatever “competitively”?

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          there are 3 billion people playing videogames, most of them playing casual af shit like candy crush (https://explodingtopics.com/blog/number-of-gamers).

          About “competitive” multiplayer games: have you tried proton? I myself was sticking with Windows untill i eventually tried it.

          Linux is not a solution if you have a skill issue. The longer people have this kind of mindset you have, the longer Microsoft will pretend to be a monopolist, the longer they will behave like total shitheads towards their customers.

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          Lol yeah “most people” definitely do not play competitive multiplayer games. Are the other children in your friend group literally the only other humans you’ve ever met?

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        “Hey I have a problem with my Samsung”

        “Drop it and get an iPhone instead”

        This is what you guys are like.

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          When people tell you to use Linux, they’re not telling you that to solve your immediate problem (e.g. your “show desktop” icon has been replaced with a different icon), but they are telling you to get out of your abusive relationship with Microsoft, because that is the real problem: Microsoft does not respect you, the end-user of their product, and this kind of abusive shit will keep happening for as long as you keep using Windows.

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            Who asked you for help with our relationship? I believe someone complained about a random feature change. And here you are. Telling everyone to just fuck off and switch completely. It’s insane.

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            they are telling you to get out of your abusive relationship with Microsoft

            And how well has that worked so far?

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                How many people have you managed to convert in this thread?

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                  Me! Switched to fedora from Windows about 3 years ago and don’t regret it one bit. Probably the best decision I’ve made in regards to personal computing in my adult life.

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                  Even if it’s only one, I will have helped one person, unlike you who has only been bitching and moaning.

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          More like:

          “Hey I have a problem with my Samsung”

          “Here’s a custom ROM you can install instead” (but also glosses over a lot of the finer decisions that go into whether or not to choose to run a custom ROM)

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          Nah, I switched to Linux last year and it cost me $0. No new hardware needed. So not a good metaphor.

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          you don’t have to pay for a +1000$ device to switch to Linux. In most cases, you can just install it in the same machine you have Windows.

          It’s more like replacing Samsung’s Android ROM with a custom ROM. Sure, you’ll have to learn new things to use it, but you don’t have to buy an iPhone.

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        Your solution isn’t a solution though it’s like saying that the solution to drowning is to set yourself on fire. It’s just a different kind of problem.

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          No it isn’t.

          It’s more like saying: if that guy you hang out with keeps pushing you into the water and you almost drown every time, perhaps you should stop hanging out with that guy.

          Of course, that’s not what people who are in an abusive relationship typically want to hear.

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            It’s hardly a big deal, none of what Microsoft has done is really that annoying. Individually they are barely even noteworthy.

            Switching to Linux is a huge pain in the ass to have to go through so Microsoft would have to do something seriously messed up for me to even want to put up with it. I’m not assuming that I could find equivalent programs that even ran on Linux.

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              Switching to Linux is a huge pain in the ass.

              This is literally how MacOS and long time Linux users feel when switching to Windows.

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              That’s exactly the kind of shit abused people say to justify staying with their abusive partner. (“Oh it’s not so bad” - she says with a black eye - “and he’s really sweet normally”)

              Yes in the short term it can be painful to leave an abusive person you’ve come to depend upon, but in the long term it’s always the better solution.

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          And in this case they aren’t even drowning. They have a slightly annoying icon in the corner of their screen.

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      As is everyone taking every possible opportunity to mention Linux. It’s not like we don’t know it exists, we don’t need constantly reminding that it’s an option.

      Although it isn’t an option for a vast number of reasons, but mostly because corporate IT requires systems that run only on Windows. Therefore the only solution is Windows so the fact another operating system exists is utterly irrelevant and yet somehow you guys constantly keep mentioning it. Then we constantly have to point out that lots and lots of programs don’t run on Linux and then you will inhibitively start going on about Wine. It’s tiring. I would love it if we could have a conversation about Microsoft without having to pretend that other operating systems are viable alternatives.

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      Well maybe stop suggesting that the solution to every tiny little cosmetic inconvenience is to completely switch operating systems to one that has notoriously flakey hardware support.

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      I rarely see that,. But what I see all the time is Linux lovers being toxic fanboys trying to shove their “passion” down everyone’s throat. Also, 99% of them being wrong about what it can “offer”.

      Its a pure superiority complex fanbase.

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      ‘Just switch to Linux’ isn’t a solution to a problem. It’s a tired and lazy ass response that is frankly starting to make me dislike this place.

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      Just once I would love to open one of these threads without seeing people spam “USE LINOOX INSTEAD!”

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      Fuck linux, the’ve had 30 years to make a consumer grade product but NoooOOooo all the devs spend their energy making 50 different weakly compatible distros that no one needs.

      I’ll say it again, fuck linux. Fuck linux and its shitty community of elitist basement trolls.

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    Wow, Microsoft are always so innovative! I never thought that the Win11 taskbar could get any shittier, but somehow they managed it. It’s great to see those thousands of engineers being put to good use.

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      The last 10 years if Windows have been so agressively anti-user that I can’t comprehend anyone chooses Windows unless they need it for work.

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        And most are stuck in Windows at work because IT is incompetent dinosaurs.

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          Two things keep Windows around. Office/Exchange and remote management. Nothing really works that well in any other ecosystem.

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          IT guy here, the choice of what to ship on the corporate desktops/laptops is a lot more naunced than that.

          Are there users in the organization that use Excel heavily? Other windows-only software heavily? If the answer is yes then you’re looking at complicating support instantly because now you have 2 separate fleets of workstations that each require different tooling to manage and you either have to have a helpdesk that can be trained to handle questions for both or have different teams to handle each which is more opportunities for helpdesk requests to be miscommunicated, lost, etc. and adds some time to the ticking process. You also have to decide how users are selected for which they get. If you leave it up to the users they’ll all choose what they’re used to and you’ll just get a handful of weirdos which make the cost of allowing it likely higher than it’s worth. But if you force it on people by team you run the risk of someone having dual roles or covering duties and being largely hamstrung when they can’t use the windows software needed for the other role. Does this create a 2 tier system where users given the Linux workstations have less upward mobility? Or are you potentially creating future hassle where your Linux users will randomly have to come to IT to have their computer switched because they gained a duty that requires Windows software (which is a ton of lost productivity while they get things set how they like)

          You also have to now maintain 2 sets of management tooling since generally Active Directory and Linux tend to be a pain to mix. This also means 2 different streams of vulnerability tracking and patch tracking, and 2 different streams of testing if you hold back updates for testing before deployment. And 2 different attack surfaces to keep secure for audits and red teams.

          But let’s suppose you find that absolutely everybody in your organization can be moved to Linux as nobody uses software that won’t work on Linux natively. Awesome this is the best case scenario for Linux workstations in the office. What are the long term ramifications? Are you potentially limiting your options for vendors or contracts your organization can take on? Are some of your employees working at reduced productivity potential because they aren’t using the best tool for the job?

          These are the considerations that have to be made, and argued politically for Linux to be deployed to user workstations in the office. Extremely similar conversations have historically had to happen (and continue to have to happen!) within IT departments to move things away from Windows Server. A bank I worked at just a year ago was so heavily invested in the Windows server ecosystem that they had Windows server in places it really shouldn’t have been and the choice to use Windows Server actually was a hindrance.

          I think in the long run it has a chance. Linux has gotten so much better on the desktop in just the last 5 years, plus with the move to webapps across the board (not to mention kids in school right now learning on ipads and Chromebooks and never touching a Windows machine) I’m sure the decision will slowly get easier and easier, but right now, there’s very limited opportunities to make Linux workstations happen in a big way in the corporate world, and I don’t forsee that changing in the next 5 years

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        I‘m primarily a mac guy and I would love to ditch Windows on my PC for Linux. However, gaming support still isn’t quite where I‚d need it to be (HDR support especially). Also, I have a 20y/o film scanner and to use it with linux or macOS I‘d need to buy a third party scanner driver software for 100€ while on windows the original software (made for XP) still works…

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        It’s a trade-off that works for many. Not much you and I can do about it, even if it’s frustrating.

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    I guess they figured out where people clicked a lot and put the button there?

    Looking forward to the Google search trends for “disable copilot”

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      Just don’t search that if you’ve also been searching for any flights recently.

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      Or where people didn’t click a lot.

      Could go either way - I could see MS doing this because people use this a lot.

      Only time I’ve ever used it was the first time I installed a version with it (7?).

      Win-D is far faster, or a simple Alt-Tab, which I’ve used for what, 30 years now?

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        I have files download / export to desktop pretty often since I use it as a visual workspace (I can drag things around freely), and I got used to hitting that button. Since it’s in the corner, it was easy to throw the mouse down there, similar to the X in the top right

        I could get used to the keyboard shortcut though, especially because that one is reversible

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      What was there before? I don’t remember ever needing to click in that area. I did notice the new icon but as far as I knew it just moved the clock over.

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            thats probably cool if youre some kinda like, prison hacker or something, im just a basic bitch who clicks on stuff what can i say

            edit: also I popped my win key out cuz i kept hitting it instead of alt in games

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                I think you’re confusing a window manager with a tiling window manager.

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                For some reason, I’ve actually been thinking about that a lot since I joined lemmy. Weird coincidence, that.

                What’s WMs?

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                  As a hyper simplistic explanation :
                  Window Managers (WMs) are essentially keyboard centric highly stripped down and highly customizable Desktop Environments in a way. This isn’t completely correct, but for the sake of simplicity it’ll do.

                  I can give you a much more technical explanation if you want.

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                  A window manager, and you are usually using one and can’t “stay away” from it, that person just doesn’t know what they’re blabbering. What they are trying to say is that choosing a window manager may lead you to trying some unusual workflow.

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                I actually have used (for fun and autism’s sake) Linux with just VTs, running X for one GUI application at a time without a WM.

                But I think you are just ignorant of there always being some program to manage your windows called window manager, while using X.

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                  while using X

                  Wayland… exists too…

                  Also… can you please… maybe… Kindly…
                  REMOVE THE STICK FROM YOUR ASS.