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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC (www.windowscentral.com)
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When will they ever learn?

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[–] 32 points 7 months ago (24 children)

Between this and Lemmy, I'm ready for a switch to Linux now even though I don't know how it works.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    You ask people online and get 78 different answers, then get caught up in decision paralysis and stick with windows.

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  • [+] -8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I went down this rabbit hole recently: irked about a broken Windows update, I picked up on people's advice to try Ubuntu. To say I was disappointed doesn't really do it justiceβ€”I was mostly just surprised that it looked and behaved exactly like the Ubuntu I had used in college in 2006.

    I'm really disheartened to say that after 20 years, it's still the same sluggish, dated, janky UI that I remembered from way back and honestly it just misses basic functionality. As a random example, there's no way to adequately control DPI settings for two monitors and messing around with screen resolution settings breaks the entire Gnome UI to the extent that you need to reboot. Some folks here on Lemmy were saying I should install KDE or something else, but I doubted it would be a miracle fix and didn't bother going that route.

    I totally understand that it's built by volunteers and I think that's absolutely awesome! Personally, I just don't think it's for your average Joe.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Went with Kubuntu as I prefer KDE, and it's not been good on a multi monitor setup (at least with my hardware).

    While I did make it further there than on some of the other distros I tried, it was still a no go.

    Think I'm going to pave it and give OpenSuse another shot, just have to get some other bits sorted out.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Unfortunately, Canonical has kinda lost the plot lately - don't take that as "all there is" that Linux offers.

    That being said, KDE is a world apart from Gnome for the features it offers, it's by fer my preferred DE, especially if you get a distro that offers plasma 6 and Wayland. I've been running Fedora with KDE for the last ~6 months and have been more than happy with the experience.

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  • [+] -8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    FWIW, the broken update was fixed by reinstalling Windows, which was done by the time I finished cooking dinner with literally everything left in place. I don't really understand the hate on Windows.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I've read and understood those concerns, hence my comments pointing out the contrast in my experience. In my case, Ubuntu was unable to accomplish what I needed it for and I returned to using Windows. I know this is a controversial position, because nobody wants to be supportive of a for-profit corporation, including me.

    However, I try to separate criticisms of the corporation from my day to day needs and I feel misled by the community to go down a route to try switching to something that, in my very sincere opinion, was objectively a bad choice. I understand that many may disagree with me, and perhaps my specific choices were not the right ones, but I'd have wanted to hear some discourse and balance in opinions before I had wasted my time.

    I honestly cannot relate to any of the points you've raised with Windows. Perhaps my experience here in Europe is somehow different? In any case, I hope somebody finds this comment to be more constructive input than an upteenth comment parroting that Windows is bad and everybody should just switch to Linux.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago

    You're absolutely right about how the grievances against the company should be factored in. You've formulated it very well and I entirely agree with you.

    To be clear, what puzzles me about this community is the fervor you mention about Linux. In my own experience, and while giving Ubuntu the benefit of the doubt out of frustration with Windows, I personally found it to be exceedingly disappointing. I don't think it's fair to say that I'm among the lucky ones to have few issues with Windows, because distilling my experience with Linux, I might draw sweeping generalizations about Linux as a whole.

    While I, too, encourage everybody to try Linux, I would caution them to set their expectations accordingly. In my opinion and experience, Linux is tailored towards an audience of users with more time to troubleshoot problems and a willingness to accept a lower quality bar (for a lack of better words) in exchange for distancing themselves from the corporation behind it.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Do it! Just choose the most normie distro you can find (probably something like Mint or Ubuntu) and free yourself!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    To give some balance from my experience, I don't recommend Ubuntu.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'm not interested in getting into a distro war. I think we should encourage people to get into the ecosystem via whatever user-friendly means possible. Once they're in, then they'll be a lot more likely to try out another distro.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Honestly the popular linux distros are pretty polished / user friendly these days. You'll run into little issues, and you need to be at least a little bit curious / tech savvy to figure them out, but it's nothing a little googling can't solve typically.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm here for any questions you may have , just pm me! I enjoy helping and I can usually break things down into easy to understand bits.

    Havent touched windows at all in a year except for work. And I did try Linux back in the early 00s but I wasnt ready then (wanted to game). Its come sooooo far.

    Literally the only things I can't do: play pubg, and battlefield games. Both made by shit devs we should never support anyway. Oh, and use my Keith McMillan 12 step foot synth program on it. I have a spare junky win 10 laptop for that.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Has there been a fix for 240hz 32:9 monitors for their full refresh rate? That's what's stopping me.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I haven't heard of that issue but my guess is if you had it it was related to a specific distro or am, not the Linux kernel, but I might be wrong

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    It's fairly inherent to Linux from what I'm hearing and requires a lengthy reconfiguration of my monitors EDID. It'll allow you to run at 120hz in 1440p, or 240hz in 1080 resolution. Someone created a custom edid for a different model G9 but I'm not sure it works on a G93SD

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    At this day and age it works pretty much as you expect it to work. I'd recommend something like ubuntu (or kubuntu if you want it to look and feel more like windows). Something that is stable and not on the bleeding edge and mainstream so you can easily Google for help if you need it. Apart from that I think you can use a gui for pretty much anything you might need.

    Little side note: the new long term support version of Ubuntu will be released this month. I'd wait for that so you have a pretty up to date version. If you need help or advice you can DM me if you like.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Thabk you, sir. I'll fiddle around as I ready myself. I probably need to research a bit more.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Maybe you could try the system in live mode to get a feel. You can simply make an install USB stick and boot from that and just select the live install. This will start the system directly form the USB stick without installing anything and then you can just play around with it and get a feel. Just be aware that all changes are temporary and are not saved to the stick. Most major distributions have such a functionality.

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