• Roderik@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Windows is shitty—don’t get me wrong. But for all my coursework it’s pretty annoying to do on Linux. Especially Office, and yes I am well aware it’s a MS product and that Linux-support will likely never come. Though the limited online version of Office or LibreOffice don’t quite cut it for me. Besides, running it with Wine or in a VM is too much of a hassle.

    So “Switch to Linux!” is not really a solution for some. Let’s hope that’ll change in the future.

    With that said, fuck Microsoft! I use NixOS btw.

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    … 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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    9 months ago

    Win+d, I wasn’t even aware there was an icon for it. If it’s not the date, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or VPN, I’m all keys

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    9 months ago

    Clippy never really went away, he’s just been evolving this whole time into something more and more annoying with each new iteration.

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    9 months ago

    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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    9 months ago

    Maybe here is a good place to ask. I have used Mint for months now on my non-gaming laptop. I like it. I was ready to move my gaming rig at months end. Then I read that it can have issues with multiple monitors at different refresh rates and also with Mouse acceleration. Is this true and is there a solution?

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      9 months ago

      X11 does not support different refresh rates across monitors.
      You need a Wayland capable DE for that. The big one is Gnome.

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        9 months ago

        Don’t use gnome especially with Wayland. Plasma > 5.27 has awesome Wayland integration. Try fedora tumbleweed

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      9 months ago

      Monitors at different refresh rates is a downside of x11, which Mint uses for all its desktop environments. Fortunately, they’re working on moving to Wayland for the Cinnamon edition, which has better support for that. There’s an experimental version you can use now, and they plan to be done in 2026.

      I’d test things first ofc, maybe with your laptop plugged into one of the monitors.

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      9 months ago

      My gaming rig has been on arch and manjaro for the past 6 years. No regrets. Sometimes games can be a pita to get working right, but proton/steam/valve have done an amazing job and it’s better every day.

      I have a 2.5k 34" uktawide and a 27" connected. No issues.

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      9 months ago

      It’s a case by case scenario.

      If it works for you, then it’s all good.

      If it doesn’t, then you might see the need for having a Linux PC and a Windows PC for different use cases.

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    9 months ago

    I noticed this bullshit a few days ago on my Win 11 desktop! I found if you go check the settings of the start bar, you can hide the copilot icon in the lower right, and then there’s a check box to enable the lower right hand corner to work as show desktop again. The functionality can be restore to exactly as it was, but what the hell were they thinking.

    Enshitification, plain and simple.

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    9 months ago

    Jesus Christ I already don’t give a fuck about 11 because they’re just moving shit to move it, getting rid of useful features is infuriating.