• metaStatic
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    163 hours ago

    I’m all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster

      • @WagnasT
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        41 hour 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
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          349 minutes 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 :/

          • @[email protected]
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            110 minutes 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.

    • @Valmond
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      115 hours ago

      Crying in Linux 😢

      • @notous
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        33 hours ago

        just use geany or something else…u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++

      • @daddy32
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        33 hours ago

        You can get to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won’t be exactly integrated experience, but it works.

    • @Eagle0110
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      34 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.

    • asudox
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      56 hours ago

      maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor

  • Ghostalmedia
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    115 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.

    • @MurrayL
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      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).

  • TuxOP
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    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! 👍 👍 👍

      • DacoTaco
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        347 minutes ago

        They dont own it, they just own seats at the foundation table and thats not even 50% of the seats :p

      • @TheGrandNagus
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        117 minutes ago

        Microsoft does not own systemd

        And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

  • @[email protected]
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    96 hours ago

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

    Thats… what this is, right?

    Clippy 3.0?

  • Arghblarg
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.