Windows doesn't "just work"

[Guest]

Windows bloat sucks. I wish Microsoft gave you the option to just install components/features you're like to use. That way you could have an agile, minimal custom installation like you do in Arch.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

Does Sea of Thieves work on Linux? I thought it had kernel anti-cheat.

[droggelbecher@lemmy.world]

That's the first time I'm hearing this experience, thanks for the input! Changed my mind

[Guest]

like tiny11?

[viri4thus@feddit.org]

Here, it's the "writing style" applet, it also exists in 11.

Science would be wild if the onus of finding citations would be on the readers, this mindset is dangerous and the mark of room temp IQ.

[Guest]

It works! Looks like some people have run into issues with EAC but it worked without finicking around for me.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1172620

[thorned_rose@sh.itjust.works]

Now I'm imagining an angry Gentoo penguin snapping at fingers any time someone wants to use their PC

[commander@lemmings.world]

It's definitely an abusive relationship.

[bluesquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org]

Relax, mate. I’m not trying to take away your Windows Server. Just talking about how bad windows is from end user perspective.. absolute rubbish, barely usable, nearly impossible to troubleshoot.

I’m glad you get along with it from your IT professional/server admin role.

[arcaneslime@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This was sorta my fault, but I'm counting it. I have been flashing meshtastic devices recently and flashed two just fine from fedora (just had to DL ungoogled chromium because fuck chrome but librewolf can't access serial ports so..), tried to flash a third from my friend's windows PC and it just would not recognize it in the serial monitor, tried for like an hour being dumb, then I remembered drivers exist, downloaded one set of drivers, couldn't install lord knows why, downloaded a second set that finally worked on a reboot and got it flashed.

I understand that sometimes you still have to install drivers on Linux too, but can we stop pretending you don't have to on windows? What's more while I was in there and edge wasn't using my serial port my friend said to install a chrome based anyway to try, and I had to find the damn download pages instead of using a package manager, absolute madness.

[arcaneslime@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

And for linux step 3 usually doesn't works because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste into cmd the terminal.

[arcaneslime@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Tempted to put this through let me google that for you just to be smug, but here's the direct link instead since I'm sure I'd also need to click the results for you. Do I need to read this to you too?

https://windowsreport.com/disable-keylogger-windows-11/

[bhamlin@lemmy.world]

[Guest]

I tried connecting my bluetooth earbuds to my PC. Alright, the setup itself was fine. But then the problems started. My earbuds support opus codec for audio. Do you think I can change the bluetooth codec easily, just like on Linux? Nope. There is no way to do it without some third party programs. And don’t even get me started on Windows randomly changing my default audio output and trying to play sound through my controller.

Bro wait until you want to use them for a call. How do you tell it to switch to call mode when it won't by default. Ah yeah that's right, you can't. And if you do, good luck switching it back for music when you're done. I've had friends who got bluetooth headphones and tried to use them wireless on Windows and it's just a battle every single time

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

Huh? Only DE thing not being stable for me was xfce Thunar being crashy for a while. There are unstalbe DE?

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

Put it in a VM?

[twanhe@lemmy.world]

That's true, never thought about how many times Ive used the registry to do something when the ui doesn't work, eg forcing games into exclusive fullscreen or getting acces to old features in the Nvidia control panel.

Still my gaming pc "needs" to be windows because of the games i play.
Either be it kernel level AC or not getting stretched Res + 280hz gsync to work.

[merthyr1831@lemmy.ml]

Level1tech was reviewing the Ryzen 9950X/9900X and he noted how performance on Windows was wildly inconsistent depending on peculiar settings such as sidestepping security features and marking apps to run as administrator (aka also sidestepping windows security features) yet on Linux you can get better performance via Proton OOTB.

Linux has its quirks too but people kid themselves when they convince themselves that the dozens of weird tasks and apps and tweaks they make to Windows are "plug and play" compared to Linux, which in my experience has been way less tweaking.

The main tweaks I've done on linux usually include installing ROG-control-center (optional laptop faff) or cryotweaks on Steamdeck (which just sets some sensible options already enabled on most distros)

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

Vaccinations are pretty much your choice.

[willy@sh.itjust.works]

Say I print something, and it’s going to take 5 minutes, I go and work on an email or something, and the save dialog pops up and what I’m typing for the email starts going into/overwrites the save name. Hate it.