• 4am@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        You don’t need widows to game anymore (Proton the game software for Linux, not Proton the VPN/email provider)

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          5 months ago

          I’ll switch once HDR support becomes mainstream in Linux. That and a Linux equivalent of AutoHDR (which is a Windows 11 feature that converts SDR videos and games to HDR). This is literally the only thing keeping me on Windows.

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            5 months ago

            HDR has been working great for me in KDE. I’ve been using mpv for HDR videos, and games with HDR work great. KDE has an SDR vibrancy setting when HDR is enabled that lets you decide how bright and colorful you want SDR content (turn it up enough and it looks like HDR to me), I’m not sure if that’s how auto HDR works.

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                The SDR option is actually called “SDR brightness” and it seems to increase both the colour intensity and brightness as you slide it up. I have it set to 150 out of 500 and it’s about as intense as I’d want it.

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                  5 months ago

                  Thanks for the reply. I’m switching to Linux today. Gonna give EndeavorOS a try.

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    5 months ago

    Pays 100$ for windows 11 pro expecting to not see targeted advertising.

    “Play Candy Crush on the Windows App Store Now!” ad baked into the Lock Screen ffs why

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          Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there’s going to be a purge of this kind of software from the platform coming down the pike.

          I’m sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I’ve never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.

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            There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.

            Gitlab comes to mind.

            Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

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              It’s impossible to imagine that they haven’t talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.

              The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven’t turned it to shit yet, but it’s basically inevitable isn’t it?

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                Microsoft is a services company anymore.

                You pirating their desktop operating system as an end user is something they don’t care a lot about if we’re being honest.

                Inevitable, idk. Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t trust them but they’ve acted in good faith so far as it pertains to GitHub.

                If they enshittify they have competitors.

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          Yeah, I mostly use Linux. Unfortunately, certain games only run on Windows and you’re stuck using it if you want to play those titles.

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    5 months ago

    The only update I want is going back to Windows 7 anyway. This crap they call a modern operating system is inferior to Linux and mac os.

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    5 months ago

    At this point I’ve just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn’t on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.

    Of course that’s just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I’m slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that’s no longer feasible.

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      Am I the only one that still using the file explorer to navigate to the folders I want?I’ve never used the start menu…only computer then Explorer

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        Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying you dig into the program files every time you launch a program? I thought the OP was talking about programs not files and folder.

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    5 months ago

    I’m sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.

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    This isn’t normal Windows Updates. These are warnings for OS upgrades as Windows Insiders upgrade to new preview builds of the OS.