God Damn it MS

  • melfie@lemy.lol
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    42 minutes ago

    I think I am really going enjoy this new feature in Windows. Enjoy laughing at Microsoft’s absurdity while using the latest new and actually useful features in Mint 22.3, that is.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah, I know. Install Linux.

    I’ll do that when every single gaming title works flawlessly on it and not a second before.

    Until then, I’ll utilize whatever workaround the community comes up with to strip this shit out of File Explorer.

    • scala@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Honestly all my games have ran on bazzite better than windows with better FPS. And much less RAM consumption. Even some of those EAC games run well.

      The more people that leave MS the more support Linux games will get.

    • Kortalh@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Between Lutris and Steam, I’ve been able to run every game flawlessly – several with better performance than I’ve seen on Windows, even.

      The only limitation is anti-cheat software that some games (Team Fortress, Battlefield, etc.) require. I don’t play those types of games myself, so it’s not an issue for me.

  • dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Jokes on them i replaced explorer with Directory Opus years ago… The only piece of software i miss on linux its perfect

  • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    I thought the user backlash would be enough to correct MS’s course (like with Win 8) but their leadership has this pissbrained belief that people will change their mind or just accept this bullshit as inevitable. This is going to be a fucking disaster for them that they’ll never truly recover from.

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    10 hours ago

    On the one hand this is getting old, we know MS shit the bed and it’s gonna be MS copilot featuring Windows soon.

    On the other,… man is this a spectacular way to run a company into the ground 🤣

    Ok, we could put this into the category of W8 with its tile system. They try something new, it backfires, back to square one. (The menu button moves back to the lower left corner). But I dunno, despite there already being rumours an option to fully disable copilot “rolled out to administrators” soon.

    I don’t think they’ll just try and sweep this one under the rug as quickly after all this disastrous doubling down.

  • DoktorNo@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I hope my company will switch to something different. Microsoft ist getting worse and worse

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      2 days ago

      Not saying it isn’t, but if the reason why you’re saying that is because of the z/y key, I know one of the EU layouts swaps it. German I think?

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        2 days ago

        Yes, a German keyboard has swapped the letter Z and Y (and some other differences). Maybe this is a keyboard that shows both so more people can use it.

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    2 days ago

    Microsoft did this with Internet Explorer and Windows 98; they make IE the shell for file explorer so as to ensure IE could never be removed.

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      2 days ago

      I’m thrilled for seeing my RAM idle at half the amount it did when I was on Windows. Loving Mint… or any debian distro for that matter.

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        14 hours ago

        In these trying times it helps more than ever to run an OS that sips rather than slurps that precious ddr5.

    • Wioum@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I nuked my win11 installation a week ago and went with cachyos (its arch btw) and I just feel like; even if mslop fixes their shit, I wont go back.

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        2 days ago

        Woah, Arch users scares me, the way you meet someone that is much taller!

        How is your time so far with the new OS? Lots of new things and issues?

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      2 days ago

      Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.

      Yes! Our recent Linux Mint software update drama was some nice new quality of life improvements coming to the next version of KDE Plasma.

      Watching Windows 11 unfold from this side has been like sipping a cup of hot tea on the porch, wearing a good jacket, during a rain storm, while holding the storm door open for folks coming in out of the bad weather.

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          11 hours ago

          Yea it’s funny I’ve asked the community before whats the best Linux distro for XYZ and have had all sorts of responses. It took running mint, manjaro, ubunto, pop, tried arch, to figure out that it’s a ridiculous question. The community can only help you pick one to start with, but given there’s 3 real bases and thousands of choices off each base it’s quite frankly up to preference for the most part what Linux distro will work best for you!

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            9 hours ago

            Distro chooser is a thing. Or was. I’m not being able to open the site right now.

            From that point forward, it is up to the user to decide how much or little they want or need.

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          2 days ago

          Yep im guilty of that.

          Honestly as long as theare using some kind of *nix im happy.

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          2 days ago

          I love when people try to criticize this. They cant imagine having options.

  • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    How to disable Copilot

    For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users

    Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click “Turn off Windows Copilot,” select “Enabled,” then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

    For Home users

    Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.

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      2 days ago

      Was expecting to see “install Linux” in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.

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      2 days ago

      Protip: Export the registry key into a .reg file, write a script that installs it and put that in autostart. Otherwise every major update will revert your edit.
      But if you’re at that point, even Slackware will give you fewer headaches.

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      How to disable Copilot

      Delete Windows.

      Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?