Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal

Yup.

These changes have already been integrated into Windows 10 with KB5032278 and Windows 11 with KB5032288 , but have largely not yet been activated.

Guess just need to wait till they do.

Aw man. I’ll plug in the PiHole again T_T

Install via Rufus. If you have to.

Did you check out Lutris for mod managers? I know Vortex is on there and is supposed to work with all steam games.

A little detective work got me to this Linux specific mod manager that targets BG3 and CP2077 - https://github.com/CHollingworth/Lampray

You can download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft. Any version you like, if you use the command line interface.

You can then use an open source bit of software to commercially license it. This is basically legitimate, for all intents and purposes. It's how corporate licenses are done.

A computer built for Windows 11 hardware should work just fine in Windows 10. You might not be able to use the official manufacturer's drivers for certain bits, but the generic drivers should still work.

Welcome to Linux, where simultaneously the forum "have you tried Linux?" people claims it works perfectly, and they've never once encountered an issue ever in their lifetime, and the rest of the users struggle with bullshit error after error that somehow miraculously don't occur on the soapboxers' machines

There's a github installer for mod organizer 2 on linux, which I use for modding skyrim. Maybe that would work for you as well?

There's a good chance MS will have to extend their support for Windows 10 because of that. Either that, or they'll have to make it easier for non-compliant hardware to run it.

Security updates for Windows 10 are currently set to end in 2025. However, there is a strong possibility Microsoft will continue to support it, given that so much hardware cannot be directly upgraded to Windows 11 (it can be done, but not officially).

You're also saying that as if an up to date Windows 11 installation is the pinnacle of security. Last I checked (albeit I can't remember the name of it), there was a very low level way of hacking out a Windows user's password, one that Microsoft has no easy way of addressing. This is among any number of other zero days that are prevalent in such a widespread OS.

Maybe the botnet will play League of Legends better then I do. Meanwhile it will have 'mysterious power outages' whenever I'm doing real work in Linux ;-)

That's because like vegans, there is a moral imperative that most ignore or don't care about, we have a genuine emotional attachment to foss, and because you are ignorant of the topic, you don't care to listen.

What he said is harmless, true, and there is a moral imperative to say it, and ontop of that it isn't like a diet, it's better software that respects you, doesn't spy on you, and for free and the only downside is a 15 minute install process (and the use of a flash drive). Why do you care enough to fight that?

the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet

Also, vegans actually do something good for the planet instead of just choosing a different OS for their PC. So, maybe acknowledge that to your neighborly vegan next time, instead of telling them a story about how you once met someone who was really pushy about veganism.

Most Linux developers don't include anti-features on purpose, but Windows developers do.

I think dependencies have gotten simpler on Linux with flatpak. The fact that the command-line is still sometimes needed on Linux is just a fact of life. Nobody is forcing users to use it out of any sort of passive-aggressive distain for users, but just that it takes less time out of volunteer developers' schedules to buold command-line tools.

I think one thing to note in the CLI-GUI debate though is that Windows pushed hard against CLI interfaces from day 1. Even starting with Windows 3, there were a lot of things you couldn't do with CLI easily, while Unix has always had full CLI support. Users being unfamiliar with CLI interfaces is a symptom of Windows dominance.

Package managers have become so much better with dependencies. It's been a while since I've encountered an issue, with yay it very usually works out of the box.

There's a difference between feeling abused from intentional mistreatment and then there's frustration from miscommunication or inadequacy from either partner.

As a user who bought FG on steam, I had ZERO issues whatsoever getting this to run on my Walmart laptop. This is an Epic issue. Fuck Epic. Ran Fall Guys into the ground before laying off basically all of its creative team. It’s just a grind now…

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Anyone who makes a stand to defend Linux as a gaming platform over Windows is righteously impractical at best, and a principled idiot at worst. It’s simply not there yet.

This isn't much of a hoop, you install wine and run the installer with it, furthermore, I'd rather deal with the kind of hoop that isn't actively harming you intentionally any day.

I used to think the same and sure there are still definitely games that won't work, but gaming on Linux has come a loooong way. And with the recent bullshit that Microsoft is pulling with Windows 10 and especially 11 I just couldn't take it anymore.

Are you using Steam? What game isn't compatible with Linux and/or requires significant user effort to run?

Linux not being able to launch a game (that probably was not made for it) is not a relationship issue but a technical one.

Even if it is possible to run the game but you need to hack around your distro's configurations, you can be certain the default configuration was not made with the specific intent of preventing you from running the game.

In the Windows case you are not hacking around with the json file to solve a technical issue.

Windows is not misconfigured, it's Microsoft's explicit decision to prevent you from removing some of it's software even if it's forced by law to do so for other people.

It's ok if you don't mind Microsoft's behavior or you just find Linux's technical issues more important in choosing an OS. But the issues are not similar neither equivalent.

Or maybe the one that I had to reinstall every other month because it kept failing to boot (probably because I broke something because I had no clue what I was doing and trying to get stuff working).

Skill issue

Some tools are easy to repair but some tools detect if replaced parts are not from the manufacturer and refuse to work, or even require a subscription. You may say you really need a "screwdriver" but that doesn't negate the criticism it requires being shoved up your fucking ass to work.

You could try Bitwig. I have a friend that prefers it over Ableton even on Windows. And Windows-only VSTs work with Yabridge

I knoooooooow. I know arcgis is working on it at least. I'm a geologist, a ton of our geospatial programs require windows.

But I'm about ready to experiment with a dual joot for my home set up! I really never need windows for that anymore

The future is now old man.

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/install/linux/welcome-to-the-portal-for-arcgis-installation-guide.htm

Looks like the other three aren't natively supported though.

Not many users need those.

Is your video card Nvidia by curiosity?

Don't use Ubuntu desktop, it's really buggy and full of snaps. Please try Pop OS and you will come back and say how smooth it is, and how you loved it.

Eh, I switched last year and it's really not that different.

I'd assume it's actually easier now by comparison seeing how Windows has kept shoving in ads

I think whatever Valorant has is the main issue. Back 4 Blood also doesn’t work for some reason, nor does it work in a Windows VM.

I have dual monitors with different scaling and refresh rates, both work perfectly. Even VRR works as expected. I'm using Manjaro KDE with Wayland, Intel CPU, AMD GPU.

Linux Mint hasn't finished their work on Wayland and thus, the things you are experiencing are unfortunately expected. So you might want to try with another distro with GNOME or KDE.

When people suggested you Mint, they were wrong in ignoring your setup.

I feel the same way when I am forced to use Windows, it feels so primitive and in-the-way but I guess people get used to what they use.

We're you on Xorg? I think Mint still is by default?

Recommend trying Fedora proper (with Gnome).

Everything works perfectly except HDR (next release).

Even multi monitor and hidpi. It's polished and cohesive in its design. And if you want the windows 7 look you can use the dash to panel extension.

I will never install Linux because I'll never trust that it'll be easier to use than windows, and that's all I want.

I can't count the number of people that have told me I should be on Linux and that if I use Mint it'll be a piece of perfect cake, despite me also seeing comments like this on a pretty regular basis.

Why is it that so much of the community REFUSES to acknowledge any shortcomings? Almost like it's their child and you're personally attacking their parenting by suggesting its not flawlessly simple.

Is it not good or is it different from your habitz? Haven't had issues with those points on my Linuxes.

Try bodhi the advanced hw version.

Try Fedora with KDE.

In my opinion it's the best one for having the most ease-of-use hardware support out of the box, as they're backed by IBM, which used to own Lenovo.

If you’ve got two video cards, which is pretty much the case for anyone with an Intel cpu, then gpu pass through solves many problems. I really only use a Win10 VM for games and Adobe software plus one piece of work software. I think whether your overall point is valid or not depends on what you need Linux for and how much you still depend on Windows apps. To be honest the nicest piece of software available on Windows and not other apps is Nvidia Broadcast. You could use OBS to get your blurred background on Discord but that’s really too much work.

I mean, you should be using Rider anyways.

Depending on the system you're on it can be all you have. It's like Microsoft's vi, just so much worse

I use it as a temporary text storage since my browser search bar copy and paste stopped working

It kinda already is a Microsoft project by Finance and each of them integrating the other's systems more and more. Also, the highly paid world programmers are putting non-free blobs and highly complex code into Linux and at 40 million LoC, I propose it will soon be beyond the community to run a coherent fork without all the global code.

You have it backwards. The kernel is Linux. A distribution is added to the kernel. The kernel is what matters, the distribution is consequent and relies on the kernel which dictates all it's functions. The distribution is flavor on top of foundation. 101.

All investment of time, money, resources, everything, should be ethical choices, ethical investing. Deciding to ignore who funds what makes you vulnerable to accept tainted diamonds, Cartel funded dispensaries, restaurants, and Policians, etc, etc. You should be wary of who you make rich, who you compensate, who you give your money to.

Ignorance of money and the resources it drives that determine the fate of people everywhere is simply ignorance and your viewpoint should not be rewarded.