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Blackmist ,

It looks like the little windows you’d use to organise your applications in Windows 3.1

bizza ,

Looks even worse than the one they had before

Matriks404 ,

I genuinely in 2024 I don’t see why would anyone want to use any Microsoft product. They (alongside with Google) present themselves as malicious companies that only care about user data and providing user notorious ads.

jdeath ,

unfortunately they are like the only two competitive corporate email providers. all the business tools integrate with gmail or outlook and almost never anything else. shit is annoying af

Tlaloc_Temporal ,
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca avatar

Ugh, I just had to get an organization outlook and they’ve been screwing with backend server protocol support, which kills most third-party apps. For E-MAIL! Nothing about this need a new standard!

TheEighthDoctor ,

I’m really enjoying my Mint 22 experience, the only downside is that I have to switch to windows to play Once Human.

Blisterexe OP ,

why? protondb says it works fine.

TheEighthDoctor , (edited )

Yes, i saw that, I was troubleshooting it for a while and when I got it to run the performance was ass but today I tired again and basically the problem is that the game must absolutely not be run from an HDD. It’s running fine on linux now.

exanime ,

Another shitty clone of the KDE launcher

Blisterexe OP ,

the kde launcher is very nice

exanime ,

Indeed it is! And customizable

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

“Another shitty clone of the KDE launcher”, not “Another clone of the shitty KDE launcher” 😜

Scrollone ,

We’ve come full circle. KDE imitating Windows, and now Windows trying to catch up with KDE.

ChickenLadyLovesLife ,

I was worried this was going to be a problem when I bought new Windows 11 laptops for my octogenerian parents to use. Fortunately, it turns out they never even knew how to use the start menu on earlier versions of Windows - they always just used the desktop or toolbar shortcuts I had set up for them. “The more things change, the more they never were in the first place”.

Frozyre ,

It's not that new if it's been a thing on Windows 8.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I DON’T LIKE CHANGE

HK65 ,

I don’t like when a megacorp forces change on me for no good reason.

In Linux world, this would be an opt in new feature.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

I see you aren’t familiar with our good friends at Gnome.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

Ah yes, the Apple “we know design better than you do” of the Linux world.

HK65 ,

I am familiar with them, but I use KDE btw.

werefreeatlast ,

Uhhh! Ahhh! How about the mouse pointer? Make it AI! Nobody likes the little ⬆️ arrow following all the stupid motions. Plus when you loose it and you had wanted to click somewhere, where the fuck is it? Make it jiggle around! That’s it! A jiggling mouse pointer that is composed of the two letters AI and jiggles around randomly is surely something everyone could use!

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

I love how, as a Linux user, Windows never adds anything that makes me regret leaving.

CheeseNoodle ,

How’s Linux doing in regards to Nvidia graphics cards these days? I was planning to switch to linux for my next build but wanted to keep my current GPU since its not that old and still solid.

infergo ,

A lot better these days. While I still don’t like nvidia, I think they’re generally moving in the right direction.

Kualk ,

I recommend that you boot your distro of choice from USB and see if it works for you.

You might be surprised.

If it doesn’t work with one, try a different distribution.

I’ve used Linux with nvidia cards and didn’t have issues, but I am not very demanding.

Horsey ,
@Horsey@lemmy.world avatar

Nvidia cards are supported with the proprietary drivers; the game I play (Stepmania, OutFox) historically was without artifacts on nvidia systems. Nowadays, Wayland is moving forward, and nvidia is just behind on supporting it compared to AMD. According to this thread below you should be fine as long as you use nvidia drivers from version 560+.

reddit.com/…/wayland_on_nvidia_do_they_play_well_…

MyRobotShitsBolts ,

I run fedora 40 on a desktop and laptop and it’s perfect. Installing the drivers through rpm fusion was dead easy, 3 commands in the terminal and done. Wayland is FINALLY there. Fractional scaling is there. Steam games launch fine. I only miss a handful of programs I can’t live without. Affinity software suite and a few games that use EAC are the only reason I keep a windows partition installed. After windows 11 bloatware and lag and intrusive ads and useless AI crap Linux is now home for me. Install and dual boot, you will find yourself more and more running in linux because it works great and privacy is nice.

skulblaka ,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve got a GTX 1080 Ti and after a couple hours of finagling on initial install of Linux Mint I haven’t had any trouble at all. Nvidia ships some proprietary drivers you can use instead of the unofficial open source ones and nvidia-driver-535 has been getting it done no problem.

Other GPU models I can’t speak for, as I don’t own them, and I see some history of folks having trouble with Nvidia. But I got mine done with barely a hitch.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The proprietary drivers got much better, they’re really usable without any noticeable issues. There’s also an effort to get solid open-source drivers, but these don’t work with older cards yet.

histic ,

Personally I’ve been using a Nvidia card on Linux for 4 ish years now originally on a 970 which had a few problems but really only with Wayland, x was flawless now I have a 3070 which I haven’t had any issues on Wayland with the newer drivers and id say I taxed both fairly hard between gaming and blender

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Works fine.

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

Playing CP2077 and BG3 every day no problem, and running AI models like a champ.

Unless you’re living several years in the past, Nvidia drivers aren’t much of an issue anymore.

FiskFisk33 ,

pretty great, i would avoid wayland though, there still seems to be nvidia problems there.

lightnegative ,

The irony is, unlike the old days - actually AMD (ATI) is recommend for Linux now because the drivers are better.

This is in stark contrast to the fglrx days where that driver was an absolute abortion and NVIDIA was really the only usable one.

Not sure when you started your Linux journey but I avoided AMD for years based on that.

Now the tables have turned but I didn’t realize until after I purchased my NUC which has NVIDIA RTX graphics. So I guess I’m stuck on NVIDIA for the foreseeable future

exanime ,

Indeed, that is incredible.

I left Linux 13 years ago and to this day, I have never seen anything to temp me back. And in fairness, they have improved some things in that time

Exact same experience as cutting cable… Can’t even remember why I hesitated so long

BurnSquirrel ,

linux folks just watching

Stowaway ,

Clearly they learned nothing from windows 8…

stebator ,

Win 11 still looks ugly.

My main desktop OS in Linux. But on my Windows 11 VM I’m using StartAllBack app. It makes start menu, task panel to be normal again, like it was in Windows 7 and XP.

Burn_The_Right ,

I’m using StartAllBack app.

God, I hope MS doesn’t find out this exists. I’m sure they’d find some way to break it on an update.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

This reminds me of the time when they broke the ability to disable the god damn Windows 10 lockscreen from the registry. Like why??? What the actual fuck is the reasoning behind this microsoft?!?!? You’re actually paying people to put in the work and make the user experience worse for absolutely no reason, while not even benefitting from it in any way??? This is one of the reasons I will never touch any of this proprietary Microsoft garbage again and strictly use FOSS software, which actually respects the user.

Eheran ,

Respects the user, good one!

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

?

Eheran ,

There are plenty of open source projects that disrespect the user base. Sorry if me having to laugh did not convey that message.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

What makes you think so? Is there something I completely missed? From my experience in FOSS I’d say 95-98% of software actually works in favor of the user. With proprietary software it might be 5-15% at best. Can you name any examples that prove your claims?

Eheran ,

“User” has different meanings or types. FOSS is mostly for power users. Random plebs can get lost, so to speak, it is not for them.

This discussion here sums it up fairly good. Here as well.

Redex68 ,

Interesting design but I’ve literally never used the start menu for the past 5 years I think. I only ever press the windows key and then type the name of the app I need.

whome ,

Not even that,I have like 5-10 programs I use regularly and I have those pinned. Only knew they changed that thing due to postings here on Lemmy.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

PowerToys Run > Start Menu

To my surprise, I even recently discovered that PowerToys is open-source, even though it’s made by Microsoft. It really drastically improves the terrible Windows experience. Thankfully I don’t have to use Windows at all anymore, but if I had to, PowerToys would be the first thing I’d install.

On Linux (KDE) I enjoy using KRunner

Redex68 ,

I have power toys insalled and I love it for a lot of its features, but I never got used to using the run menu.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

There are other good (open-source) options like Flow Launcher (GitHub)

Lucidlethargy ,

Looks like a welcome change, assuming you can edit everything fully.

JigglypuffSeenFromAbove ,
@JigglypuffSeenFromAbove@lemmy.world avatar

Bold of you to say something nice about Windows here on Lemmy, of all places.

avatar ,

Bold of you to use the word bold

I need to start doing that

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