• @Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    1241 year ago

    I noticed this bullshit a few days ago on my Win 11 desktop! I found if you go check the settings of the start bar, you can hide the copilot icon in the lower right, and then there’s a check box to enable the lower right hand corner to work as show desktop again. The functionality can be restore to exactly as it was, but what the hell were they thinking.

    Enshitification, plain and simple.

  • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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    1361 year ago

    I’ve been using Linux since Ubuntu was in the single digits. Looks like windows entering the double digits is finally the end. I thought win10 would be able to stay relatively unmolested, but nope, copilot button and bullshit right there in the bar. Why can’t you just leave us the fuck alone. Your driving everyone away who doesn’t have a professional obligation to use your OS. I’ll still have to keep a old win10 boot drive that never connects to a network so I can play games and use CAD that Linux can’t. As a KDE fanboi they’ve added pretty much everything I’ve always wished for and plasma 6 is launching.

    Now is my time. Fuck you Microsoft. I won’t miss you.

    • yeehaw
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      121 year ago

      I flirted with gnome this install around. I’m so lazy to reinstall yet again to get back to my previous plasma. Seriously Linux is a way better experience these days, I wish those that could would just give it an honest shot. The learning curve isn’t too bad once you understand a couple things.

      • @Fal@yiffit.net
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        41 year ago

        Gnome is awful. It’s almost as bad as windows. Basically 0 customization, and getting worse every release. I can’t even fathom how you would voluntarily switch from plasma to gnome and not immediately switch back

        • @cole@lemdro.id
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          that’s a fair opinion, but for some people they feel the same way about KDE (me). Gnome’s workflow is killer for me, and I love the consistency in design and intent with everything.

          I suppose not everybody just wants customizability

        • @randomname01@feddit.nl
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          41 year ago

          It just works for me, and I prefer the look to that of KDE. Like, fair enough if it’s not your cup of tea, but your basic point here is “I don’t like the workflow and I highly value customisation”, and you then act like your subjective preferences are fact.

          You can customise Gnome quite a lot, btw. I’m not even saying you should give it another shot, but please just don’t act like your personal preferences are objectively accurate.

          • @Fal@yiffit.net
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            11 year ago

            I’m not even saying you should give it another shot, but please just don’t act like your personal preferences are objectively accurate.

            I’m forced to use it at work if I want to use linux. You really can’t, and to customize even a little bit you need lots of extra tools and maybe even access the css. For example, https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ is the only way to get a usable task bar. And calling it usable is being very generous.

            The gnome devs are extremely opinionated in removing configuration and features. It’s honestly disgusting

          • yeehaw
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            11 year ago

            I dislike how they took away minimizing windows. Please help me understand the lack of system tray. I have apps that go there and I have a plugin to bring it back and all the icons have a black background which is super annoying.

            Discord, telegram, signal, flameshot, and others are in there and I don’t understand how gnome intends me to access them otherwise when they’re “closed” in the background.

            • HACKthePRISONS
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              i’ve always been able to minimize windows from the alt-space window menu. but they are enabling all kinds of customization through the extensions. i have transparent windows (every window, not just apps that support it as part of their functionality), tiling through the Forge extension, the tweak tool gives you lots of stuff including restoring the minimize button to where you think it should be, and there is even an extension to give you your system tray back. but now the gnome team can just focus on putting together the essential parts, and people who want thefunctionality you describe can build it and install it through the extensions.

              i, too, was a bit put off when they ditched the gnome2 look and feel, and i stayed on xfce for a long time. but my job had me using windows and i found out that i like just hitting super, typing what i want to do, and then it happens.

              now, the software center’s tendency to tell me to reboot for updates is something else. we can hotswap kernels now. don’t fucking tell me i need to reboot.

              • yeehaw
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                11 year ago

                My experience with the extensions is they frequently break on gnome updates and sometimes functionality is missing when updated and it’s been a disaster imo

        • FreeSoftware Ganoo
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          21 year ago

          Idk with a couple of extensions I really enjoy the GNOME work-flow. Although I admit KDE on my SteamDeck has been tempting me lately.

          • @Fal@yiffit.net
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            31 year ago

            KDE is amazing and you should give it a try. It’s unbelievably customizable, and is so much more seamless. Having to use gnome is almost as frustrating as having to use macos. And in a lot of the same ways. Like, trying to get a usable task bar in gnome is infuriating.

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              usable task bar in gnome

              Just one easy to enable extension for this, but it should definitely be the default. Overall I like the stock GNOME experience and find it clean. When you get the hang of GNOME it starts to make sense. Super key is the answer.

              KDE is obviously more powerful, but I don’t like customizing my desktop very much so that point is moot for me.

              I’m going full KDE for the next 6 months, you should try GNOME for a bit, give it a solid chance with extensions.

    • Cethin
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      131 year ago

      Have you tried gaming on Linux lately? You don’t need Windows anymore except if you use GamePass, because MS has locked that software down to Windows. The only problem game I had was The Finals until recently, and it now works on Linux. Besides that the only issue is I can’t mod Baulder’s Gate 1 because it requires injecting things and that doesn’t work with Linux as far as I can figure out. The game runs fine.

      • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        Yes, I’m a long time mint user, and I was also a 1st batch steamdeck so I’ve seen how far just proton has come. There’s still a handful of games that just won’t work, work but not with the mods I need, or take a performance hit. I also have a driving simulator with a VR headset. I’m sure I could get it running on Linux eventually but windows just does it. Recognizes and just installed the drivers for all my hardware. And for VR, there are now a lot of solutions, but I’ve found windows to just be the fastest and best performing. I need every frame I can get running vr on a 2060.

        • Cethin
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          11 year ago

          Yeah, modding sucks right now. If the game let’s you manually add mods without injecting, then it’s fine, though manual can take a while. Nexus Mod Manager (and most others, though CKAN for KSP(1&2) works pretty well but won’t launch the game through that application for me) don’t work yet for Linux, but it looks like they’re working on a new application that’ll run natively on Linux, so I’m looking forward to that.

          • @cole@lemdro.id
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            21 year ago

            r2modman has a native Linux client as well and handles pretty much all unity games

      • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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        Yes, and holy shit has it come so far. Unfortunately in the professional world you often just need the native program to open the file. Even just for compatability, but rolling back and/or modifying is only possible within its native software.

        • Synapse
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          21 year ago

          Would OnShape be an option for you ? I haven’t booted up Windows since I was able to work with OnShape to replace Solidworks. But I just do hobby projects. I didn’t have to worry about compatibility for collaboration.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        51 year ago

        FreeCAD…is getting there. They’re actually heading toward a 1.0 release, and bringing usability and convenience features. I’d say by 2025 it’ll be a better value proposition than the “Free non-commerical use drawbackware” tier offerings from Onshape or Fusion360.

    • mesamune
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      511 year ago

      10+ years with Linux as my daily driver (yeah I’m old). When my os updates, it’s almost always with some feature that’s pretty neat.

      Nowadays the steamdeck or some combo of Linux with steam can play my games, do my work, and I actively make other people’s lives better when I contribute.

      • @Allero@lemmy.today
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        121 year ago

        Thanks for your contribution to the Linux ecosystem!

        It’s people like you who make this whole thing possible

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          41 year ago

          Anyone can. It’s part of what makes it great.

  • FaceDeer
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    1961 year ago

    I must admit, “Linux becomes the refuge of luddites” was never on any bingo card I could have conceived of for 202X.

    • Ekky
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      921 year ago

      Huh? Isn’t this about Microsoft changing out a button with a well established use, in order to take advantage of muscle memory and the unobservant?

      Don’t think it’s much to do with people opposing technological advancement, but rather with opposing another company wanting to making a fool of them.

      • Rustmilian
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        251 year ago

        More over being a luddite on Linux is like a fish trying to breathe in a public swimming pool; it works until the chlorine poisoning sets in.
        Linux adopts new technology constantly.

        • @Hubi@feddit.de
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          841 year ago

          The difference is that Linux generally adopts new technology because it enhances the user experience in some way, and not because it maximizes ad revenue and telemetry.

          • Rustmilian
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            Yes, but eventually that LTS goes EOL and you’ll have to move from that abandonware.

            • Granixo
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              91 year ago

              Ubuntu LTS versions can last 10-12 years before EOL.

              • Rustmilian
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                Yes, 10-12y to swim, slowly in-taking chlorine overtime…
                Then when you do finally switch, you find yourself in a similar yet vastly different swimming pool and the cycle starts over.
                Imagine when eventually the LTS goes Wayland only and Luddites go : “I’mma just stay with my abandonware forever.”
                Luddites hate adapting to new technology as a character trait, it’s what makes them a Luddite.
                Luddites will often choose to deal with decrepit, vulnerable, abandonware then change to something new because they don’t want to spend a week learning new “muscle memory”.

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        This is just another gripe about how Microsoft is putting AI into everything. If it’s really just about the position of a button (which apparently can be changed in the settings if you still want it there) it’s even more petty. Certainly not worth posting about on a general technology community.

        • @StarPupil@ttrpg.network
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          301 year ago

          I work in IT, and every time I do an install (sometimes new computers, sometimes not) for someone I see Microsoft’s little News widget they put on the Taskbar, the one that pops up a huge window if you mouse over it. Every time I see that, I ask the person if they ever use it, and they always say no. Then I ask them if they want it gone, and they always say yes, usually with some kind of relief. It’s a matter of two clicks to do it, easier than going into the settings menu like your screenshot, but every computer I haven’t been on previously has it. Now, I’d wonder why Microsoft would put something on the Taskbar that is, in my experience, universally disliked. To me it reeks of the pathetic, groveling, “I’ll suck your dick” energy they have when someone installs Chrome.

          Windows 10 changed a lot over the course of its lifetime, and while some feature are good, like Dark Mode, they’re mostly useless or downright bad. So putting something that most people will never use and will greatly confuse and annoy the average user in a place that has been dedicated to a single function for at the very least Windows 10’s entire lifetime (I think it’s there in 8 and maybe 7 also) for seemingly no reason other than to fuck with people’s muscle memory is just one more move very worthy of griping about, no matter how easy it is for users to turn off. Because 99% of users just won’t, because they aren’t confident enough to go futzing around in the settings. But they’ll still get whatever god awful popup this button shows every time they try to show desktop like they’ve been doing for over a decade. It’s yet another change that nobody asked for, nobody will use, and that the user will have to remember that it’s different now for no reason.

    • TherouxSonfeir
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      111 year ago

      It would mean corporate software support. And while you might still choose FOSS, it means money pouring into Linux—which is always a good thing.

    • Rustmilian
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      541 year ago

      The Luddites of Linux are one’s desperately trying to convince people that Xorg is perfectly flawless and that Wayland is vaporware.

        • @Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Yeah, I don’t know why they devolve back to tribalism. I just installed the thing and the programs I had to use and just…kept using it since I didn’t want to pirate windows xd. No need to shout to others what’s my favorite fake non Unix distro or anything.

          • Rustmilian
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            This is not tribalism.
            This is people crying because Windows moved from 95 to 98 for comparison.

            Xorg has a plethora of unfixable issues, and people are mad that we can’t & don’t want to stick to it for all eternity, crippling the hell out of Linux growth & innovation.

        • Rustmilian
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          inevitably run into a problem with Linux

          This has nothing to do with any of kind of Linux problem.
          It’s just Luddites crying because Linux is moving on from outdated flawed software that has a bunch of unfixable problems.
          Same shit happens with windows, my guy. “WHAAAAAAAA MY WINDOWS XP/98 WHAAAAAA”, at least it’s often partially valid for windows…
          Luddites are not exclusive to any particular OS.

          If someone is having a Linux issue, they just need to ask. Literally just ask me, or the vast major of other users, we’ll literally provide better tech support than Windows will ever have.

          • Kaity
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            31 year ago

            yeah I’ve seen the windows support forums, every official response either misses the point of the question or the answer is straight up wrong.

            • Rustmilian
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              What gets me is the replies like “just wipe it & reinstall the whole thing”.
              Yeah right, like I’mma spend an entire hour wiping, reformatting and reinstalling Windows, then varying additional time reconfiguring everything for a problem that likely has an extremely simple solution but they’re too lazy to gather the necessary information to actually solve it.
              Assuming that the Windows installer doesn’t fuck up and I have to restart the install process again, which has happened to me several times.
              At least Linux takes 5-10m tops to install for the user friendly distros.
              Even I, a Linux user who’s spent hours upon days debugging kernel issues for my hardware can see how fuckin stupid that shit copout advice is.

      • @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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        21 year ago

        Why would people you call luddites even care about your opinion really?

        Come back with your Wayland ad when there’s something like CWM or FVWM for it.

        It’s simply functionally inferior now. Calling people luddites won’t change that.

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          Why would people you call luddites even care about your opinion really?

          Literally, YOU right now.
          Also, this is the linux community; everyone has an opinion on everyone else’s opinion.

          Come back with your Wayland ad when there’s something like CWM or FVWM for it.

          LabWC, Enlightenment, Wayfire, Weston, Sway, Hyperland, Vivarium, DWL, Velox, etc.

          It’s simply functionally inferior now.

          It’s functionally superior in many ways, and here’s the real kicker, its actually maintainable and expandable.
          Xorg HDR when? How many decades and still don’t have HDR? LMAO.
          I’m done waiting for Xorg to improve and implement features that simply will never be.

          • @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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            Literally, YOU right now.

            I’m improving the community by answering demonstrably stupid opinions. So I don’t care about you in particular.

            Sway, Hyperland, Vivarium, DWL, Velox, etc.

            Wrong.

            Xorg HDR when? How many decades and still don’t have HDR? LMAO.

            I don’t use HDR and I don’t care. Just like you don’t care about what I use.

            its actually maintainable and expandable.

            Yes, I’m sure somewhere 10 years after I’ll use it after it’s been finally expanded to something usable.

            I’m done waiting for Xorg to improve and implement features that simply will never be.

            Too bad

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              I’m improving the community by answering demonstrably stupid opinions

              You answer you’re own opinions? funny.

              Wrong

              CWM : stacking window manger
              LabWC, Enlightenment, Wayfire, Weston, and Sway, etc.

              FVWM : Tab Window Manager
              DWL, Hyprland, Sway again, etc.

              You’re factually disproven.

              I don’t use HDR and I don’t care…
              I’m sure somewhere 10 years after…

              Luddite : one who is opposed to technological change.
              Thanks for proving my point. For further discussion you can TELNET me @ www.megaboomerenergy.com::80

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                  If you want a 1:1 equivalent WM, then you’ll just have to build it yourself scrub.
                  The WMs I listed can already do everything CWM & FVWM can, then some.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      That’s what made me refuse to use the Reddit official app before their API garbage. Every update was a gamble as to whether they’d try to make me spend money through muscle memory.

  • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    Just once I would love to open one of these threads without seeing people shitting… on Linux.

    Linux is not even the one doing anything wrong but people gotta rag on whoever recommends it as an alternative. This is getting more annoying than however annoying they say Linux users are.

    edit: Just to make clear because some folks aren’t getting it, this is not an invitation to argue about how you feel about Linux and Linux users. I. don’t. fucking. care. I don’t even use Linux. Take it to someone who cares.

  • @Dr_Satan@lemm.ee
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    Linux. You’ll be glad you did.

    Free. Easy to install. Never gets viruses. Never crashes. Rock solid.

    Runs good on old machines. Runs like lightning on new machines.

    I’ve installed it for 3 old ladies (3 separate installs). They like its simplicity and low-bullshit.

    I personally use Debian with a Mate desktop.

  • @Roderik@lemmy.world
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    91 year ago

    Windows is shitty—don’t get me wrong. But for all my coursework it’s pretty annoying to do on Linux. Especially Office, and yes I am well aware it’s a MS product and that Linux-support will likely never come. Though the limited online version of Office or LibreOffice don’t quite cut it for me. Besides, running it with Wine or in a VM is too much of a hassle.

    So “Switch to Linux!” is not really a solution for some. Let’s hope that’ll change in the future.

    With that said, fuck Microsoft! I use NixOS btw.

  • Vik
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    221 year ago

    can this be hidden via registry or group policy?

  • @Defaced@lemmy.world
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    531 year ago

    Linux exists people, without copilot using your information for training data and if you game, has Valve releasing updates like crazy for proton making it easier and easier to use Linux for gaming. The only thing I use Windows for is GeForce now as the windows and Mac apps are the only way for me to play 1440p 120fps with their service.

    Good beginner distros: pop_os, Ubuntu, Linux mint, Nobara or fedora, Garuda, Manjaro, solus, zorin. The possibilities are really endless. Just take your pick, make a bootable USB and try it out.

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    231 year ago

    Win+d, I wasn’t even aware there was an icon for it. If it’s not the date, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or VPN, I’m all keys