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Windows 11½

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  1. accrual · · focus · HN ↗
    This is insanely good and mimics my personal experience of Windows these days. I literally say "pop-up! pop-up! pop-up!" out loud during a normal workday where one pop-up or prompt is rapidly replaced by another. Same app or different, doesn't matter, there's always something trying to grab attention on a Windows desktop unless you configure the hell out of it (and even that is no longer enough).

    My favorite "joke" from this site:

    > Scan complete: 1 threat found — ChromeSetup.exe

    FWIW, I switched to Fedora in January and have no plans to look back. Only $dayjob relies on Windows anymore.

    1. marcduck · · focus · HN ↗
      What WM/DE do you use? As much as I find Windows annoying sometimes, I haven't found anything for linux that feels as polished.
      1. delecti · · focus · HN ↗
        The handful of popular DEs [0] are going to be much more polished and functional for like 99% of tasks, and nonexistent [1] for the other 1%. The OS settings are conveniently located in a sensibly organized system settings manager and it works great. Then you need to mount a network drive (temporarily or permanently) and simply cannot do so in a GUI. If you're comfortable dealing with that small handful of outlier tasks (and if you're here, you can probably manage), then they're all already there.

        [0] I use KDE, but it's essentially true of all of them

        [1] that is, they require the command line

        1. hju22_-3 · · focus · HN ↗
          > The handful of popular DEs [0] are going to be much more polished and functional for like 99% of tasks, and nonexistent [1] for the other 1%.

          Lol! You should try being a comedian.

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