I’m sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.
There’s a literal native toggle to disable Copilot so that’d be really weird.
There’s a toggle
Becomes
There’s a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu
Becomes
If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have
Becomes
Toggle it off if you want but it’s still going to run in the background
Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.
Until there isn’t a toggle
It’s just a miniscule step of enshittification away.
Glad I have no idea what this is. Thanks Proton
What does Proton have to to with this?
You don’t need widows to game anymore (Proton the game software for Linux, not Proton the VPN/email provider)
I’ll switch once HDR support becomes mainstream in Linux. That and a Linux equivalent of AutoHDR (which is a Windows 11 feature that converts SDR videos and games to HDR). This is literally the only thing keeping me on Windows.
I have to make this nitpick:
“you” are the one keeping you on windows. You decide that those features are more important than any disadvantages.
Which I think is absolutely OK - that’s your choice. Many many people took this choice for a myriad of reasons and are the sum of “windows majority” - and no “I would change if” will perpetuate either feature development on Linux programs nor pressure on Microsoft.
Yes I’m aware of this. I’m not telling other people to stay away from Linux over HDR. If you don’t care about it, then by all means feel free to use whatever OS you want. Just sharing my personal opinion.
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HDR has been working great for me in KDE. I’ve been using mpv for HDR videos, and games with HDR work great. KDE has an SDR vibrancy setting when HDR is enabled that lets you decide how bright and colorful you want SDR content (turn it up enough and it looks like HDR to me), I’m not sure if that’s how auto HDR works.
What about an SDR brightness setting? Does it have that too?
The SDR option is actually called “SDR brightness” and it seems to increase both the colour intensity and brightness as you slide it up. I have it set to 150 out of 500 and it’s about as intense as I’d want it.
Thanks for the reply. I’m switching to Linux today. Gonna give EndeavorOS a try.
im curious what version of kde plasma you’re on, i thought they were still working on it and plasma 6 just released. My computer with the hdr monitor is still on plasma 5.
edit: should’ve looked it up first of course. looks like support is expiremental on Wayland plasma 6. I’ll see what happens when kubuntu catches up.
Nobara comes with Plasma 6 and a pile of proton/wine/gpu upgrades to improve gaming, and put on a Fedora base that’s impressively stable. It’s done by GloriousEggroll so it’s all cutting edge Wine improvements.
Yeah, I’m on plasma 6, and interesting that they call it experimental. The setting is available by default in the display settings with no warning or anything. Either way, it works perfectly- hopefully kubuntu updates to 6 soon because it’s so much better than 5 :)
Pays 100$ for windows 11 pro expecting to not see targeted advertising.
“Play Candy Crush on the Windows App Store Now!” ad baked into the Lock Screen ffs why
Buy an OEM key next time, I’ve never spent more than 20 bucks for Pro.
Or, you know, don’t use Windows
Yeah, I mostly use Linux. Unfortunately, certain games only run on Windows and you’re stuck using it if you want to play those titles.
There are so many good games out there, I can simply skip the ones that don’t run on Linux.
Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there’s going to be a purge of this kind of software from the platform coming down the pike.
I’m sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I’ve never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.
There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.
Gitlab comes to mind.
Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub
It’s impossible to imagine that they haven’t talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.
The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven’t turned it to shit yet, but it’s basically inevitable isn’t it?
Microsoft is a services company anymore.
You pirating their desktop operating system as an end user is something they don’t care a lot about if we’re being honest.
Inevitable, idk. Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t trust them but they’ve acted in good faith so far as it pertains to GitHub.
If they enshittify they have competitors.
The only update I want is going back to Windows 7 anyway. This crap they call a modern operating system is inferior to Linux and mac os.
I’ve been doing windows since 3.0 (aka ~1990) Me last version is windows 7, too.
I’m going to Linux. I’m done with fighting windows unless I’m paid.
At this point I’ve just abandoned the start menu all together. PowerToys Run has effectively become how I launch anything that isn’t on the taskbar, tied to one of the buttons on my mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Everything search on a different shortcut replaces the built-in search.
Of course that’s just how I cope on my mandatory-Windows 11 work laptop. At home (and I know this is almost a meme at this point), I’m slowly getting myself accustomed to Linux alongside Windows 10 until that’s no longer feasible.
Am I the only one that still using the file explorer to navigate to the folders I want?I’ve never used the start menu…only computer then Explorer
Am I misunderstanding something or are you saying you dig into the program files every time you launch a program? I thought the OP was talking about programs not files and folder.
I don’t install to program files typically, but yes. I navigate the tree and launch either my bat files or exe files directly. A program is just launched by a ‘file’ or executable in this case.
That sounds needlessly complex when you can create shortcuts, either on the start menu or desktop. Or another central location.
TIL file trees are complex…
