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It's a fantastic aesthetic tbh. Shame about the awful modern flatness.
Microsoft will unveil the next version of Windows on June 24th - What's next after Windows 10?
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WonderWino
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If they're going to bring back the old style microsoft commercials I suspect they'd be more on this level:
.....Only at the end they throw him a boxed copy of linux instead and drive off
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never mind i fucking hate living
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Artix, Ubuntu, Mint and CentOS have been some of the easiest installations I've ever done. Windows has always had issues.
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Call me dumb, but does Linux (Ubuntu specifically) still make you go through the cmd all the time? I tried it back in the day but couldn't stand that aspect. Also couldn't stand how every time I went to the community for help their answer was basically "don't whine it's free"
If Windows 11 is as bad as people say, and if 10 was any indication it won't be, I might give Mint a try.
If Windows 11 is as bad as people say, and if 10 was any indication it won't be, I might give Mint a try.
Today, no. Maybe you need google somethings to make it work and copy-paste to "cmd"(it's called terminal if you search it) or use it to enter some program. But learning two things how to quit a program that is running in terminal(control + c) and install/unistall using a packet will get far in ubuntu like in windows.
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Considering Ubuntu is a debian-based distro, majority of the stuff you would want can already be installed via the package manager, so it makes life easy.
However, there will be stuff you want that either isn't in the package manager, or is but it's an outdated version that never had a .deb made for it for that specific distro. Compiling from source on cmd is fairly easy, considering majority of the programs the devs make make it easy for people to compile by having them use these 3 simple commands...
./configure
make
sudo make install
Only thing you would probably need as an addition to that is to install the missing repositories, which they even list on their site what you should check for before you compile from source. Like once in a blue moon will you find a program that a dev decided to go away from those simple commands and make you jump through hoops to compile it. If that's the case, just find something else.
Sometimes, the program will be available in an .AppImage, which is basically the Linux equivalent of a .exe windows file, which makes life easy for everybody with any linux distro. Don't use Snap or Flatpak though... haven't heard many good things about it.
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"make you go through the cmd"? No. "Make you think you so"? Yes. On an idiot-proof distro there's very little you can't do through gui menus, I would compare it in frequency to the cases where you have to fuck with compatibility settings, replace .dlls, and hand patch .inis in windows, but the thing is that everything you can do in a gui you can do in the terminal, and the terminal is universal which means that when you search something you're going to find a dozen results for how to do the thing in the terminal versus how to do it in a gui menu. I think that's a good thing, the commands are rarely complex and the knowledge it teaches you is more universal (plus quicker sometimes), but it only rarely precludes performing the same action via clicks. There are also cases where you may think you have to do something via the terminal, but there's either a gui option you didn't know about or a program in the package manager that does it for you. For example the first time I made a bootable usb on *nix I did it using the dd command and some arcane args in the terminal because I didn't know about parted and gparted and the tutorial said to use dd, presumably because it's more universal. Windows has equivalent problems (finding a decent program to mount isos on the net was its own special kind of hell), but they seem less severe, sometimes unnoticeable because over the decades you've either figured out "good enough" solutions or simply been immured to them.
Kill a Troon for Pikamee
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I've been using every windows since 3.1 and as far as I'm concerned the development of windows ended on windows 7, which I will continue using forever
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Aw man... I'd still be on 7 if it weren't for a Ryzen upgrade... cherish that 7 install for me, will ya?
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want to know some special kind of hell most people aren't aware of? windows 10 has dynamic menus. meaning some options simply don't appear if windows thinks they are not relevant. which also means that fancy windows 10 tweak guide with screenshots is completely pointless when the option you want to change isn't there.
also good luck getting rid of some of the preinstalled shit without having to use power shell, because a GUI option doesn't exist at all since you're not supposed to actually uninstall microsoft's shit.
I take a simple copy&paste into a terminal that just werks (and is easy to understand what it does) compared to the shit I had to deal with on windows, because no feedback even with a GUI is an OS feature...
So you want to stick around a OS that is discontinued? Ok but you need to know if you quit before the amigaOS's users than you a less worthy than some nerds that don't know 64bits.
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best windows are the DOS-based ones
in DOS mode
to play DOS games
in DOS mode
to play DOS games
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I still don't get why Microsoft decided to ax DOS from their newer OS'.
"Hey, you know that thing that you can play video games on and is the sole reason why people preferred pc over consoles? Let's remove that"
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They didn't really axe it.
They're giving you the OS part up front and the D somewhere else.
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By "newer" do you mean newer than Windows Me? The "DOS" on NT operating systems has always been an emulator - what do you think NTVDM stands for?
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If that's the case then why is DOSBOX a thing and built-in to every older game that's on GOG?
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Anyone who's stuck using Windows for whatever reason NEEDS to download this program O&O ShutUp 10 It allows you to disable Cortana, Edge, shitty Windows Defender, miscellaneous spyware junk hardcoded into the OS, and even the updates. My laptop boots up in five seconds now and Bill Gates isn't able to sift through my stuff so much anymore.
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Different emulators have different priorities. NTVDM is fully integrated with Windows, including filesystem and port access, but doesn't put much of a priority on graphics, emulating hardware, framerates, etc. If you want those gaming features, you need a gaming emulator like DOSBOX.