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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When will they ever learn?

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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Linux is easier than ever to adop, distros like Mint just works out of the box, gaming with on Linux with proton and newer Wine much easier now…

Macs are cheaper than ever with MacBook Neo, if you want something that would just works out of the box.

So people have options and they need to realize there is tons of options for every need.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Can second this comment regarding Linux Mint. Many years ago I tried switching to Linux (Ubuntu, I think, back around 2008) but I lacked the knowledge and skills to make it work. Three or four months ago I decided to try again and downloaded Mint and installed it. I've been reading that gaming on Linux had gotten worlds better lately.

    I decided to just dip my toes first and set it up to dual boot, in case I chose to go back to Windows. I had very few problems with the installation and operation. Nothing that took more than a quick google search to solve. Since then it's been not unlike using Windows.

    And yes, gaming seems to work pretty flawlessly too. I installed Steam and have had few issues with running any of the games I've tried.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah until you need niche software... unfortunately

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Run a VM for Windows....

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    there's a few projects for running windows in a container.. winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they're ready for 'prime time' yet. interesting concept, though.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Nope. Not always an option, for example, My recording studio is running Win10. I cannot get the same audio latency\performance I need in a VM, and some of my software will not even run if it detects that it is in a VM.

    There's also things like HASP\Sentinel license keys that will detect VMs and refuse to run, all kinds of licensing servers do this to combat piracy.

    I could go on... but I do IT for hundreds of businesses, I run into these niches fairly often when trying to virtualize legacy systems or retrofitting hardware for industrial equipment.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    thats why I keep a windows usb boot drive, in case I ever need some random software. the last time I needed it was a fallout shelter save editor to enable the new paid content without paying

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, thats not even close to cutting it in the big scheme of things

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    luckily for my line of work and hobbies linux has been great, for work I am required to use a windows laptop but luckily all our appliances we make are linux machines so we just use one of them as a test bench that we ssh into and use that for all our testing of our other appliances since the windows machine is so locked down by IT we cant really use our laptops for production. for home use I mostly just use the browser like 80% of the time then photo editing and little music learning using a little focusrite interface to be able to listen to my piano and videos at the same time and basic recording for playback to see how I did. I never tried to run windows software on linux other than games through steam and proton, I always just looked for alternatives which luckily wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be

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