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[–] [email protected] 142 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is worth mentioning that changes you made to the IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json file won't have effect in stable versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft has to roll out this new capability to the stable branch in March 2024.

It’s annoying that this is all the way at the bottom of the article. Good to know I can do all this, glad I didn’t attempt to change any of this now, because it’s pointless until these updates hit stable

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago (1 children)

GIVE IT TO ME YESTERDAY

Christmas came early this year

[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The headline is misleading. This Json file is staged but not ready until Microsoft actually releases the changes in March 2024

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Yup.

These changes have already been integrated into Windows 10 with KB5032278 and Windows 11 with KB5032288 , but have largely not yet been activated.

Guess just need to wait till they do.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago (11 children)

deactivate Bing in taskbar search

Stop, I can only get so erect.

Who am I kidding, I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago, and haven't had to deal with such bullcrap.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I already reverted my machines to Windows 10 ages ago

Ah the sweet smell of, "your computer is not ready for Windows 11. Find out what you can do."

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Last week I ditched windows for linux on my last computer.

And yesterday and today have been spent working fruitlessly to mod Baldur's Gate 3.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what's going wrong. So far, I've gotten a grand total of zero mods to work. If I were still on Windows, I could use one of two or three separate mod managers.

Sadly, this new laptop didn't come with Windows 10, only 11. Which was what fueled the drive to ditch it for linux.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did you check out Lutris for mod managers? I know Vortex is on there and is supposed to work with all steam games.

A little detective work got me to this Linux specific mod manager that targets BG3 and CP2077 - https://github.com/CHollingworth/Lampray

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (42 children)

You know, if you use Linux you don't have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn't it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Some of you sound like the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet lifestyle.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

That's because like vegans, there is a moral imperative that most ignore or don't care about, we have a genuine emotional attachment to foss, and because you are ignorant of the topic, you don't care to listen.

What he said is harmless, true, and there is a moral imperative to say it, and ontop of that it isn't like a diet, it's better software that respects you, doesn't spy on you, and for free and the only downside is a 15 minute install process (and the use of a flash drive). Why do you care enough to fight that?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)

I'm all for Linux and have been using it for years, but saying a 15min install is the only downside is disingenuous. For many people there are a few programs they rely on that won't work on Linux, and hardware support and general user-friendliness are still not quite where they should be.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

The whole point of computers, as far as I can tell, is to be that abusive relationship we never could perfect with humans. Linux is no exception, it's just more passive-aggressive and better with gaslighting.

"You see, if only you'd installed this dependency, which I showed you so clearly in the error logs all along - and I categorised them so nicely - but you never like to look there, do you? - I mean, I understand, and that's why I mentioned it - not too strongly, because I didn't want to upset you more - in the terminal output..."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Most Linux developers don't include anti-features on purpose, but Windows developers do.

I think dependencies have gotten simpler on Linux with flatpak. The fact that the command-line is still sometimes needed on Linux is just a fact of life. Nobody is forcing users to use it out of any sort of passive-aggressive distain for users, but just that it takes less time out of volunteer developers' schedules to buold command-line tools.

I think one thing to note in the CLI-GUI debate though is that Windows pushed hard against CLI interfaces from day 1. Even starting with Windows 3, there were a lot of things you couldn't do with CLI easily, while Unix has always had full CLI support. Users being unfamiliar with CLI interfaces is a symptom of Windows dominance.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Package managers have become so much better with dependencies. It's been a while since I've encountered an issue, with yay it very usually works out of the box.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Listen, I probably one of the most hardcore linux propagandists out there, which spells disaster when I confess I'm anything but a tech guru, but even I am aware some people are too off the deep end to swim back and move to another OS.

Windows is locked in a dominant position and regardless how bad their solutions are in fact, not enough tech/privacy aware high level managers exist to push windows off the corporate shelf.

The alternative is to spread Linux and FOSS to kids and incentivize the use and exploring of technology because it is simply fun to do it, not shotgun proseletize and hope something sticks.

Your intention is good but the method, which I often use as well, needs a lot of refining.

[–] Octopus1348 18 points 11 months ago (19 children)

And if you use Linux you have to jump through hoops to install (non-steam) games. I know, just yesterday I had to search a working tutorial for installing Fall Guys.

BTW for anyone needing help in the future, this worked: https://youtu.be/X41PlQNx0vk

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago

Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables you to dock the fucking taskbar to the side of your screen.

I'm just a simple girl with simple desires.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

These systems are critical to serving ads/propaganda. This is a dark day for the free world

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This really should be on for everyone, not just when it detects you're in the EU.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It took me embarrassingly long to figure out how to read the title correctly. Like, you need a json file to enable Edge and Bing??

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (21 children)

At this point it's literally just easier to use any Linux distro

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Suuure, let me know when Revit, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, OpenRoads Designer are operable and supported on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I knoooooooow. I know arcgis is working on it at least. I'm a geologist, a ton of our geospatial programs require windows.

But I'm about ready to experiment with a dual joot for my home set up! I really never need windows for that anymore

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I just installed Ubuntu (the more mainstream ofnlinux distros) to replace my windows OS. I was greeted by a cryptic error. After a quick search for some tecno bable, i had to start on safe mode and install the video drivers.

Do you think a "regular user" would be able to do this?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Just install Linux already. Have any inevitable windows requirements? Run them in a VM until you can get rid of them. Fuck Microsoft and their bullshit

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (15 children)

I dunno man, I recently put Mint onto my Lenovo and... the refinement just isn't there STILL. dual monitor management isn't very good, even mouse acceleration doesn't play well when you go from the touchpad to an external mouse. Sure, many things have improved, but the fit and finish just isn't even where windows was a decade ago...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sweet, even less garbage to clutter up the ol gaming rig.

Maybe one day game devs will enable anticheat on Linux so I can finally uninstall the shit OS.

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