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Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months agoYou kind of are forced to use Edge though. There are certain functions via which Edge and only Edge will always launch. F1, the help button, is bound to a function that launches Edge anywhere in Windows Explorer, so you have a hotkey that cannot be rebound.
The only way you can prevent it from launching Edge is either to intercept the keystroke with AHK or similar, or remove Edge in an unsactioned manner that requires deep system fuckery. There are other links within the system settings dialogues that do this too.
At that point I’d call it mandatory.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Unless you want to fix your computer abd clean the windows off.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I do actually. It’s just a lot of work that I haven’t had time or energy for. Not everybody has the spoons to switch to linux.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Honestly, with a super used friendly distro like mint or Ubuntu, or even pop, its not actually harder than windows, it’s just pve instead of PvP when you have trouble; it feels like teamwork and learning rather than being fucked with like windows always seems to.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I have heard that before, to be quite honest.
My resolve is building for a new attempt, but I have repeatedly tried for over 15 years now to make this switch, and still it remains the domain of servers and raspberry pis in my house.
The problem is not getting the base system running to a reasonable level. It is fixing the slew of problems that occur when I try to do literally anything beyond web browsing andxtext editing. Every single new program or piece of hardware seems to take hours of investigation and troubleshooting.
Did you know that the Ubuntu I installed on my second machine can’t play MP4s at all? Like… the default program just refuses to play anything. I’ve tried to fix it but it’s not an issue anyone else seems to have. It’s that broken out of the box. And this is after I got Samba working which took several attempts when I had the energy, and I cannot face the notion of installing another flavour of linux just to go through all that again and find out whatever new issues there are, so I guess the server I use to capture footage just can’t play back that footage. Great.
One of the hardest transitions will be my Pimax VR headset, which runs on a proprietary program made in house by the sole hardware manufacturer that interfaces with SteamVR and only runs on Windows. The program is temperamental at best without running it through Wine, which I’ve never heard of anybody successfully doing.
So like, nice idea, but you linux evangelists need to stop being so glib about the switch and understand that the ecosystem just doesn’t have the critical mass it needs for switching to be an unambiguous good.
I want to be able to switch. I have read the articles. I have reviewed the flavours. I have trisd the livedisks. I have had a toxic fanboy attack me under a 7 year old stackoverflow thread because my question mentioned using PuTTY. I am a programmer. I have tried for literal decades. It is not. That. Simple.