• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    You don’t see how terrible Windows is until you’ve switched to another OS and need to interact with it again.

    The constant pop-ups, the ads everywhere, the settings hidden away.

    It really feels like your PC isn’t yours.

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      I have to use Windows at work. Once, apropos of nothing at all, a system pop-up asked me if I wanted to buy an XBox controller. When I lock the screen and come back, sometimes Edge will have opened all by itself, presenting me with the Bing homepage. Nice try, Microsoft!

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      5 days ago

      Honestly, not being able to run Dolphin as root made me feel like my PC wasn’t mine more than anything windows did up until recently.

      Your computer is yours… As long as you’re comfortable doing it via terminal… Yay…

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        5 days ago

        That’s been fixed for nearly 2 years now.

        Install

        kio-admin
        

        Then in the location bar type:

        admin:
        

        It’ll prompt you for your password and then:

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          4 days ago

          You’ve given me instructions that require terminal use, your argument is invalid. If it doesn’t either work out of the box or is immediately fixable without going into the terminal, then it’s not ready yet.

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            Counter arguments are not allowed on Lemmy. Especially this topic. It’s non negotiable and you will always be wrong or downvoted for being right