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From Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1as1yjk/microsoft_in_their_infinite_wisdom_has_replaced/
Maybe here is a good place to ask. I have used Mint for months now on my non-gaming laptop. I like it. I was ready to move my gaming rig at months end. Then I read that it can have issues with multiple monitors at different refresh rates and also with Mouse acceleration. Is this true and is there a solution?
For 20 years, now, my only contact with WinBlows is the rare occasion i dual-boot into it to play a game. If I actually had to use it?
[shudders]
... You guys might shit on it, but that's incredibly smart on their part. Ten years or more of that button being there and now suddenly something else replaces it, just imagine the amount of people accidentally hitting the button and being introduced to copilot. This was a very deliberate change.
I'm pretty sure there's a term for it. Google did it with shopping and images, Instagram changed the home button with some advertising thing (dont remember the exact details).
It’s too bad that the year of the linux desktop has been so long in the coming. Because now, it really is far superior to windows. Bluetooth, printers, and games even “just work” these days.
/shrug
I must admit, "Linux becomes the refuge of luddites" was never on any bingo card I could have conceived of for 202X.
"And the lord said unto John, come forth and install gentoo."
Huh? Isn't this about Microsoft changing out a button with a well established use, in order to take advantage of muscle memory and the unobservant?
Don't think it's much to do with people opposing technological advancement, but rather with opposing another company wanting to making a fool of them.
More over being a luddite on Linux is like a fish trying to breathe in a public swimming pool; it works until the chlorine poisoning sets in.
Linux adopts new technology constantly.
The difference is that Linux generally adopts new technology because it enhances the user experience in some way, and not because it maximizes ad revenue and telemetry.
Ehn, one can survive pretty long with a stable distro.
Yes, but eventually that LTS goes EOL and you'll have to move from that abandonware.
The Luddites of Linux are one's desperately trying to convince people that Xorg is perfectly flawless and that Wayland is vaporware.
Why would people you call luddites even care about your opinion really?
Come back with your Wayland ad when there's something like CWM or FVWM for it.
It's simply functionally inferior now. Calling people luddites won't change that.
I guess they figured out where people clicked a lot and put the button there?
Looking forward to the Google search trends for "disable copilot"
Or where people didn't click a lot.
Could go either way - I could see MS doing this because people use this a lot.
Only time I've ever used it was the first time I installed a version with it (7?).
Win-D is far faster, or a simple Alt-Tab, which I've used for what, 30 years now?
Just don't search that if you've also been searching for any flights recently.
Suddenly... WATCHLIST
🤣
Is this just a new Cortana?
more internet and less integration
so.... where's the hide button?
win+d
thats like an entire extra button tho
I never grab a mouse unless I need to
thats probably cool if youre some kinda like, prison hacker or something, im just a basic bitch who clicks on stuff what can i say
edit: also I popped my win key out cuz i kept hitting it instead of alt in games
If you ever become a Linux user, then you already know to stay away from WMs.
I actually have used (for fun and autism's sake) Linux with just VTs, running X for one GUI application at a time without a WM.
But I think you are just ignorant of there always being some program to manage your windows called window manager, while using X.
For some reason, I've actually been thinking about that a lot since I joined lemmy. Weird coincidence, that.
What's WMs?
A window manager, and you are usually using one and can't "stay away" from it, that person just doesn't know what they're blabbering. What they are trying to say is that choosing a window manager may lead you to trying some unusual workflow.
usually using one and can't "stay away" from it.
I have a TTY that says otherwise.
As a hyper simplistic explanation :
Window Managers (WMs) are essentially keyboard centric highly stripped down and highly customizable Desktop Environments in a way. This isn't completely correct, but for the sake of simplicity it'll do.
I can give you a much more technical explanation if you want.
I'm not in the mood to read something super technical right now- But actually y'know what, I will be tomorrow. Hit me with that shit or if it's as much as you seem to be implying, make a post and link me in.
It's not overly technical, just has more nuance :
A Window Manager is a type of compositor or X client (depending on if it's based on Wayland or Xorg respectively) that manages the placement and appearance of windows on the screen.
It is responsible for the appearance and behavior of windows, determining the border, title bar, size, and ability to resize windows, and often providing other functionality such as reserved areas for sticking dock-apps or the ability to tab windows.
It can be part of a Desktop Environment(DE) or be used standalone.
Often times when WMs are referenced it's in reference to standalone WMs which are often keyboard centric and come in various different forms. For example tabbed, tiling, dynamic, stacking, dynamic tiling, etc.
Some popular Xorg based WM in Linux include i3, BSPWM, DWM, Awesome, Fluxbox, Openbox, WMii, Xmonad, etc.
Some popular Wayland based WM including Sway, Hyprland, River, DWL, NeWM, etc.
Then there's WMs built-in to Desktop Environments like Kwin(KDE Plasma) and Mutter(Gnome).
If you're interested there's an Arch Wiki with even more info.
I find it very satisfying to look my boss in the eye as I hide everything.
that does sound satisfying lmfao
@AnActOfCreation You can re-enable it in the Taskbar settings, though (as you also can hide Copilot the same way?).
