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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I miss the human connection with those around me who use windows. After years of using Linux almost exclusively, I now miss being able to relate to them. Sometimes I feel lonely because of it.

Colleagues get to resonate with all the windows slowness and reliability issues, and I can only stay silent.

"Hey, how can I do this obscure thing?" "Oh yes that's easy... err... no, I don't know." So many methods that are easy on Linux are basically impractical on windows. E.g. many text file processing tasks are doable swiftly with simple shell scripts or even bash one-liners; what will a windows user do? Telling them to automate something means suggesting them to create a new Java project. Opening an SSH session means using Mobaxterm which limits the number of sessions you can create.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The level of detail and control in the Properties dialog from the file explorer in Windows. Also its ability to easily search by metadata like the bitrate of media files.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Hardware info (hwinfo) or similar. Be able to check all voltages, speed and temps while testing new hardware. For example my ARC A770 has little to no info, and shows running at pcie x1.

Edit: mistakingly thought link width was x4, but looking at it again shows x1

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I miss not having to worry about whether any app or game would be easy to install and work flawlessly.

edit. also printing in general, situation is so dire that I just send whatever I want to print to my phone and print it from there these days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Printing was horrible on Windows, and Mac uses cups too, no? I've only ever had good experiences printing from Linux

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's far too retro. No one else will get the joke.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I'm here. I'm old too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

For me it’s the Mac Finder. It’s always running so (unless it crashes) there’s no delay in opening a file manager window and, more importantly, it has built in Quicklook and Miller columns. Haven’t managed to find a good-enough implementation of either of those in Linux, so I just work around it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It always shocks me that Linux file mangers don’t embrace Miller columns. They’re so great.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well I installed linux the day i bought my first laptop. I just started windows, got bored after sometime, then install fedora KDE because i can't withstand windows issues

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A minor but useful GUI feature on MacOS in list view is showing the size of directories as well as individual files and being able to sort by those sizes. That extra step in Linux of having to contextually click on a listed directory and choose "Properties" all the way at the bottom of that menu is a minor annoyance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Dolphin has this as an option (Configure Dolphin > View > Content Display > Folder Size > Show size of contents[...])

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

In my previous comment, I forgot to add the ability to easily clone one installation from one computer to another.

I’ve used Clonezilla on Linux but with mixed results.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

ntfs compression

btrfs compression was really cpu-heavy last time i tried it. ntfs compression just worked with little hassle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Might've been a while since you tried. There's quite a few options now. zstd is real nice and fast.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Good OS-native cloud syncing. The Windows Cloud Sync Engine is so useful and is now adopted by virtually every cloud storage provider, and crucially lets you keep your entire cloud drive visible as unsynced files and pulls them on-demand (ie. what Dropbox call Smart Sync).

Thanks to being freelance and working for different companies I have different files I work on in Dropbox and Onedrive as well as my personal stuff being stored on Proton and my Synology NAS through Drive, and none of these have linux integrations that even come close to their Windows or macOS equivalents. Things like Syncthing and rclone will do selective sync, so you aren't forced to sync your entire cloud drive on to your laptop's tiny SSD, but that still means half your files are missing and have to be accessed through janky browser interfaces 🤢

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

OS-level support for cloud storage. OneDrive, Dropbox and all the others work seamlessly on Windows through the Windows API. You can browse all the files on the file system and once you access them, the OS will call back the cloud provider to download them. It works through all applications, all cloud providers. I am aware that some tools on Linux have something similar to work around the issue in user land. Some solutions are less worse than others but none of them are as good as on Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I've been waiting for a post like this. Every single time I have tried Windows 11 I have fallen in love with the UI and UX. Sure, it can be buggy at times, but that's true with anything. It has always pained me a little bit every time I have to replace it with Linux. KDE Plasma 6 is the closest I've been able to find to Windows 11. Microsoft in my opinion did a really sleek and nice job making Windows 11 pretty, especially compared to Windows 10.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

It's a usability nightmare for me. I sure love it when I open a PowerShell prompt, and some random window takes focus instead for no reason. Or when I create a new folder in Explorer, and the address bar inexplicably steals focus.

And that right-click menu can take a long walk off a short pier

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel this. KDE has done an incredible job making Plasma gorgeous and usable.

Now I feel like with Plasma 6 there's everything to gain and nothing to lose, aesthetically and usably.

On my old fun-and-games laptop I made everything look Aero-esque like my favorite aspects of XP and 7 haha. It's not practical but I'm experimenting with different toolbar layouts and stuff.

But the biggest improvement coming from Windows? Not having a "fake fisher-price control panel" and an obfuscated "actual control panel" somewhere else. Plasma does a really good job of putting everything easily within reach.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But the biggest improvement coming from Windows?

The thing that got me to switch from Windows to Linux (the straw that broke the camel's back) was Window's "Eco Mode". Eco Mode is a cute little thing that (at least at the time) cannot be disabled. It automatically slows down apps so your computer draws less power to help the environment. What did that mean for you? ChatGPT (which was just starting to boom at the time) would become barely functional because Eco Mode would slow down the browser. You could only temporarily disable it per-process, but it will enable itself right back again whenever it wants.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Foobar2000. Haven't found anything similar in terms of ui customization options, easy convert and ReplayGain operations built in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In feel, quodlibet

But yeah, the extensibility.... yeah, there's nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

afaik foobar2000 works flawless via wine. it is even in the AUR (if you are an Arch user): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar2000

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I kind of miss being able to play League of Legends, bit I guess staying away from that crack is a blessing in disguise.

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