I mean, the only Linux I really like these days is arch, so that’s not a big change
The schedule that updates get pushed out on and necessitate reboots and the number of breaking changes that make it past QA in the “insider” releases is all still quite dysfunctional, but a significant amount of windows 10 is still “Microsoft trying to make their platform act more like a Linux distro with better vendor support and a less fucked up compositor stack” so that’s kind of to be expected
Inkscape is a hell of a lot less confusing than Illustrator. I don’t think I’ve ever had to mess with artboards and whatnot in Inkscape. My impression was that Inkscape was like a classy vector mspaint, while Illustrator is for the twin of the guy on the cover of Atari 2600 Basic Programming who went to art school rather than joining Mega-NASA.
my (admittedly, pretty old/aging) laptop is currently on hour four of updates and i have never used a linux distro that wasn’t just done within 15 minutes of finishing downloads
it’s pretty crappy but it’s not that weak of a system…
i disable flux whenever i game or netflix but otherwise it’s fine imo
I put XNViewMP on here and there’s always an inconvenient delay before an image loads?
all bets are off if it’s the initial setup, 7 was far worse in that regard
I’ve never had a regular win10 update take more than 15 minutes
it was the big gigabyte update from last month that i put off
the win7 → win10 update took 9 hours originally!
i’m considering just doing the thing to wipe the OS clean and start fresh
my first experience of giving windows 10 a fair shake for work was realising that not only is fde not on by default, they’re still doing the multiple sku thing & i had to swipe another key
how do you feel re: fedora? the desktop linux guys here seem legit enthused about the last couple of releases
I use arch because it’s the fedora gnome 3 experience without the name and with the AUR instead of yum. so basically few complaints there.
Is MotioninJoy the program to use if you want to use a PS3 controller on the PC or is that the one that probably has a bunch of weird spyware about it?
That doesn’t seem right. Is a very significant one? If it’s very short it may just be something I’ve gotten used to over the years because I never tried the alternatives. Maybe try the not-MP version? Look around in the settings a bit and see if you can find something about preloading images otherwise just go with Irfan since that’s probably the safest bet.
I’m still hesitant to enable FDE on my machines because of the likelihood that I’ll get bored and hose my boot doing something stupid and need to mount it to fix
this is one of the more obvious instances of “I really should just switch back to Macs”
why would enabling a flat dark earth color scheme on your computer mess anything up
felix it’s time to bsd with me
I had my nightstand server (a celeron 300a from 1998 and a lot of double sided tape in lieu of a case) running bsd! my wife kept telling me it was a fire hazard to run it that close to the bed without a fan though and then it stopped wanting to boot without a GPU installed between freebsd 9 and 10 for some reason so it’s been decomissioned for a while.
also it only has 192mb of ram and is very slow so it’s not very good at much
Better DS3 is the motioninjoy thing without all the sketchy stuff, but you still have to run motioninjoy once to get the proper… something from it.
“scp toolkit” works without any of the motioninjoy stuff
it’s still, uh, a windows app that replaces drivers written by some guy on a forum, so depending on your level of trust for 2002-era computing you may be hesitant, but it’s been OK by me
I think DS4windows is the current modern thing now
y’know, i think it’s time for an os reinstall
are there any real caveats to the windows 10 start fresh tool or can i safely just obliterate everything?
I’m still blown away they think the pulsating, glowing screen proclaiming “all your files are right where you left them” after OS/service pack install is anything other than absolutely terrifying.
Every few months my dad calls me to complain about Apple’s conspiracy to relocate his files to the cloud so I’m willing to believe a focus group at Microsoft told them it was a concern.
It probably went something like this