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Mike Stone Apr 19, 2023

How is it the OS that currently lists for $139 on the Microsoft site is the one forcing advertising integrated into the operating system, yet one you can download for free has nothing of the kind? Why is it people just keep using it? When will it be enough to make the majority of people seek alternatives?

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DigitalStefan Apr 20, 2023

@mike Past the initial dance during first install, Windows 11 is "quiet". The one distracting thing I keep meaning to deal with is the very occasional "look at your memories!" popup from OneDrive. I think I see that once per month, maybe.

When alt OS' become as frictionless to use (on a daily basis), they will stand a chance.

For me, as soon as Linux hits a display requiring of some scaling to make readable, things quickly go south.

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smolwaffle Apr 20, 2023

@DigitalStefan
It's astonishing to me that high DPI screens are still unsolved in Linux. Isn't this what Wayland was supposed to fix?

This is a problem I've struggled with since 2002, when I bought a Fujitsu Lifebook P2040.
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DigitalStefan

@smolwaffle @mike there are still some Windows apps that don’t automatically get on well in a scaled environment, but they are few, old and generally all modern software is absolutely fine with it.

Linux bro’s love to tell me “oh you *just* have to do X to get it to work”. Nobody has succinctly explained why the scaling factor is also supposed to be 0.5 in Linux to make things scale up by 2X. That’s about as obtuse as anyone could make it!