Micro$oft doing pretty good job advertsiting Linux and FOSS! Keep going! 👍👍👍

Recall is not mandatory after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBqIUkmVel8

Recall and the new file explorer share a dependency, except the file explorer doesn't mark it as a dependency, so when Recall is removed, it is removed as well. Good job, Microsoft.

Fucking incredible.
- "That's just incredible"
  
  Tim Cook
Ahh the beautiful wonders of Agile software development.
PR trainwreck is strong with this one
Because that's was a "bug"

Nobody thinks more about Windows than Linux users.

Mostly because Linux doesn't get in my way and I don't need to think about it.
Completely reasonably. Half of us are on here specifically to avoid Windows after all
- You're on Lemmy to avoid Windows? You guys can't help but talk about it!
- You avoid Windows by thinking about it all the time?

Bro, buddy, compadre, 99% don't even know what an operating system is

Most of my stuff works on Linux now, so, yay. Currently only thing holding me back from doing a full switch is essentially video editing.

My current go-to video editor is Vegas Pro, and it just works like an extension of me, for me. I've tried few editors on linux (kdenlive, davinci) but they're either very limited/odd/user-error-id10t or just doesn't support video formats I need (davinci, free version doesn't support h264 or hevc, and not feeling like shelling north of 300 USD for it). Next up on my testing plate is Shotcut, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I've used Shotcut on PopOS.

Worked pretty well for doing something about as complex as a editing together a typical youtube video.

Hell I even managed to get it to support h.265 after some tinkering. h264 and hevc worked as well.

Also, in a similar vein... Krita is basically Photoshop from about a decade ago in terms of functionality, less outdated UI and more functional than GiMP, though its a bit chonkier (memory / CPU intensive).
- Krita isn't a photoshop clone, it's a drawing program.
Check out Blender. It's primarily a 3D modeling software like Maya or Houdini, but it has an incredibly powerful video editor built into it.
- I do use blender quite a bit, but haven't really used much of the video editor. Last time I tried it CTD'd contantly. If it has gotten stable, reasonable audio tools and gpu accelerated video output, it might be a contender.
I tried a few out and found that Flowblade worked best for me. If you're only trimming and combining video though, you MUST check out Lossless Cut. It's ridiculously fast.
- thank you for the tip, will check it out.
  
  Essentially what I need is 3+ audiotracks, compressors for each and master. Then annotate with images/text whatever video there is. And yes it's gameplay videos mostly.
  
  lossless cut not really a concern, but I'd like to have the end result rendered out fast, so nvenc (current hardware) or so would be grand.
  
  But, will expirement!

I know that this is a Linux community, but this is a good version of Windows if you have to use it: https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

Addendum to the comment: mass grave also hosts robust scripts for windows and office activation
Yeah moved to windows 10 IoT and its prob the best way to experience windows no ads no bloatware installed and support till 2032
Not compliant with Microsoft TOS

I personally would stick with something activity supported and official.
- Well screw Microsoft.
- Given that I've consistently pirated Windows since I was tall enough to reach the keyboard, I am positive have never been in compliance with the Microsoft ToS. Somehow, I'm not too worried about it.

Sadly Linux lacks central administration possibilities wich is why winass is business standard.

and normies don't bother learn new OS : (
- There isn't much to learn most need to open work programs and thats it, its mostly a problem with management and convincing the managers of a company to part ways with winass.
  
  Managers are also the worst with computers. And they are the most likely to get viruses.
Doesn’t RH, SuSE, et al have it, though?

Years ago a friend of mine used to run a cyber cafe on Linux, with fully automated remote management. Have we regressed that much from there?
- Im not aware of any Active directory type server system for Linux.
  
  Another problem is the second and especially third level support. That is pretty rare for Linux, there aren't many Linux ready Sysadmins.

Mi¢ro$oft is the best at advertising Linux

Most issues stand, and fuck Windows generally, but honestly I don't quite understand the issue with dropping support for older versions of Windows. Linux distros also do this, so much software does this, it's just not practical or reasonable to manage all your versions of your software forever.

As others have mentioned, the primary issue here are the hardware requirements for Windows 11. The result are millions of PCs (I guess, definitely a lot though) that are fully functional from a technical point of view, but cannot run Windows 11 and should not run any other Windows due to the security implications of running unpatched software.
- And as I've replied to many others, that's a criticism of 11 itself and perfectly understandable. It's not a reason to seethe at end of lifing. There's features of software introduced that I don't like in plenty of things including linux, but I'm not going to get mad that the version I like better doesn't get supported forever
I don't think the issue is dropping support, but the ridiculous requirements to upgrade to Win11, plus the fact that more recent Windows have serious enshittification that means users don't want to upgrade in the first place.
- The bottom of the meme is explicitly calling it out. Those issues are valid, but there's this shift in blame to the concept of support cycles in general.
The difference is that each Windows upgrade is objectively worse.

Also, even if it wasn't, a large number of the people who use Windows don't continue to do so because they really loved Windows, it's because they've always used Windows and don't want anything to ever change.

So each EoL kicks their asses off their ledge and they have to make the biggest fuss about it, because that is just what using a computer is for them.

It's just a mentality thing, and not something they'll readily put into words because it's clearly futile and churlish.
The difference is that the Linux distros won't force the user to upgrade with annoying popups or similar. The difference is that the newer versions of Linux distros won't have hardware requirements that will force the user to buy a new Pc altogether and contributing to e-waste.
- The newer versions may be bad, but criticizing them for those bad features makes more sense than demonizing the concept of support cycles
Windows 10 has been out a long time. Good luck getting people to move. They are dead set in there ways.

It also doesn't help that Windows 11 has a terrible reputation
- Windows 10 has been out a long time
  
  Yeah, that's how time works. Yes they're pushing a move and 11 sucks but end of support is not like that any more than Ubuntu 12.04 is, and that's been around even longer.

Maybe they should try firing some more workers.

Removing recall doesn't break file explorer. Removing recall removes a dependency of File explorer for some reason. If you keep the dependency installed it works fine.

While true, this puts a lot of the assumptive burden on a lot of “normal/average humans” that don’t look beyond the desktop or browser to know more about How the OS works. That being said I agree with you and this should be higher.

Using this in a VM to work on some legacy software and it's definitely a lot better than the standard at the moment

No issue for me regarding broken windows explorer. Directory opus user since my amiga days :-) Still forced to use Windows for work and well gaming. There are still some tools only developed for Windows, especially work related software coded for my employer were wine is not enough.

Can't comment on the work / tools part, but while not perfect, gaming on Linux is excellent now. The only Windows system on my network is my wife's work computer and that's been the case for years.
Look around, there are loads and loads of Linux open source tools that do the same, just dont have a fancy name.
- Not to connect to a certain database at work that is closed source.

it doesn't let me install linux as dual-boot. I really tried everything you can imagine, always windows boots up

Probably has to do with secure boot and your Linux installation didn't install a valid shim for uefi to boot it, thus it moves to the next entry which would be Windows.
- what do you mean by "valid shim for uefi"? also, secure and fast booting are both disabled
I have observed that many laptops are hard-coded to boot windows whenever possible. Even with windows bootentry missing, firmware will skip Grub set to first priority and start windows. Only way to make them start Grub is to rename bootmgfw.efi to a different name.
- i have msi gf63 thin 9sc. What should i renane it to? and in which efi partition? windows efi or garuda efi?
Out of curiosity what's your use case for dual booting? I know it's a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I'd be missing something I need Windows for, but I've been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

For games, Steam's Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

I've also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc
- i have a weak laptop, with windows on the m.2 ssd and i'm trying to boot garuda from an external sata2 hdd, connected with an usb adapter. I have many important files on windows, and c# is mostly impossible on linux. I can't run a vm, because i don't know how to set up quemu, and my laptop is waay to weak for that

They are so good at advertising Linux that they have 73% of desktop market share while linux has less than 5% according to statcounter

🤯🤯

Sure, but it's up from just a couple of years ago when Linux was sub 2%, and was hovering around only 1.5% in, say, 2020.