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New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Lin...ux?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I just switched yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Literally switched two days ago. Trying mint for now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Haha, me too. I tried opensuse first but switched to mint.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mint gang rise up!

Switched just a couple of months ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I switched to mint in November, almost everything just works (I mainly use my desktop for gaming). And everything that doesn't, works after visiting the mint forum or is just a minor inconvenience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I dunno; ive had trouble trying to internally rewhatsit outgoing broadcast UDP packets to multicast UDP (or even TCP and then back on the other side) packets for use with some 25 year old windows software. So clearly Linux sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Manjaro is amazing, but might have a little steep learning curve should you use it for something very advanced. Also, no .deb's and .rpm's for you, but AUR is arguably even more based (don't rely on it too much though, troubleshooting issues with AUR-sourced apps is an advanced task indeed!)

Other than that, an insanely snappy (thanks, Arch!), beautiful (thank you, presets for various DEs!), almost bleeding-edge and very novice-friendly distribution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

PopOS uses the same core stuff as mint and is good at graphics drivers, does em automatically.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

If you want to keep your computer, yeah.

Might be rough, but, like... Windows7 isnt supported anymore.

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

Linux Linux?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Okay so KDE was okay 5-10 years ago. Ultimately crawled back to Windoze. What's in vogue in 2024?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm a big fan of Pop OS personally.

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

Budgie for minimalist KDE-like experience
Cinnamon for good old Windows 7 vibes
XFCE for going all XP
KDE itself is really good nowadays, and probably the most popular option

There is plenty of choices, those are just some of the major ones.