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in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

tbh I don’t really see the point of buying something by Microsoft just to install Linux

if it was possible, it’d be like buying an iPhone to install Android. You must’ve had a very good reason I guess.

P.S. Just checked what the form factor of a Surface Pro 6 is, and I think you’re right when you say there are not many alternatives. Also, it’s a pretty old device so it does make somewhat sense to me. Not that it matters, you can install whatever you want on your stuff lol

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

For me it’s mostly been visual stuff.
There are native packages, Appimages, Flatpaks, Snaps. Native packages are GTK or Qt-based, so you could potentially have five different visual styles at the same time. Everything can be fixed, except for Appimages, but it requires some degree of tinkering which isn’t always guaranteed to work. For instance, I was looking for a feed reader and tried Fluent Reader: it is an Appimage based on Fluent Design, so it looks completely out of place if you don’t customize your desktop to make it look like Windows. Then I tried Akgregator: I picked the Flatpak version, and it was a complete mess even when using Flatseal (some backgrounds black, others white). Also, without proper configuration, the cursor theme may change according to the aforementioned app categories.
One last thing you may not like are icons. Most distributions come with some custom icon theme, which of course cannot reasonably apply to all applications out there: those that are not supported need to provide their own icon, which could look very bad depending on the desktop environment. For example, on Cinnamon they were very jagged, like their resolution was too high. This probably also depends on the application.
Another thing I usually notice is how slow the mouse wheel works in some apps, like Appimages for instance. And in general there’s no way to change the amount of lines scrolled per wheel click at OS level, while apps rarely give you the option to customize it. Firefox does though, and for me this mean I had to run Bitwarden, Telegram, WhatsApp, a feed reader all inside Firefox. Thanks but no thanks.
I’d say no particular changes are necessary to use Linux full time, you should just turn a blind eye to this stuff.
P.S. Also, everything looks way too large w.r.t. Windows. I tried Thunderbird on both systems, and for some reason the delete icon is 50% bigger on Linux (using the same density option)

After every meal, which could even be four times a day. Floss (or oral irrigator) and mouthwash before going to bed

What about this? https://www.jiraphan.com/blog/Force-download-SharePoint-video-steaming
Windows isn’t strictly needed ofc

Unfortunately that’s not how it usually works with major companies, and I learned it thanks to some post on Lemmy.
Look for “EEE”, or “embrace extend extinguish”
Alternatively you can read the following comment in this very post: https://lemm.ee/comment/776049

Someone should point them to what happened over at r/assholedesign
I would, but I don’t know how to do that without breaking the first rule