• fool@programming.dev
    2·
    2 months ago

    When it comes to installing stuff, I’m very trigger-happy. So, from experience…

    Installing stuff on Windows (safely)

    • Hope it’s on Chocolatey (choco install)
    • If not, search for the website online
    • Scroll past the AI slop and suspicious Softonic downloads
    • Click the website
    • Find the correct download button
    • Download
    • Scan with MalwareBytes (don’t want an STI)
    • Run setup.exe
    • Verify PATH and wanted feature set
    • I do not want to bundle Candy Crush or McAfee
    • skim the Privacy Policy to see if they’ll grind my bones to dust
    • Install Microsoft C++ Redistributable 2014-2018 (wtf? I already have 4 of these)
    • Wait
    • Sort the installation shortcuts into my folders

    Installing stuff on Linux (safely)

    • paru some_software
    • If on AUR, skim PKGBUILD
    • If not packaged at all (rare), git clone it and either skim the install.sh or Makefile
    • Done
  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    The 3 days of settings adjustments, debloating, de-spyware-ing, regestry edits, group edits, service edits, power edits just have a functioning OS that doesn’t bottleneck/ruin your espensive hardware you paid for.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    My default browser at work is Chrome. Microsoft Teams and Outlook open links in edge anyhow. I wonder why!

    • fool@programming.dev
      1·
      2 months ago

      Sometimes friends, in their curiosity, come up to me and ask me, Jordan Belfort-style, “Sell me this pen Linux.” Why do I like it so much, they wonder?

      And I always tell them:

      "Linux is like… the vegan OS. (bear with me) Mac and Windows people don’t really care about OSes. People who switch to Linux either find they couldn’t be assed to deal with it, or they love it, and those who love it love it. Then they always tell people lol.

      A good thing though: because everyone’s such an opinionated nerd, the lateral set of problems you run into won’t be ‘solved’ by random Microsoft Forums /sfc scannows or arcane regedits, but by a nut who debugged the entire thing 30 minutes after the bug came to exist to find a workaround. True story.

      Buuuut Linux is more of a lateral movement in terms of problems, it’s just a tool after all. You solve Microsoft Recall and start menu ads but run into new but tiny annoyances. I find Linux problems easier to fix than Windows ones because of the nerd army thing but if your Windows setup works for you, it works and that’s really all that’s important. If you do start Linuxing though you’ll learn a lot just by osmosis."

      And they usually laugh and decide to keep their routines in place. Don’t hate me vegans.

  • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    Put my PC to sleep, then i go to sleep. 3am rolls around and my PC turns on and sits at the log-in screen.

    This seems to be an issue only after windows 7 for me. It can’t be updating because there’s nothing happening when i check on the windows update, and it will do this all night until i unplug the damn thing. Then i get a couple months of this issue not appearing.

  • meaansel@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    Ctrl+c not copying on rare occasions. Even if it’s my keyboard’s fault, it could be avoided with some visual feedback to confirm to me that ctrl+c was registered ans clipboard was updated, so that I’d immediately know that it didn’t work after pressing ctrl+c, rather than later when i switched to a different window/tab and pasted the wrong thing

    The fact that i can’t route audio between apps (without 3rd party closed-source apps). Why is something so basic not included into the system?

    Registry

    As a c++ dev: winapi. Right away you are greeted by windows.h adding loads of macros with common identifiers without any prefix to your preprocessor. That’s a sign of things to come for anyone who has to use it. Maybe that explains lack of open-source audio routing apps: nobody wants to deal with windows driver development for hobby - and if that’s the case i sure can’t blame nobody for that.