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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The more Windows tries to manage my files for me the less I’m able to find where anything is.

I wish Windows 2000 still ran modern games.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Linux does. Not all, but a lot, and more every day.

It's been years now, and it still hits me sometimes how insanely nice it is that my computers now work the way I want them to.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago

Yeah, that was an unexpected nice thing about switching to Linux, though also the whole point. Like I knew that I wanted to take control back over my computer and OS, but I was surprised at just how much nicer it is when defaults are set without any profit incentive. There just wasn't "spend time disabling MS attempts to get me to use their other software" or "dig deep for how to change a setting MS would really rather you don't change" periods and it made me realize that that was where I'd spend a majority of the "computer maintenance" time on windows.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

remind me about the odds on whether a specific distro will work with my gpu or cpu