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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

One of the only things I miss from winblows is how I can download an exe or msi installation file and just install.

I mean, I do enjoy getting things installed via cli through a repository, but I suck at installing from source for those things that don't have a deb installer or an appimage or something similar.

Otherwise, not much right now other than the fact I cannot figure out how to get the headphone jack to work on my laptop (galaxy book 3), leading to me having to use bluetooth headphones and my OS sometimes deciding I don't need the high fidelity audio profile options, making everything sound like ass.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I can't imagine going back to having to manage my installations and software updates manually. I now have someone that downloads, tests and packages every new version with my operating system, and OS upgrades are likely to have been rolled out over a few channels until when it hits stable, it's probably known to work well (in non-cutting edge distros).

I wouldn't want to go back to having to keep track of when a package updates and download it from some site that may or may not be the authors, and then hope to hell Microsoft actually does something approaching quality control on their janky, security-through-obscurity OS before releasing an update that proceeds to brick my machine.

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[–] woodgen@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Windows Recall

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

You forgot the /s

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 11 points 4 days ago

I think most of us are grateful that we don't have that spyware

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Windows/Games working out of the box with zero tinkering.
No amoint of proton or other software works as well for me as it seemingly does for others

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

roblox (i miss it only a bit)

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I don't miss it, but my kids miss me playing with them.

I'm aware bottles can make it work, but it's not straight forward on NixOS and I've heard some people getting banned in some games from running on emulation.

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 4 points 3 days ago

I'm 100% sure that Raspberry Pi has that. I can set how much of ram will go for the gpu. But raspberry pi's gpu isn't really a gpu.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The CMD key. MacOS got it figured out with CMD separate from ctrl. Never have problems copying from a terminal because CMD+C is not ctrl+C

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funny, that's one of the things I dislike the most about macos. I think the keyboard shortcuts there are generally noticeably less comfortable than windows and Linux. It's not even just shortcuts, regular keybindings are also worse on macos IMO. I will never understand why the enter key still renames a file/directory instead of opening it.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

It's because the gui is designed to be navigated with the mouse. The idea that someone would use the mouse to select a file then use the enter key just didn't cross anyone's mind. If someone is using the keyboard in a GUI navigation, it's probably for text entry- such as search, or renaming a file.

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago (6 children)

OS-level support for cloud storage. OneDrive, Dropbox and all the others work seamlessly on Windows through the Windows API. You can browse all the files on the file system and once you access them, the OS will call back the cloud provider to download them. It works through all applications, all cloud providers. I am aware that some tools on Linux have something similar to work around the issue in user land. Some solutions are less worse than others but none of them are as good as on Windows.

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Fusion 360 :(

Yes i know theres wine versions But they just dont work the same. And randomly crash.

Yes i know free cad exists, but it feels so clunky and is so much diffrent than fusion/inventor

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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I miss windows eating my work when it chooses to install updates and reboot automatically while I'm asleep

Edit: even after I've set registry flags and policies to "never automatically reboot" - it's always fun losing 4 days of work because windows randomly says "fuck you"

[–] parande@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

installing programs. there's been random programs I've needed to download for school and I've sometimes spent hours running into random errors, having to find out what library or dependency I'm missing, etc. I miss being able to just click on an .exe and that's it.

[–] dwt@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

From macOS: that the basics in UI are so much more consistent and just work. For example shortcuts across apps. This makes me insanely productive.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Being able to operate without a keyboard. Perfect for home theatre pc

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

destiny 2

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

For some reason my computer lags a lot but that might be because I have way too many tabs.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I miss my computer's performance being held hostage by "Active Protection" feature of Virus scanner!

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

Being able to play League of Legends. We could until few months ago.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’m really impressed by the fact that it’s so difficult to find something I miss even if I really try hard.

I’d say I miss being able to do a backup of my work iPhone with iTunes and not some obscure command line tool. But that’s about it and I’m not even sure I really need it since my company is trying to block reinstalling from a backup for safety reasons probably.

Linux has really become something that everyone can use day to day provided they have the right hardware and not something like my Surface Go where the bluetooth comes and goes.

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