• @Ejh3k@midwest.social
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    112 years ago

    So what are the hidden features? The article doesn’t say and I scrolled through all the comments and nothing popped out at me other than a bunch of comments of people bashing windows and sucking their own dicks over Linux?

    • Riskable
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      62 years ago

      sucking their own dicks over Linux

      This one trick explains why people who use Linux love it so much!

    • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 years ago

      Afaik it’s a tool to interact with an API to override A/B testing in an official way.
      Apparantly some tool already exists that does it. Just not the official way.

    • @totallynotfbi@lemm.ee
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      02 years ago

      The hidden features are flags that Microsoft enables or disables for random users as part of A/B testing. The article contains a link to the various flags that can be enabled depending on your edition and version of Windows.

  • methodicalaspect
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    12 years ago

    I just want it to stop self-destructing every two hours when I’m running it as a VM under Linux.

  • sadreality
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    12 years ago

    We getting to the point where some Linux distros are objectively better systems… all around. Having way less issues with PopOS than I did with Win11

    • @Dwalin@lemm.ee
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      22 years ago

      True, I’ve been using NobaraOS and have no problems at all, I moved my mom from windows to ZorinOS and she only noticed because her laptop no longer “freezes up” randomly, and I’m talking about a surface book that runs better on Linux than on Windows. Gotta love the irony

    • @Halosheep@lemm.ee
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      12 years ago

      If I didn’t use my pc primarily as a gaming pc I would absolutely be running Linux. Hopefully one day we can get there with compatability and performance.

      • sadreality
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        02 years ago

        I use mine for gaming and shit posting… only anti cheat triple AAA does not work like new BF and CoD, everything else runs great or fine.

        • @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          12 years ago

          The bad news, for me at least, is yes I can get most games to run fine. Skyrim, cyberpunk, Sims 4 etc. The issue is modding. Sims 4 is excluded from this as you littlery just drop .package files in the mod folder and just works. But games like cyberpunk and Skyrim…you often need external tools/injectors/animation riggers etc for a lot of the 'good stuff’s. And getting those tools to work properly can be a nightmare.

    • Poggervania
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      -12 years ago

      Yup, just moved to Mint on my laptop since I’ve been getting some issues with Windows draining the battery quick despite it being in “good health” according to Dell, and just general performance hiccups across Windows.

      Super low CPU and RAM usage, snappier performance for word processing and surfing, and a longer battery life? With no tracking features to boot? All for free? Hell yeah I’ll move over to Linux lol.