What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

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    On windows 10 its 1 click away only for Edge. For any other browser the settings page is opened and you do it feom there. Now, for me and you the settings page is the most trivial thing to operate, but for others it might not be.

    On windows 11 they have broken down the default browser to a million default settings, and you need to change each and every one individually.

    In google pixel a chrome-like search bar is stuck to every page on your homescreen, takes a full row, and very accidently clickable. You need to change the OS or launcher to stop this.

    And then some things on all of those systems will always open eith chrome/Edge with no non hackish way of changing that.

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        Same. Those companies abuse the fact they control the platform to push all of their other products. Nowadays to compete with a microsoft product in a fair way you also need to develope a popular deskrop OS, an office suite, cloud services and multiple programmong environments, because each of their products keeps pushing the other peoducts, and the platform control part simply gives them advantages only they can have.

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        That’s awesome, but may I ask what do you use to replace Adobe Suite? Even the next big thing, Affinity, doesn’t have Linux builds.

        I’m pretty much convinced that anyone that uses Linux either doesn’t use their computer much, or they are strictly a developer. Linux is missing way too many pieces of software, or even drivers for things, that would allow the majority of people to switch.

        Just thinking about all of the different jobs that my friends and family have, they all use some kind of software or machine that has windows/mac only drivers, that using Linux is not possible.

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          Most people use their computer solely for browsing the web and looking at images/videos, which linux is completely capable of. Next most used thing is office suites and printing - as long as you dont need to use right-to-left languages, the office suites are completely sufficient. Printers are dependent on the manufacturer, but most work, some with even less problems than on windows.

          Now when we jump to the more niche areas, it depends on the area and your needs. Programming is obviously flawless on linux. Photoshoping images should be good enough for hobbyists, but not for some proffesionals. Video editing is really good for all levels, except fpr adobe products (davinchi and KDEnlive for example). Gaming works pretty well, and is improving over time. Other niche fields have linux support/alternatives, or their products may work through wine/proton.

          At the end of the day, you can do basically anything on linux, not necessarily with the exact same tools as on windows.

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              Well im having quite some troubles with it often. Msoffice has some annoying anti features related to automatically changing my keyboard layout, but still works better.

              What program do you use for filling pdf files in RTL languages? For me no program works properly except adobe pdf.

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            Each of my family/friends work in different industries. None of us can move to Linux.

            I have a print shop, where I run wide format Roland printers and Graphtec plotters. Graphtec needs Windows/Mac, Roland needs Windows.

            My dad is a farmer, uses a ton of farming software, all Windows-only.

            My girlfriend is a biochemist, and the whole industry runs off Windows-only software/drivers.

            I could go on and on, but pretty much Linux cannot be used in any of our fields. So again, I am convinced Linux users are either developers, or don’t have jobs, because it’s nearly impossible to find any industry that doesn’t require Mac or Windows.

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              Well, for one, there is a difference between using your pc for work or for your hobbies/free time. There are a lot of foss drivers for devices not officially supported on linux. However, since this is your job, you probably have no reason to rely on those when windows just works.

              And about the windows-only software, some probably work on linux through wine. However, since this is what they make a living out of, they have no reason to even try that. Windows works for them, why waste time?

              On my personal, non-job related pc, i have ran many windows-only apps or windows only peripherals when i made the switch. Overtime i need those less and less (either due to new alternatives or linux support being added).

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          I edit videos in Shotcut and do photo manipulation with either ImageMagick or GIMP. I don’t personally do much vector art, but when I do I use Inkscape.

          For video game creation I use mostly Aseprite and Godot. I’ve got Blender installed and I’ve been meaning to learn how to use it for aeons.

          Though for my current main hustle I mainly use FreeCAD and LibreOffice.

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          @Polar @captain_aggravated Only hardware I have that doesn’t have good function parity with Windows and Linux is a Logitech G510 keyboard. Aside from that, everything is fine. My two HP printers (Laserjet 5l, m102w) work great. Even an old Mustek 1200UB scanner works, where the last Windows driver for that was on XP.

          Only thing I can’t get into is Gimp, but Adobe CS4/5 works perfectly in a win7 VM.

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      I was having problems with Firefox yesterday and reinstalled it. It was 1 click on Windows 11 for me.

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        Perhaps second times are different, reinstalls are different, or they changed it. I definitely sae on a friend’s computer how many different things dedault to Edge.

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          What’s that mean? It worked. Go jerk off about Linux elsewhere.

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            It will periodically overwrite user’s preference to the ones dictated by Microsoft

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              Proof? Has never happened to me. Your ass must hurt from pulling that out of it.