• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    [Windows] can make the experience crippling for non-technically minded users

    Wild seeing this in an article talking about Linux.

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      11 months ago

      It’s very often true, though. Windows has pretty graphics, but doing anything technical that doesn’t work out of the box is fucking obscure.

      • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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        11 months ago

        What do you mean, the registry is a perfect piece of software, crystal clear on how or why it works the way it does !

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          11 months ago

          Yes, I agree!

          Who would want to enable cycling through application windows on the taskbar via graphical settings in KDE Plasma, when you can just press Win+R, enter regedit.exe, get administrator privilages, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and add a new 32-bit DWORD named LastActiveClick with the value of 1 in Windows.

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            11 months ago

            Elementary users are probably looking away now, all embarased… mainly because they don’t have a minimize button, to hide the shame. Not without screwing around with dconf, that is :)

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        11 months ago

        Not even too technical stuff. Settings which a slightly advanced user might need or want to change are freaking spread out across 3 different applications. Good luck finding it through the their amazing search.

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      11 months ago

      Linux works better on appliances than Windows does, and this is really just one of those areas where you can see it in action. Great to see another OEM jump on the wave – it benefits the whole market.