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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Installation process seems to be way more complicated than the one I did for Mint in my mum's computer some time ago. Hard to compare, though; sometimes hardware clicks well with a system but not another.

Dolphin and Nautilus handle compressed files entirely transparently and much faster than Explorer does

Even Thunar does it, through the archive plugin. Thunar. From Xfce, a desktop environment known for avoiding fluff by design. Caja too, even if it's based on the GNOME 2 version of Nautilus.

Office, email: I guess installing LibreOffice and Thunderbird would be against the spirit of the challenge, right?

Managing applications is also not as nice and effortless as it is on Linux

I'm so bloody glad for package managers.

Windows 11 also has a combined emoji/symbol picker now (Super + .),

Somewhat unrelated question: does anyone know if .XCompose works with Wayland? And if it doesn't, what do I use as replacement?

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I haven't tried making .XCompose work on wayland. But if you use Plasma as a desktop, it does have an option to set up the compose key. I never checked if it let you create your own compose "recipes". I also don't know how it handles it in the background. But if you set it up through Plasma, the default compose behavior works flawlessly both on X11 and Wayland.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cinnamon.

I need the custom "recipes"; mostly for the International Phonetic Alphabet, I use it a fair bit. Screen keyboards become a chore, once you need to type "[sʌm.θɪn lä͡ɪ̯k ðɪs]" (something like this), so I messed with my .XCompose rather extensively, and this was for years so muscle memory already settled in, e.g. if I need to type ⟨ɛ⟩ I go automatically for RightWin, e, 1.