I didn’t expect Windows to become THAT shit. Well it’s good for Linux I guess.

I have recently tried to remove a lot of accounts from websites I no longer use. A lot of them don’t even have that option, especially forums.

• Anki
• Beyond Compare
• Discord
• GIMP (Not sure if it’s installed by default on Linux Mint) with PhotoGIMP patch.
• GnuCash
• GParted
• KeePassXC
• KWrite + Kate
• Pinta
• qbittorrent
• Steam
• Telegram
• Thunderbird
• virt-manager
• VLC
• Wine

At least it’s not covered by a dark shade now.

Why does that matter? It looked fine.

It was literally my favorite design of online video player, and I remember enabling it back in the day when it was still an experimental feature.

Looks like UI from like 2005 lol.

We live in weird age, where using Windows is becoming harder than Linux (even though it has its own issues).

Yeah, it was the first version with Unity, but I think Amazon integration was introduced in some later version.

Some random shitty distribution for netbooks.

Then Ubuntu 11.04 and I have very fond memories of it. But now Ubuntu sucks.

Using Debian 13 with KDE currently.

Yes, I’ve also read about problems with dual-boot systems after Windows updates, which is why I’ve refused to use Windows too often to make the updates worthwhile.

Sometimes Windows just overwrites GRUB (or whatever you use on your system) bootloader. But it’s relatively easy to fix using your distro’s installation media. Just in case this happens you need to refer to your distro’s documentation or community forums to fix it.

I do recommend however in the future to not put Windows and Linux on the same disk, but have 2, each for respective OS. That way, there’s no way Windows will ever touch your Linux bootloader, and you can still allow GRUB (or other bootloader) to chain-load Windows boot manager from the other disk.

Why not put it in VM?

The only thing I’d suggest if you do that is to have at least 32 GB of RAM, because I was in a situations where running few Electron apps, and Win11 VM caused RAM to fill up. But if you’re not running Electron apps you should be fine with 16 GB.

And if you’re planning to play games, you could use GPU passthrough for near-native performance, but from what I’ve heard it’s a bit hard to set up.

In my house 3 computers are already running Linux (Raspbian on Raspberry Pi, Debian testing on my PC and openSUSE on a family laptop), and I already talked with my dad to install Linux on his personal laptop as well, which is probably going to be Linux Mint (I am planning to replace openSUSE on other laptop with Linux Mint as well, because openSUSE sucks).

You can either uninstall new version of Notepad or return to the old one using some registry trick (look it up).

Or you can download some version of Microsoft Notepad on the internet (probably not really that safe) or even ReactOS Notepad if you really insist of having such simple program, but using I’d recommend to use something like Notepad++ instead.

These are good alternatives for Microsoft’s Notepad and Paint:

1. For Windows:

• Notepad++
• Paint.net

2. For Linux (and other operating systems):

• KWrite (or Kate if you want to have more advanced features like Git integration, project explorer, extensions, etc.)
• Pinta (it recently got a pretty good 3.0 update, with GTK4/Adwaita integration)

That’s actually pretty cool idea. Wasn’t there some effort by Valve to support VR anyway on the Deck?

Laptop is hardly a whole desk setup though. AR is potentially going to be much better than using clunky laptops.

Check out PhotoGIMP

I really hate how designer(s) of this page decided to included obnoxious animated transition between pages.

I am using Debian stable, since I no longer care about having latest stuff and the whole Debian-like ecosystem is what I am the most familiar with. As for Ubuntu I never had good experience with it, with random crashes all the time last time I used it (about 10-12 years ago), and when I tried it last year, I encountered random crashes in GNOME apps just after finishing setup.

Linux Mint (regular or LMDE) is what I’d probably install on other people computers though. Literally never had problems with it (used it about 10 years ago on a netbook).

If you’re on Debian Stable you might have a version of Thunderbird that doesn’t have this feature, since software there is a bit “outdated”. Next stable (trixie) releases in few months though.

Yeah, but will updates work? And even if they do, what’s stopping Microsoft in disabling them somehow?

Nowadays if you want to have usable Windows installation you need to use a bunch of 3rd party scripts that might break on next update. Learning Linux is easier than this shit.

I can’t wait for someone to ask me how to solve some shit in Windows, and me saying that I don’t have patience for this crap.