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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

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[–] irotsoma 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Glad I moved away from Windows on all my personal computers. Fedora with Plasma is so similar to Windows and so much better. If my non-tech partner can use it, then anyone can.

Only problem is that Windows is better at resizing content on high resolution (4K) monitors. And ordering multiple monitors on the login screen doesn't always work right, but it's fine once logged in. And it takes a bit more to set up than preinstalled Windows that's on most computers when you buy them. But if it was preinstalled and set up already for the hardware like Windows usually is, it would be way better for nearly everyone.

[–] RichardTickler 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I’m not sure how it works for KDE and sddm but on gdm it is possible to copy the monitors.xml config file to a certain directory to fix that. After doing so, the login and lock screen settings are synced between the desktop environment and display manager. Not sure how to do it for sddm but I’m sure there’s a way, maybe a script with the correct xrandr commands could solve that.

Edit: monitors.xml, not x11.conf

[–] irotsoma 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that works sometimes, but the way to fix it seems to change every time I have had to do it. And I have been using Wayland lately and haven't found a good way to do it that works with the latest versions.

[–] RichardTickler 2 points 2 months ago

I was curious about this and found this KDE forum post that might help. Looks like you don’t even need a script.