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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

Wild seeing this in an article talking about Linux.

[–] rtxn 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It can't be that easy.

[–] deafboy 3 points 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Me: Ask for default browser setting Windows: Excuse me, did you mean to search for Bagels Near Me?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 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.