• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    You don’t see how terrible Windows is until you’ve switched to another OS and need to interact with it again.

    The constant pop-ups, the ads everywhere, the settings hidden away.

    It really feels like your PC isn’t yours.

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      3 hours ago

      I have to use Windows at work. Once, apropos of nothing at all, a system pop-up asked me if I wanted to buy an XBox controller. When I lock the screen and come back, sometimes Edge will have opened all by itself, presenting me with the Bing homepage. Nice try, Microsoft!

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      2 hours ago

      Honestly, not being able to run Dolphin as root made me feel like my PC wasn’t mine more than anything windows did up until recently.

      Your computer is yours… As long as you’re comfortable doing it via terminal… Yay…

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        1 hour ago

        That’s been fixed for nearly 2 years now.

        Install

        kio-admin
        

        Then in the location bar type:

        admin:
        

        It’ll prompt you for your password and then: