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1725 points taubek | 5 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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stathibus ◴[27 Mar 23 05:31 UTC] No.35323176[source]▶
It's gets easier and easier every year to want an alternative to Windows, but it remains impossible to actually switch, at least for me.
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outsomnia ◴[27 Mar 23 05:55 UTC] No.35323331[source]▶
What's this year's lock-in / excuse... games?
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bytehowl ◴[27 Mar 23 07:17 UTC] No.35323778[source]▶
I have recently put Fedora with KDE on my work laptop and here are a couple of reasons off the top of my head (I believe I have come across more, but can't remember them right now) why I'm currently not considering switching from W10 on my home stuff:

- I don't game that much anymore, but yeah, I hear games are still far from 100% on Linux.

- There are various graphical issues linked to fractional scaling (I think), such as random lines appearing near the edges of windows or windows leaving behind lines when being dragged around, etc.

- My external monitor doesn't appear to be affected by energy management settings (dimming/sleeping after some time, etc.) whatsoever.

- There is no option to disable the touchpad when a mouse is connected.

- Middle mouse button is paste instead of autoscroll with seemingly no global way to change it (I wonder who came up with THAT genius bit of UX).

- A lot of things can still only be achieved via the terminal.

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1. nunodonato ◴[27 Mar 23 07:47 UTC] No.35324003[source]▶
Pasting with middle-mouse button was a thing even before auto-scroll existed! And yes, for us who grew with it, its a damn good feature, I couldn't care less for auto-scroll, but I love my middle-mouse paste :)
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2. gpderetta ◴[27 Mar 23 08:23 UTC] No.35324227[source]▶
When I use Windows I'm always annoyed by the lack of advanced WM features: focus-follow-mouse, windows always on top, etc. But the thing I miss the most is the transparent copy on select and paste on mid-button. I always have to end up doing it twice.
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3. bytehowl ◴[27 Mar 23 09:02 UTC] No.35324461[source]▶
Your hand never leaves the position where you can just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Scrolling through a long document requires either a ton of mouse-wheeling, fiddling around with the scrollbar or letting go of the mouse and using PgUp/Dn, and out of those, only the scrollbar can be faster than autoscroll.

Either way, it should be a configurable option, not hardcoded deep inside the bowels of the system, which appears to be the case as far as I have been able to determine.

4. dagw ◴[27 Mar 23 09:07 UTC] No.35324497[source]▶
focus-follow-mouse, windows always on top

For what it's worth Windows has (had? don't know about Windows 11) both of these, but they're either buried in the registry or need Microsoft PowerToys to enable.

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5. gpderetta ◴[27 Mar 23 09:12 UTC] No.35324521{3}[source]▶
The only place I really use windows is at work, so I'm not at liberty to install additional applications unfortunately.

I did manage to enable follow focus a while ago, but it didn't behave as I was used to (I don't remember the details), so I disabled it.