Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It’s the fullscreen app launcher that I’m trying to use, that needs this bizarre solution.

      And also, asking people to completely swap out their OS or window manager just to solve an activity menu bug is kind of unhinged. I have already done so much work to get this machine working to this state. I rely on it. Starting from scratch is incredibly discouraging, so I put up with all sorts of friction, hate the experience, and go back to Windows on my main machine.

      Plus, what if I switch to KDE, do all that work, and discover another painful, endemic bug? “Just switch distros” is the “just break up” of linux advice. It’s easy, lazy, accomplishes nothing, and most people won’t do it.

        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I already mentioned switching window managers. It’s still way beyond most users to do something that drastic to solve a simple problem.

          I’m not saying I can’t do it. I can and I may. I’m saying you can’t start with “it’s easy” then slide straight into, “switch distros/desktops”. That’s the opposite of easy.

          And based on how hard everything else in Linux is, I suspect I just don’t have the energy for it and will just put up with no shortcuts for now, which is what I’ve been saying this whole time.