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wsl is a huge deal for (cs and related) education as i've commented before, now the worst case is students having macs, which is usually not too bad. but great for all kinds of computer touching. for me very helpful for doing gpu stuff with the combo of linux tooling and windows drivers, but that's one of a million little cases.
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wsl is the best desktop linux, ergo the best desktop linux is windows. hth echi
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 13:35 |
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wsl is great for any sort of professional or hobbyist computer touching on windows yeah
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 23:42 |
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Gentle Autist posted:wsl is the best desktop linux, ergo the best desktop linux is windows. hth echi sounds like something dreamed up by an early 2000s website that was half slashdot and half the onion
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 23:45 |
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echinopsis posted:sounds like something dreamed up by an early 2000s website that was half slashdot and half the onion its good actually
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 23:46 |
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chromeos has something kinda similar now but i think i'm the only one that uses it here?
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 23:47 |
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I know you said don't tell you, but it's basically (with some handwaving about kernel) a linux VM that integrates well with windows, it supports most popular distros too so you can run linux things on your windows machine
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# ? Aug 29, 2022 23:47 |
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Beeftweeter posted:chromeos has something kinda similar now but i think i'm the only one that uses it here? it ran like poo poo on my chomebook because something something display driver also, it was a Linux
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# ? Aug 30, 2022 01:31 |
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:it ran like poo poo on my chomebook because something something display driver they're constantly loving with it but even with a pretty decently spec'd one its still lovely, particularly the ui (and scaling, fonts, themes, everything really) i dont have any particular insight as to why, but i think because instead of just using the goddamn gpu they're funneling everything over virtio for some reason
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# ? Aug 30, 2022 01:58 |
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I wonder if gui applications in crostini would be more usable if you just used xnest or something. It's really stupid that literally the only way to make an app that functions approximately reasonable on chrome os is to make it a web app where you run the server in crostini and access it from chrome outside of crostini
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# ? Aug 30, 2022 02:53 |
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mystes posted:I wonder if gui applications in crostini would be more usable if you just used xnest or something. i just booted up the chromebook to see what would happen (before it auto-applied an update, more on that in a sec) and i was able to get xvnc working, it looks like it's still using virtio instead of igd or whatever the thing in qemu is then that update hit. it nuked that entire install and replaced the crostini vm with a new, incompatible version ...which i will play around with. but i still prefer using crouton/crew for native stuff (and tbh, i'm basically not using "chrome os" much at all) e: so i tried it and idk what to do about this Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:things looking good in that i didn't read that they fixed it or anything, i just turned on my computer today after some time away and found it now behaved correctly in scenarios that previously reliably failed. update update: it's looking good, but it hosed up my icon spacing on the first boot after the update, was fine after a reboot I give the update 4/5 microsofts
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# ? Aug 30, 2022 11:50 |
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Armitag3 posted:it stands for "wanna switch? lmao"
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# ? Aug 30, 2022 21:39 |
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Beeftweeter posted:wsl is nerdy as all hell but its neat and somewhat handy
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# ? Aug 30, 2022 21:45 |
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whoever designed the alarms and clock app for windows 10 should be chucked into a live volcano
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 16:34 |
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a few hours ago after a reboot i discovered that my audio output in windows had been set to mono. i guess at some point i must have accidentally clicked the button to enable mono output when i was changing output devices as i often do. why microsoft decided to put that option front-and-centre in the sound settings is beyond me. literally the last thing anyone would want to enable.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 21:29 |
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Pile Of Garbage posted:a few hours ago after a reboot i discovered that my audio output in windows had been set to mono. i guess at some point i must have accidentally clicked the button to enable mono output when i was changing output devices as i often do. and in general they've made changing outputs more clicks in 11. stupid as hell, as that is basically the only audio adjustment i use windows ui (rather than hardware controls) for.
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# ? Sep 1, 2022 21:42 |
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Jenny Agutter posted:whoever designed … windows … should be chucked into a live volcano ftfy
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 02:53 |
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Pile Of Garbage posted:a few hours ago after a reboot i discovered that my audio output in windows had been set to mono. i guess at some point i must have accidentally clicked the button to enable mono output when i was changing output devices as i often do. lol I have it enabled the sound system I use to make sound on my windows machine has one broken channel so I have both speakers running in parallel (I think) from the one channel that works and windows set to mono so I don’t miss anything I also have a car subwoofer (a dual voice coil 12” running at 2 ohms off a large class D car amp) and I power the amp with a pc power supply which has all the 12v rails soldered together lol. it’s never caught fire. i’m amazed it can power the amp considering it’s designed to be run off a car power system lmao
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 06:07 |
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it sounds good.. just mono
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 06:07 |
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music from the 60s or whatever when stereo was first recorded and the artists went overboard infuriates me. yes i want to only listen to the guitar with one ear, great job. oh now you're switching ti between ears rapidly? wow thanks!
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 06:27 |
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cowboy beepboop posted:music from the 60s or whatever when stereo was first recorded and the artists went overboard infuriates me. yes i want to only listen to the guitar with one ear, great job. oh now you're switching ti between ears rapidly? wow thanks! also didn't they do some stuff where they would take previously-mono recordings and pan random tracks left and right and reissue it as a stereo record? anyway about 20 years ago I had one of my stereo speakers hooked up with 20m of wire so I could drag it from the computer room into the middle of the house and play music. mono mode was useful!
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 06:58 |
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cowboy beepboop posted:music from the 60s or whatever when stereo was first recorded and the artists went overboard infuriates me. yes i want to only listen to the guitar with one ear, great job. oh now you're switching ti between ears rapidly? wow thanks! this is why all 70 year old audiophiles love aja by steely dan so much
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 07:07 |
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Pile Of Garbage posted:a few hours ago after a reboot i discovered that my audio output in windows had been set to mono. i guess at some point i must have accidentally clicked the button to enable mono output when i was changing output devices as i often do. It's an accessibility option, I'm deaf in one ear and that setting lets me wear headphones. Some games / programs let you set it individually, but many don't and UI designers can't agree if it lives under 'Audio' or 'Accessibility', so it's nice to be able to force it in Windows and be done with it.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 12:46 |
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jammyozzy posted:It's an accessibility option, I'm deaf in one ear and that setting lets me wear headphones. oh wow i didn't realise that. i feel like a massive dingus now, more so than usual
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 13:09 |
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Pile Of Garbage posted:oh wow i didn't realise that. i feel like a massive dingus now, more so than usual sheesh what a pile of garbage
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 19:17 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:wsl is a huge deal for (cs and related) education as i've commented before, now the worst case is students having macs, which is usually not too bad. It's really nice not having to deal with cygwin.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 19:38 |
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fact I learned today: MS still does not allow you to buy a license which allows you to run the ARM variant of Windows under virtualization.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:01 |
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a normal windows license isnt good for any architecture?
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:02 |
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Shaggar posted:a normal windows license isnt good for any architecture? a windows license isnt good for anything
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:10 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:a windows license isnt good for anything windows is free software now. you don’t need a license
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:18 |
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I'm guessing OP wants to setup a VM on a mac or something similar for commercial use, otherwise there is no reason in the world to care about the windows EULA, which probably forbids right-clicking the desktop
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:24 |
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Last time I tried using it without a license it had an annoying watermark that was displayed on top of all other windows I'm not sure if this was just because I was accessing it via rdp?
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:38 |
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akadajet posted:windows is free software now. you don’t need a license what did i say
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 20:43 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:It's really nice not having to deal with cygwin. oh jeez. I remember this
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 21:03 |
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Clark Nova posted:I'm guessing OP wants to setup a VM on a mac or something similar for commercial use, otherwise there is no reason in the world to care about the windows EULA, which probably forbids right-clicking the desktop then he would just buy a license and run it in a vm, i would think.
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# ? Sep 2, 2022 21:18 |
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Foolishly installed a nonessential update on my windows pc
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# ? Sep 3, 2022 17:41 |
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Seriously though, I think I'm just hosed. I can sometimes get into the bios but that crashes after like 2 screens whatever I do
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# ? Sep 3, 2022 18:40 |
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windows asked me to update to 11 again despite not having a tpm
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:08 |
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it keeps offering to on my definitely not supported (bios limitation) tablet and then beep boop 'maybe i should upgrade the hardware' i'll get right one that, ms, maybe add more ram too to my very cheap device
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