Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates

On 2025-04-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 4/18/25 09:20, % wrote:

vallor wrote:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:23:17 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man
<rotflol2@hotmail.com>
wrote in <slrn10046g5.4fb.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>:
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On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:14:54 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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The desktops being roughly similar is only a necessity for users who
were already old when they learned MacOS or Windows and did so
stubbornly. Considering how difficult it was for them to adopt that
much, you wouldn't want to put an entirely different operating
system in
front of them. For anyone else, a switch from Windows to Gnome or
Cinnamon shouldn't be such a chore.

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On Linux, “different GUIs” is not the same as “different operating
systems”. Linux offers more variety of GUIs than all the rest of the
computing world put together.

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Wont the obsolence of X11 put and end to that?  Many Desktop
Environments and Window Managers won't work at all on Wayland, from what
I understand.

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"They'll get my xfce desktop when they pry it from my cold, dead
fingers..."
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Seriously though, X11 continues to be viable and works well.  So far,
I haven't seen anyone articulate why Wayland would be better.
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more complaints

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Here's one way Wayland is better: full support of touchpad gestures.

Not something that I use. I use the touchpad to move the cursor and scroll.
I turn off the "tap to click" and disable the touchpad while typing. If I'm
going to be using a laptop for an extended time, I'll bring a mouse.

I realize that I'm probably in the minority but I like things simple.

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