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5 Things LINUX MINT Objectively Does Better Than WINDOWS 11 (www.youtube.com)

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TLDW of this video from ChatGPT

The video highlights the following main points about why Linux Mint is considered better than Windows 11:

Start Menu and Customization: Linux Mint's menu is more organized and customizable than Windows 11's start menu. It offers three columns, resizable icons, and customizable labels.
Taskbar (Panel) Features: Linux Mint's panel is more flexible, allowing repositioning, resizing, and creation of additional panels. Applets enhance functionality, offering features like quick desktop access and window behavior customization.
Privacy and Telemetry: Linux Mint is privacy-focused, avoiding telemetry. Certain apps' telemetry can be manually disabled. Windows 11 is criticized for lacking privacy.
Bloatware and Pre-installed Apps: Linux Mint has minimal bloatware, including useful tools or open-source alternatives. Windows 11 can have cluttered start menus with unwanted icons.
Batch File Renaming and Management: Linux Mint's file management includes advanced batch renaming with insertion, removal, and case conversion. Windows 11 lacks similar features.
Security (Future Topic): Security is mentioned as a potential future topic, with Linux Mint considered more privacy-oriented than Windows 11. Discussions about security are acknowledged.

The narrator encourages viewer engagement and discussion on the covered topics.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, ofc I'm talking about wine/proton, proton is wine+ and wine is an emulator whose name translates to Wine Is Not an Emulator, funny. PoE is not an old game at all, and it's quite hardware demanding, the leader of the non casual ARPG market.

Krisp and noisetorch are perfectly good too

Sadly, krisp can't even compare to the level of noise reduction I get from broadcast/rtxvoice, it completely eliminates annoying sounds (dogs barking, fan noise, random high pitched shouts from annoying friends. I can even even rub my beard to the mic while talking and what others hear is just a slight distortion in my voice. I have not tried noisetorch so I don't know, but I would be very surprised if they get the level of reduction that I have from nvidia.

The last time I played with linux was about 3ish years ago. I might install linux on my old SSD when I upgrade my pc and get new drives, just to have dual boot to test stuff without fear of breaking anything (it's nbd to create partitions and to expand a drive and all that stuff, but it feels like working at home), but lutrix and/or proton were already running quite high and mighty when I tried.

There's other stuff too, although this is quite minor, the propietary programs to control the lighting of my keyboard/mouse are not on linux, and those are VERY important (/s).

it's not that I'm viscerally against linux, it's just the reaction i get from the lemmy linux evangelists :sweat_smile:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's come a ridiculously long way for gaming in the last 3 years thanks to the steam deck's popularity

Depending on your peripherals I believe there are open source alternatives for RGB, pretty sure someone's made an icue one

Path of exile was released in 2013 (10 years ago, sorry to make you feel old lol

Pretty sure wine is more of a translation layer than an emulator hence the name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, as stated (or maybe it was another chain) I'll test stuff when I upgrade the mobo, and with it add new m2 cards for extra space.

About PoE, that's not really a good metric since the game is being updated constantly with extra content and graphical improvements. You wouldn't really say League of Legends is old, right? It's from 2009 though.

About wine... Emulators are command/operation/api translators lol.