The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will look familiar.
  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I don’t keep up with Microsoft lore. Did they really have ads in the Windows 10 Start Menu and decided to remove it for Windows 11?

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yes. This literally what everyone said was going to happen. It’s bad enough they continue to enshitify Windows, it’s even worse that they are so damn predictable about it.

    • viking@infosec.pub
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      7 months ago

      Set your country to Ireland and enjoy GDPR privileges. None of that crap makes it into the EU.

        • viking@infosec.pub
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          7 months ago

          I’d be happy to use Linux full time, once there’s a port of the actual Photoshop and a powerful Excel clone available.

          Gimp and LibreCalc work for casual stuff, but sorely lack when it comes to more advanced features.

          • Nia_The_Cat@beehaw.org
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            7 months ago

            Have you tried Photopea? I’ve never used it myself, but I hear a lot of good from people who’re looking for a photoshop alternative who don’t find Gimp suitable. It’s web based so it works on everything.

          • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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            7 months ago

            People downvoting you but Linux seriously lacks contenders to those apps (especially if you’re a power user). I’ve used Gimp alongside Photoshop for the past decade and while Gimp excels in a few areas (color to alpha is crazy useful) it’s so poorly designed, it blows my mind. Alpha channel still disabled by default on a layer!?

            I use a KVM to switch between Linux, macOS, and Windows every day and it pains me I still can’t switch to Linux full time unless I give up on a tools like Photoshop (Excel however is fast being replaced by Pandas / Polars).

            I’m holding out hope that a byproduct of Valve and Codeweaver’s efforts with Proton might mean Photoshop will one day run perfectly on Linux. I hate Adobe but Photoshop doesn’t have a serious contender (and given how asinine the .psd format is, we’ll never see a decent tool support its file format fully either).

            • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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              7 months ago

              I feel like there’s just some techies who consider these applications essential to their whole life and being, while most others have not much use for them.

              In this case, I agree that the downvotes are undeserved, because they only talked about their own needs.
              But yeah, my gut reaction was to get angry, too, due to association with some jackasses who will vehemently argue that Linux as a whole is not useful (not even for decidedly non-power-users), because clearly everyone unquestionably needs Photoshop and Excel.

            • viking@infosec.pub
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              7 months ago

              Yeah I was a bit surprised by the downvotes considering this is the window community, but then again the Linux fanboys on Lemmy are a resilient bunch.

              Funny thing is that I’m using Linux (Xubuntu) as my daily driver, but switch to Windows for those two applications pretty much exclusively.

              I’ve yet to use Pandas / Polars, are they working well with macros/vbs and pivot tables, especially importing existing ones from excel? That was by biggest pain point with Calc.

              • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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                7 months ago

                Pandas and Polars are libraries for the Python and Rust programming languages (respectively).

                The way I moved on from Excel was to write code instead since my end goal was always data visualization and there are so many good visualization libraries that offer far more than Excel could out of the box.

                It’s not for the faint of heart and you’ll have to reimplement the logic of all your macros but once you’re liberated, it’s exceptionally freeing - especially being able to handle vastly bigger datasets than Excel could handle.