I was like wait this is so cool then I realized I’m on Linux already
I have one old laptop with Windows 10 sitting around, and only because it’s the only way to update the Xbox Series controller I have that randomly bootloops and thus is essentially useless anyway.
So this begs the question: how much of Windows can I delete and replace with foss stuff, while still having it technically be a Windows OS?
Soon:
“I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows plus NT. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another nonfree component of a fully functioning free GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX… and whatever NT does.”
You mean GNU\Windows\NT
Backslashes in file paths makes me go 🔥😡🤬😤😾💥
I think better questions to ask first might be things like “Can I pass the controller USB connection to windows in a VM?” which is probably yes, and “Can I just never update this controller?” which I would normally say is a yes, but it sounds like yours has issues.
Yeah after some searches it sounded like updating the controller might fix the bootloop issue. Running the accessories app for the controller through Linux seemed like a no-go, so for me the path of least resistance was putting Windows on an old laptop I don’t generally use anymore.
Updating fixed the bootloop issue, until it didn’t. The lesson I’m taking from all of this is to not buy Xbox controllers anymore. Currently the DualSense is my main, but I’m looking at the Gulikit ES Pro at some point.
If I ever find a controller that has a companion app that natively runs on Linux, that’s what I will prefer. But really, controllers needing to be updated is dumb to begin with.
Yeah that controller might just have a hardware problem.
I’ve had pretty good luck with Xbox controllers from multiple generations, but it sounds like a LOT of people have problems with them. Even the elite controllers! It’s a shame because their shape and layout work great for me, and I’m sure the same is true of other people with broken controllers and no spares.
Controllers needing to be updated is dumb in a way, sure. But as somebody who has worked in the design/manufacture/test of embedded electronics & software systems, I know the development of those dumb little accessories was a massive project, and there’s so much potential for bugs or security issues down the line. After a quick search it looks like MS claims it was over $100 million in R&D for the xbone controller, and that’s 15 years of inflation ago.
Back around the same time It was part of a $10M project at my job and that thing took over most of the damn company!
That is the unfortunate thing, it is clearly a very well designed controller. Even just the form factor - unlike any other controller I’ve had, the Xbox one has a just right feel to it. And it has by far the best dpad I’ve used (albeit loud).
Although I’ve always grown up with Sony controllers, so for me the ideal would be something like the Xbox controller, but with both analogs either on bottom or top (like the Wii U Pro controller).
The absolutely most? ReactOS. It’s not really suitable for daily use, but it is essentially a clean room reverse engineering project of Windows itself.
That is cool as heck! I’ve got some reading to do.
Yeah I check in on React OS every few months. Maybe someday I’ll give it a try, but it’s still so much in alpha status.
Sounds more like Winbloat. >_>
😢
That’s just running a full fat installation of Windows.
I love Dolphin. Great for GameCube and Wii games.
is this a /j
could be, or not, we will never know for sure
but it is funny
ComOP is joking about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(emulator)
I thought the same thing when I saw the comic.
I know about the GameCube/Wii emulator, but I wasn’t sure if they knew Dolphin File Manager exists.
Can recommend, Dolphin makes life on windows slightly more tolerable. Kate for Windows is also amazing
(Someone on the interweb:) “Hey, you should try KDE Connect”
(Me:) Uh, I don’t use Linux on my laptop and that’s the computer that I use the most
(S:) “Well it also runs on Windows.”
(Me:) Really?.. Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can’t remember what it’s called this week
Kde connect just really feels like it was made by someone who wanted to use it. Also just the fact that I can beam stuff between my desktop, phone, and steam deck is so nice
Especially the android app was made by someone who really wants to use it because it has literally no way of closing it or preventing it from auto-starting
FOSS >> properitary🤮
Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
One of my favorite creators, MichaelMJD made a Video about this.
I used to run blackbox on windows xp. It worked really well too.
Foobar2000 Linux version when?
What about Fooyin?
Looks nice, starred it so I might remember when I get the parts for my ThinkPad that (hopefully) will resurrect it (no screen, no booting, beeps that either indicate “motherboard failure”, or "failure of some other kind), CPU temperature control seems to work at least, one of the worst coil whine that seems to be temperature dependent -> this indicates me some kind of capacitor failure).
Yeah it’s a real bummer that Foobar2000 doesn’t run natively on Linux, but I’ve heard it runs well through WINE.
The same can’t be said of MusicBee though, which even WINE can’t get running smoothly on Linux.Honestly, MusicBee and Exact Audio Copy are the only pieces of Windows software I’ve yet to find a native Linux alternative for that I’m satisfied with.Edit: Apparently nowadays MusicBee runs better through WINE than it used to? I’ll have to try it out.
MusicBee works perfectly via Wine, and it’s a major part of my digital library. Without MusicBee my MP3 player would be worth 1/10 for me.
But you can’t just take the installer and double click it, you need to follow these steps (naturally replace the directories):
Install Wine Staging and Winetricks
Create prefix for MusicBee and .NET
Bash:
WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ wineboot –initInstall .NET 4.0 and corefonts
Bash:
WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks --force dotnet40 corefontsInstall xmllite and gdiplus
Bash:
WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks xmllite gdiplusSet Wine to Windows 7 compatibility mode
Bash:
WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks win7Install .NET 4.8
Bash:
WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ wine $HOME/Downloads/ndp48-x86-x64-allos-enu.exe /qInstall Music Bee
Bash:
WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ wine $HOME/Downloads/MusicBeeSetup_3_6.exeDownloads needed:
This specific version of the .NET Framework installerYou might see warnings about WoW64 mode, experimental flags, etc, just ignore them and keep going and MusicBee will work.
Dude hell yeah you’re a life saver, thank you so much!
No worries! I never found a true alternative to MusicBee, and there are several outdated tutorials about getting it run on Wine that technically work but leave you with a buggy app. The method I showed you works perfectly.
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Foobar2000 is the GOAT!
Wine???
NGL, I didn’t realise it’s an actual Dolphin icon on the folder until I saw this post. I always have the Dolphin pinned on my taskbar but it’s teeny tiny so I couldn’t make out the symbol.
For what it’s worth, the dolphin face is a relatively recent addition. I wanna say three months tops.
I have to use windows for work, and Windows Explorer annoys the everloving hell out of me.
What idiot thought that the “Home” folder and the User folder should be the different?
And regularly, when “Home” hasn’t loaded I’m halfway done typing the address in the address bar “//someletters/adv” for example, it will decide to clear it to let me know I’m “Home”
You might have made my life just a little bit easier.
Another annoying one is that the address bar obfuscates the folder path if you start at Documents, Photos, etc. If I want to get to my user folder without a shortcut, it makes sense to hop to Documents and go up a level, but up a level from Documents is the useless Home directory.
So much kde stuff works on windows. Its a lifesaver
Just need windows to allow different desktops.
And to run on top of the linux kernel
Like, virtual desktops/workspaces?
That’s a thing. Press windows key + tab.
No like run kde or gnome on windows i guess I’m trying to say, different desktop environments.
Also filelight and kde connect.
kde connect works for you? none of my devices finds each other anymore, but they used to. thought they screwed something up in an update
Sometimes I need to re-pair, but generally it works for me as long as my phone is on wifi. Or bluetooth? I think I had that working alongside a VPN but it was touchy.
Mine works when both my phone and computer are on the same VPN server. Weirdly, my sister doesn’t have a VPN, and her phone and computer are on the same network, but hers only works with Bluetooth.
Probably firewall, do you use eset or something?
nope, literally haven’t touched anything
Hmmm hope you find it
I’m not on windows personally.
My desktop and mobile devices connect but the desktop doesn’t connect to my laptop anymore
I used to be able to use shared clipboard, but it doesn’t work for me anymore :(
You can run lots of kde apps on Windows and Mac OS. I personally use Kate at work since it is far faster than VScode
There even is a konsole port in the works
Okular is the best PDF software for Windows, beating Adobe’s own solution.
That is a pretty low bar.
wait, KRITA IS KDE?!?!? i’ve been using it for so long how did i not know that
Does it have a weird name starting with K, or have a C replaced with a K? Most likely a KDE app. (I always thought Krita was a play on Critter. Turns out it’s Swedish)
Does it have a weird name starting with G? Gnome.
Then there’s Gwenview, which was ported to QT and adopted by KDE, but was never renamed…
Then there’s Gwenview, which was ported to QT and adopted by KDE, but was never renamed…
Let’s all just start calling it Kwenview
There’s also Gcompris to break the rules
honestly i never thought a lot about the name so i just accepted it
Kate is wonderful
All my homies love Kate.
Kate’s a lot better than Karen
Installing this as well on my work laptop, I do frequently get part way through typing kate then remember it’s notepad++
I prefer Geany 🧞♀️
Lighter and faster
When I look up “Dolphin windows” I just get the wii emulator (I am clueless)
https://apps.kde.org/platforms/windows/
Halfway down the page.
I kinda dislike Dolphin, but I also know it’s very customizable and haven’t dig into the options, so it’s possible there’s a version of it I like that I haven’t found yet. If that makes sense.
Same. I try it every now and then and am constantly blown away with how it just seems to know my system and auto mounts things, and knows how to thumbnail images and videos without being nudged…
…but I just can’t get over the clean glossy UI. It makes my whole system feel like a web app.
And thus I always go back to Thunar or Dired because apparently cavemen just like to bang rocks rogether and that’s okay
For me is the tree view (like explorer), it doesn’t feel comfortable and I can’t put my finger on why. On Windows explorer it felt quicker (like on a practical level, not about performance).
But guess I gotta use it so… Dealing with it
Yeah, I miss Windows Explorer. Which I find really shocking. But I think it’s just missing the accumulated years of muscle memory.
I’m going to try to get Dolphin through security review at my company. QUICK everyone start listing reasons why my company should take on the risk of installing Dolphin.
You don’t try company wide.
Prepare a feasibility study on the merits on giving choice to power users without sacrificing security or increasing complexity. A multi departmental working group should be established to review the merits of the new platform, while a control group should also be established to monitor how existing solutions perform.
Once completed a multi stage rollout plan should be compiled by a different multi departmental group to make sure all workflows are covered in the new system.One million years later: “The study has been inconclusive.”
This guy corporates
I have been down that path before with Obsidian and LaTeX (Obsidian was a success and LaTeX was meh). The first step is getting the executables white listed and Its always a PITA with our security team. I need to first convince them it is worth the study, which is always hard because they are not power users. Feature lists help. Win11 explorer being dogshit also helps.
the only reason to avoid dolphin is if your shell is fish
My shell is DOS. :(
