A surprising amount of KDE apps have Windows builds - most importantly for me, KDE Connect. Barely any need to use Windows Phone Link anymore!
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Can recommend, Dolphin makes life on windows slightly more tolerable. Kate for Windows is also amazing
I love Dolphin. Great for GameCube and Wii games.
is this a /j
could be, or not, we will never know for sure
either way, 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.
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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 youโre referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as Iโve 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 ๐ฅ๐ก๐คฌ๐ค๐พ๐ฅ
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.
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I was like wait this is so cool then I realized I'm on Linux already
(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
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FOSS >> properitary๐คฎ
proprietary shit is never as intercompatible as foss
I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I'd like to keep on Linux.
I just updated to Windows 11 and oh boy has it gotten worse when compared to 10...
The UI, useless spacing in between items, 2nd context menu, gigantic bars on top, the somehow missing create folder button, OneDrive Integration, "Pin to quick access" everywhere, freezing up when creating thumbnails, constantly somehow resetting the layout of the user home and I'm just getting started... But hey it got tabs now
I was a win10 user because I was forced to update from 7. So I got really annoyed when I saw the new context menu for dumdums. It's useless.
If I ever need to install windows 11, either on a virtual machine or for a family member, I run a script that returns the old context menu (and several others that remove a bunch of bloat and de-activate internet search on the searchbar)
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Microsoft messed up File Explorer tabs. If you make a new tab, start a search, the close the tab before the search finishes, you break the URL/path bar text. You cannot see what directory you are in unless you click the path bar. The only way to fix it is you restart the application.
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But... Why? It's just a mediocre and laggy copy of Dolphin.
Okay, I'm generally on the side if dolphin UI-wise, but when it comes to the topic of lagginess, it has to be said that dolphin, and in fact, almost everything using the kio infrastructure, is the one shitting the bed here. You'd think a bit of multithreading will keep the UI from freezing up whenever the underlying I/O has some minor hiccup (which can absolutely happen in practice with network filesystems or USB sticks in combination with large file transfers), but apparently dolphin can't do that.
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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.
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.
Kde.org/apps
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.
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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.
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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."
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When I look up "Dolphin windows" I just get the wii emulator (I am clueless)
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.
Dolphin is the best file manager of all time. Both linux and windows.
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