so I started to see stuff on O&O ShutUp10++ that help disable most intrusive windows features, but it’s closed sorce, wondering if they are any open source alternatives? Shutup10 ++

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    6 months ago

    Of course bashrc isn’t going to run in the context of a desktop environment. They have zero clue how the system works at all.

    Either Windows does a lot of it for them and they should have chosen a distro that does the same, or they’re much more familiar with Windows and expecting that to translate to Linux without any time investment.

    “Monitor doesn’t look right so I installed 20 things and ran random commands,” gee I wonder why their Linux installations keep breaking? If they behaved like that on Windows they’d also have a number of problems.

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      6 months ago

      Either Windows does a lot of it for them and they should have chosen a distro that does the same, or they’re much more familiar with Windows and expecting that to translate to Linux without any time investment.

      I’m convinced this is the main reason people say linux is hard and finnicky. They use windows their entire lives then boot up linux and expect it to work the exact same way, inevitably leading to some not-dones like installing some random packages downloaded from the internet (download a .deb and double click it. What could go wrong?) which then come back to bite them way later in an update.

      What you find easy/intuitive is whatever you’ve spent most time using. In windows I get frustrated because 50 random things are happening in the background that I don’t know of and there’s like what, 7 different configuration apps from 5 different eras, some of which are overlapping in functionality. Programs I installed are either hopelessly out of date or when I launch them they need to spend a minute updating before I can use them.