That's true, it sucks. Although that happens once and it's done. But I always have to find ways of making gnome usable, like where is the minimize button? It's nice using linux, I'd love to. But the thing is I'm not saying windows is good, I'm saying linux is complete shit too. Everything has some dumbass issue or other and it's on the cusp of breaking. And we have to use all of the crap

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is Linux perfect? Absolutely not and I have never made that claim.

My point was merely that Windows users are bombarded with popups from the start and Microsoft are only going to get more aggressive with their monetisation practices.

Im annoyed about stuff all the time on Linux but rarely do I feel the seething rage I get when Windows tries to push ads on me. On an OS I fucking paid for.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that's fair. It's just that for some reason I don't get ads at all, maybe because I use w10, or maybe because I'm in the poor world so ads don't make sense maybe.

[–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

GNOME should set better defaults. I shouldn't need even two extensions for basic desktop functions (I know minimize button doesn't need an extension, not specifically that).

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Well you see how it is. Windows knows better, gnome knows better too. Who are we to have ideas about our own workflow or desktop or whatever

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Discord starting at startup and windows forces it into focus so I have to click back on the thing I was doing... Like 3 or 4 times. Repeat for anything else that starts at startup.

At one time I had set a song to play through a slowly-loading media player so that I could leave and when the song played I knew my computer had loaded.

Now on Linux, everything loads just the same but doesn't force switch the focus.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll give you the focus stealing, it's crap and it's never going to be solved. But you can choose startup applications. Oh, and my computer boots in no time even though I have an old install with a crapton of stuff I need to autorun. It's not about the os

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And the PC of my brother needs like a Minute to show the login screen and then another minute for getting more than 8 fps on tge desktop. Otherwise it works fine so he won't let me take a look at it but as far as I know he doesn't have any startup programs, meaning that this probably just is Windows 11 being shit.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

I get that, but I had shit experiences with linux. And never tried 11

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, something is definitely wrong.

Try running SFC /scannow in command

Might also be that one of his USB devices is being scanned during boot. So unplugging every USB device may also help the problem.

That or a hard drive is failing.

You can also take a look at the Event Viewer to see what it is trying to do during boot. (most probable location: Windows Logs / System)

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

The focus switching is a grand crime! I too hate it!

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

That's one thing I hate on windows. Don't switch focus for me. Or let me startup apps minimized or something. I don't want to be typing away in something, then mid sentence it's switched to another app that takes a little while launcher to launch

[–] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

if your startup takes long enough to need a song, you have too many startup programs.