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I hear a lot about those distros around here. I recently settled on openSUSE Tumbleweed after having used Fedora and ZorinOS for a while. It's so good, I haven't thought about switching to anything else. Manjaro, Pop_os, and NixOS are on my list if that ever changes.

I like AppImage a lot and I wonder why that didn't take off like Flatpak did. A timing issue, perhaps?

Yeah AppX is a different kind of application platform that was built to be secure. Breaking that security breaks functionality. What's lame is that they don't have mechanisms to allow you to change permissions at a granular level and then change them back to defaults. You have to hack it and deal with the consequences which is just bad design.

Appx is locked down tight on purpose. It's built to be a more secure application platform than exe.

Not saying it's right and you should have to deal, but that's why.

Editing to say I also went Linux last year and I love it far too much to ever go back to Windows. Flatpaks are similar to AppX but at least you can customize the permissions for them. Still I find them to be a bit of a pain to use for some apps.

I like it at work and used to like it at home until I ran out of space and was forced to make financial decisions. Now I use a cheap used server and Nextcloud/Syncthing.

Your wallet is pretty fucked but I got a 2023 Honda Odyssey and I never loved an automobile like this in my life. It's a perfect vehicle by my measure.

7 made me realize MS was getting serious about making a decent OS, 10 was the first version of Windows I was willing to shell out my meager savings for, 11 made me install Linux and I'll never go back.

Agree, I thought Vista was bad until we upgraded to Win8. Holy shit was MS huffing some whack shit when they designed that monstrosity.

I use it at work. I honestly like some of the features they added compared to what FF or Chrome have on offer. At home it's FF only, though I miss those Edge features.

While Microsoft deserves this, USPS workers don't. Spend the money you would have getting a newer computer that can run Windows 11 to fly to their headquarters and take the dump at their doorstep. Bonus points for maintaining eye contact with the receptionist or security guard.

Run a PowerShell session as admin and enter the following commands:

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object { $_.PackageName -match "OneDrive" } | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -AllUsers

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Where-Object { $_.Name -match "OneDrive" } | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

Might be easier to do this in PowerShell ISE so you can edit these two commands. But this will first remove the installer package for OneDrive so that it can't reinstall again, and then it removes the installed app from all profiles.

I haven't personally tested this, but I use PowerShell professionally and the commands are solid. If it didn't work then it just means that Microsoft packaged OneDrive in a different manner than the other built-in apps. You can also remove other annoying apps that are pre-loaded this way. Just swap out "OneDrive" for the proper name or partial proper name of the appx app. Use Get-AppxPackage by itself to learn what the proper names are for the apps that are installed.

Same here. I think my friends have been expecting me to come crawling back to Windows but not only have I since used the SSD for other Linux projects, I have had no desire to go back to Windows. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE has been a true delight to use and learn Linux with. I smile every time the desktop loads. I use three monitors and KDE handles windows better than Windows ever could. It does it with far more customization options and its features just make sense and feel really useful, all without being forced.

Oh, and all my games run with higher FPS than they did with Windows 11.

I have had to reinstall it twice due to my learning process, but the last reinstall was a while ago and I've since learned how to fix problems that I create or the very rare update issues. It's a very different beast when you're coming from a lifelong use of Windows.

I guess one man's vanilla is another man's mummy wraps.

And what options? When were we ever given a real choice?