Thread 107003084

What are some things Windows does better that Linux should emulate/adopt?

>>107003084 (OP)
ads everywhere

>>107003088
I don't think you read the second part of OP's question.

It should have decades of software developed for it.

>>107003084 (OP)
i guess running old software on windows itll just work on linux you probably need to do some bs like a virtual machine

>>107003084 (OP)
task manager is easier to use than signalling ones processes through the cli

File structure

>>107003084 (OP)
Functional file manager.
Yes, I have tried all of the linux alternatives and they are all baroque and/or have usability issues.

>>107003143
gobo linux tried to fix that but no one is listening

>>107003149
ranger, you dont need more

>>107003084 (OP)
>What are some things Windows does better that Linux
Literally everything

>>107003149
Open the terminal
The file 'browser' is just cope.

>>107003162
>x doesn't work
>you don't need x anyway
Why is this so common in the Linux scene

>>107003171
>yeah bro, just use the terminal, bro

>>107003185
Ah, perfect. Clean.

>>107003183
Take me back

I like the Win11 snipping tool with screen recorder and annotations built in. You can cobble together something similar on Linux but it's not easy.

>>107003084 (OP)
They should make a linux distro that perfectly copies windows 11 and looks exactly like it and also runs all windows programs normally but without all the bad stuff and also with some cool things linux can do.

>delete all code
>start from scratch
>make it like windows 7
>release it

>>107003210
this but copying windows 7 or XP instead

>>107003149
I know, if i want to copy to a protected folder as a sudo user it should prompt for a password, but instead it just does nothing. Then there are stupid workarounds like "open the tab in admin mode" if it even exists

>>107003210
Can't because of patents

>>107003223
Also a good idea.
>>107003252
Then they should do it illegally in the piracy way.

>>107003341
getting image previews over ssh, stay mad techlets

>>107003084 (OP)
>Being spyware
@
>Community consisting of belligerent techcels
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>The OS becoming the opposite of what it used to be

This.

>>107003084 (OP)
>windows explorer
>windows themes, default win7, win 10 and the classic windows theme
>functional gui
>ability to change most setting using gui

>>107003084 (OP)
Windows has a rich ecosystem of malware, it blows Linux's selection out of the water.

>>107003100
you heard him, chud. we want Ads Everywhere, NOW!!!!1!

Linuxfags are dogmatic fanatics, they'll refuse to copy anything better from Windows on principle because it's from Windows.

>>107003149
Thunar

>>107003738
Like what?

>>107003753
every distro should force users to login online before allowing them access to their computer

>>107003788
>force users to login online
This is the exact thing that makes apple so juicy and epic games so epic.
Linux is so behind on paid apple premium features such as being able to install an application on "your" device after downloading it from your no-extensions-allowed apple firefox browser. For only 69 dollars, you can purchase your premium apple dev certificate code so that you don't have to manually renew your certificate on your mac to use all of your 3 apps on your iPhone.
If only Linux would introduce some basic microtransactions...

>>107003084 (OP)
nothing because wine exists so you can just do them on linux

>>107003185
Skill issue, faggot.

>>107003155
>>107003143
why would uou even fix it?

>>107003122
At this point Linux probably runs older windows software better than windows.
As for old Linux software, you can install an old distro in distrobox and link the program to your app menu very easily. Not that I ever had to do that.

>>107003149
I partly agree.
On Mint I installed Nautilus because Nemo doesn't seem to have a "move files to folder" feature.
>just cut and paste
I do sometimes, but still it would be nice.

>>107003155
I feel like appimages and flatpaks have largely obsoleted this, but it's neat to know someone tried.
IIRC nix was similar.
https://www.gobolinux.org/

>>107003691
kek this was funny because I didn't read the second part either

>>107003084 (OP)
Fucking screensavers

>>107004668
Best aesthetic

>>107003738
/thread
one of the funniest examples I noticed recently is that OpenOffice / LibreOffice save files by default in their retarded format. I had to google how to dig through the settings to change it. There's no option in the installer to set that as a default iirc.

What a fucking retarded choice. This would be like a free program meant to replace Acrobat that saved files in any format other than .pdf by default.

>>107003084 (OP)
DirectX and Windows API.

Linux should somehow get rid of retards that think they are smart because they've wasted countless hours learning unintuitive, obtuse command line garbage that's a worse user experience than gui versions just for the sake of being power users. Fags like this one >>107003171

>>107003143
Windows file structure is an absolute shitshow.
It all starts with the retarded driver letters and extends to the absolute pajetware that is Documents and Settings.
I understand that a lot of things in Windows were made by people who don't actually believe computers would improve over time, but come on, System32 as the default for Windows 64 apps? Kill yourself already.

>>107005291
First of all. We are better than you. This is a fact.
Second, Windows commands are way, way worse. You don't know this because you have a tiny nigger brain and never bothered learning anything at all.
Windows's PowerShell is so fucking bad that Windows included Bash programs in their core.
YES, LINUX COMMANDS ARE IN ALL MODERN WINDOWS INSTALLATIONS, YOU ABSOLUTE NIGGER.

>>107005320
>Windows file structure is an absolute shitshow.
imagine criticizing windows when case-sensitive naming is default on linux. absolutely fucking retarded

>>107003084 (OP)
It's absolute suicide to make hardware without Windows support. Mac and Linux support usually come later. In the case of Linux, sometimes things have to be completely reverse engineered which takes time. Microsoft Office is much better than any opensource office suite, but that's a completely different issue. I don't think Windows is very good or important these days, but they have that name going for them.

>>107003100
>not wanting ads
Stop it with the antisemitism

>>107003208
Isn't that just Spectacle?

Costing money.
Would fix all of the Linux shit in record time.
You obtaining it for free and licensed since XP doesn't matter.

>>107005360
The only good thing about powershell is the verb-noun convention imo. The problem is that PS is slow as shit and takes several seconds to autocomplete those commands. Also a lot of them don't seem to have aliases for common uses.

>>107005360
>We
stopped reading there
see how easy it is to not waste time on garbage like you or your copeware?

>>107003084 (OP)
perfect framepacing for video

perfmon.exe

>>107003084 (OP)
MacOS mogs them both.

>>107005291
Based trvke poster. Denying the benefit of thumbnails for pictures and video just makes them seem retarded.

>>107006483
KDE has system monitor

>>107006631
Every modern operating system has picture/video thumbnails anon.

>>107006739
>Open the terminal
>The file 'browser' is just cope.
Thumbnails in a terminal window?

>>107006864
>>107003341

>>107004893
I can get how annoying it is to change the default file type of a document, but that's such a retarded nitpick. You only have to do that once per document and LibreOffice supports all the same document types Microsoft Office does. That's not even mentioning that it isn't trying to be the exact same thing as Microsoft Office, so it make sense it has its own format that it uses.

Frankly, I've heard more retarded anti-Linux drivel like this compared to genuinely retarded pro-Linux evangelism. It isn't to say that Linux is perfect, but the anti-Linux crowd chooses the most retarded examples to shit on Linux. basically shit that hasn't been true since the early to mind-2010s or shit that makes them out to be retarded.

>>107007716
>it isn't trying to be the exact same thing as Microsoft Office, so it make sense it has its own format that it uses.
tell that to the literally hundreds of normies who get stuck with this retarded software because their grandson or IT dept installed it but never bothered changing the settings. It's a legit problem

>the anti-Linux crowd chooses the most retarded examples to shit on Linux
you realize it's death by a thousand cuts, right? It's not just one retarded minor decision, it's the culmination of hundreds of retarded decisions. not unlike all of the nitpicks that people have with windows.

I'm a windows admin at heart, and every time I've used FOSS, I encounter the most retarded issues that a premium solution would never have. And those issues always come down to the stubbornness and elitism of the linux cultists. It's an actual fatigue that I've experienced.

>>107004893
>their retarded format
which happens to be an opens standart fully supported by the Microsoft suite -_-

>>107007768
Sounds like you got filtered quite honestly. Tell the normalfags at your job that there is a dropdown menu when you save a file that allows you to choose the file type. This shit has been in every Microsoft Word iteration since 98. It's not that foreign of a concept.

Again, it's not Linux's fault that you and your retarded brethren shouldn't be anywhere near a computer.

>>107006483
>tells app to close
>does nothing
>try close the program a few more times
>Resource Monitor is not responding
Absolute garbage.

>>107005320
>>107005439
Correct, but you also failed to name examples
My favorite is that once a program is installed, its going to start littering somewhere random. Doesn't matter if its %appdata%(1/3), random document folders, the registry, or any of the many many places. And there is what.... 6 locations to setup starting applications, including the fucking services panel?

And its just as bad on Linux.

>>107005528
they infect the kids early in pub school forcing windows proprietary formats on them but hey first hit is free

>>107003738
The tragedy of Linux is that it combines a good thing (free software as a movement) with a counterproductive holdover from the dark ages of computing ("muh unix philosophy")
Linux evangelists often get emotional and think any criticism of the latter is also an attack on the former.

>>107007928
>Again, it's not Linux's fault that you and your retarded brethren shouldn't be anywhere near a computer.
sure buddy. that's why linux is losing desktop market share. because it's everyone else's fault.

8 billion people and counting on earth and the market share is decreasing. go fuck yourself.

>>107008146
>that's why linux is losing desktop market share
No. Linux doesn't have a high desktop adoption rate because most computers come pre-installed with Microsoft. This has been the case since the 90s, when Bill Gates himself made deals with PC manufacturers to install Windows on their completed machines.

It also has nothing to do with the quality of the OS itself, seeing how Windows 11 is a fucking hot piece of dogshit by everyone's admission, yet people still use it.

You sound like the Linux zealots you hate: an overly attached retard to some corporation or group that doesn't even know you exist. You deserve to be filtered because you're a mouth-breathing retard of the highest caliber. You're the type of retard that should be working in an assemblyline and not at a computer.

>>107008064
I think developers may have started putting stuff in %appdata% because of protections of Program Files and user folders (for example, UAC, or if ransomware protection is turned on in defender). I don't believe they need special permissions to run from there, hence the entire program is installed there.
This is just my guess, however. I don't know if it's the actual truth.

>>107008188
>Linux doesn't have a high desktop adoption rate because most computers come pre-installed with Microsoft.
this cope is older than I am. It's not going to fly. Nice try though. It takes literally 10 minutes to download any version of linux and install it on a flash drive. There's probably a million tutorials on youtube. People have hated windows and purported that they were going to switch for literal decades.

And it's not even true. Manufacturers did offer linux but it was a fucking disaster. I know for a fact that dell still does offer linux but windows is selected as a default obviously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbI

>It also has nothing to do with the quality of the OS itself, seeing how Windows 11 is a fucking hot piece of dogshit by everyone's admission, yet people still use it.
because windows is still better. Is that a hard concept to understand? Windows sucks but it is still better. Reality is not binary.

>You sound like the Linux zealots you hate: an overly attached retard to some corporation or group that doesn't even know you exist. You deserve to be filtered because you're a mouth-breathing retard of the highest caliber. You're the type of retard that should be working in an assemblyline and not at a computer.
you're free to believe whatever you want, but this is still cope.

>>107003084 (OP)
Changing install location of apps, but I think thats not possible because of the packagemanager.

>>107003084 (OP)
A programm like Revo Uninstaller, ik it's technically not windows work, but having an application that uninstalles EVERYTHING, even regedit entries of programs is nice. Because using windows without revo uninstaller sucks so much, you get leftofter stuff everywhere... appdata, users, documents, registry, programmdata etc... Linux is def. cleaner, but still, sometimes I wish for something like Revo.

>>107008146
global population isnt majority white, windows is for brown people

>>107003084 (OP)
I genuinely can't think of one thing for windows 11 anyways. unironically all my favorite windows features were adopted from Linux. maybe windows should just be more line Linux?

>>107003084 (OP)
Its virtual keyboard is actually a fully fledged keyboard complete with f-keys.
You ever try to use the terminal in linux without the ctrl key?
yeah. not fun. fuck maliit

>>107003084 (OP)
Honestly just more proprietary support from software developers. And it doesn't need that much more than it has.

>>107003354
Ever heard of sftp?

How do I get windows to show webm thumbnails?

>>107010079
It's not possible because windows is stuck in the 90s

>>107003084 (OP)
file write progress bar that completes when the file is actually fully flushed
the closest thing I'm aware of is this bullshit command
watch -n1 -d grep -e Dirty: -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo

static linking
HAL

>>107009050
try dotool
>https://sr.ht/~geb/dotool/
or keyd

>>107003084 (OP)
They should fix the bullshit that is LC_COLLATE. Windows had this nice property that prepending an underscore to a file or folder put it at the top of the list since Windows considers all characters when sorting. Linux, and I believe POSIX locales in general, sorts only by alphanumerics and ignores all other characters when sorting. The only way around this is the C locale, which is strict ASCIIbetical, and thus not very usable.