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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] amzd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The CMD key. MacOS got it figured out with CMD separate from ctrl. Never have problems copying from a terminal because CMD+C is not ctrl+C

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[–] MXX53@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

It's been so long since I used windows at home. I switched in 2009.

I use it at work, so I would say RDP is probably my favorite feature I would miss at home. But for the most part I use ssh anyways.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Depending on your DE, you can have those no problem. You just symlink to the respective .desktop file for the program you want to run. So for example, if you wanna start Firefox from your desktop, you'd look for a file called Firefox.desktop on your system (probably living under /usr) and symlink to that from ~/Desktop.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Printing and scanning. I only print like one thing every couple months and scan things every 6 months, but a backlog is growing. My printer is over 10 years old but it worked well on Windows. Despite their site saying it supports Linux I just can't get it to print or acknowledge any data is being sent. I'm contemplating a newer printer since deals are going on right now.

Update: Woooo! After a few weeks of fiddling with the install scripts and CUPS config I got something to print via Linux! That being said I'm upgrading, not giving up, to a new EcoTank printer.

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[–] furycd001@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

When I switched from Windows to Linux back in 2002, I never looked back. I missed absolutely nothing. Linux offered everything I needed and more, with unmatched freedom and flexibility. In late 2008, I bought a unibody MacBook, and while macOS wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t feel like home. I missed Linux too much, so I wiped the MacBook and installed Debian. From that moment on, I’ve never switched again—Linux has always been home. I'm currently rocking Arch (btw) on my main desktop & Debian on my laptop....

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Coherent theming, although you've hardly had that since Windows 98.

I've applied themes to make Xaw, Qt, and GTK software more Motif-like, but the GTK ones seem spotty and the Qt theme doesn't work for Qt6, and fonts are inconsistent.

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[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I miss not having to worry about whether any app or game would be easy to install and work flawlessly.

edit. also printing in general, situation is so dire that I just send whatever I want to print to my phone and print it from there these days.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Printing was horrible on Windows, and Mac uses cups too, no? I've only ever had good experiences printing from Linux

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[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's funny you bring up printing because my experience has always been better on linux. even at the office i constantly have to resolve issues with the windows and macs but my linux admin station "just works".

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[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

Fair number of FPS games refuses to work. Apex recently just did that. Other than that, none. Really happy my personal setup works so well.

[–] PostingInPublic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seamless adaption to higher DPI when I work remotely on my work Windows machine. The RDP clients will just expand the desktop and everything is very small when I WFH. mstsc will change the size of everything but legacy apps according to the DPI of the display.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Did you set the DPI in your RDP client? I had this too with my Windows VM, and it would just reset whenever I'd change it in Windows. Changed it in the FreeRDP flags and now the scale is correct, Windows applies 150% whenever I RDP in.

EDIT: My exact command

wlfreerdp /u:Max-P /v:192.168.1.149 +fonts -aero +clipboard +decorations +window-drag +async-channels +async-input +async-update -compression /dynamic-resolution /rfx /t:"Windows 10" /w:2560 /h:1440 /sound /scale-desktop:150 /scale:100

/scale-desktop is the one that controls the Windows side, whereas /scale controls the local side, so in this case Windows scales and I display it as-is, but you can also do the reverse and save some bandwith if the legacy app would just bitmap scale anyway.

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[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Windows' lightweight photo editing thing. Great for highlighting screenshots.

All image editing software on linux (that I've tried) is 10x more clunky.

[–] JCSpark@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've been using Flameshot, and it's been awesome for just this. Tons of annotations, and very easy to copy or save screenshots.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm about to switch from Windows back to Ubuntu, which I ran for a year or two but I missed Photoshop and Visual Studio. I've been using VSCode for dev work for a while and it's fine, and I can live with Gimp. I haven't used Office in years (Google docs & sheets are great). So I really don't expect to miss anything this time.

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[–] parande@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

installing programs. there's been random programs I've needed to download for school and I've sometimes spent hours running into random errors, having to find out what library or dependency I'm missing, etc. I miss being able to just click on an .exe and that's it.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Wallpaper Engine. Advantages Linux provides mostly are better than Windows, but man I miss clicking a few times and having an animated wallpaper working.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Really good image noise reduction software.

That's pretty much the only thing I miss, and I don't miss it enough to suffer through Windows

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[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I've been waiting for a post like this. Every single time I have tried Windows 11 I have fallen in love with the UI and UX. Sure, it can be buggy at times, but that's true with anything. It has always pained me a little bit every time I have to replace it with Linux. KDE Plasma 6 is the closest I've been able to find to Windows 11. Microsoft in my opinion did a really sleek and nice job making Windows 11 pretty, especially compared to Windows 10.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel this. KDE has done an incredible job making Plasma gorgeous and usable.

Now I feel like with Plasma 6 there's everything to gain and nothing to lose, aesthetically and usably.

On my old fun-and-games laptop I made everything look Aero-esque like my favorite aspects of XP and 7 haha. It's not practical but I'm experimenting with different toolbar layouts and stuff.

But the biggest improvement coming from Windows? Not having a "fake fisher-price control panel" and an obfuscated "actual control panel" somewhere else. Plasma does a really good job of putting everything easily within reach.

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[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

It's a usability nightmare for me. I sure love it when I open a PowerShell prompt, and some random window takes focus instead for no reason. Or when I create a new folder in Explorer, and the address bar inexplicably steals focus.

And that right-click menu can take a long walk off a short pier

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[–] octochamp@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Good OS-native cloud syncing. The Windows Cloud Sync Engine is so useful and is now adopted by virtually every cloud storage provider, and crucially lets you keep your entire cloud drive visible as unsynced files and pulls them on-demand (ie. what Dropbox call Smart Sync).

Thanks to being freelance and working for different companies I have different files I work on in Dropbox and Onedrive as well as my personal stuff being stored on Proton and my Synology NAS through Drive, and none of these have linux integrations that even come close to their Windows or macOS equivalents. Things like Syncthing and rclone will do selective sync, so you aren't forced to sync your entire cloud drive on to your laptop's tiny SSD, but that still means half your files are missing and have to be accessed through janky browser interfaces 🤢

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Being able to play League of Legends. We could until few months ago.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A minor but useful GUI feature on MacOS in list view is showing the size of directories as well as individual files and being able to sort by those sizes. That extra step in Linux of having to contextually click on a listed directory and choose "Properties" all the way at the bottom of that menu is a minor annoyance

[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Dolphin has this as an option (Configure Dolphin > View > Content Display > Folder Size > Show size of contents[...])

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long

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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The carelessness. Mac OS is far from perfect, but it just happily chugs along. Linux often creates problems by just existing for too long. It's gotten much much better, but it's still not good.

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

I don't miss anything really. All of my software already worked.

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