Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by rbanffy on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:01AM (#30055498)

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories?

My advice is that, unless you are developing for Windows is don't. If you need the Adobe tools, you can get them for Macs and, since M1, Macs offer a lot of bang for the buck while being a perfectly usable Unix machine, they are an excellent choice.

If you don't need tools that aren't available on Linux, then Linux is a really good option. Hardware support may be an issue, so I always recommend the most boring machines possible - Intel, with integrated graphics - and only get components you know will work well with Linux.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by asddubs on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:07AM (#30055560)

hardware support isn't so bad these days. you can get basically any AMD graphics card and be fine, nvidia works too although it fights with wayland a bit (but supposedly that's getting better too)

laptops are a little more problematic but if you try to install linux on a random laptop, chances are everything will just work too. thinkpads are always a safe bet, in any case. or get something made for linux like a system76

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by rbanffy on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:42AM (#30055877)

The advice to go for the most boring laptop possible is out of this. I would avoid laptops with dual graphics (integrated and discrete) as much as possible. That's more or less what System 76 does. Dells are usually trouble-free unless you want a "mobile workstation" or gaming laptop. Full support for Intel's 12th gen will probably take a while to trickle down to mainstream distros (you should be fine if you compile your kernel from upstream though), so, if you are on the market now, I suggest 10th or 11th gen. Or wait a couple months.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:17AM (#30056727)

> If you don't need tools that aren't available on Linux, then Linux is a really good option.

The lack of a decent[1] RDP alternative has kept me away for years.

I use KDE Neon on a NUC as a secondary PC and I've been very happy with it, but without a viable RDP alternative it's a no-go as my daily driver.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by teejmya on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:18PM (#30060691)

Have you looked into forwarding X?

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-configure-x11-forwarding-using-...

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by easton on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:28AM (#30057957)

FreeRDP is a wonderful RDP server replacement: https://www.freerdp.com/

It's so good that Microsoft uses it for WSLg.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:30AM (#30057989)

Last time I checked, FreeRDP was screen capture-based like VNC, with the associated horrible performance.

Has this been improved now?

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by easton on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:20PM (#30066133)

It seems to have much better performance than VNC for me, so I don't think it's doing the screen capture thing. Or maybe it is and it's just fast regardless.

In my experience it feels almost as good as RDP for Windows, which I think is a great achievement.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:34AM (#30069604)

Thanks, guess I'll have to try again then. Last time I tried it was definitely orders of magnitude worse than Windows RDP.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by TingPing on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:27PM (#30095833)

Every day that goes by more and more software isn't using rendering compatible with the model of rdp/x forwarding and requires full copies of buffers. The best you can do in this case is probably waypipe as it does some intelligent compression and buffer management but its a young project.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by throwaway8324 on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:40AM (#30056907)

https://remmina.org/

I use this to access/admin a large amount of windows boxes.

The keyboard shortcuts are awesome.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:49AM (#30057515)

Remmina is just a client, so doesn't solve the issue I mentioned.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by smackeyacky on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:07AM (#30055562)

Either boring or off lease enterprise machines. More likely to be hassle free in my experience.

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