Death to Amerikkka

  • RNAi [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 months ago

    I switched to Linux exactly 10 years ago, last windows SO I used was Win7, coudln't really complain about it back then for the uses I had.

    But trying to use it now is a nightmarish foreign land, for example:

    • It had a stupid text thingy bottom left showing latest currency rates "0.2% up USD to MXN".

    • Searching for an installed program also showed a google Bing! search of the said word

    • Nobody has been able to set the clock properly. If you set it to Argentina timezone, it shows 3 hours more, if you set it to the hour that should be, sometimes works, but next time you boot it it might be 3 hours in the future or three hours in the past, or overriden the setting option.

    • zkrzsz [he/him]
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago
      • For search, you may need to select the correct program for 1st time for it to remember, the next time you search it should be the first/best result. May need to disable cloud search from search setting (from "..." icon when searching).

      • Currency rate can hidden (Taskbar setting -> Toggle Widgets to Off). https://www.lifewire.com/disable-news-and-interests-taskbar-in-windows-11-5190865

      • Timezone will be wrong if you dual boot with Linux, it's best to make Windows use UTC time. https://www.howtogeek.com/323390/how-to-fix-windows-and-linux-showing-different-times-when-dual-booting/