Gestrid

Gestrid , vor 21 Tagen

Being forced to be online to log in and forced use of OneDrive confuses new users just as much

You're not forced to use either of those, IIRC. Just set it up without connecting to the internet or without signing in.

Gestrid , vor 19 Tagen

The last time I had to setup a Windows profile (late last year on my then-new laptop), that was the case. Has that changed?

Gestrid , vor 26 Tagen

To be fair, at least with Windows, if you do a reinstall I've always found that it never runs quite like it used to. I've sometimes had to deal with some weird quirks afterwards. A friend of mine who kept switching between Google Android and open-sourve Android on his phone said the same thing. Every time he reinstalled Google Android, it simply wouldn't run as well as it did beforehand.

It's like taking a plumbing pipe out and putting it back in. Or taking apart a car engine and putting it back together. It never quite fits together the way it used to anymore.

Gestrid , vor 26 Tagen

I'd say I have the technical chops. I just don't have the time and energy needed to try to fix something.

I'm also the kind of person that, if everything's not working exactly the way I want it to, then I need to fix it right now. So I know I'd waste hours trying to fix something that (for me) just works on Windows.

Gestrid , vor 26 Tagen

I installed Mint on a USB to give it a go.

My wifi driver doesn't work on it. I have to plug my phone in to use it as a tethered hotspot to get it to connect. And I tried what a lot of the guides said online. Nothing.

Gestrid , vor 27 Tagen

They update on two Tuesdays a month

Correction: It updates every second Tuesday of the month. (Not including any potential "Preview" updates which might get released. Those are all optional updates, though.)

Gestrid , vor einem Monat

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/CXFsWAkLoXQ

Gestrid , vor 2 Monaten

Like ability to install different desktop enviroment?

Technically, with root access, yeah. It's just that Android's UI isn't a DE/WM in the desktop Linux sense

You can also just install different apps that change the home screen. Android calls them "launchers". You can install one from the Google Play Store or elsewhere like any other app. Then just set it up. Once it's setup, the phone simply loads that app's launcher instead of the phone's default launcher (which is usually also an app).

Gestrid , vor 2 Monaten

I just use the AdGuard app. It runs all my Internet traffic through an on-device VPN server (The VPN is the phone itself.), and it uses that to filter out all the ads.

Gestrid , vor 5 Monaten

Remember when they planned to move over all the Control Panel settings to the Settings app?

In Windows 10?