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well working CJK input… yes it still sucks a lot on Linux(/BSD)
Not really. I’ve for several years removed any ties to windows and have been running linux for some time now!
Filepaths in explorer.
Pubg and bf1.
Software worked out of the box much more reliably. I miss certain software but there’s nothing I haven’t found a happy replacement for. There’s a little nostalgia in there somewhere but honestly the feeling is mostly good riddance
The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers
Wait I’m pretty sure there’s Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?
I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D
Yep, you’re right!
There are things I miss from Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP. There’s nothing I miss from Windows 7, 10, or 11. Everything I cared about had been deleted by the time of Windows 7.
I noticed you left Windows Vista and 8 off the list. :) That’s okay, most people want to forget they ever existed.
no
Windows 7.
Yes, AHK.
It was amazing, and the alternatives aren’t the same :/
AutoHotkey
Obscure stuff that needs update software thats windows only
Fractional scaling, including support for multiple monitors with different scaling levels. The UX and visual design of (some parts of) explorer.exe + resizing / moving windows around
A few days before time change (DST) windows would put a little reminder in the calendar widget on the task bar. I always thought that was a really nice feature. Unfortunately, no other operating system does that (as far as I know).
I had a fairly high end drawing pad no matter what I did, I could not get it to work properly on Linux. I needed up purchasing another and it worked perfectly fine with very little setup required. My work used to require Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere, but not long ago, maybe a year, they changed the workflow and I am no longer on the team that has to use those tools.
Otherwise, I’ve had very little issues, even with gaming. I think I’ve ran into 3, maybe 4, titles that wouldn’t work on Linux, but they were kind of niche games. Most modern titles with even a moderately large audiences work just fine.
Driver support for various old peripherals and nvidia cards
More generally: driver support on par with Windows. To be fair, Linux has come a long way and driver support is pretty good most of the time. But if you happen upon a piece of hardware that does have driver issues, you’re still in a world of shit, with no or no easy fix.
Case in point, I have been battling with a weird S3 sleep bug on Lenovo Yoga L13 Gen 2 notebooks recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not even a kernel error, but something in Lenovo’s mainboard/BIOS firmware. Fix: write Lenovo an email and hope they’ll fix the firmware of a 5-years-old just for desktop Linux use. (And, no, I’m not under the illusion that this is going to happen.)
