sorry, ill dial it down a bit

G T F O !

-nano4lifegang

that would be renaming the file extension but keeping the same format opening it up in an app that breaks it totally, then saving that and sharing it with a Windows user and spending an hour with them trying to make it work because they have to see it!!!

chaotic neutral and proud of it

you should still give each command a try and let us know which one works

there are a couple IDs in the device manager, if you look closely you will see where it changes, and then search the registry for that string and you will find how crazy Windows can be with USB hardware. Actually stripping out those ID’s is a huge pain. I only know because of having to make legacy hardware work for work

it was worse with USB1 and old drivers wouldn’t unload so then when you unplugged them and plugged them back in, sometimes they wouldn’t work unless you rebooted. Windows is stupid

the other OS’s don’t store the configuration in the registry, that’s the main difference

well technically… USB initialization isn’t that simple, when you change which port it’s plugged into, it’s numerated under that new memory space, so from the computers perspective, it’s a different number, it’s a different device.

document a basic set by set how to use it

make it look really good and find your coworker friends who will test it and give you feedback

documentation writing and scary shit like linux to normies goes a long way

in today’s world I think you have to get in as a Windows System admin and then change your role by demonstrating how the Linux solution would be better for whatever the priority task at hand is

but when the sound drivers get updated, it seems to make its own choices unless you disable it in the device manager

they probably have a thinkpad or a system76, so of course it always works

I lose sound so much more in Windows. I love it when it thinks an HDMI monitor is the main sound even though I never selected it and have to change it back a few times a year. (work computer)

I am not sure if anyone answered your question in a way that you were expecting so let me try

yes you will get the update but you might not know it because your config wont change, so you have to go into the theme settings and use the “default” to see the pretty

TempleOS is the one TRUE OS

What is that crap? Someone needs to ILoveCandy … Newb

Think of it this way

There’s your core of the system, the kernel part. It’s the engine of the thing but basically its the package manager. This is what Ubuntu, Redhat, Arch, etc is. It’s all interchangeable in some ways and also locked into a specific place you get your packages and updates. It could be any desktop and all of the desktop environments or just a command line.

So more often than not, the core will favor a specific desktop environment. You can always install multiple environments and they’ll work but there’s some things that are suited for one desktop environment over the other. Many of the basic apps don’t work outside their environments. KDE apps don’t always work in Gnome and vis versa.

So when you download Ubuntu, your basically says give me the package manager that points to the Ubuntu repositories that will understand your version of the core and give you prepackaged software that is meant to work with Gnome.

If you go with Kubuntu you’ll get the same treatment but with the KDE desktop environment and all of its basic stuff.

But you can install KDE on Ubuntu and you can install Gnome on Kubuntu.

You can mix and match all the desktops if you want but at some point it does cause problems because the developers make different decisions and use different software that you’re package manager has to deal with.

So some distros do things different, have different configurations and package managers. I use Arch which uses pacman (package manager) to give you core software that they keep up-to-date and test but it’s limited in what it offers. So instead it has an AUR that can be accessed though many different sub package managers, like yay

I could go on but I hope this makes a little sense about the difference in distribution and desktop environments.

If you want a Windows 98 style desktop, look at KDE. It’s a lot like how Windows works

LoL people on a Linux subreddit supporting a game that doesn’t work on Linux only because the developers don’t want it to. And actively ban Linux users, pretending it’s for keeping cheaters off but that’s laughable.

For a couple of my friends, it Destiny 2. What a lame game to cling to

https://rufus.ie/en/ is your friend ;)