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Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.
Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.
Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.
WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)
I think a built in antivirus isnt a bad idea, for free none the less.
ClamAV. And having it built-in is called bloatware.
Full Software support and functionality from device vendors.
WinKey+period to enter emoji and other Unicode characters. I’ve got some workarounds, but they are all just slightly kludgy, especially with the Wayland clipboard.
Like… Fredesktop clipboards or is there some Wayland feature causing trouble. B/c my understanding was wms define clipboard functionality generally using freedesktop spec as the base so curious how Wayland is causing trouble.
What desktop environment are you using? That shortcut is already available in KDE Plasma 5/6.
you just made me happy on fedora, thanks! 😀
TIL! Sweet! If I can use emojis on my desktop, I have less reason to wreck my thumbs on my phone! :D
(But hey classic emoticons are 4eva! Lol)
There are some decent ones out there. That Windows shortcut always sucked ass compared to their character map, and that wasn’t great either.
Agreed for those reasons and so many more, still have yet to find a suitable alternative.
At this point I just use Krita because I’m somewhat familiar with it/Photoshop-like layouts, but it’s like taking using powertools on microelectronics.
Inkscape? Maybe.
Gimp is not a drawing software, so it makes sense it doesn’t have a dedicated “draw complex geometric figures” tool by default. It does have a shape selection tool. Anyways, it all depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Krita is for painting, gimp is for image manipulation, inkskape is for vector graphics. Paint.net is a weirdo that does everything but doesn’t do any of those things well enough.
Wild concept here. Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay. Or use gwenview which is designed exactly for that.
Driver support for various old peripherals and nvidia cards
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!
My laptop going to hibernate and then destroying the battery is making me miss Windows power management for hibernation
No.
I mostly miss old Windows for nostalgia reasons. I’ve been macOS and now Linux for many years now.
Nope
I have a telescope mount and an AV processor that require Windows 10, wine won’t work with either one. The Windows was stripped down using Atlas though. I only boot it once every few months and I get no pop ups or notifications at all, it’s perfect.
nop. my overall desktop experience has improved substantially after I carved out my own niche of ‘creature comforts’.
feels lovely to have a system that works for you, rather than something that’s so adversarial.
Only irfanview.
I always hated it on windows and used acdsee32 and then later x view when the former enshittified.
Turns out xnviewmp is on Linux as well. But if I want a shitty image viewer, I guess ristretto is fine.
Proper power management on my laptop is the biggest one.
There are many software applications that don’t support Linux that I would like to use.
