Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.
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Neat, he?
It’s a pain when you switch between Windows and Linux all the time and you can’t do the middle click in Windows.
Tbf, lots of things in Windows are a pain when you’re used to Linux.
Correction: Lots more things are a pain…
But on the other hand, many things that you take for granted on Windows are a pain on Linux. For example, if you want to see advertisements, you can’t just open the Start menu.
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Great point, to add if you want cloud services just sign up to Microsoft as you set up a new computer, no choice, unless you look up how to bypass. In fact that no choice is presented as part of this process as it won’t let you carry on.
To be fair you do get subject to 3 pages of questions as to what you want to sign up for, e.g ads, I just clicked no to everythibg, got it set up, dualbooted to Linuxmint and have no looked back at windows.
With Linuxmint (or at least with the cinnamon desktop) there is an online services tool that allows you to sign up to the service of your choice, what IS nice is that they respect the fact MS offer these services and there is an option for Microsoft.
Just simply…At least in Cinnamon, I can mouse over the audio icon on the panel and roll the scroll wheel to change the volume. Last time I tried it on Windows, you had to click the icon first. While that alone doesn’t sound like much, the whole OS is like that, needing extra little interactions for basically everything. Now that I’m used to using Cinnamon, using Windows feels like walking in beach sand.
I believe they added this in windows recently. Otherwise I absolutely agree though.
I’ll admit the “last time I tried it on Windows” has been at least two major versions ago. I’ve never owned a computer with Windows 10 and never used a computer with Windows 11.