Download-Link for people that are too lazy to scroll down above page: Nightly builds for Windows
I was like wait this is so cool then I realized I'm on Linux already
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
1176 points (99.4% liked)
linuxmemes
27540 readers
3142 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I have to use windows for work, and Windows Explorer annoys the everloving hell out of me.
What idiot thought that the "Home" folder and the User folder should be the different?
And regularly, when "Home" hasn't loaded I'm halfway done typing the address in the address bar "//someletters/adv" for example, it will decide to clear it to let me know I'm "Home"
You might have made my life just a little bit easier.
Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
I used to run blackbox on windows xp. It worked really well too.
One of my favorite creators, MichaelMJD made a Video about this.
NGL, I didn't realise it's an actual Dolphin icon on the folder until I saw this post. I always have the Dolphin pinned on my taskbar but it's teeny tiny so I couldn't make out the symbol.
For what it's worth, the dolphin face is a relatively recent addition. I wanna say three months tops.
I have one old laptop with Windows 10 sitting around, and only because it's the only way to update the Xbox Series controller I have that randomly bootloops and thus is essentially useless anyway.
So this begs the question: how much of Windows can I delete and replace with foss stuff, while still having it technically be a Windows OS?
Soon:
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What youβre referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as Iβve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows plus NT. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another nonfree component of a fully functioning free GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX... and whatever NT does."
I think better questions to ask first might be things like "Can I pass the controller USB connection to windows in a VM?" which is probably yes, and "Can I just never update this controller?" which I would normally say is a yes, but it sounds like yours has issues.
Yeah after some searches it sounded like updating the controller might fix the bootloop issue. Running the accessories app for the controller through Linux seemed like a no-go, so for me the path of least resistance was putting Windows on an old laptop I don't generally use anymore.
Updating fixed the bootloop issue, until it didn't. The lesson I'm taking from all of this is to not buy Xbox controllers anymore. Currently the DualSense is my main, but I'm looking at the Gulikit ES Pro at some point.
If I ever find a controller that has a companion app that natively runs on Linux, that's what I will prefer. But really, controllers needing to be updated is dumb to begin with.
You mean GNU\Windows\NT
Backslashes in file paths makes me go π₯π‘π€¬π€πΎπ₯
The absolutely most? ReactOS. It's not really suitable for daily use, but it is essentially a clean room reverse engineering project of Windows itself.
Yeah I check in on React OS every few months. Maybe someday I'll give it a try, but it's still so much in alpha status.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
There is also Krusader that might be worth looking into.
(Someone on the interweb:) "Hey, you should try KDE Connect"
(Me:) Uh, I don't use Linux on my laptop and that's the computer that I use the most
(S:) "Well it also runs on Windows."
(Me:) Really?... Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can't remember what it's called this week
Kde connect just really feels like it was made by someone who wanted to use it. Also just the fact that I can beam stuff between my desktop, phone, and steam deck is so nice
Especially the android app was made by someone who really wants to use it because it has literally no way of closing it or preventing it from auto-starting
load more comments
(1 replies)
The thing that really annoys me with Linux file explorers is that none of them have a "sort by extension". They have sort by type, but it'll mix .jpg, .png, .gif and .webp together, for instance.
I just checked and Dolphin very much has that feature, the wording in English might not be exactly the same as I have the UI in my native language but I found it in the hamburger menu under Sort by>Other>File extension.
load more comments
(1 replies)
obligatory linux user: whats an extension? Surely you mean File Type.
Lol goddamn, I haven't even been using Linux that long, and I read the comment and was like "extension? Like a Firefox extension? Huh?"
Well, apparently that is a thing in Dolphin, but if what you actually want is e.g. to just move all .png files, then I prefer to use the Filter bar (Ctrl+i or the fourth entry in the hamburger menu). You can just type ".png" into it and then it hides all entries which don't contain that substring.
I dunno, on GNOME49 it seems to me like Nautilus is doing it by file extension. Like yeah, it's still type, but it's sorting the extensions alphabetically. There's also an extra column for "Detailed Type."
On windows?
Had that problem on linux, haven't tried dolphin on windows, but I wouldn't expect it to be different in that regard
Great! Dolphin is also better than macOS Finder. I would replace it with Dolphin as well.
However, Windows Explorer in Windows 11 still excels in one area: it doesn't have a header, and the tabs are displayed on the header, like in Chromium.
It's also annoying that all KDE Dolphin tabs have that red [X] button. Sadly, the KDE developers reject great PRs like this one: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/269
Who even presses those [X] buttons? I always use the Ctrl+W shortcut.
Itβs also annoying that all KDE Dolphin tabs have that red [X] button. Sadly, the KDE developers reject great PRs like this one: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/269
My God, what a read... I love KDE, but holy shit, these guys really need to pull the sticks out of their arses...
load more comments
(2 replies)
Oh shit
I don't know how much of this is going on now, but in the early days, one could run a variety of linux apps in windows with the correct runtimes installed. this may be how WINE came about?
Just FYI, WINE is for running MS Windows software on Linux, not Linux software on MS Windows^1. As others have mentioned, I think cygwin was sort of the reverse-WINE. Also, I think KDE made a push to get their apps running on MS Windows because QT was cross-platform.
I was using WINE to play StarCraft back in like 2000. I think it predates running most Linux software on MS Windows, except for a few big, multi-platform packages like Firefox (back when it was still Netscape, then Mozilla Suite (don't remember what it was called), then Phoenix, then Firebird (right? the same name as a database, so they had to change it, iirc). Those were usually developed for each platform specifically, not just for Linux and then run with an emulator.
^1: not trying to be snarky or anything. just put it in in case you didn't know or maybe had a brain fart. Or maybe I'm wrong about the origins of WINE.
Definitely a brain fart. Thanks for looking out.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Can recommend, Dolphin makes life on windows slightly more tolerable. Kate for Windows is also amazing
view more: next βΊ