So…yeah. Seems MS, in their endless wisdom has decided to rename their virtual desktop software, called before as “Remote Desktop” (and good luck trying to find issues with that that are not related to the old RDP tool MTSC.exe) to… “Windows App”. Perfect. Now everything will look like everything, and there’s no way to ever try to search for help for it. Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”. I’m sure that will help everyone.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That’s how Windows rolls out every unpopular feature.

      • Simply don’t upgrade it!
      • You can prevent the upgrade with this setting.
      • You can turn off the upgrade in the control panel.
      • You can turn off the upgrade in the registry.
      • It’s a different place in the registry now.
      • You can run a 3rd party app to make it stop.
      • It’s always been like this and you’re being weird.
    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      2 days ago

      That compatibility matrix, the windows app does not support connecting to Windows from Windows… That’s some amazing product planning there from Microsoft…

          • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            Do it.

            I would highly recommend Garuda Arch, takes the pain points out of Arch, more flavours than you can shake a stick at, forums are highly active with devs and mods responding quickly to issue posts.

              • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                5·
                2 days ago

                Yeah I’m going to start with Mint. If that doesn’t satisfy my inner geek I’ll branch out. I’ve got several PC’s for different uses so I wouldn’t be opposed to eventually having different distros for each of those purposes.

                • Piwix@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  Sounds to me like you would really enjoy the high customization and windows-like defaults of the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Unfortunately Mint doesn’t offer a KDE Plasma desktop version (although its available in its packages, its not recommended to install it on Mint). If Mint doesn’t satisfy you, maybe Kubuntu or Fedora KDE would be more up your alley.

              • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
                5·
                2 days ago

                I definitely would with Garuda. Like I said, they’ve removed basically all of the pain points of arch. I set my 70yr old dad up with Garuda, he’s been using MacOS mostly and windows for work for ages. The only thing I had to show him was how to open a terminal and type “sudo update” every few weeks. Everything else is as intuitive as any other Linux distro.