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Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No KDE or Gnome theme will bring drivers for software and hardware that is only working on Windows, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

drivers for software

That's not a thing.

theme brings drivers

Gnome and kde don't bring drivers, they bring a compositor. The drivers come from LINUX and other packages like MESA which are distro agnostic.

only working on Windows

OS compatibility is in the hands of the engineers and developers, or more accurately in the hands of corporations that will go where there's money. If you want shit to work on linux, you need to use linux.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gnome and kde don’t bring drivers

No way, are you sure??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. Linux on desktop is by design modulable, you grab parts from plenty of different packages and put them together to make a distribution. Gnome and KDE are just packages, large ones with plenty of dependencies to be sure, but just packages. Here's the gnome package on arch, do you see any driver?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow, this is mindblowing!! Can you teach me more about Linux??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have to ask. Are you sincere?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

No, I'm not sincere with a person who completely ignored my point that Windows-alike DE doesn't make Linux a viable alternative due to lack of software and hardware support. Stop lecturing people when nobody asked for a lecture.