do you miss anything from windows?
2026-03-12 12:49 UTC
Replies (40)
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@BrilliantBadger@piefed.ca 2026-03-13 11:36
Clippy
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@Bazell@lemmy.zip 2026-03-13 13:10
Windows 7.
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@YesIAmHoomanNoCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-12 14:03
Modding a steam installed game is horrible. on Windows: point to the exe & done. Linux: 1. Find compatibility and tool to run your modding programs 2. Find your fucking install folder. (No steam a hidden folder is not where I want my stuff installed) 3. Deal with symlinks in your install path 4. Fuck you, you didn't use the exact same compatibility setting when you ran your tool Vs. When you installed the game. Try again. Don't even talk about running cheat engine. Asides from that Linux is .. Fine.
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@shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 13:28
AutoHotkey. I've been meaning to try out [AHK_X11](https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11) although I don't think there's a Wayland option yet :\ Oh and CorelDRAW. [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) is not bad but its UI is not quite as slick.
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@swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2026-03-12 16:04
I can't think of anything I miss. Windows is so primitive compared to Linux.
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@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2026-03-12 21:30
No.
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@AstroLightz@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 23:02
The only thing I miss is paint.net. - Newer versions don't run in WINE. - Pinta, a fork of paint.net, is old and is missing many features of modern paint.net. - Some alternatives, like Krita, are more for drawing, whereas I use paint.net for image editing. - GIMP lacks a shape tool.
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@0485919158191@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 13:25
Not really. I've for several years removed any ties to windows and have been running linux for some time now!
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@WillowWhisper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-12 16:48
I still have to boot into windows for Autocad and laser cutting software. Please lightburn bring back Linux support!
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@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2026-03-13 03:45
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...)
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@mub@lemmy.ml 2026-03-13 01:33
Full Software support and functionality from device vendors.
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@brianary@lemmy.zip 2026-03-13 01:26
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.
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@funkajunk@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 13:40
I'm tempted to say "copilot" just for the ragebait
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@Cyber@feddit.uk 2026-03-13 00:21
The flying toasters in the After Dark screensavers
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@maplesaga@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 03:02
I think a built in antivirus isnt a bad idea, for free none the less.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 18:50
AutoHotkey
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@NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2026-03-13 17:26
I use Linux 100 percent full time. I have to remote into windows, Azure, deal with Office 365 and Windows servers for work. I always do it from Linux because I need something to just work and is reliable. I miss NOTHING about windows. Using it ALWAYS reminds me of how bad and anti productive it is. Every day I curse something about it. I left when Windows XP came out, the enshitification was clear. I am writing this now because once again, windows is doing stupid things that are pissing me off. If windows went away tomorrow I would miss absolutely nothing, and in fact would be a cause for celebration. Although I would probably have to work harder, because the only good thing about windows is if you are getting paid to deal with it, everyone knows it is slow and wastes tons of time.
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@orlyowl@piefed.ca 2026-03-12 16:56
Not only do I miss nothing from Windows, but also the decisions MS has made each and every year since I dumped them has only increased my conviction that I made the right move in doing so. Not one time have I read a MS/Windows headline and felt I was somehow missing out on anything I would ever want to be a part of.
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@hexthismess@hexbear.net 2026-03-12 23:50
My laptop going to hibernate and then destroying the battery is making me miss Windows power management for hibernation
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2026-03-12 12:55
~~the sun~~ Jokes aside, most of what I'd use in a baremetal installation, I can also do in a VM. The few things that don't work revolve lack of proper hardware acceleration for XP/Vista games, of which I have some.
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@blackbrook@mander.xyz 2026-03-12 19:59
Only irfanview.
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@RickyWars@lemmy.ca 2026-03-12 13:42
I thought I did, until having to use it for a few days last week after having swapped to Linux in December.
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@rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 16:21
the only thing i miss is having every vst work (i've learned ot live without the broken ones which are only a couple in my collection, besides that all of them work beautifully, aside from a few that have flickery UIs). FL Studio on Linux is awesome.
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@Hirom@beehaw.org 2026-03-13 15:16
Vendor support. Some hardware and software vendors still only care about Windows.
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@Godort@lemmy.ca 2026-03-12 14:05
Middle click to free scroll
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@vikingtons@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 21:03
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.
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@Limonene@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 19:32
There are things I miss from Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP. There's nothing I miss from Windows 7, 10, or 11. Everything I cared about had been deleted by the time of Windows 7.
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@9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-12 15:22
One thing i noticed windows does better is managing multiple screens. 90% of the time when i undock/dock my laptop, the windows go back to the screens they were previously on
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@hbar@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 19:01
I miss windows 2000 professional
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@Kurtagag@lemmy.ca 2026-03-12 22:15
Nope
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@fum@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 21:58
Windows 7 era notepad Windows 7 era paint
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@collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2026-03-13 16:23
Playing games with kernel level anti-cheat. Some of them were pretty fun. I get why they don't support Linux, but it is still annoying.
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@AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 17:40
I really really really like MS Paint. I'm trying to like gimp, but I liked MS Paint a lot. I also miss the smoothness of excel. I love libre office too but Microsoft just has more money to sand off the rough bits.
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@whiskers165@hexbear.net 2026-03-12 19:12
Software worked out of the box much more reliably. I miss certain software but there's nothing I haven't found a happy replacement for. There's a little nostalgia in there somewhere but honestly the feeling is mostly good riddance
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@Broken@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 22:47
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.
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@golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 20:28
Nothing for me. All the games I care about run great, I'm much happier with my UX/UI using KDE Plasma, I'm very happy being able to use a bash shell in a terminal emulator of my choice, etc.
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@Vaggumon@lemmy.zip 2026-03-12 13:41
I had a fairly high end drawing pad no matter what I did, I could not get it to work properly on Linux. I needed up purchasing another and it worked perfectly fine with very little setup required. My work used to require Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere, but not long ago, maybe a year, they changed the workflow and I am no longer on the team that has to use those tools. Otherwise, I've had very little issues, even with gaming. I think I've ran into 3, maybe 4, titles that wouldn't work on Linux, but they were kind of niche games. Most modern titles with even a moderately large audiences work just fine.
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@tabular@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 13:45
Not quite miss, but my fingers still type for the wrong programs in the start menu: task manager, notepad, etc.
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@banazir@lemmy.ml 2026-03-12 15:30
Very little. If I'm being honest with myself, I have a slight preference for how DOS/Windows handled mounting drives. I've never been a huge fan of the UNIX directory structure anyway. I'd like to see some sort of filesystem hierarchy reform for a clearer format. But of course, using Linux is a relief in most ways. There's no going back.
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@galloFino@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 16:54
Autocad