[ShadowAce]

[Da Coyote]

I will gladly celebrate the end of Microsoft and would love to participate in commanding a squadron to bomb and totally destroy all vestages of that loathsome company. Die, Microsoft, die, and take that toad Gates with you.

[dayglored]

Windows 10/11 vs. Linux ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!

[daniel1212]

In any case, what flavor and desktop would you recommend that I, as a US user, will not be in violation of any patent laws in enabling the playing of certain multimedia files. Though I cannot find a list, it seems these would include AAC, WMA, WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 WMA, H.265 (but not MP3))

And which is easy to customize (without having to sudo this and sudo - instead run sessions as root like in Puppy - nor spend hours searching and needing to learn and remember another "language"), like in easily remapping any key (currently, with stiff arthritic typo-fingers, I use AutoHotKey - in which ^ is Ctrl - to map NumLock::Esc
mbutton::^x
f4::^x
CapsLock::^c
f2::^v [used to be Esc, but that key no longer works]) And which includes hot keys to launch apps, open folders, run as roor, shutdown, etc.

And with compact expanding (each sub menu nested) Multi Level Dropdowns start and right click menus, which you can add to (mouse hover to see image, but which option for within Windows folders MS removed).

Likewise a multi Level taskbar, grouping by application ID (MS removed but Explorer Patcher and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker enables so far under W/11 23H2)

Thank God for what tech enables for good and God, regardless of constructive criticism of an OS. Also, a "Send to" (or "Open with) folder (hidden in %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo) in which you can easily place shortcuts to locations and applications you want to send appropriate files to (just make a shortcut the SendTo and place it in that folder).

And which enables finding locations and programs/applications to the source of file via right click in order to make shortcuts ().

And with a compact extensive Device manager which enables updating drivers, as per Windows.

Plus offering extensive customizing of windows and menus, as in XP, including different colors and fonts for active versus inactive, adjusting border width (MS greatly reduced).

I surmise that a KDE desktop

[2111USMC]

Thanks for the ping ShadowAce.