winget upgrade --all --include-unknown for ALL(TM)

No, you can't. Most of the Linux users are insufferable, myself included.

Least schizo USIAN communist ever.

Future Storage aka WinFS. It was a cool idea, metadata based relational db file system. But the execution was horrible, SQL Server based file system which was exposed via .NET IIRC.

Desktop search was supposed to be revolutionized, but it was scrapped just before Vista was released

Me too. Keep it up!

Gasp, you use Oooboontuuu, booo. Did you know that Mark Shuttleworth owns the means of SNAP production? /s

Excellent, thank you for your concern.

Lol, a lot of wrong information here. 30 mins only, wth. There must be something really wrong with your battery or setup. I am currently writing this from a Legion 5 Slim laptop with 13th gen i7 CPU with 20 cores total, and I get more then four and a half hours of battery life with 85% display brightness in power saving mode.

P.S. this is why I take a lot of information from Linux "pros" like you with a grain truck of salt

Arch?!? lol. Terrible advice for a newbie. You are one update away from fscking your system. Better go Fedora/Nobara way. The kernel and drivers will be updated frequently enough. Also, no, propiertary NVIDIA driver installation is not a hassle, Ubuntu/Manjaro and some other friends literally have "wizards" that let you click->click->next the driver.

Lol. The 'average' advanced Gn*me user: I need to enable fractional scaling where is the UI for that. I know!!! if I just type this simple formula in my terminal gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" it might show up in the UI, or not. Do I need to reboot? But gurus told me Linux does not need this restart nonsense. I know, I'll just distrohop and install Ubuntu it has those options enabled by default, maybe. Oh, right we hate Ubuntu now, but don't despair there is always horribly outdated Linux Mint, or corpo testbed Fedora.

You mean like when linux users download AppImages from some random website? lol

Yes, it's possible. Windows ToGo was nice and easy, but it was discontinued, nowadays I use WinToUsb (not free).

The other option is to install Windows to a VHD(x) file and use Ventoy to boot it. It is a bit more involved setup, but if you are comfortable with Linux you'll manage.

Google ventoy vhd boot plugin for more details.

No, it's not. Horrible and outdated in many aspects. Much better options out there.

I agree, they are friendly, but, oh man, EOS forums are a help vampire's paradise, an ocean of beginners with a couple of knowledgeable NPCs. Constant useless noise and back-and-forth everywhere.

EOS is "for intermediate users, and terminal first distro" paraphrasing here, but that's how they describe themselves, and they are a bit dishonest about it IMO. It's "just" Arch+Calamares+forked Artix scripts posing as apps (which are buggy as hell btw).

Shut the fuck up USIAN

I know this is linuxmemes, but if you want a serious answer, I can provide, lol. It's worse because it is an amateurish attempt at recreating windows like registry (like most things Gn*me lol).

::: spoiler boring technical details Let's start from the top:

Microsoft didn’t even have a document that could describe how theirs worked

Oh, really, I remember reading enormous amounts of info on MSDN describing how the internal registry hives work in 1998 (yes, I am that old lol) Also, there were/are excellent books on the topic, i.e. "Windows Internals" by Mark Russinovich. Can you tell me where I can find more info on how dconf works, what about dconf internal structure and organization? I don't want to read the source code.

At least Gnomes was basically simple words and categories

Right, can you tell me what this dconf dump is about:

[org/gnome/nm-applet/eap/fea8b3cc-21a2-4a3d-a3bb-72b7459247b7]
check-time=uint32 1742505110

And they built a settings manager for it too

You mean like simplified UI for poor man's regedit?

Windows registry is horribly over-engineered very very high performance binary database (dconf is a Gvariant binary db also, lol) deeply integrated within the NT kernel and overall system, it supports access virtualization, transparent path override, robust ACLs, and more. IMO, M$' biggest mistake was allowing 3rd party access to the hive in the early days. Then backwards compatibility kicked in and the rest is history.

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Don't get me wrong it sucks, massively, but this attempt of Gn*me/freedesktop INI db is a joke, like the OP's argument

Shut the fuck up USIAN.

Right, that's the reason alright, lol. Remember dconf on Gn*me? It's like registry on windows, but worse.

No, Linux is still not ready for desktop, and it has nothing to do with this fallacy of yours.

I like that you capitalized the R in revolutionary. Also, no they do not advocate for PSL. Electronic intifada morons all over.