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I've started a list since getting my Win 10 machine at work: 1. Sometimes when I select the titlebar of a maximized window to move it to my second monitor it s

I've started a list since getting my Win 10 machine at work: 1. Sometimes when I select the titlebar of a maximized window to move it to my second monitor it somehow selects the window under the one with focus. 2. For some applications (including MS Office ones) text is blurry when I move from laptop screen to external monitor. 4. Windows 10 ships with a python.exe in the path that opens the MS Store. Figuring out which part of the path to fix to disable it was non-obvious. 5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one. MS somehow shipped an OS with problems I've never seen before in any OS... The first time I did an upgrade from 7 to 10 and I saw the horrible anti-patterns in the "opt-in" screens, I shut it down and switched to Debian Buster. No looking back.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
> 5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one. This has been the way I've resolved this for many years with Windows: https://superuser.com/a/642027 https://superuser.com/a/642027
- intrepidhero 7y ago
  Thanks. I looked into disabling Hyper-V but I think there is some IT installed spyware on this machine that squawked when I tried.
  - zamadatix 7y ago
    Windows 10 has virtualization based security which requires Hyper-V to function, sounds like that is being leveraged.
    - giancarlostoro 7y ago
      If that's an issue, I would see about making VirtualBox use Hyper-V for the hypervisor.
      - toxican 7y ago
        Heads up for anyone that uses Vagrant, don't do this because not all vagrantboxes support Hyper-V.
zamadatix 7y ago
How on earth are you avoiding things like #2 on Debian? The only OS I've found that properly handles arbitrary DPI since day 1 has been Android. Also you skipped #3 in your list
- intrepidhero 7y ago
  I used to have anti-aliasing issues with linux. But since Debian/jessie it hasn't been a problem.
- intrepidhero 7y ago
  :-) #3 is me complaining about the Ribbon and I figured that discussion has been done to death so I left it out and forgot to renumber.
- jcelerier 7y ago
  echo "Xft.dpi: 120" >> ~/.Xresources and be happy forever after (tested with i3wm, not sure with other environments which may do weird stuff to DPI handling like Plasma and GNOME)

giancarlostoro 7y ago

> 5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one. This has been the way I've resolved this for many years with Windows: https://superuser.com/a/642027 https://superuser.com/a/642027

intrepidhero 7y ago
Thanks. I looked into disabling Hyper-V but I think there is some IT installed spyware on this machine that squawked when I tried.
- zamadatix 7y ago
  Windows 10 has virtualization based security which requires Hyper-V to function, sounds like that is being leveraged.
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    If that's an issue, I would see about making VirtualBox use Hyper-V for the hypervisor.
    - toxican 7y ago
      Heads up for anyone that uses Vagrant, don't do this because not all vagrantboxes support Hyper-V.

zamadatix 7y ago

How on earth are you avoiding things like #2 on Debian? The only OS I've found that properly handles arbitrary DPI since day 1 has been Android. Also you skipped #3 in your list

intrepidhero 7y ago
I used to have anti-aliasing issues with linux. But since Debian/jessie it hasn't been a problem.
intrepidhero 7y ago
:-) #3 is me complaining about the Ribbon and I figured that discussion has been done to death so I left it out and forgot to renumber.
jcelerier 7y ago
echo "Xft.dpi: 120" >> ~/.Xresources and be happy forever after (tested with i3wm, not sure with other environments which may do weird stuff to DPI handling like Plasma and GNOME)