* After booting and opening all your "workworse apps", you would call a script that would request 85% to 90% of the total RAM of the machine, forcing everything to SWAP. Afterwards, slowly, things would come back from swap, but only the really usefull stuff, all the flaff (codepaths seldomly used, if at all) stayed on the swap. Made a huge difference on Win2000 and XP, less so on latter editions, as the memory manager was slowly refined.

Such software was available from the 90s or even earlier and was ALWAYS a scam. It was always made for the "look your free RAM number went up" selling point while ignoring the fact that such software forces Windows to dump cache to free the required space, or as you said swap things to disk. Your PC would run slower as cache was rebuilt, and things pulled back from swap as you needed them, and in the end you would just slow down your PC for nothing. Having extra data in RAM hurts nothing. Normal use of RAM would see seldom used data in memory you're concerned about swapped anyway when needed without needing to violently reorganize RAM and swap. There's a reason why MS saw these products being sold over years if not decades and chose not to integrate the behavior into Windows themselves. As you said memory management has improved and it has done so without needing to integrate this behavior. What MS has done is deemphasize "Free RAM" in Task Manager which these apps boosted and emphasized "Available RAM" which includes both free RAM and Windows cache. I've always assumed this was done in response to these types of "tools" to better emphasized how RAM is actually treated by the system.

Plenty of info online, tried to find a good video or something, all the ones I'm seeing are about different memory scams.

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The second sentence explains it perfectly fine to a layperson, and anyone used to interpreting plots has no real problem even without the supplied explanation. The only points of confusion for someone unfamiliar with the different models are the are the labels.

Perhaps those railing against high schools, colleges, and even post-graduate education, need to go back and deal with their *own* biases and self-delusions. The institutions and systems are there.

But when we change our clocks, we ARE changing our schedules..

"imply"

I wouldn't be surprised if we have Valve Software's Steam Deck to thank for inspiring this move. Once again Valve shakes up the gaming industry simply by making a good product.

You still get standardized hardware that software developers are targeting for a consistent gaming experience, and you get the ease of out of the box use (it sounds like you don't just get dumped into Windows but still get a gaming interface first and foremost).

File preview handlers can be written by third parties so this is impossible without writing a completely new system.

Preview should work again once the user opens the file and confirms the action in the security dialog informing them it is from an untrusted location. This is just bringing preview functionality inline with file open functionality to treat the file as untrusted.

I see you're trying to post a dupe on /.

We helped our uncle, Jack, off a horse.

Out of curiosity, I opened the web version (https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/, in Firefox 144.0, on Mint 22.2, using Cinnamon 6.4.8 on a Beelink mini-desktop). To make the usual "test call", I can't go to three-dots (...)--> Settings --> Calls --> Devices (there is no "Devices" under THAT version of "Calls"). However, I CAN go to the "Calls" menu on the far left of the window --> Custom Setup (gear menu) --> Device Settings, and then do a Test Call.

From there, all works fine, including sound and video. Of course, all my Sound Input/Output devices work OK in the OS itself....

I used Firefox (not sure of what the version was) to successfully hold Teams meetings on the web on Mint (likely ~20 or 21), and Vivaldi on a different Mint system. I'm sorry I can't remember more. It was 6 months ago or so.

I have a couple of people I *can* "upgrade" to W11 from W10, but I think they're ideal candidates to move to Zorin or Mint.

MS used to supply a desktop client of Teams for LInux, but hasn't for a year or more at this point. However, the web interface works well enough. And if you don't mind snaps on your system, you can try wrapping the web interface in a sort of desktop app: https://snapcraft.io/teams-for...