Have you tried wrestling with this?
Thanks!
I've looked at it previously, linked from the Affinity forums. I'm not going to try. I haven 't the spare time to invest, and from various forum posts it seems like that although it works, performance can be very poor. I'd rather run Affinity in virtual windows and save a lot of headache. For now.
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I'd love it if Publisher could create web pages, not mockups! I did have a strange experience with Publisher once creating businees cards. When sent to the printer it came out upside down!
It is surprisingly easy to turn off all the telemetry and spying in Windows 10. I was also able to completely disable Edge (which constantly ran in the background, even if you had FF as default browser), and prevent its automatic installation with updates, and lose Bing entirely. This is all thanks to YouTube tutorials, mostly by Chris Titus and Liron Segev, among others. Following Chris' instructions, I also stopped the forced upgrade to Windows 11. It was incredibly satisfying to get rid of all the â â â â â â and intrusive MS BS. The laptop is snappy and quick, runs like a dream... obviously, this will end in October, when it will be Zorin all the way!
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Publisher? As in MS Publisher? is that still a thing? My preference would be that it died a horrible death and had been long buried.
Admittedly I haven't been exposed to its horrors since the mid 2000s when clients would sometimes innocently ask me to create their documents in it. Maybe its transformed into something usable in the meantime.
I trained on Quark back in the 90s, followed by PageMaker on Mac and Windows (never upgraded to InDesign as I had stopped doing publishing and design work for clients). I found Publisher insanely infuriating.
I have difficulty imagining it would produce anything other than a bloated mess if it could produce web pages, especially something for the modern web with responsiveness in mind.
I would advise investing time in learning basic HTML and CSS and use something like VSCodium, previewing results directly in the browser. That way you'll understand the language and produce much better results. There are so many free resources available.
Apologies. I have no wish to offend Publisher users. Just my personal take!
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Chris Titus is great.
I am aware of the tools like O&O shutup and so one, but after some updates Microsoft decides it will be enabled again, same like the force reboots each time.
In Linux you only reboot after a kernel upgrade or gpu update. I already have saved alot of time duo this.
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I used that on Windows and it worked well. Yes, after Updates, You should take a Look at the Settings there because Windwos Updates can change it back but the Tool offers a good Overview and is easy to use in my Experience.
I used a program called "Win 10 Don't Spy On Me" ..... about once a week I would go back into the program and re check the 4-5 settings that M$ managed to in able especially when I had a notification that 10 needed to be updated ..... you know the annoying piece of garbage that used to pop up in the right had corner of your taskbar ....
I bought this laptop with Win 8 installed but upgraded to 8.1 pro almost immediately ..... not once in 5 years did I install an update from M$ ..... I did a manual update of all systems and software from the manufactures as needed .....
Just to throw my hat in the ring I also liked 8.1 Pro but tried 10 cause it was free .... I started using M$ from it's beginning .... I think it was something like MS DOS back then .....
Win 7 was my favorite but had to upgrade when the newer games wouldn't play on it any more .... still have my original Win 7 disk .... packaging etc. ......
Now I'm M$ free and just dual boot Linux with Zorin and Mint ....
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Aaah MS shenanigans never stops 
And then there's this lol
Sad to say ,that despite all this windows future still looks bright 
I meant Affinity Publisher.
In respect of Google versus Bing, each as bad as each other. Every time I do a fresh install of any GNU/Linux OS, the first thing I do in the browser is remove the major search engines, including DuckDuckGo, and add Mojeek and make it default. It also includes alternative search engines at the bottom of its search results if its search does not bring the desired information, my preference being for Brave, so you can access the Brave search engine without the need to instalk the Brave browser.
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Apologies! Sorry, the mention of Publisher had me. I haven't used Affinity Publisher, just Photo.
regarding your print that came out upside down, I can understand how this happens. I used to create a calendar, 14 A4 pages overall. I designed the whole thing in Photoshop as it was largely photographic, all CMYK files with careful gamut checking. But it required some liaison with the print company owing to the way their machine folded and cut the stock paper. There was a complex arrangement in my files where I had to do certain pages upside down so the final product would be the right way up. Nerve wracking the first year, sending off an order knowing I couldn't afford to have it redone. It worked.
So, the issue may have been to do with how your print company laid it out.
We could perhaps do with a separate search engine thread.
I have been very satisfied using Presearch for some time now. Search results work well for me. Brave didn't return such good results when I tried it.
My searches are a mix of local info (Brave seemed to give me US results when I needed UK) and technical/code questions. Presearch gives me results on the technical searches as good as Google used to (I've used alternative search engines for some years but until a couple of years ago I had to revert to Google for the technical queries).
Not just from a privacy viewpoint. IMO Google has been rubbish in its actual results for a long time, and becoming worse.
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''Google Warns Windows Users - Microsoft Is Tricking You''
I had to laugh at this Sentence.
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Big tech companies fighting each other and messing up in the relatively simple things is really funny to me
Also, c'mon microsoft... If you are gonna do some monopoly practices that will get you in trouble, at least do it right: I can still see the Google result down there
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What Chris Titus helps you to do is nothing like O&OShutupWindows, and updates don't revert changes because you use Regedit to make them permanent. There is also an updated list of MS addresses on Github so you can block what they're up to: GitHub - hagezi/dns-blocklists: DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!
I've really got to thank Chris Titus because it was only by watching and following his tutorials for taming Windows that gave me the confidence to try Linux.
He's a big Linux fan, using Arch (Manjaro), and many other "cutting edge" distros, but he makes it so clear how people like me don't need, or even want, Arch and distros like that.
Giving me the confidence to get into my WX Registry and literally take control of the computer that I bought and paid for was empowering. That path led me to Linux, first to Mint Cinnamon, then on to Zorin_OS, which IME is a fantastic distro that needs more exposure to the general public - normal folk who really don't need MS and Windows at all - they're just scared to move out of their comfort zone.
I wish more Zorin users would get on and watch some YouTubers, like "Switched to Linux", and contribute to the comments, because so many of them don't really know about Zorin and how suitable it is for newbies who are trapped by MS into using Windows, and really are unaware that that Zorin_OS exists, and is a viable option for the vast majority of "normal" users.
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Agree, I've been searching different distros and distro hopping for like 2 years,and never saw Zorin mentioned.
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