I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole a product from a company that that thinks this is acceptable.
Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I'm not saying that open source projects can't get better, that they can't be good, but they will never be as good. Hah, this is rich. Many open source products are far better than their proprietary alternatives, especially developer oriented products (which is natural considering that developers tend to use open source and tend to improve their own tools).
I'll give you (some) software development tools. Still, things like Sublime Text, Visual Studio, and the entire Jet Brains lineup which give lie to the "especially" part of the developer orientated toolset. But... Gimp is far better than Photoshop and Illustrator? Blender is far better than 3DS Max and Maya? Libre Office is far better than Microsoft Office? Darkroom is far better than Lightroom? Honestly, I can't eve…
Yeah. Making software to sell forces you to listen to the market (not the same thing as just listening to your existing customers) if you want to grow your sales.
Emacs is more powerful than IntelliJ, say, but it's vastly inferior in terms of learning curve and UX. There are some things I'd rather do in it than in IntelliJ, but it's not what I'm going to use for day to day Android dev, say. Or what I'd point newcomers at.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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To be honest, it can be summed up with one sentence: Blender is striving to meet the features and capabilities of Maya and 3ds Studio, not the other way around. A more "business" orientated sentence: Blender is required to to split its focus to provide a complete movie/game making package including a movie editor, shader editor (i.e. photoshop), and animation editor, an audio editor, a physics editor, a compositing e…
I can comprehend what you are saying, but I disagree. Over the past decade or so, Blender has been on par, and even ahead of "industry standard" tools. It isn't required to split its focus. It is able to. That is something proprietary software from a company would fail at. It's something that free software and collaboration succeed at. The biggest benefit is that it has all of these tools in a cohesive environment. I…
Blender is overextended. That's what Blender developers said openly. Parts like the compositor don't get much love at all. They were merely included because they were needed to fill huge gaping holes in the production pipeline for their demo movies. After that, interest in them dropped to near zero, but there were no better alternatives for a long time.
Now, there is at least Neutron as an open source compositing tool that seems to be filling that particular hole now much more competently than Blender ever could.
I do not understand how you can consider Blender's UI "manageable" in any way. There are much better ways to build UIs for enormously complex DCC tools. My go-to example for that has been Maya for a long time, but since a couple of years, Autodesk has bolted on features in a way that spectacularly breaks the internal consistency, logic and general discoverability of features in Maya. Even though, Blender's UI is still an unsorted mess compared to that.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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>Windows is done Your use case is very niche compared to how MS makes most of its money on Windows licenses. Windows isn't going anywhere until it's no longer pre-loaded on every machine, enterprise customers stop buying it completely, and Linux is much more user friendly on the desktop. I don't disagree with anything else you said, admin'ing windows boxes is a terrible experience.
How the loving fuck can you expect to change the terms of engagement with your OS after it's released and not expect to lose business? I know for a fact the malware analysis software we used are now planning a Linux version. I've literally persuaded a multinational to not continue using .net and Windows servers because of my argument that it's not sustainable. They alone are tens of thousands of Windows licenses that…
Do we have data about Windows adoption rate or decline in the enterprise market? I don't know what are the most trustable sources for such information
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#255I use Windows when I have to now. I used to use Visual Studio as it is really good. But since Windows 8 and more so Windows 10 they have started taking from me. I paid for Windows 10 Pro, but I am subjected to the task of repeatedly removing software, or adverts for software, that I explicitly said remove. This is repeated when major updates go through. Plus the extra data and processing to get a system that isn't us…
Your last sentence doesn't make any sense.
Windows 10 would be fast if it wasn't busy doing tasks I didn't ask it to.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#256It’s hard to believe that the loss of goodwill is worth whatever revenue Microsoft’s gaining from this, so I have to assume this is them dipping their toe into a strategy that attempts to make them more relevant to users. Maybe a reaction to the Windows app store’s lack of success? Thoughts?
I'd say Windows is like 4th or 5th on their list of priorities right now. It's all about Azure, nothing else matters.
Which is ironic because doing literally nothing to Windows besides security updates would be better than the "improvements" they've been making.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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I'm getting sick of this dichotomy. It's trivial to install both. Keep windows 10 on a partition big enough for your games/Netflix/etc., and use Debian/Archlinux/NixOS/whatever for everything else.
I've done it. It is indeed trivial to install both. But nobody cares how easy it is to install both. Using both is a huge pain.
rEFInd is a good option if you don't like things changing under your feet
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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This is very unprofessional. Sadly iOS suffers a similar fate with Bluetooth.
> Sadly iOS suffers a similar fate with Bluetooth. What are you talking about?
Updates re-enable Bluetooth regardless of the user's preference [0]. (Or did until newer versions, I haven't updated one in a while.)
[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-is-why-apple-enables-blue...
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
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Not really. You reboot your computer, and press a key to pick which one you want.
That, in itself, can be kind of annoying (interrupt all your downloads or whatever you are doing), and it doesn't get at the other issues -- having to run updates for both, having two incompatible filesystems where it's annoying to fetch a document from one and use it on the other, doubling the amount of setup and configuration you have to do, and so on. Every time I've set up a dual-boot system I've ended up just ne…
I agree with most of what the sibling post said, but the incompatible filesystems isn't much of an issue anymore.
In my experience, NTFS on Linux works very well. Certainly well enough for any average user.
Re: Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
For instance? I actually think most of it is quite good now. I particularly like PowerShell.
So do I, but it's not bash. Used PS to manage WSUS which was a massive ballache. We had a 'sheep dip' situation, what with this being a secure environment, where we downloaded the WSUS updates from a separate network then moved it via USB to the secure one. PS? Fine. WSUS? Awful. You had to start WSUS, change the categories (it already was trying to download updates on a network without internet), restart the service…
> So do I, but it's not bash.
No, it isn't, but I think in a lot of ways it is much better. It is really nice that the use of an object system means you rarely have to mess around with text-munging code.