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The noise-dive Apple's software has taken, it might fall under the "treats like crap".
It seems quite a few people have been turned off by the recent mac book pro fiasco as well.
Fiasco?
Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I like having portable applications that don't even need installation. I like being able to put applications on different disks. I like being able to have multiple versions of an application. There is not a single package manager in existence for Linux that gives me these things.
> I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I really think your argument against package managers on Linux is incorrect. Many linux distributions provide "some recent version" of common tools, but of course you can get the latest package directly from the developers. Nothing stops you from getting the latest packages directly from the developer (assuming the developer provides…
Compiling most things is decidedly nontrivial. Half an hour of wasted time is not appropriate just to install something in a different directory.
A package manager really should be able to do prefixed installs on any package, but that's far from a universal feature right now.
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I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings. All this trouble so I can play modern PC games..…
Steam support for linux is really going places. I mostly play indie games and older games (so nothing too resource intensive) and Steam's custom wine distribution has been handling them really well. I think I might wipe my windows partition in the next month or so.
I keep hoping I'll run into someone that's played around with that. If you're at the point where you can use their software and expect a random game to work more often than not, that's a massive leap forward for Linux on the desktop!
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I feel like we're diluting the atrocity of shitty ads when we refer to anything and everything as an ad. Netflix's above-the-fold, skippable "Now Showing" preview on the homepage can't be compared to the unskippable videos that Amazon and Hulu force you to watch. Hell, it even remembers that you muted it. And it only plays if you sit there staring at it. Since almost all of Netflix's competitors force you to watch ad…
If it's not aiding me in navigating directly without delay or distraction to what I want then it's an ad. Whether it looks interesting or not is irrelevant.
That's.. not a definition of "ad" in common usage.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I like having portable applications that don't even need installation. I like being able to put applications on different disks. I like being able to have multiple versions of an application. There is not a single package manager in existence for Linux that gives me these things.
> I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I really think your argument against package managers on Linux is incorrect. Many linux distributions provide "some recent version" of common tools, but of course you can get the latest package directly from the developers. Nothing stops you from getting the latest packages directly from the developer (assuming the developer provides…
> but of course you can get the latest package directly from the developers.
If you're willing to compile it from source, which I'm not since it isn't the 70s anymore.
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The rest of these are all the same thing: you can do these things as long as you compile from source. As I've already mentioned, I consider that a backwards and tedious way to deal with application installation. I mean ffs, getting build environments right is such a pain that many devs ship a docker container of a working environment. Not to mention it is only viable with OSS software.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#226What does HN recommend as a better Win10 email client? I'm familiar with Thunderbird and I'll probably switch to it if nothing else, but I'm not a huge fan of the UI/UX.
Ten years ago I would not have said this, but Outlook is really pretty solid. Pretty fast, uses hardly any RAM, excellent Calendar integration (big deal for me), extremely flexible account setup. I swear half of the clients on the market turn out to support only a small list of authentication methods, or don't let you specify port! It is of course overkill though if you have one email account and only process a coupl…
Sorry, but Outlook 2016 is broken compared to 2013. I am forced to use it at work with exchage, and it has weird bugs that simply did not exist in the 2013 version.
i still dont think it supports the iCalendar/calDAV standard either.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#227Anyone remembers just 5 years ago, Microsoft had a huge campaign about how everyone got "scroogled" by Google? Especially this ad about Google reading your mail to devliver you ads? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI1ominSL_c Oh, how the time has changed!
There is still no evidence that they are reading your emails so it's not the same. I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around.
>I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around.
Pretty much every ad platform out there does exactly that
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nVidia GTX 1080ti In addition to the performance degradation, nVidia and the kernel maintainers don't currently get along so I'd also have to deal with that.
Ah, yes. nvidia is a thorn. In other news, the AMD and Intel drivers are as good as, if not better, than their windows counterparts!
Legitimately asking; does AMD still do that thing where they unceremoniously drop support for an older card on newer kernels - so you do a apt-get upgrade at some point and reboot to a black screen, and your options are either never upgrade your kernel or get a new GPU?
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#229All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
How long until Microsoft starts inserting ads into our Github repos?
I'd expect more like a deep LinkedIn integration to facilitate recruiters...as much as the thought makes me cringe.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#230All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
I had to spend several days manually ripping out huge chunks of Win10 to get something resembling the usability of XP. That included removing all of the updating utilities, hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers, removal of most of the preinstalled apps, as well as disabling and deleting all of the scheduled tasks which try to re-install and re-enable those settings. All this trouble so I can play modern PC games..…
hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers
I don't think that works, I'm pretty sure the networking stack bypasses the hosts file for Microsoft sites because it's a potential vulnerability.