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Following the current trend at Microsoft, it will probably be called "Microsoft Azure for Desktops" :)
I can picture a world where they just host Windows on Azure and you get a thin-client that must be internet connected to use "your" computer. (I am pretty sure this exists in some form for actual cloud-hosted virtual machines, which some companies force their employees/contractors to use, despite the performance issues.)
With its built in abysmalware.
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The windows hating is so boring and childish. Windows, and particularly Windows 10, is a very good OS. It's not even open source advocates that dislike it so much. I think most Linux users would admit Windows is a solid option, if just not for them. It's usually just Mac fans.
You’re right, I guess as a Mac fan I’m biased. I’m used to having luxury features like local accounts and being allowed to disable updates. It’s not fair to expect that from Windows.
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Yes and Docker for Mac is terrible, I'm sitting with a quarter of my RAM in kernel_task with no idea what it's doing and my system stutters every few minutes while who knows what pages off of the SSD, I've had MacOS releases get stuck in a half-upgraded state which required a reinstall, I have monitor connectivity problems, and I've had MacOS get stuck at the login prompt. And don't get me started on the issues with…
I use all three platforms on a daily basis and windows is 10x worse than the next contender. As for Docker on the Mac I agree. I don’t use it. I use a Linux VM which is where I’m currently heading on windows at the moment, unpicking all the garbage. The least troubled combination I can suggest is: use macOS on an M1 machine and keep it close to default as possible and do all your dev on a Ubuntu LTS box via SSH. And…
Are you using Windows 10X by any chance? Sounds like the way it should be.
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The windows hating is so boring and childish. Windows, and particularly Windows 10, is a very good OS. It's not even open source advocates that dislike it so much. I think most Linux users would admit Windows is a solid option, if just not for them. It's usually just Mac fans.
You’re right, I guess as a Mac fan I’m biased. I’m used to having luxury features like local accounts and being allowed to disable updates. It’s not fair to expect that from Windows.
At this point, considering every mobile phone requires you to sigh into some account as step 1 of setting up the device I don't really care that MS asks too. As a bonus all my Windows 10 keys are associated with my account and it makes things easier.
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1 and 2 are part of the same Vista/7 era Control Panel UI. 3 I believe is even older than that, maybe since 95 4 is the MMC. The MMC is actually great and I am disaponted to see it lose favor. You can even use the MMC to remotely admin other computers. The MMC is somethig I miss on other OSs. Microsoft should have really invested time in creating template projects used to migrate from the 95 era panels to the Vista/7…
> Microsoft should have really invested time in creating template projects used to migrate from the 95 era panels to the Vista/7 era panels. And then again for Win10. A lot of the problem just feels like they've repeatedly given up halfway through converting old settings UIs to newer ones and fallen back to bundling the old UIs into "advanced" or "additional settings" windows. The Personalization settings are a perfe…
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If there are issues you'd like to see fixed, the best way to get those dealt with would be to contribute.
I would very much like to see the file chooser/ open and save dialog in GTK fixed because it affects a lot of software even if one is not using Gnome. It affects Firefox on Linux on all DEs, it even affects Gimp on Windows. I am not a GTK/C/Vala programmer though. I would like for gnome apps to behave better when opened on DEs other than Gnome. Other than that, I don't really care about Gnome. I use Plasma on Linux.
If the app uses GtkFileChooserNative, it can likely already be configured to use an external file dialog, with some caveats: https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/a5cxwk/firefox_v64_can...
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It will until you upgrade your Ubuntu version and you open it up to find a message that "your file manager is deprecated. use this crappy fork with fewer features instead", only to have it abandoned after a few years because the devs for the fork got butthurt. I'm so glad I ditched Linux. Got tired of losing features because of people's egos, and being told ffmpeg was deprecated when it really wasn't became the final…
Is that relevant to Gnome? It's used the same file manager "Nautilus" for years. Apple and Microsoft are also quite capable of killing software projects.
> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so. For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.
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Seriously. I can't imagine anyone whose decision between a Mac and a Windows PC is a complete dead tie, except for Mac OS being 11 compared to Windows' lowly 10.
this one goes to 11