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Windows needs a change in priorities

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Re: Windows needs a change in priorities

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Post by seanp2k2 »

jart wrote: post #156
spaetzleesser wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want Linux to compete, you need spreadsheet software as good as Excel and a word processor that's 100% compatible with Word. I tried to use LibreOffice for a while but Calc ins't there yet and I had tons of formatting problems when I sent documents to Words users. After dealing with this for a while you just give up and start using Office again.

I don't want to pull back the curtain too much or tramp on everyone's hopes, but Linux can't compete with Microsoft because of UEFI. The PCs being sold today only allow Microsoft's software to run. In order to distribute a Linux distro, you have to ask Microsoft to give you a shim where they've signed your private key, so that you can share your own signed kernel builds with others. Therefore you can't publish a Linu…

Source? I've installed Ubuntu on half a dozen newish UEFI computers, some of which came with OEM Windows, over the past few years with no trouble https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot

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Post by everyone »

There already is an ideal version of Windows 10, without windows store, metro, cortana, xbox live, ads etc. etc. It also will get support and security updates but zero feature updates or changes for 10 years. It's called Windows 10 LTSB. They dont sell this useful version of windows to normal people though, only to corps via a volume license. This is one of those situations that behooves one to pirate it, and there are plenty of copies of this + crack on torrent sites.

Re: Windows needs a change in priorities

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Post by withinrafael »

Galanwe wrote: post #261

I did not develop a graphical Windows application since around 15 years now. At the time it was mainly Win32, and WPF just starting. I remember that Qt was a big thing though. They had this CSS like capability that would allow you to style your application after the fact. You could also just change the rendering backend at build time. Is Qt not an option anymore to have all the various GUI details right?

The problem is, to really nail the look and feel, you're going to have to create your own controls with the same exact behaviors, looks, etc. and none of that is documented.

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Post by princevegeta89 »

azangru wrote: post #277
princevegeta89 wrote: post #265

Bought a high-end laptop recently and really wanted to give Windows 11 a try [after being a Linux user for about 7 years]. While the WSL and WSLg aspects of it along with development-related features have improved considerably, the base of the system as a whole was still the same mess. So much telemetry stuff running in the background, so many unnecessary updates kicking in, heavy CPU and memory usage and the general…

> a high-end laptop recently Oh, cool, a recent high-end laptop that works well with linux. Could you share the model?

Dell G15 Ryzen Edition. From my experience all Dells and Lenovos are great with Linux compatibility.

Re: Windows needs a change in priorities

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Post by dimgl »

nwallin wrote: post #274
_Algernon_ wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like switching to linux when win 7 support ended was the right move. All my games may randomly freeze for no discernible reason, but at least I don't have to deal with that BS.

> All my games may randomly freeze for no discernible reason, All ? My experience is that 90% work fine, 9% have weirdness, (for instance, voices in Skyrim are out of sync with mouth movements) and 1% of them have game breaking bugs.

Yeah, I have the experience as OP. Every single game I play on Linux has random hitches for seconds at a time.

Re: Windows needs a change in priorities

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Post by emkoemko »

khaledh wrote: post #98
interstice wrote: post #37

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I have a theory that the people who used the bar on the side and the people who turned the user metrics off are the same people (myself included). But I’m not sure how I feel about the results. In any case I hope shells like litestep make a comeback as a result of ever more hostile ui decisions, either that or everyone jumps ship entirely to put energy into making something else great.

The problem is that Windows with all its warts now is still far ahead of the competition in that department (desktop GUI). Whether that's due to monopoly or being actually better, it doesn't matter. The fact is competition is almost non-existent.

GNOME is way better the Windows UI, checked out what options there where when win11 came out and i have been on fedora ever since, really modern UI and none of the Microsoft bs

Re: Windows needs a change in priorities

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Post by ta220320119 »

It's been my issue with some of the non-azure MSFT products generally speaking. You can play games and have fun backgrounds in Teams, but the app eats up all your memory and chatting sucks. Windows is the same as the article is pointing out. It somehow became harder to save documents in office. Feels like all the feature sets in the products are pushed with the wrong agenda. "better is the enemy of good"

Re: Windows needs a change in priorities

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Post by pseudostem »

coryrc wrote: post #52
segphault wrote: post #22

Like every Windows user, I have had a lot of frustrating experiences with the abusive behavior and dark patterns that have taken over the platform. Like when they started having Skype silently run in the background logged in with the user's Microsoft account without any notice or human intervention, and removed the setting to disable it from launching at startup so that it couldn't be prevented. I had to completely u…

> Nobody at Microsoft who has decision-making authority actually cares "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste" -- Steve Jobs

I believe this [1] is the interview from which the quote is taken.

[1] https://youtu.be/rDqQcmVqAm4

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