Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

Post by jeltz » Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

the__alchemist wrote: post #107

Slighted wrote: post #90

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Microsoft transitioning Windows into a spyware platform filled with advertisements and garbage has been in the making for years at this point. Its absolutely exploitative, greedy, and evil, which is why if you can you should consider switching to a different operating system, like Linux. At the very least you can transition to using Linux for tasks that work on Linux while keeping around Windows for tasks which requi…

Linux is a usability mess, and has been for 20 years. I give a new shot once every other year. Basic flow: - Works out of the box for a basic desktop - Once you start installing drivers and software outside the package manager (Which you'll need to do immediately) and doing C+P CLI workarounds, the system state starts decaying, and things break. - The easiest way to fix things is usually a clean OS reinstall, in the…

Post by karmakurtisaani » Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #72

Windows is still my favourite OS, but I surely am not rushing to adopt Windows 11 beyond work requirements. It is just another Vista.

Post by agumonkey » Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

mholm wrote: post #37

veridies wrote: post #17

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I think OP's point is that there's one more major use case — gaming — for which Windows has a newly viable competitor. It's not that Linux is going to replace Windows, but that Windows could suffer a death by a thousand cuts. I'll note that more and more offices that I encounter seem to be switching to Chromebooks.

If using Windows is death by a thousand cuts, using Linux is obliteration by ten thousand. Linux has completed 90% of the work, but the last 10% (usability) is a long way away.

Post by amelius » Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

QuadrupleA wrote: post #53

Sorry for an emotional expletive-laden post here, but this enrages me so much. My computer is my main professional and creative tool, and for MS to do this shit without my permission or control (like it already does with fucking Edge and OneDrive nags every time it installs an update) feels so exploitative, greedy, and evil. And stupid - their execs are chasing myopic short term gains with aggressive stongarm tactics…

Post by MikeDelta » Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

323 wrote: post #92

QuadrupleA wrote: post #81

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Well we're often the ones who recommend a computer to our parents and grandparents. Or the ones who decide which cloud hosting platform or email service provider to use in our organizations. People and governments are collectively getting fed up with surveillance capitalism. One can hope.

Well, I remember how 10 years ago tons of HN users were posting about how they changed the browser on all of their relatives and friends computer to Chrome. How did that end up?