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It's truly amazing how Microsoft insists on making Windows worse with each release. It makes me miss the old odd/even releases where at least half of them weren't bad.
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The year of the Linux Desktop already happened, just not in the way people wanted - Android and Chromebooks.
That is the Year of Linux kernel, there is nothing else from GNU/Linux on Android and ChromeOS.
Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you. There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marke…
Windows is the guy that makes you watch your drink at all times, because he clearly doesn't take no as an answer.
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Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.
> Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari. I would love to see a screenshot because this I simply don’t believe
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I actually wrote about using Linux as a daily driver for a week for everything, gaming included: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/a-week-of-linux-instead-of-... In short, Proton is making pretty good progress and anyone can check their own Steam library with ProtonDB, to see how many of the titles they care about are likely to work. Out of the popular mainstream games, around a half will work on Linux, whereas in the…
Games developed on Windows desktops, targeted for Windows desktops, running by translating the Windows API.
with Microsoft's declining focus on compatibility, the time is coming where the majority of Windows games now run best on something that isn't Windows
(not to mention the lack of ads, spyware, general lack of stability and forced reboots)
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Hey, sorry that happened, it should have preserved all of the default applications, etc. There are multiple suites of tests and processes that exist to try to ensure updates preserve user data and preferences but clearly something went wrong here. I’m just a developer, not a spokesperson, but I want to ensure that this is investigated if possible. If you file a bug in feedback hub under the Windows Update category it…
> Hey, sorry that happened, it should have preserved all of the default applications, etc. Thanks for your apology. I can imagine this could happen to some random unknown software team but not to the supposed leader of the desktop. I believe this is honest apology but I am not sure I can trust that the issue was a bug and not a feature.
Consumers already spoke with their wallets: they don't want to buy OSes. They're expected to be free.
The only reason macOS isn't this aggressive about advertising is because it's locked down to profitable hardware and linked together with a proprietary ecosystem of even-more-profitable hardware.
Diving into these, I still think this article is a bit dramatic.
1. Recommended Websites: Do you even look at your start menu? I don't. I hit the Windows key and type in the first few letters of the app I'm trying to open. The Start Menu could be completely blank and I wouldn't care.
2. Search Highlights: You don't even need to have a search bar in your taskbar at all
3. Suggested Actions: Can be turned off entirely
4. Warnings in the wrong places: Easily ignorable text in another piece of UI I never look at.
5. Please use our search filled with ads: Again, remove the search icon from your taskbar. It doesn't have to be there at all.
Don't want any of this? Install Linux.
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Soo niche except for 99.99999% of devs
Even the majority of “command line devs” are satisfied by Mac or even WSL for their machines. The servers they connect to are almost always Linux, however.
>More attempts to impose Edge I don't particularly mind this. Apple already forces Safari down our throats at every turn. And Edge is honestly a pretty great browser. Unless you're a Mozilla purist, there's really no better choice on Windows at this point.
Oh, yes,here is. It's the browers I chose to prefer to install, and its the only one i chose* to use on a daily basis.