Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

It's technically no longer even there on macOS, thank God. It was becoming a sort of kitchen-sink dumping place, and I am glad that I can now manage my iPad through Finder (though I still wish I could just treat it like any other bulk-storage device, as I can on Windows, at least it's there). There are apps called "Music.app" and "TV.app", if I want to access my music and videos the Apple way, but I can and do just ignore them if I don't want to use them.

There are probably a multitude of other features that were in the old iTunes app that I never even noticed or have forgotten, but I think that a lot of users who used to be forced into using iTunes on macOS now can avoid both it and its replacements.

I meant, rather, that I don't think any of the Linux audio production stuff is great. Reaper and Waveform are good, Ardour is not yet (in my opinion, it's buggy and requires too much configuration that is not required in other software, but they'll get there).

The big-name software is genuinely better than what is available on Linux and is worth using, and the latency introduced by VMs makes that idea useless, and using Wine for that task is non-trivial.

I'm just a hobbyist though, my job is not music-related. I have used a midi controller as an industrial process controller though :)

Like everything else on Linux though, it'll get better over time. I do screw around with LMMS on linux because it's completely intuitive to me. It works, it's just not as complex and feature-complete as Ableton / etc.

1. Auto updates. Get a pop up every 1-2 hours reminding you that by the next morning the computer will restart. If you do it now, you get rid of the pop up, but will spend the next 15 minutes waiting for the update to apply. If you forget about it, you will find all your programs closed the next morning. This never happens on Linux, although I don't know how much of this is due to the laptop being a company one.

2. Customizability: I wanted to customize the keyboard layout to my own preference. Could not do it. In Linux it was 5 mins on Google and one config file edit. Don't even care to think how this changes when one wants to start customizing further.

3. No tabs on file browser or power shell/cmd. This one is the most baffling one, such a low-hanging fruit to improve UX.

4. Microsoft data collection from usage: more of a theoretical concern to me, but still doesn't make me like it any better.

5. I'm not a fan of the office tools you're forced to use with corporate Windows: for some language reason outlook refuses to believe that I want to write "to the" and not "tot he", even if I explicitly tell it not to correct it. And unfortunately Excel is the de-facto standard for office spreadsheets. It has a rather primitive way to handle dates and can't open files with more than some 1 million or so lines. I can't help but think that if MS didn't have such a monopoly on office software, we would have similar variety and quality as we see for IDEs in spreadsheet software.

The last point is not exactly better in any other OS, but it still is a firmly Windows thing, so I feel it's justified to be added to the list.

Ah, lastly, using Linux I can be pretty comfortable that my OS experience will stay more or less the same for years to come. If bit, just change the distro to something relatively similar. Not so much with Windows. So far I haven't read a single positive thing about W11, and would like to hear your thoughts on having ads and whatever else you have to put up with when you're forced to do the switch.

If you use Steam, it's all automatic and transparent in the background, but I don't use Steam for everything.