Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

neowin.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

561–570 of 679 posts

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#561

Post by rolenthedeep »

FredPret wrote: post #331
progman32 wrote: post #197

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…

Absolutely spot on. If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing that.

Bluetooth support on windows 10 is by far the worst of any operating system in the last decade. It's an absolute joke.

Bluetooth and wifi honestly do "just work" these days. There are some old or weird radios that don't have good drivers, but that's a problem money will solve. Just buy a radio known to work.

I can't say I've done much printing or scanning in the last few years, but it's basically fine these days. It's annoying as hell, but printers are always annoying, in any situation.

All of these were common problems several years ago, but they're pretty much solved these days. The real sticking point now is GPU drivers, and less commonly audio drivers. Linux is generally quite usable for a large number of people these days.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#562

Post by actually_a_dog »

viraptor wrote: post #475
actually_a_dog wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation needed. Moreover, what's the evidence that those that make do with only phones would even want to purchase a tablet or laptop? Edit: also, conflating phones with "desktops" is just being glib and disingenous.

> Citation needed Literally the top results for US smartphone ownership. You can do it. > that those that make do with only phones would even want to purchase a tablet or laptop? That's the whole point - they don't need / want one. But given the services that everyone needs are moving online, everyone needs some level of internet access. This effectively moves windows users to Linux/Android as discussed upthread.

I see. So you're not actually going to even try and answer the question? No evidence? Just "I'm going to conflate desktops and phones to make my point?"

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#563

Post by mmis1000 »

userbinator wrote: post #534
warning26 wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite part about this "helpful" prompt is that "no" is tiny text at the corner of the screen, and the yes-please-change-all-my-defaults button is a giant "ok". This kind of behavior should be illegal, IMO.

At least it says "No" and not "No Thanks" or "Maybe Later" or "Remind Me Later"? ...or as I like to call it whenever I run into one, "where's the 'Fuck Off!' button?"

I don't think it's different with "Maybe later" in anyway if it pops up after every big update. It's absolutely not how "No" should work.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#564

Post by justaj »

PostOnce wrote: post #549
justaj wrote: post #485

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a heads-up: Make sure to have enough time to mess around with it because it's a massive time drain. Especially if you like sound design. Exciting and fun time drain, but a time drain none the less.

I bought a midi controller to make music for a game I'm working on part-time, knowing absolutely nothing at all about music. It is the most relaxing, pleasant time-sink I have encountered in years, I wish someone had told me the joy of music creation earlier. Even just fiddling with the piano is quite extraordinarily relaxing.

Ah, I remember the joys of discovering music production and the exploration of the audio multiverse. What I wouldn't give to be in your shoes right now :)

I also unfortunately remember trying to RTFM incomplete / incorrect docs and trying to hunt down some obscure forums in search for some nuggets of knowledge. Oh, and YT wasn't quite a thing it is today, so watching potato resolution YT videos (if any) was the norm.

Luckily that's much less the case these days, so you're starting at a massive advantage if you want to learn. In that regard, someone in the BWS community some time ago shared a list of tutorials for people starting out: https://markdownpastebin.com/?id=7515a658a4ec4aee9f40910485a...

That should get you going nicely :)

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#565

Post by rolenthedeep »

joe_the_user wrote: post #297
progman32 wrote: post #197

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…

I use Linux (Ubuntu Mate) at home and Windows 11 at work (care giving at someone's home, helping him do minimal things). Linux is like a friend, not even awkward at this point. Windows is like a drunk at a bar, who, half an hour ago, was just talking too loudly but now has started groping you. In ten years, I can imagine Windows trying to override literally anything someone does on their machine, including the text t…

They bought SwiftKey and now whenever I type a phrase like "I'll do x" the entire word prediction bar is replaced with "add {do x} to Microsoft Todo"

It's such a great and helpful tool that does not make me resentful at all

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#566

Post by rolenthedeep »

eulers_secret wrote: post #356
progman32 wrote: post #197

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…

Apt-news made me finally leave Ubuntu after over a decade. I went to Debian and Arch depending. Seeing ‘apt update’ shill r/Linux was the last straw after forcing-snap, forcing-Amazon ads, Wayland vs Mir, etc. I should have left years ago. Canonical, are you listening? Stop.

I'm surprised Canonical doesn't get more shit than they do. Not sure why no one talks about it

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#568

Post by brokenmachine »

justaj wrote: post #492
brokenmachine wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ableton is the only thing keeping me on Windows.

Any reason why you don't want to use Bitwig Studio? It's pretty much the same workflow.

Never tried it, maybe one day.

I have a Push 2 as well. I know it's meant to work in Bitwig, but I do love the integration of it with Ableton.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#569

Post by rolenthedeep »

doodlesdev wrote: post #487
matkoniecz wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point printers and wifi work more reliably on Linux, at least in my experience. And wifi troubleshooting at Windows is basically impossible.

Bluetooth is still the one missing though, specially for audio. I'm not going back to Windows though, no matter what.

Bluetooth on Linux works better than windows. Windows' Bluetooth implementation is the worst on the market, by a lot.

Bluetooth really does work flawlessly on Linux. I've even got a few cheap and nasty Chinese Bluetooth adapters that don't work on windows, but work fine under Linux.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

#570

Post by brokenmachine »

imsaw wrote: post #499
PostOnce wrote: post #324

Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…

They're squeezing revenue from their large portion of users who are not technologically proficient to realize they're being exploited.

Sounds a bit like Apple.
Post reply on HN