Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
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Windows will never again reach the pinnacle that was Windows 7. Win 7 was familiar, stable, powerful just get things done OS. RIP.
The pinnacle was Windows 2000; none of the releases since then really improved it. (And I say that as someone who thinks the Vista hate is overblown).
I take your point but I had way too much trouble with x64 driver support in 2000/XP. For me win7 was the one that got proper 64 bit driver support and "just worked" fine with a bunch of memory.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#623Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows will never again reach the pinnacle that was Windows 7. Win 7 was familiar, stable, powerful just get things done OS. RIP.
I think somewhere around 2K/XP was the pinnacle, Vista was too much graphical bling and bloaty, while 7 toned it back a bit, but 8 is when the decline really started being noticeable.
For UI yes, but I had way too much trouble with x64 driver support in 2000/XP. Win 7 nailed that and just seemed to work for me.
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Pretty much the only use case I have for itunes is to sideload music to my iphone, so I go into my windows partition a couple times a month to do it.
I had a similar problem, I just switched to foobar2k https://apps.apple.com/us/app/foobar2000/id1072807669 on my iphone. There are some... interesting UI design choices, but no itunes required. Decoupled https://decoupled.app/ is also nice.
LOL, Decoupled had me in the first paragraph of that about page!
I don't know why I never thought to try third party for music stuff, I will definitely check these out, thank you.
My music library is about 32GB now, hope those can deal with that.
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Everyone struggles with iTunes. And every update makes it worse. I’ve used it on Mac and Windows and both suck
> Everyone struggles with iTunes. And every update makes it worse. I’ve used it on Mac and Windows and both suck 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 app…
What are you using for a music replacement app? My library is 32GB now and I don't think I'm using any of the other itunes features these days, just using it as the path to sideload MP3s.
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Real businesses will not put up with this nonsense and that's why LTSC exists. I'm also wondering if you can just run server editions.
I don't think businesses care too much. LTSC is for when you need the system to not change over time, but still get some security updates, not simply business use - for that, there's the Enterprise edition of course.
Exactly, businesses need this thing to get out of the way and just remain consistent. Turns out there's a lot of people that want exactly the same thing and we are not getting it any more.
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Annoyingly LTSC costs around $300ish for the typical end user and has an inordinate amount of hoops just to buy it... makes it difficult to recommend to family so I curse them with Arch instead.
I personally run my own activation server ( https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd ), and just point the Windows installation there. Or you can use one of the many servers that are floating around the internet. Either way, it's a bit annoying unfortunately. Also, my country's second hand electronics market has LTSC keys for sale for like $25. That might be worth looking into.
I've seen that stuff floating around and it brings me back to my warez days. I've put that behind me though and I just want an honest relationship now and I'm consistently finding that in the open source community, it's like a breath of fresh air.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#628Debian Stable user here. I had Windows 7, and it was a toss-up between using it and sticking with Win 7. There was always this feeling that using Linux was just a bunch of faffing around. I can't quite remember why I finally decided to go for it. I think I said I'd try it as an experiment for 6 months to see how I would get on. I should point out that I'm no Unix/Linux newbie and had installed Slackware on a machine back in the early 90's.
I've been through a whole bunch of distros. I'd generally recommend Ubuntu, but I grew increasingly frustrated with it.
Debian Stable works for me. It has a vast repo, all nicely integrated into a coherent whole. Unix(ish) is unsurpassed as a development platform.
The reason I say this is, as long as Zoom and maybe Skype work on my computer, which is over a decade old, it has enough for what I want. VS Code is also OK, unlike the abomination that is Eclipse. I can never stick to VS Code, but think it's a sensible choice if it works for you.
Windows 10 sounds like a nightmare from what I've heard. The constant updating, all at inconvenient times. I heard that Win 10 is allowed access to your data. Quite why folks didn't kick up a much bigger stink about this I don't know. Corporations are OK with MS sniffing through their documents? For real?
Win 10 seemed like a social experiment to see how hard they could kick consumers in the nuts and still get away with it. Win 11 seems to turn the insanity up to 11.
If anyone thinks Windows is any good, then all I can see is that they're suffering from some kind of Stockholm Syndrome. Non-commercial Linux distros are a breathe of fresh air.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
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Linux can play pretty much anything under Proton now. And older games tend to work better than on Windows because Proton runs the actual code instead of trying to force it through the current windows OS that is 10 versions on and doesn't have any of the APIs anymore. A lot of old windows games don't even run on windows anymore.
Thanks, I might need to try that, does Proton require SteamOS or I could use any linux flavor I like?
Just install the steam client and enable compatibility. I always set it to forced experimental to use the most up to date version of proton
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#630I left Windows for Mint about 2 months ago and it's just so much better. All that stupid bullshit you have to deal with on windows just went away, I felt actual relief. No more ads, no more forced updates because you walked away from your computer, no processes that it forces you to run so that it can spy on your mics. It just works. If you want it to look like windows 7 you can, if you want it to look like an iPad y…
Me too my friend, I find mint a decent general desktop OS and I rarely touch windows for personal use. Still struggling with iTunes though.
What do you use iTunes for?
You can transfer photos etc out of IOS on mint. For music and videos you can download VLC on IOS and then it has a magic feature where it opens a localhost website which you can visit on your PC and transfer everything across over Wifi.