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Windows died with the release of Vista. It no longer felt like Windows to me, it lost something fundamental. I switched to Mac at work and Linux at home shortly after that. I've tried it every couple of years since then and it has got worse each time.
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I tend not to see thinkpads for resale value, but I think they do fit with the "lasting the test of time" test. The parts are easily available, cheap, and virtually everything is user replaceable. It's great.
I had one once. I honestly thought it was awful.I respect that your experiences may have been different but I found it painfully slow and bulky. The detachable battery broke as well and had to be held in place by tape. I opened it once and it looked like a bunch of bits arranged to look like a laptop. Anyone who has seen the elegant neatness of the inside of a Mac will understand what I mean.
Having never lived in a Windows world I had no idea what life was like on the other side. So many times on HN I read about how MacOS is bad for the user, locked down, rubbish etc etc. But if this article is true then Windows 11 is absolutely insane. That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP. Not poor documentation. Not first party apps. While those of us who use Apple’s OS fear for the worst, those in Windows ap…
> That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP. It's not an either-or. Both of those are super anti-consumer. If you want an OS without anti-consumer "features", then install Linux.
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Linux is only free if your time is worthless. ;)
I would happily submit ALL the time required to set up my perfectly-tailored Linux environment once and have it stay that way, just to not have Windows Update (or a random blue screen or 100% disk utilization etc) make my machine unavailable for 40 min just before a hugely important client demo one more time. Various Linux distros still have ways to go in terms of polish and stability - but, anecdotally, the only tim…
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Easy anti cheat works in linux now. Most games now just work
Don't some big publishers of 'important' trendy multiplayer games with strong network effects still basically refuse to enable EAC's Linux support, though? Do you know any recent articles or blog posts summarizing the state of affairs with competitive multiplayer games rn?
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/
GloriousEggroll is a Red Hat employee who works on the proton compatibility layer full time. He typically posts his progress on Twitter and will have world first screenshots of certain games working. His Twitter is a good resource.
Windows 11 start menu search is slowest shit i've ever seen I can't stand when I type app name (e.g paint or vs) and it appears but click needs like 5-10 sec to be registered what the hell It worked perfectly fine on Win10 on the same hardware (my OS has been updated recently either automatically or by company). I'd call Windows 11 pretty OK once you tweak one or two things in register settings, maybe the lack of rig…
As a life-long Windows user, the most frustrating part is how broken search is, and always has been, but… in new and unique ways in every version I’ve ever used! It’s astonishing: they’re clearly working on it, making material changes, but only ever sideways. I’ve never observed an improvement. To those people that say “version x has worked”: I doubt it. Maybe after a month it successfully indexed the 100KB of text i…
Yet another beef of mine. The Search Indexer runs frequently, chews up a lot of CPU, and always engages my fans into turbo mode. I know that 99% of my files at any given moment are identical to the last month. Windows, you have all the hooks to know the last time a file was modified. Stop re-scanning everything forever.
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100% this. My journey was Windows to OSX to Linux. Couldn’t be happier. I just want a good Linux phone to free me from Apple altogether.
Isn’t Android Linux?
Android is a mess of propietary blobs that runs Linux, but Linux isn't its OS.
I am sure I will get all kinds of hate for saying this: despite the extra up front cost, apple stuff is a better value. Lets take device lifetime: I have a 2013 MBP 15 and 2015 MBP 15. I use them for intensive things like music production. Both devices work flawlessly. I also a System 76 Oryx Pro which cost more than any mac I own. The webcam failed 5 months in, several keys don't work anymore, and it gets hotter tha…
Yeah . If you are comparing Apple to a company that sells less than 10k units a year, then sure Apple would hold better value. I had to look up what is a system 76 oryx.
I just had to set up the first Windows machine I’ve owned in 20 years. Between Windows 11 itself and the garbage the hardware manufacturer throw on there, it’s awful . Upsells everywhere. Horseshit I do not want clotting things up. After spending most of my time on macOS it was really quite shocking to see how atrocious things are on the Windows side. I’m sure you can eventually get things tuned how you want, but who…
But since you have it, install Chocolatey, using that to manage these next programs (and more, i try to install all my apps through it):
* Install O&O ShutUp to turn all that garbage off. The suggested settings there are pretty good.
* Everything (yes, "Everything" is the name of the program) for actually useable (and good) search, since Windows search sucks for some reason (I can back up other commenters here).
* Bulk Crap Uninstaller to really uninstall stuff (edit registry and delete leftover program files etc). You can use this to uninstall all the junk Windows installs automatically.
There's lots of others but these are my go to. I have base of a bunch of packages and settings I like.