The day Windows died

Post by anthk » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 9:43 AM UTC

baq wrote: post #395

eastbound wrote: post #349

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Pricepoint: $2,499.00 for 16 inch MBP, M2, 12-Core CPU, 19-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD Storage (which is very small storage, and 1Tb starts at $2699).

This probably goes without saying, but I feel it needs to be said anyway: 16GB must be a joke by the market segmentation folks in Cupertino. I can just barely do comfortable development with the 32GB version. If docker was native, mayyyybe 16 would be almost fine…

Post by steve1977 » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 9:44 AM UTC

retrac wrote: post #260

DonHopkins wrote: post #32

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Linux is only free if your time is worthless. ;)

One of the most beautiful things about the open source / Linux world is that you rarely have to learn a new way of doing things, unless you want to. Prefer Gnome 2? Fork it. Not flippant advice -- enough people preferred it that a new community project started. So you can still run the desktop environment you did 15 years ago. That's simply not an option - no matter how many users might want it - with Windows should…

Post by steve1977 » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 9:48 AM UTC

uw_rob wrote: post #92

muyuu wrote: post #58

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both in MacOS and in Windows you are mere cattle there is no reason to keep using a walled, closed desktop OS in the 2020s

For better and worse everything productive is becoming OS agnostic. In 15 years I don't think many first-class applications will be truly native. They will be UI via HTML (webapps, electron, etc), CLIs based on POSIX, or company maintained UI frameworks which break OS styling conventions (JetBrains, etc). OS agnosticism isn't just webapps taking over. Docker is making development from the ground up be OS agnostic. I…

Post by piyush_soni » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 9:50 AM UTC

StrangeATractor wrote: post #452

piyush_soni wrote: post #380

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> And of course it's Linux, so there's infinite opportunity to get under the hood and tinker. - Or keep trying to fix the environment + hardware compatibility issues and not do the actual work/study. Or keep editing some random xorg.conf file because his monitor's display suddenly became weird. Or try to fix some other random files since the sound driver doesn't work. He's 10. I'm 40 and still horrified to deal with…

It's 2023, do people still have driver issues on Linux? Last I had to worry about that was when Ubuntu was (Admittedly, I've done well by staying away from nvidia)

Post by attentive » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 9:51 AM UTC

FrankyHollywood wrote: post #554

elihu wrote: post #485

I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad from Costco for about $500. The last time I bought a computer preloaded with Windows was about a decade ago. My experience so far: I turn it on, there's a license agreement. Actually, there's two. One is from Microsoft, and it's rather long but I guess it's about par for the course. Then there's the Lenovo license agreement, which is actually a bunch of other license agreements concaten…

Oh and don't get me started about the latency all the trash causes to the start menu. I had this routine, computer starts, you press win-key type 2 letters hit enter and the program you want starts instantly. Since Windows 11 this is horribly slow, like seconds sometimes, especially the first load. I can assure you this is not my hardware setup. Clearly their goal is not "provide the best, smooth and performant user…