How is this worse than Apple's App Store outright displaying ads?
What comparison do you think you're making here?
The Windows 11 Trash Party
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#423> I use Windows to play games, but it truly feels like a trash party most of the time. Use Linux + Proton. It’s fascinating how Linux became a decent replacement for Windows for video games. (Thanks, Valve!)
Is there a standalone installer for this so you can run items not on Steam? I have many old Windows games you see, with DVDs.
I would try the program 'bottles' via flatpak. Really easy to use and has run all my non-steam games flawlessly.
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#424I wish I could move away from Windows, but I have a few Tobii EyeX devices I got used to, and they are not supported on Linux.
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#425I say it everywhere windows comes up, but if you're curious about Linux, please try Fedora. Or, if your friend insists it, even Linux Mint.
I've been distro hopping for months now and found openSUSE the most stable and bug-free experience out of the main distros. I'm not sure why it isn't mentioned more often. People think more bleeding-edge distros have more bugs but I've found that to be the opposite and even IF something went wrong, it is automatically installed with a snapshot rollback feature!
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deep questions like why didn't anyone like Metro UI on Windows 8? :) Even on touch devices it sucked. I would say that was an obvious sign of a a sick organization when it effects that kind of carnage on its users. Only reason they got away with it, was that there were no real alternatives to Windows. Windows 11 is something in the same league, but i would say there are more alternatives now than ever before, so Micr…
Cause everyone already had learned how to "touch"-gui, but microsoft in typical arrogance, redesigned it from the bottom up, throwing all the learnings away, you either had from android or macos. And like introducing a third language, to do the same tasks you already can perform fluent in two other languages, it was just this constant stepping into the void of expectations. It came out 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/w…
The Metro touch UI first shipped on the Zune HD in 2009. The iPhone launched at the beginning of 2007, and the iPod touch later in the year. I don't think it's fair to say Apple had a 9 year head start.
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I use and try multiple operating systems at work: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, tried ChromeOS Flex, etc. Windows 11 doesn't pass basic UX principles and I would not rant about bluetooth devices handling. Also, the performance of the UI is subpar ChromeOS flex in 8 years old notebooks. There are multiple UIs inserted by pressure in the same OS. I know the kernel itself is quite advanced, the problem is at higher layers…
I use Linux (usually Ubuntu or a derivative), macOS and Windows 11 regularly. To me they all “suck”. They all have shortcomings, and my constant switching between them only proves that there isn’t a clear winner. I can think of at least two “dumb” things with each that are easy to address but for whatever reason…. Aren’t. I will say desktop Linux has been the worst experience for me, and it’s been that way since 2010…
>will say desktop Linux has been the worst experience
Im surprised by this take, Ubuntu derivatives have had major improvements in the past decade.
What is the worst thing youve run into?
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when people are buying with their own money -- they're preferring Macs 2-to-1 over PC's now. I suspect that most people actually spending their own money are spending less than $1000, which more or less puts Apple out of the running.
And I suspect that the majority of people looking for sub-$1,000 computers are buying iPads, not crappy plastic HP's.
I would suspect the people looking for computers under 1k will get the plastic hp because they need a computer, and will get the cheap android tablet when they want a tablet.
source: all my relatives and acquaintances that can't afford apple take those exact choices.
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My pet peeve is COM, the idea in abstract is quite good, the tooling besides VB 6 and C++/CX, not so much. Even with .NET we need a whole book on COM interop to actually understand how they go together, and now CsWinRT has rendered most of it outdated.
Regarding COM, we created pretty advanced tools to hook/intercept it [1]. It is a good abstraction as you said. DCOM is a mess though. [1] https://blog.nektra.com/main/2015/06/11/remotebridge-is-now-...
Interesting!