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Still stuck with using Windows to be able to play any latest AAA game.
Which ones? Proton via Steam (and even outside of Steam) is doing a fantastic job of most recent games. I don't run Windows at all anymore, and gaming is the primary usage of my desktop.
If I have to pay a tax to make software for Windows work flawlessly on Linux, I would take it (I already donate to Wine).
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It just requires an app on Mac versus windows key + arrow to move windows around. It's a non-issue.
Requiring an app is a blocking issue.
Windows 11 adds snap layouts, for which there is currently no analog, but this will let you do the side-by-side thing from earlier versions of Windows as long as you can tolerate the fullscreened windows becoming their own Space. (I actually find this preferable myself, but YMMV.)
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> Approach software as a set of tools, with the expectation that you must learn and master its use, but then you will be functional and productive for a long time. This does not scale to end users.
It seems to work with word processors, spreadsheets, image and video editors, CAD, animation, probably more. Software people use to accomplish a task.
Image editors and the like are pro tools, not mass market tools. You either use them well or you don't have a job.
If you're wondering why word processors and spreadsheets don't count is that for most jobs you just use them incidentally, it's not your day job. And there is a very small minority that masters them, but it's just that, a minority.
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Requiring an app is a blocking issue.
I usually get away just fine with Control+Command+f to fullscreen the window, and Control+Up will open up Mission Control so that I can get two fullscreened windows side-by-side. It's all built into macOS. Windows 11 adds snap layouts, for which there is currently no analog, but this will let you do the side-by-side thing from earlier versions of Windows as long as you can tolerate the fullscreened windows becoming t…
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I'm surprised some enterprising hackers haven't hacked the binaries to nuke telemetry permanently (one used to see lots of Win hacks in the past). But then, perhaps I've not been looking hard enough (I mostly use Penguin).
I think some enterprising hackers have long ago switched to a less hostile OS.
If Microsoft does, I am not using Windows 12, I am going to Ubuntu. I won't even pirate it. I refuse to pay a subscription for an OS, that should be pay once and be done paying.
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Usd 10/year is entirely reasonable. But I fear an higher fee.
$1/year is entirely unreasonable. They build a product, they sell it to you, transaction ends there. They should sell you a product that works. Bug fixes are part of making the thing you bought closer to what was advertised, so it's part of the initial purchase. An OS is not a SaaS, and nobody considered doing it until it became popular, because it's a fad.
Says who, exactly?
Why should bug fixes be included?
If they should, for how long should they?