I still love windows 7. I feel like the 10 and 11 go too hard in the Mac direction. So many features of the old task bar are gone
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
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Re: Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
#12That'll be because windows 11 is absolute shit! I know at least 4 people who rolled back to windows 10 in the last 6 months.
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#13Microsoft likes to alternate between good and bad releases of Windows.
XP was good, Vista was bad. 7 was good, 8 was bad. 10 was good, and 11 is kind of bad. Not as bad as Vista or 8, but still noticeably worse than 10.
Here’s hoping that 12 will be an OS with upgrading to.
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#14I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…
> I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat?
Businesses with specialized software that doesn't run (or isn't supported) anywhere except on Windows.
It's declining, because lots of business applications are moving to the web, but there's still a ton of them around.
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#15Windows 11 is awful. It ruined the calendar view on the taskbar, which is a huge pet peeve for me.
There were a lot of regressions that upset me. The option for seconds in the system time was removed. Right-clicking the WiFi/internet connection in the taskbar no longer has the context menu option for "Troubleshoot connection", forcing me to go to options, search Troubleshooters, click "Other troubleshooters" (Because troubleshooting internet is so uncommon, right?) and THEN troubleshoot the internet connection.
From what I read, Microsoft let some designers who only use Mac OS do the design, and they plowed ahead despite hearing extremely reasonable concerns that their OS developers had with some design decisions.
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#16I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around…
Games and media, for me.
I'm about to convert my Proxmox file/VM server to Windows, because I want it to double as a media server and Linux GPU support (much less hardware passthrough) is more than I want to deal with.
I converted my laptop from Fedora to Windows recently to be able to do some light gaming, and because I want to see if Windows suspend is better on battery than the quick drain I was getting on Fedora.
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#17Both are complete garbage and hinder the consumer PC market. I've had custom built gaming PCs since 2008, with my current build probably 50x more powerful than the one back then, yet the software has gotten worse.
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#18Valve have done the world a huge favour with their work enabling Steam and PC gaming on linux. Windows 11 is so outright irritating I do not know how anyone could choose to use it. For most purposes KDE is a better Windows facsimile than Windows 11 is.
It is a shame the general audio story on Linux remains such a mess and so the non Mac DAW and video crowd remain hostage to the whims of MS.
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#20"put down the release and step away"
An important comment.
"What's important" depends upon who is asking the question and who they are asking the question to.
I am a MacOS user now, but I wonder how Microsoft are faring in the aspects of stability, removal of bloat, fixing tech debt, refactoring of code to improve readability and bloat, addressing security issues, speeding up the builds, ensuring device driver stability on supported hardware, improving support for applications and use cases, improving actual as well as perceived speeds, and so on.