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Why is resembles Windows important? Macos does not and is doing fine, so is Chromeos, so is Android. Even Windows can be quite different from older versions of Windows.
Because if you wish to convince people they should switch from Windows, that's a very important factor. People do not like change, and they want the skills they have to transfer over as much as possible.
What is Microsoft hoping to accomplish here? Given the rate of adoption of Windows 11, it seems unlikely that a majority of Windows 10 users will replace their hardware between now and October. It also seems to me that the scenario where a majority of PC users are running an unsupported Windows release is likely to create MS more problems than is offset by potential revenue from a hardware refresh cycle. Is there an…
I would it is a combination of metric-stuffing, land grab, and genuine concern about security. Metric stuffing. Everyone at Microsoft is graded on "impact". All the EVP-types at Microsoft have their eye on boldface jobs, so they need a track record of massive impact. Beimg able to claim that they got W11 from X billion devices to Y is how theyll be judged. Another example is how in Azure, the only metric that matters…
And the security reason is nonsense because as you point out, the overwhelming majority of Windows security problems are in no way improved by a TPM.
The most likely real explanation is that Microsoft is constantly at war with itself and the manager currently occupying the relevant coign of vantage finds it to be in their personal interest for some muddy reason having to do with internal politics.
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In my experience, it is not about functionality. It is about polish, integrations, and troubleshooting. If you assume all your devices and software will work on Linux mint out of the box, great. But they won't. Then you end up spending hours trying to get the 5th mouse button to do what it does automatically in Windows. Sure there's a fancy utility on Linux that supports programming that mouse, good luck getting your…
I think it's about habit more than anything. People are used to Windows' sharp edges and have developed workarounds (just reboot it). But no, the experience is nowhere near "polished", and troubleshooting is a joke. "Something unexpected happened" or "contact your administrator" isn't exactly helpful. Sure, there may be some log somewhere in that godawful event viewer, but who has the patience to wait for that abomin…
Windows wins 100-0 in terms of polish in the eyes of the average user, and that's saying something given that it's not very polished as you said.
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Linux is in desperate need of a PR campaign. The popular distros are just as functional out of the box as Windows, but no one knows it.
We're just 5 years away from... - AGI/ASI - Fusion Energy - Linux overtaking Windows
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> a new "Adminless" account model with linux-like just-in-time escalation This was the promise of User Account Control, was it not? Or does that just prompt for confirmation for various actions, without actually enforcing a security boundary?
UAC provides just-in-time elevation. The user belongs to the 'admin' group (aka wheel) and only receives an admin token when performing a task that requires elevation. Once the task is complete, the token is destroyed.
It's less granular than a task though, it's an execution context. If you're running Notepad++ and it wants to update, it requires an elevation. The installer is now running in an admin context and can do whatever it wants, once it's finished installing it usually asks if you want to launch Notepad++ again. At that point the installer running in the admin context can launch Notepad++ within that admin context.
Thus there's a potential for the admin context to persist indefinitely.
In my mind, tasked based elevation is more granular. Something like "I need to write to the program files directory" and not a carte blanche "gimmie admin access to do whatever the hell I want".
- Windows 11: 36%
- Windows 10: 60%
Using Steam Hardware survey, it shows:
- Windows 11: 53.46% (-1.50%)
- Windows 10: 42.87% (+0.48%)
Whilst these numbers look very bad for Microsoft, especially given that we're less than 10 months away from Windows 10's home user support, it's potentially even worse if the data is correct and more people are reverting to Windows 10. Reasons I can think of there might be due to some of the recent Windows 11 updates harming performance in applications, notably many major Ubisoft titles.
I'm still on Windows 10, for two reasons. My motherboard does not support TPM 2.0, and I have not had any reason to need to upgrade given it still runs everything I need perfectly. Secondly, I have not seen any reason to go to 11 from 10; I don't love 10, but 11 doesn't seem to fix any of my issues, if anything I see many worse features.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/windows_10_grows/
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2532669/ubisoft-games-are-cr...
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Because if you wish to convince people they should switch from Windows, that's a very important factor. People do not like change, and they want the skills they have to transfer over as much as possible.
So why have so many people switched from Windows to MacOS?
However, I don't think some of the older people are willing to go through all that. I wish to see an easier option for people who wants a smoother transition from Win10 to something else, especially now since Win10 is being discontinued october this year.
Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
It cannot replace Microsoft Office, but it's getting close. Most people don't use the full functionality of Microsoft Office, so LibreOffice and Google's online suite are good enough, but I still keep a remote Windows Virtual Machine (VM) around for those time I need Windows-specific stuff and RDP into the VM. I look forward to the day Microsoft finally wakes up and ports Microsoft Office to Linux.
Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graphics to doing my personal finances, and of course plenty of legacy documents that I'd like to continue being able to use. They're really Windows-native I've found, even the official versions…
I've used windows for 30+ years, and I'm getting a Mac this year. I seriously considered Linux on a Thinkpad and even test-drove Debian on my older X1 Carbon. I tried, but too many things didn't quite work. I'd get stuck on the login screen for no apparent reason. VMware modules were a pain to build and sign. Something (might have been VMware modules) caused it to freeze. Hidpi support isn't ready. And nothing was re…