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The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by expedition32 »

iamnothere wrote: post #4

Big tech apologists: “while I used to enjoy playing Starcraft on Windows XP, it’s become clear that computing is no longer ‘personal’ and society needs some guardrails around it. I’m okay with sacrificing some liberties to protect the children.”

Personal responsibility is dead in Silicon Valley.

Honestly those people can buy an Apple device. Got my mother one- just email and a web browser.

(But I have to give MS credit: you can still disable BitLocker and their ridiculous smart screen. I am using my PC the same way I've always used it).

Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by chuckadams »

pydry wrote: post #6
askonomm wrote: post #2

Pretty sure it's just that Windows is horribly broken, privacy-invading, ad-ridden malware disguised as an operating system. I swear it seems like nobody at Microsoft not even once have asked the actual users for what they would like to see in the OS.

Actual users are less important to Microsoft than execs who actually purchase the licenses.

Used to be that people who bought the OS were the customer. Now just like everything else these days, they're the product. And the OS still isn't even free.

Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by simulacrum »

mancerayder wrote: post #14

When is gaming on the latest hardware going to be mature enough to move off this garbage operating system? Can I play Kingdom Come II on Mint now? If not, are we moving there?

Bro, I played KCD2 on Ubuntu the day it launched last year. The games themselves are basically a solved problem and have been for a while now. Multiplayer games with anti cheat are the sticking point now, with only a little bit of progress there.

- work is still ongoing to get performance of direct x 12 games on NVIDIA closer to that of windows.

Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by chuckadams »

goalieca wrote: post #12

Windows was fiercely hated for a long time for being extremely buggy, low quality, high price, weak security (a later concern), and Microsoft’s general anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices. Things improved slightly for a while and maybe the generation of Mac/linux using tech workers never suffered through the worst of it, but Microsoft seems to be back on track with their old ways.

With Windows 10, I thought MS had turned a corner. But then came Windows 11, and turning two corners means doing a 180.

Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by daedrdev »

mancerayder wrote: post #14

When is gaming on the latest hardware going to be mature enough to move off this garbage operating system? Can I play Kingdom Come II on Mint now? If not, are we moving there?

Thanks to valve its possible to play many games on linux

Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by intrasight »

forinti wrote: post #11
pydry wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actual users are less important to Microsoft than execs who actually purchase the licenses.

Plus it's hard to buy a computer without paying the MS tax, unless you build one yourself. That's an issue I would like to see legislated! In fact, in my country there is a law that prohibits bundled purchases: it's just that the authorities are not tech savvy enough to see it when it pertains to computers and Windows.

1. There are plenty of computers sold with Linux installed.

2. You absolutely should build the computer yourself. You get a much better computer with best of class parts. And you learn something.

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Post by josephg »

askonomm wrote: post #2

Pretty sure it's just that Windows is horribly broken, privacy-invading, ad-ridden malware disguised as an operating system. I swear it seems like nobody at Microsoft not even once have asked the actual users for what they would like to see in the OS.

Nah. I think the problem is that windows and macOS did everything users wanted them to do about 10-15 years ago. Everything since then has been lipstick on a pig.

If windows were a building, they need to stop tacking on more rooms like it’s a gaudy McMansion. If they really wanna keep working on it, work to make what’s already there more beautiful. Optimise. Reduce the install size. Clean up some of the decades of tech debt. Unify the different generations of UI toolkits. Write documentation. Port security critical parts to rust, where appropriate. Refine, don’t reinvent.

Re: The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

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Post by rbanffy »

askonomm wrote: post #2

Pretty sure it's just that Windows is horribly broken, privacy-invading, ad-ridden malware disguised as an operating system. I swear it seems like nobody at Microsoft not even once have asked the actual users for what they would like to see in the OS.

Microsoft has a handful big clients - Dell, Lenovo, HP being the top three. They are the ones that make Windows be the default operating system on everyone's computers and they need to be happy, not the person who buys the computer. When the computer becomes unusable, they'll just get another from the same brands and everyone, except the user, are happy.

Corporations don't run Windows. They run Outlook, Excel, and Teams. Windows and generic PCs (or thin clients and VDIs) is just the cheapest way to achieve that goal.

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Post by rbanffy »

intrasight wrote: post #26
forinti wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plus it's hard to buy a computer without paying the MS tax, unless you build one yourself. That's an issue I would like to see legislated! In fact, in my country there is a law that prohibits bundled purchases: it's just that the authorities are not tech savvy enough to see it when it pertains to computers and Windows.

1. There are plenty of computers sold with Linux installed. 2. You absolutely should build the computer yourself. You get a much better computer with best of class parts. And you learn something.

> 1. There are plenty of computers sold with Linux installed.

Compared to what?

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