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Our commitment to Windows quality

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Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by throw_winblows »

rgovostes wrote: post #67

To demonstrate the seriousness of their commitment to Windows quality, you can now move the taskbar to the left side of the screen. No no, it's not vaporware, they even included four screenshots. Everyone can rest assured now.

It might sound like a joke but it's because they are re-adding a feature they had in Windows 95, why was it removed? One can only speculate but given the pervasiveness of webviews in places where there used to be plain (and performant) win32 stuff, one is led to the conclusion that the recently on-boarded interns simply can't write any C++.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by mixmastamyk »

saintfire wrote: post #646

> We are introducing the ability to reposition it to the top or sides of your screen, making it easier to personalize your workspace. > options when to update > less horrible and slow file explorer Finally, a desktop with feature parity of an OS from the year 2000. Good on them for hearing complaints after 4+ years and addressing some of them.. maybe. They say they will at least.

    s/2000/1995/

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by [deleted] »

carlosjobim wrote: post #474
radlad wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do non-tech people even buy computers anymore? I imagine you basically have tech enthusiasts, gamers, and IT at offices buying desktop computers at this point.

Yes, there are hundreds of millions of professionals who need a computer for their work, while not being techies. They write and publish, do spreadsheets, edit photos and videos, make music, make invoices, read and send e-mails and so on. It's like asking why a non-mechanic would ever need to use a car.

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Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by radlad »

carlosjobim wrote: post #474
radlad wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do non-tech people even buy computers anymore? I imagine you basically have tech enthusiasts, gamers, and IT at offices buying desktop computers at this point.

Yes, there are hundreds of millions of professionals who need a computer for their work, while not being techies. They write and publish, do spreadsheets, edit photos and videos, make music, make invoices, read and send e-mails and so on. It's like asking why a non-mechanic would ever need to use a car.

I did mention IT at offices buying computers for their coworkers. :-)

I know more and more people who are editing photos and videos on their phone/tablet - not movie producers, sure. But lots of YouTubers, influencers, etc.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by theandrewbailey »

ray_v wrote: post #479
lloydatkinson wrote: post #384

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How? I feel like every time I do my ~1 yearly Windows reinstall I need to google it and then alter half a dozen registry keys and a bunch of group policy settings, and some of them are the "old" settings now replaced with something even more vaguely named (probably on purpose).

Ok, I'll bite ... why are you reinstalling and reconfiguring windows on a regular, yearly basis?

Didn't most people stop doing that when they moved to XP?

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Post by queuebert »

999900000999 wrote: post #499
PaulKeeble wrote: post #469

Microsoft has spent over a decade swimming against their users interests at this point and during that time frame Linux has been improving its desktop and improving kernel performance. We are now at the point where Linux emulating Window's entire API space for games with worse drivers is dangerously close on performance with none of the privacy invasion and anti user features. Its pretty late in the game for them to…

Normal people can not install an OS. Aside from like 3 ThinkPads on Lenovo's website, you can't really buy Linux pre installed on a computer. This is about the MacBook Neo coming for the budget laptop market. At 500$ it's an easy choice.

System76 sells some pretty nice computers with Linux preinstalled. Not to mention every Chromebook is a Linux machine.

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Post by econ »

999900000999 wrote: post #499
PaulKeeble wrote: post #469

Microsoft has spent over a decade swimming against their users interests at this point and during that time frame Linux has been improving its desktop and improving kernel performance. We are now at the point where Linux emulating Window's entire API space for games with worse drivers is dangerously close on performance with none of the privacy invasion and anti user features. Its pretty late in the game for them to…

Normal people can not install an OS. Aside from like 3 ThinkPads on Lenovo's website, you can't really buy Linux pre installed on a computer. This is about the MacBook Neo coming for the budget laptop market. At 500$ it's an easy choice.

That might be what they think. I just installed windows and it had countless dialogs. Most have a reason to exist but it's a lot of work. The Ubuntu live usb on the other hand just boots into the desktop environment. It just works? There is nothing to do?

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Post by gerdesj »

reverius42 wrote: post #558
gerdesj wrote: post #528

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There are an awful lot of groups installing Linux on Win 10 cast offs around the world. My uncle runs one in Bradford on Avon and they are slapping on an OS for you whilst you supp tea and chat. Often, the user-agent is set to something Microsoftie in the browser. If necessary Edge is installed but that is frowned on 8) I have not heard of this MacBook Neo thing ... Why would ? I only own a little IT company and hang…

2 things: 1. The usage statistics don't reflect your anecdotal Linux usage; Linux desktop/laptop usage share has not grown that significantly in 20 years and Windows remains quite dominant. 2. MacBook Neo was widely discussed on HN not very long ago, and I'd think if anything an owner of an IT company would be more aware of it than an average HN user. It's definitely going to shake up the market for lower-end laptops…

1. The devil is in the details: How are those stats gathered? Many, if not most Linux users hide their OS affiliation via USER-AGENT

2. Missed it or perhaps blanked it. It really will not shake up the lower end because anyone wanting a lower end laptop (whatever that is) will insist on it running Windows and not Apples.

There is a really good reason why car manufacturers run multiple marques - the budget, standard and premium ones. Attempting to put the Apple "premium shine" on a budget effort may backfire spectacularly (and devalue the entire brand) or maybe they will somehow manage to re-invent marketing.

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Post by Ajakks »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #638
cantalopes wrote: post #631

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Yes they absolutely can. Nowadays it's as simple as clicking "install" from inside windows to try a linux distro

"from inside Windows" That's a problem right there.

This is why Linux doesn't exist on more PCs - this is a problem.

Imagine a plumber talking about how much better his toilet is than everyone else's - bc everyone believes only a plumber can install it (which was truth for most of Linux history and general PC users).

Nobody took it seriously bc they took it as mostly an odd humblebrag for niche Windows haters.

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