Our commitment to Windows quality

Post by drnick1 » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 3:34 AM UTC

hdivider wrote: post #605

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…

I really hope you're right. The challenge with Linux still seems to be practicalities -- like in particular, does Zoom run well on most distributions? Reports seem to be of system crashes and degraded performance. I imagine there are lots of 'it works for me' stories, but think: for Linux to eat into Windows user market share (which I would greatly support), critical things like Zoom have to work at least as reliably…

Post by NetMageSCW » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC

observationist wrote: post #370

nomel wrote: post #315

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> It's pure irrationality. For the masses, it's pure practicality. My mother calls up geeksquad when she has a problem with windows. Who do you call when you have a problem with debian or ubuntu or arch setup to use kde or gnome or xfc using wayland or x11 with systemd or launchd or ... When her printer dies, does she go to the store and buy a new one, or does she get online to research what's compatible with her dis…

Maybe at one point in time; I've had objectively fewer issues with Linux than I had with Windows, and they only happened because I was doing nerd shit; in normal person average user mode, I haven't had any issues whatsoever. I installed linux on a laptop, and it's been an absolute joy to use. Network, printers, browsers, regular apps, all that stuff just works. Windows would reliably fuck up something important on a…

Post by girvo » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 3:38 AM UTC

gnarlouse wrote: post #719

aeternum wrote: post #527

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Much of big tech became Product leaders running amok. Somehow It shifted from users know best to "Product" knows best. I think this all stemmed everyone wanting to be Apple except no one actually achieved it and now we have 3 different versions of the audio control panel in Windows, the start button is somehow in the middle of the screen, and windows search no longer searches your PC. Deleting "Product" might save wi…

Apple achieved it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple then spent ~15 years un-achieving it. It started with iOS 7, and has culminated in the Liquid (Gl)ass era: a mess of unintuitive menus, terrible and inconsistent UI patterns, the lobotomite twins Siri & Apple Intelligence. Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.

Post by chihuahua » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 3:47 AM UTC

VerifiedReports wrote: post #655

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #269

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Windows is not technically inferior to Linux. To the extent it has problems, it is mainly because of top-down anti-user behaviour mandated from corporate. But anyone capable of using Linux is capable of hacking out that BS and getting a generally superior experience. I use both literally side-by-side, two laptops with a KVM switch, and I still greatly prefer Windows for many reasons. Some reasons: Even as a low-level…

Windows USED to have a polished UX. Is it still better than most Linux distros? Maybe. But it has regressed so far from where it was 25 (or more) years ago that every day I'm still infuriated and depressed that I've had to return to it for work. The idiotic UI blunders alone must waste hours of my life per week. Aside from the absolutely baffling functionality removals, there are the hateful petty ones. Great example…

Post by lmaoguy » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 3:47 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #745

gnarlouse wrote: post #719

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Apple achieved it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple then spent ~15 years un-achieving it. It started with iOS 7, and has culminated in the Liquid (Gl)ass era: a mess of unintuitive menus, terrible and inconsistent UI patterns, the lobotomite twins Siri & Apple Intelligence. Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.

> Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon. To me that's because thats a capital E "Engineering" driven task that Product can't get their grubby little mitts on and ruin.