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Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by Schiendelman »

sagacity wrote: post #81

I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even though I didn't have a previous password for that account. Hacking around in the recovery console to add another administrator user worked, but then I couldn't reset the original user's password becaus…

Hello fellow DirectX programmer! I gave up and got a Mac. I made myself get used to the defaults. I can't go back. I tried putting together a gaming pc a couple years ago and Windows annoyed me too much. It's better here!

And yeah - I gave up on DirectX programming to do it. I do like Metal...

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by mdavid626 »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #94
mdavid626 wrote: post #91

I literraly can’t name one feature since Windows 7 what was worth it, even on the contrary: every update made the system worse. I had to restore Notepad, Calculator and Paint from Windows 7. What the hell Microsoft?

WSL is a great feature and was a part of Windows 10.

WSL sounded great, until it didn’t.

It’s still not so easy to use, plus they ditched it anyway for VM solution.

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by wolfi1 »

cbdevidal wrote: post #144
wolfi1 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ubuntu will also introduce AI. Why not use pure Debian? (and the distribution flame war starts)

I have no problem using Debian (I’m actually a Linux sysadmin by profession) so I have no problems later switching distros. But as of today, I’m happy with Ubuntu on my road laptop and I would no doubt be happy switching the home PC, too. (Actually the road lap is Lubuntu and it currently has zero visible AI influence.)

they want to start with 26.10, will be interesting if they include it with a long term release

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by globalnode »

teekert wrote: post #97
globalnode wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its worth trying really really hard to get windows apps running through wine before reaching for a vm imho. once you open a vm you have to deal with ... well... windows.

I did it in the past, vmware (where the desktop was transparant so it was like Windows on Linux), CrossOver office, Wine (bottles). Recently I tried to get Windows running using quickemu but that also failed. All just so that I don't have to experience MS365 in the browser where I will regularly click "New message" (in Outlook) and start typing but my browser interprets all characters as shortcuts (as if I held alt o…

sounds painful, just searched on "how can i get ms office running in linux using wine" and the results included a containerised windows vm that looks very interesting. but yes i agree, they seem to have gone to a lot of effort to make office use a billion microservices that would be a nightmare to run through wine.

edit: nvm, the docker vm thing looks really slow, id rather use libreoffice (which is quite good really). and now europe is trying to cut the umbilical you can probably expect a lot more open source productivity stuff in the near future too.

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by ezoe »

sagacity wrote: post #81

I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even though I didn't have a previous password for that account. Hacking around in the recovery console to add another administrator user worked, but then I couldn't reset the original user's password becaus…

As Windows more and more difficult to use at very basic, after passing certain threshold, just developing on Linux is more practical. Even for DirectX.

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by deburo »

UberFly wrote: post #33
qingcharles wrote: post #23

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They took a real punch to the gut when File Pilot rolled out and showed them what their own devs should have been doing.

Directory Opus has been doing that for decades.

I'm sure it did, but that app looks like a Win XP-era app (not even Win7). FilePilot is fast, looks good & feels modern (support a command palette, fuzzy search, etc). The only downside is that it runs on the GPU and so running it inside a VM is a bit of a hassle.

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by greenbit »

torben-friis wrote: post #56

This reads... Weird? As in, I know it's marketing speech but expressions seem misused and ideas don't follow from each other: >You decide when updates happen, not the other way around. Not... the other way around? Updates decide when I happen? >Last month we said we would reduce where Copilot shows up across Windows, focusing on bringing AI where it’s most valuable. [...] in Notepad, we’ve replaced the generic Copilo…

Wonderful, can't wait to be ambushed by Son of Clippy. Should have anticipated these kinds of shenanigans.

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by lelanthran »

sagacity wrote: post #81

I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even though I didn't have a previous password for that account. Hacking around in the recovery console to add another administrator user worked, but then I couldn't reset the original user's password becaus…

> Edit: yes, I can use Linux but I have decades of Windows muscle memory and I do a bunch of DirectX programming. I shouldn't have to switch :)

Understood. However, your choices are:

1. Keep complaining while paying $$$ for the privilege of complaining.

2. Switch to something else.

My tolerance level is much lower than yours (I switched my daily driver around 1998), obviously...

Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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Post by lelanthran »

cheschire wrote: post #129
cbdevidal wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also years of Windows muscle memory here, especially the keyboard shortcuts. I’ve used Windows since 1997. I’ve decided I’m done. A new PC arrives in a month. It’ll be running Ubuntu. I’m done. Maybe there is a Linux language similar to DirectX you might transition to? Maybe test code in a VM? (Although that gets you right back into Win11.)

These suggestions are like telling someone that that is being harassed to maybe wear something different. While it would, yes, likely avoid the problem happening again, it shifts the responsibility to the party that should not be at fault. Meanwhile the harasser is like “what’s wrong? I took an anti-harassment class?”

> These suggestions are like telling someone that that is being harassed to maybe wear something different.

Weird analogy - it's telling someone who is paying to be abused to simply stop paying...

If Windows was actually free, as in download a copy and use it as you wish, then sure, maybe you might have a (very tiny) point, but it's not like that at all.

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