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Have you tried gaming on Linux? There really isn’t much reason not to these days. I find it difficult to find games that don’t work in Linux these days.
Much as it bothers me, this is not remotely true for the most popular online multiplayer games. Invasive anti-cheat rootkits being okie doke on Windows.
I'm honestly still shocked there isn't some kind of lawsuit or federal investigation on how Microsoft is able to get away with dropping support for CPUs that are only a few years old. Thus forcing unknown millions of people worldwide to upgrade an ENTIRE CPU and Motherboard just for the next version of Windows. What are we supposed to do with all that e-waste?! People who spent thousands on a 32 core threadripper fro…
This. The worst death is from fright. So let’s keep calm. Because Win 10 will work after October 2025.
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isn’t this IoT LTSC? thats what i use it for, comes with no new feature updates (which is sometimes annoying as some software depends on some Windows feature updates) and you have to buy 5x licences- and its more expensive. but it works.
I just searched and it appears that contrary to what I thought, it is possible to individually acquire Windows 11 Enterprise (IoT or non-IoT) LTSC licenses from some redistributors. The price varies a lot from suprisingly cheap ($7.7, is buykeysoft.com legit?) to a bit expensive but acceptable (~200 CHF). I'll definitely use these when I'm setting up my new desktop in the future.
I achieved the same and more by installing Linux. Highly recommended.
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…except for the inconvenient fact that Windows is the most developed-for (and thus developed-on) desktop OS in the world. Linux is catching up (mostly in gaming) but nothing comes close to the amount of engineer-hours poured into building Windows desktop apps.
True. And it’s baffling to see the flak it gets on here
It’s bordering on unusable. There is no amount of money you could pay me to daily-drive the current release of consumer windows.
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…except for the inconvenient fact that Windows is the most developed-for (and thus developed-on) desktop OS in the world. Linux is catching up (mostly in gaming) but nothing comes close to the amount of engineer-hours poured into building Windows desktop apps.
It's interesting you have to hedge it with "desktop" OS and the reason that's interesting is that desktops are mostly irrelevant. Microsoft has their niche, which is offices. This used to be the main application of computers, but now it is just a very large niche. The overwhelming majority of computer interactions are Android clients talking to Linux servers.
Just because lots of people use their phones primarily doesn’t mean that desktop computers aren’t responsible for producing literally trillions of dollars of shit every month. All those mobile apps? Developed and built and tested on desktops. The mobile phones themselves? Designed and built and QA’d using desktops. The payroll for the 200,000 people in the supply chain to get them to you? Desktops.
The power grid. Airline reservation systems. CNC mills. MRI machines. Mortgage underwriting. Computer factories. Pick-n-place machines. These aren’t run off phones.
You get the idea. Real business runs on real computers, still, no matter how many billions spend how many hours playing Candy Crush.
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I have no opinion on Windows Apps, but as a Developer, Windows Applications gives me nothing that is better than what Linux has. In fact, for development Linux (or BSD) is what developers should use. In fact, I was trying to convince developers at work (fortune 500 company) to move from Windows to Linux for a long time, only 1 person moved. For a bit of cruel fun, have a Finance person use Libreoffice scalc instead o…
Win32 gives you a stable ABI.
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While I agree, when was the last time you bought something because you saw it advertised in Windows?
Most people think ads don't make them buy things, but they still do. It's just not as direct as seeing the ad so you click on the ad and buy the thing. (Sometimes it's that direct and advertisers love it, but not usually) You're thirsty. Do you want a Coke or an Africola? Coke obviously - what the heck is Africola? Why do you want a Coke? Because you saw the Coke logo everywhere since birth.
For all the other companies its exactly the other way around. I will see products of a company, I know bothers me when I want to do something else, and a bunch of products I have no (negative) opinion yet. Guess which products I will evaluate?
For an ad to leave a good impression it must be actually good, otherwise it achieves exactly the opposite. People used to buy advertisements, the ad industry destroyed this, by forcing people to look at ads. People don't like being forced.
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I have no opinion on Windows Apps, but as a Developer, Windows Applications gives me nothing that is better than what Linux has. In fact, for development Linux (or BSD) is what developers should use. In fact, I was trying to convince developers at work (fortune 500 company) to move from Windows to Linux for a long time, only 1 person moved. For a bit of cruel fun, have a Finance person use Libreoffice scalc instead o…
Win32 gives you a stable ABI.
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It’s been a while since I’ve played with Cygwin and I do recall there were a lot of stuff compiled for Windows, but couldn’t it also run Linux software run natively too? Admittedly back then I was working for a place that mainly developed in Perl, so I didn’t port a whole lot of ELFs across. So maybe I’m misremembering
When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I'm fairly certain someone didn't write the entire thing including winpcap from scratch. It was nice because getting anything approved by the windows sysadmin group was like changing the tire on a moving truck. It was more than a godsend, because when a windows…
For example with tcpdump:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Athe-tcpdump-group%2Ftcpdu...
So it’s not quite the same thing as what we were discussing further up the thread. Though it’s still an interesting anecdote in its own right.