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As a 7 year old, I was a fan of a certain sports team. At 11 I stopped watching, collecting items and took off their posters.
When family members and friends asked me why, I told them that the original team had changed, all that remained was the club which I didn't care for.
>I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to.[...] and Windows 12 is ultimately an agentic AI OS, I wouldn't be surprised if more people stick with a debloated Windows 11, just as others did with Windows 10 Is there any justification for the first part other than that the authors job at windowscentral.com depends on it? Because I'm not seeing…
If Microsoft wanted, it could make Windows good. On the other hand, no matter how much time or money the Linux community gets, the desktop experience will never be good. This means that our only hope at having a good desktop OS is Microsoft changing course.
linux has(by personal preference order) middle click paste, tiling window managers, point to focus, focus on lower windows, the compose key. The linux desktop is a productivity goldmine compared to windows. and I want to say mean things about the macos ui, but I don't really use it (the last time I tried it could not do full screen windows, But I have been told that is not true any more)
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AI is the best thing that happened to desktop Linux!
This actually. AI is dramatically better at helping users deal with perennial issues that Linux gets, and using the command line to fix them, compared to Microsoft's fresh new bug introduced last Tuesday or navigating anti-user GUI.
Last week I installed KDE on a new computer with two identical SSDs. One I wanted to wipe for the OS and the other I wanted to keep the data on.
Unfortunately I couldn't tell which one to install the OS on! ChatGPT helped me open a terminal and run the correct udevadm and lsblk commands to see what files existed on each disk.
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This actually. AI is dramatically better at helping users deal with perennial issues that Linux gets, and using the command line to fix them, compared to Microsoft's fresh new bug introduced last Tuesday or navigating anti-user GUI.
That sounds... quite bad, to be honest. I never met one single Windows issue that can't be answered by simple google search for years. A desktop expecting the user to ask AI(!) for solutions that require command line(!!) is definitely not for average users.
At that point I'd rather deal with an LLM that know the insides of my open source OS than MS support. Have you seen their community answers on the web? I'd rather deal with Arch wiki and the command line even without an LLM.
Reading the comments made me want to check the Steam Hardware Survey [0]. Some quick facts (Dec 2025 -> Jan 2026): - Windows 10 gained more users than Windows 11 :D - Linux lost users :( [0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Those are survey results. Can't draw many conclusions from self selected survey responses. The survey lost Linux responders.
There are two technologies propped up by having to earn a living: windows and the iPhone. No matter the android phone, trying to get your MFA experience working with the umpteen stupid MFA apps is painful because all the dev work went into the iPhone versions. I hate it but yep I ended up buying an iPhone although I never buy them new. Windows is the other one and again it’s security related. More and more places sim…
I use an iPhone (out of choice) but what MFA doesn’t work on android?
They all work fine, you just have to be on a relatively current version of android, and that's dictated by which versions the apps enable support for and not anything inherent to android in general. The idea that MFA apps don't work for half of phone owners is silly.
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I use an iPhone (out of choice) but what MFA doesn’t work on android?
I suspect this is about work related MFA apps; for example, one of the reasons I switched to an iPhone many years ago is the MFA app used at work would not run if the latest Android version with security bugfixes were installed, and the manufacturer had stopped providing updates for quite some time. At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the lat…
That's your personal decision though, you don't need a flagship android phone to have the latest versions of android. I pretty much never spend more than $100-150 for android phones and they always support all the normal MFA apps.
Comment threads on the Closed Source OS topics like this regularly remind me about the large disconnect between skilled technical users and the "average" user. That average probably isn't your (great) grandparent who never learned how to type suddenly needing to learn the rapidly evolving early-days internet, but it's still just as dangerous to suggest "Use Linux" as the solution for everyone when plenty of "Average"…
imo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs). Too easy to get unwanted stuff running on windows and it needs admin.
There is always some app that every 'grandparent' type needs that only works on Windows.