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GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by phito »

wltr wrote: post #19
legitster wrote: post #4

So part of me agrees, but part of me also feels like a victim of the boy who cried wolf. People have ragged on Windows going back for as long as I can remember. Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). It's hard for me to distinguish how much of the vitriol is legitimate this time from developers, or will nostalgia glasses just haunt Windows forever.…

Never had any nostalgia for Windows, and I’ve met plenty of full of themselves developers being ‘nah, Windows is good, you just incompetent’ with their vibes. I could write books about their technical decisions, but I’d just mention none of them knew even slightest bits of Linux. It’s just absurd to me, like man, you do that for work, and the things you were over engineering could be done within one day, if you care…

I can't agree more with you. I know multiple people that keep complaining about windows and Chrome and yet they seem to have no interest in even trying Firefox or Linux.

It totally has abusive relationship vibes. It's like they are being captured by convenience, learning something new being too much of an asshle to them.

They also like to take jabs at me for using Linux, but then their jaws drop when I transfer a file to a server in one second using `scp` while it takes them about 20 clicks with their windows GUI...

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by pathartl »

legitster wrote: post #4

So part of me agrees, but part of me also feels like a victim of the boy who cried wolf. People have ragged on Windows going back for as long as I can remember. Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). It's hard for me to distinguish how much of the vitriol is legitimate this time from developers, or will nostalgia glasses just haunt Windows forever.…

It's an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely believe that 11 is the best version of Windows yet. I've been using computers for 30 years and you're right, everyone has _always_ complained about Windows. The only reason people have a fondness for XP is because it was pretty much the world's first Windows. It's the OS that was used to connect the world, and IE being (for the time) the competent browser played a huge role in that.

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by Grisu_FTP »

oldnetguy wrote: post #17
mepian wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with the Epic Games Store.

To me GOG needs a big picture mode like Steam. I want my PC to act like a console and that would help a lot

Why not just add the GOG games to Steam as non Steam games? Isnt that better anyway than having to launch GOG from the Steam BPM just to launch a game from their BPM?

Why would i want to launch a seperate launcher to launch my games?

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by conception »

idiotsecant wrote: post #16
AlienRobot wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, that's because 11 and 10 are similar while being substantially worse than XP.

Windows 10 is worse than xp? How do you figure??

I’ll try!

Consistent interfaces. UI speed. Lack of telemetry/ads.

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by digitalPhonix »

pathartl wrote: post #22
legitster wrote: post #4

So part of me agrees, but part of me also feels like a victim of the boy who cried wolf. People have ragged on Windows going back for as long as I can remember. Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). It's hard for me to distinguish how much of the vitriol is legitimate this time from developers, or will nostalgia glasses just haunt Windows forever.…

It's an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely believe that 11 is the best version of Windows yet. I've been using computers for 30 years and you're right, everyone has _always_ complained about Windows. The only reason people have a fondness for XP is because it was pretty much the world's first Windows. It's the OS that was used to connect the world, and IE being (for the time) the competent browser played a huge role…

What do you think it does better than 10?

There are plenty of things that Windows 11 does well, but for me they’re all things that 10 also did well.

Most of the things that annoy me in 11 however were not also in 10.

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

ray_v wrote: post #15
aidenn0 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was there when XP came out and it was clearly better than any of the entries in the two "parents" that it replaced (NT/Win2k, and 9X/ME). I was the local "hey, my PC is broken" guy and the first thing to try was always to replace whatever version of windows they had with XP. I certainly have some anti-fondness memories as well (I had the service pack burned to a CD because it took longer to download and install the…

I bought into the windows 95 hype big time when it was launched, and I think it by and large lived up to that hype. I was in highschool still, and I gladly bought a copy using money that I had been putting away specifically for this. It really was a high watermark for Microsoft and the Windows product for sure.

H7C97-C67JB-G6RQR-P6H2Y-TMQ6W

Xp sp2.

I still weidly remember this somehow after decades.

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by treebeard901 »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #26
ray_v wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought into the windows 95 hype big time when it was launched, and I think it by and large lived up to that hype. I was in highschool still, and I gladly bought a copy using money that I had been putting away specifically for this. It really was a high watermark for Microsoft and the Windows product for sure.

H7C97-C67JB-G6RQR-P6H2Y-TMQ6W Xp sp2. I still weidly remember this somehow after decades.

Interesting story behind FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 ... Probably the most well known key.

Re: GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '

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Post by pathartl »

digitalPhonix wrote: post #25
pathartl wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely believe that 11 is the best version of Windows yet. I've been using computers for 30 years and you're right, everyone has _always_ complained about Windows. The only reason people have a fondness for XP is because it was pretty much the world's first Windows. It's the OS that was used to connect the world, and IE being (for the time) the competent browser played a huge role…

What do you think it does better than 10? There are plenty of things that Windows 11 does well, but for me they’re all things that 10 also did well. Most of the things that annoy me in 11 however were not also in 10.

I know many items in this list can apply to both, but I've been maining 11 since release and going back to pre-11 builds of 10 genuinely feels like a downgrade: - Windows Terminal is great - Settings now covers almost everything, I haven't had to actually go into Control Panel in years - Explorer has tabs! - The new context menu loads in items asynchronously. Some people hate it, but I remember how apps would abuse the context menu and bring my PC to a crawl. - The CPU scheduler is genuinely insanely better with big/little CPUs - Scaling with windows and monitor management is better - Auto HDR - Updated notepad is actually kinda good - Updated paint is actually kinda good - Built in WinGet is chefs kiss - I actually love Fluent design

Again, some of these are on 10, but on 11 it feels like more of a tighter package.

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