It's fascinating that one of the top features insiders are interested in is making File Explorer more dependable.
Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
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Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#22I have a feeling that my fat ass switching over to Linux is going to outrun their attempt to roll back decades of accumulated tech debt, institutional incompetence and burned bridges.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#23It's fascinating that one of the top features insiders are interested in is making File Explorer more dependable.
They took a real punch to the gut when File Pilot rolled out and showed them what their own devs should have been doing.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#24They talk about improving memory footprint and performance, but simply removing (or making optional) the massive amount of cruft and telemetry in a default Windows 11 install would go miles.
Installing Tiny11 and then running a debloat over its corpse results in a much faster and less memory hungry default clean install.
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#25"trust me bro"
Yeah exactly. They already have a fixed distro that is Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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More likely: "People needed to get promotion packages, don't you understand?!" I would guess many of the bad changes are caused by perverse incentives which do not even help shareholder value.
My mental model remains that the Windows team is mostly governed by designers on Macs who want to see a user-visible change to get their promo and never use Windows.
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#27Just switch to Linux people!
I got a new computer a couple weeks ago, with a 5070, and installed ubuntu on it and it was incredibly slow. I looked online and found some claim that 24.04 has some incompatability with nvidia, tried installing a bunch of different driver versions and nothing helped, tried turning everything off in gnome tweaks and still slow, tried installing 26.04 and 22.04 but the installer hangs forever in both, tried linux mint 24.04 still slow, gave up and installed windows with WSL :/
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#28Just switch to Linux people!
I got a new computer a couple weeks ago, with a 5070, and installed ubuntu on it and it was incredibly slow. I looked online and found some claim that 24.04 has some incompatability with nvidia, tried installing a bunch of different driver versions and nothing helped, tried turning everything off in gnome tweaks and still slow, tried installing 26.04 and 22.04 but the installer hangs forever in both, tried linux mint…
If you wanted to run Ubuntu from the beginning, it would be better to search for a computer designed for it, not for Windows.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#29> Second, a shared sense of pride. We want to be proud of what we build...
Yep, that's marketing. You don't care about your users.
Re: Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
#30Just switch to Linux people!
I got a new computer a couple weeks ago, with a 5070, and installed ubuntu on it and it was incredibly slow. I looked online and found some claim that 24.04 has some incompatability with nvidia, tried installing a bunch of different driver versions and nothing helped, tried turning everything off in gnome tweaks and still slow, tried installing 26.04 and 22.04 but the installer hangs forever in both, tried linux mint…
What was slow?
I'm running Ubuntu on a 9950x3d and 5090 and it is not slow. Games in Steam with Proton are buttery smooth.
One hiccup was I had to disable variable refresh rate because moving the cursor didn't "count" as a reason to update the screen, so moving the cursor on its own (rather than e.g. moving a window) looked choppy.
But a choppy mouse cursor isn't "slow".
Tip: if you have a performance problem, run Claude Code (or an AI agent of your choice) and ask it to investigate.