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So far in the last year or so, I've heard 0 reasons why I'd even need, want or benefit from Win11 over Win10. Tons of reasons in the negative column though. There isn't even anything to salivate over that might make you think it might be worth it to deal with the other tradeoffs. Hard pass.
Do I agree with it? No, I use Linux but it’s really not an issue that hasn’t been around and isn’t easily ignored, and many people may never encounter it.
But then they do shitty stuff like this, and it's a reminder of how overly anti-competitive Microsoft really can be. It's one thing to bundle, and it's another to make it so hard to switch that people finally just give in.
Windows 11 was an absolute downgrade to my Windows 10 experience. To the point that I went back to windows 10 in less than a day of Windows 11. 1. I can't ungroup the taskbar windows. So now I have to hoover the taskbar to see multiple instances of the same software; 2. Who the hell thought it was a great idea to couple all the commands like WiFi, power energy, etc under the same menu? On Windows 11 I needed to click…
Look up Windows LTSC, it’s like Win10 that acts like Win7
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That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.
After 30 years on Windows I switched this month to Linux, for pretty much the same reason. It's great. And it feels so fast . All my software exists natively on Linux (minecraft and game emulators for the kids, KNIME, Intellij, and Blender is a lot faster on Linux). No Word or PowerPoint, but there's Libre Office and it's good enough. Who'd have thought that 2021 would be the year of Linux on the desktop. Not because…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18150284
> As a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, even I feel that soon Microsoft will have succeeded in making Windows so horrifically awful and user-hostile that the Linux Desktop will start to look good by comparison.
United States v. Microsoft was 20 years ago. Is there nobody left at Microsoft who remembers that?
Apple's default web browser is Safari on iOS and no one ever sued Apple over it. At some point, you have to just recognize that the world is different today. The general market has accepted walled garden OSes with anti-competitive behavior towards common applications.
Apple doesn't have that kind of market share to warrant it. Tangentially, Apple products are aspirational, so they never won't have it, that would lose the appeal. Microsoft, on the other hand, pushes their products every way imaginable, and many of their users use them because they have to.
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That has been my thinking as well. I officially migrated from my Windows PC and my MacBook Pro to Linux (Pop!_OS on a Framework laptop) this year. Both companies have been slowly showing signs that their values are drifting away from things I care about (ownership, control, privacy). I'm willing to budge a little to accommodate alternate viewpoints, but it's been clear that they've picked a direction and their tanks…
I have Pop!_OS on a Framework laptop as well and if it wasn't a project laptop meant entirely for the purpose of being a project laptop and test bed for a few things I would chuck it out the window. In the reality of actually using the computer every single thing about my 5 year old MacBook Pro (the one everyone loves to hate) is better except maybe the keyboard, and that's not as cut and dry as the internet would pr…
Tumbleweed, like Arch, is a rolling release so unlike the Debian based distros you'll always have the latest drivers and updates (development progress on Linux moves fast so why be stuck on outdated packages? I really can't in good conscience recommend PC users Debian/Ubuntu distros for a great experience), but unlike Arch, it's without sacrificing stability since its packages are tested so it's much less likely that an update will break something.
The developer of Gecko Linux Rolling, takes Tumbleweed and makes it desktop friendly by including non-OSS repos, non-OSS fonts, and non-OSS codecs plus other tweaks and creature comforts that turn make it easier to have a pleasant experience after the installation.
Trackpad is still not as polished as Windows or Mac but that's universal on Linux except Elementary OS.
Linux Desktop feeling extra good today, my sound often doesn't work but I don't have to deal with Microsoft nonsense.
Pipewire has made all of my audio issues on Linux go away, at this point. Maybe it's my hardware (a high-end Dell Latitude that is Ubuntu certified) but it just f*cking works! I'm on Arch, so I find I tend to have fewer issues than with Ubuntu (due to the latter always being on some ancient version). Seriously though when I switched from Pulse to Pipewire... I rebooted and I've never had any issues since! Now, my big…
I've started experiencing flickering in non-compositing window managers on Arch a few months ago (I mainly use Openbox, although I've tried dwm too) after some update. My solution was just to run `xcompmgr &` at the session startup.
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I'm not old and I have lived to see this sentiment come and go at least twice before. We're still on Windows.
On the other hand, some of it sticks. For one thing, gaming on Linux has improved by leaps and bounds approximately since the announcement of Windows 10.