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Re: Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash

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Post by viraptor »

pjmlp wrote: post #28
viraptor wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> like my old Asus netbook Not to say that experience was invalid, but we've come a long way since the netbooks were a thing.

If it was so certain to win the lottery, as betting in getting a Linux Forums style of answer every single time there is a complaint about Linux hardware support. Maybe that wasn't my only experience? Even Dell XPS, Tuxedo and System 76 aren't without issues in regards to 100% supported hardware.

That is the experience you mentioned, not the recent one though. Acer finished with netbooks over a decade ago. I can't guess what you're not telling us and I'm happy with everything on my XPS.

Re: Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash

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Post by pjmlp »

viraptor wrote: post #31
pjmlp wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it was so certain to win the lottery, as betting in getting a Linux Forums style of answer every single time there is a complaint about Linux hardware support. Maybe that wasn't my only experience? Even Dell XPS, Tuxedo and System 76 aren't without issues in regards to 100% supported hardware.

That is the experience you mentioned, not the recent one though. Acer finished with netbooks over a decade ago. I can't guess what you're not telling us and I'm happy with everything on my XPS.

Lucky user,

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298021

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/linux-genera...

https://www.linux.org/threads/screen-issues-with-the-later-d...

https://medium.com/@AlexMichelOrg/like-linux-then-dont-buy-d...

Plenty more out there.

Re: Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash

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Post by graemep »

pjmlp wrote: post #22
graemep wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have better things to do than fine tuning Linux installations, even on laptops sold with it pre-installed like my old Asus netbook This seems to be claiming Windows is better because you cannot fine tune it. No one forces you to fine tune Linux. You can just buy something with Linux preinstalled and use it and skip the tuning and customisation.

Unfortunately I have the experience that is hardly the case in regards to laptops. Using various Linux distributions since kernel 1.0.9, Slackware 2.0.

My experience differs. Very few problems with lots of laptops over the last 20 years - mine and family.

I also did specify laptops with Linux preinstalled which I do not think were even available in the days of kernel 1.0.9

Re: Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash

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Post by robocat »

pjmlp wrote: post #29
robocat wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> where humans can be talked in person for sorting out issues Like the Geek Squad counter in Best Buy? PC setup $39.99 OS Repair $149.99 (presumably also needs data backup $99.99) I'm in NZ, and help with Windows is expensive here. I have mostly given up helping friends (many reasons including the "last person to touch it" problem).

Good for you if Best Buy does sell laptops with Linux pre-installed, not around here.

Good for you if your friends and family are wealthy enough to pay for support and pay for antivirus subscriptions and pay to upgrade their laptop because their old one has been obsoleted by Microsoft. Microsoft's focus has shifted away from their users.

Linux is a distraction - why do you strawman it? Raw Linux is only to be recommended to very few end users.

The last time I had to support Windows was while I was travelling in Argentina and my father asking for advice about his worry about a virus. His worry was the primary issue, whether he actually had a virus was secondary. There's no way I could safely hand him to a third party to support him (the only third-party people I might trust needed business accounts and had expensive chargeout rates). My answer was change your banking password and "use the iPad I bought you" for any sensitive activities like banking. I couldn't have solved his Windows issue (perhaps didn't exist), nor could I fix his worry. Windows laptop was the cause, and there was no way to work around it. And now he's fighting the side-effects of a forced Windows 11 upgrade.

Windows is an expensive answer, only suitable for a subset of users. Apple and Google have their downsides, but both are less confusing than Windows. Everything has its compromises.

Re: Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash

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Post by renegade-otter »

rincebrain wrote: post #3
jmkni wrote: post #2

Windows is solid under the hood, but the UI/UX is crap and has gotten progressively worse over the years MacOS isn't perfect either, but it is so much better in not trying to upsell you at every single opportunity Just let me use my fucking computer lol

I don't think even this is true any more. Windows used to have a solid technical foundation and was working on improving longstanding historical warts (font processing in the kernel, what could go wrong?), regardless of how off the rails the end user experience was getting. Now, Windows seems to be rotting from every direction. The user experience is going straight for minmaxing data harvesting and antipatterns, and…

#2 made me reinstall Windows 11 last week. It's incredible. How do you NOT test USB input in recovery.

Also, think about this for a second - you are supposed to wait every 30 minutes until "Microsoft finds a solution".

No one is finding a solution to your boot problems - this is some manager's failed attempt to shove AI everywhere, and the results are catastrophic.

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