311–320 of 539 posts
Where is Satya lately? The last few years his face was everywhere, doing some very common sense things that got MS back to being a leading player. What the fuck is with Windows 11? Some common sense judgement could be used here.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only people that say Win32 apps are scalable are the ones that haven't dealt with legacy code. There is jut too much legacy code that either doesn't work, or doesn't work correctly with HiDPI screens.
At a minimum, for a Win32 application to work correctly with HiDPI it needs to tell the OS it is DPI aware. This is done by marking the application DPI aware using the settings found in the manifest file. The manifest file is then embedded into the resource section of the application, which then lets the OS know the application will be handling it's own DPI. So the reason many of those 'legacy apps' don't work with H…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I migrated from Win32 to Qt two years ago. Never looked back. Much easier to program dialogs & UI. Qt gives you macOS as well. ( And UWP if you insist). WinRT is the OS/2 of the 21st century.
I have some concerns with Qt. Not the functionality, but the implementation of some of it. My primary concern is that it doesn't respect the OS's anti-aliasing settings. It defaults to making fonts anti-aliased, even if you don't want them to be. Because of this, last year I stopped updating an app using Qt. The higher resolution a display is, the less and less you need anti-aliasing so it's unnecessary in the 4K and…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google Desktop Search RIP or FileLocator Pro I don't use such apps, not because I don't like them, but because these days I just don't trust them to not surreptitiously send an index of my system to them. I wrote my own file search programs. It's not hard, just a few lines of code. I use them every day.
Make sure to turn off the tracking and sending built in to windows if you're concerned. https://www.wired.com/story/windows-10-privacy-settings/
I just write my own utilities. They're simple to write, they work, and I port them around as needed.
P.S. I have file indexing turned off on my drives.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea vscode is really great! Could someone knowledgeable give a rundown of the exact stack/frameworks/etc they are using?
AFAIK it's Electron (i.e. javascript, chrome as the renderer, node.js I think looking at the processes). So...not a lot of Microsoft product in it. Ironic.
You know I used to follow Windows news rabidly. The new features were incredible, I looked forward to every release. Somewhere around the time Microsoft added a lock screen to a desktop computer without going "only joking, haha", I started dreading every update.
So the last "good" Windows was what then, 3.1? Modern lock screens are essentially just glorified login prompts and we had that in 3.11 I believe.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds good in theory, but when Microsoft did just that in 2011 with Windows 8, it ended up backfiring on them big time. It's pretty clear Windows has organizational and structural problems. Mainly because every product they release is always only 80% there. For some reason, whatever it is, it gets mostly finished, shipped and then abandoned and moved into maintenance mode. Yet, it works for them. They usually a…
>This sounds good in theory, but when Microsoft did just that in 2011 with Windows 8, it ended up backfiring on them big time. the problem was that while windows 8 had *somebody* with a vision behind it, the vision never really made it through to the product. windows 8 was obviously the product of a dysfunctional system that was pulling in two completely opposite directions - the consumer devices side who wanted mode…
I have to agree, even though I have plenty of pro-Windows comments. To me Windows 11 feels like Vista, and to everyone that got burned with the rewrites on the WinRT side, just using plain Win32/MFC/Forms/WPF feels liberating. Multiple teams are fighting UI politics over WinUI, MAUI on top of WinUI, React Native with WinUI, and classical UWP is not going away (Windows 11 Store is written in it), then ASP.NET team is…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. I've been running EOS ( https://elementary.io/ ). It's almost as pretty as my MBP, and vastly more usable than Windows. And I have everything I really need (with first class Linux support): * Gaming - Steam + Proton * Digital Audio Workstation - Bitwig * Video Editing - DaVinci Resolve * 3d Modeling - Blender * 2d Image - Gimp (this one could be a lot better) ----- The only thing I can imagine dual booting into…
How does bitwig do with multi channel audio? I need 32 in and 32 out. I have Merging and RME available as audio devices, but I don't suspect that either of them would actually work with multi-channel recording, despite both of them offering drivers. If someone could guarantee rock solid stability, I *might be willing to switch, even though I'm fairly invested in the Ableton / VST world. 10 years of projects will like…
That being said, Bitwig does support Jack, so routing should be pretty open ended.
And there's this linux project (https://pipewire.org/) that's been doing really, really well. It (sorta) combines all the different audio servers into one.
i just upgraded my Windows 7 PC from a 2012 desktop to a modern 2021-level Windows 10 desktop with i7 CPU, 32 GB memory, etc. I honestly can't tell the difference between the two systems. I don't play games which is probably the biggest thing driving upgrades, but for everything that I need to do, which is an advanced use, my 10 year old Windows 7 system was more than good enough. The only reason why I did end up upg…