I feel like Win 11 is a solid product from an engineering and even an UI/UX perspective, ruined by awful marketing decisions.
Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
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A bit of an aside, but CS and software engineering programs should be based on FOSS to the greatest extent possible, with proprietary software only being used when necessary. The idea that CS programs would use Windows or macOS by default is pretty horrifying to me.
It depends on your view on the program. If your goal is to produce graduates who are successful in the workforce you'd be doing them a grave disservice by having them use FOSS (e.g. a Linux-based OS).
My CS program was almost entirely FOSS and I turned out OK in the workforce, as did most of my classmates.
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Can you give some examples of "things which do not work"? Seeing how as I've been using Linux for close to 30 years and have it running on loads of different types of hardware with more or less everything working - yes even Bluetooth - I'm always somewhat surprised by these problems which fail to haunt me.
Wi-Fi is usually wonky and just various other things like video drivers etc. Here is the laptop you wanted me to try to install Linux on lol. Who has time for this shit? I just want to use the computer not futz around with it constantly. https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/eku5tv/replacing_... Like I said, spend $99 on MacBook Air, receive it, turn it on, it works. That’s all I care about. I don’t even like ap…
That is an ARM laptop, which means you have an especially low chance of installing Linux easily. Get an x86 Chromebook and you would probably have less issue, but yes, you may still have some hardware issues (especially since Chromebooks have spotty desktop Linux support). Get an off-the-shelf x86 laptop and you probably would be fine; maybe you will have a few issues. But instead of faulting Linux, consider this? Could you install Windows on this same laptop? Probably not. In fact, on many laptops, hardware support is limited on Windows without vendor drivers (although, there is a chance that this has gotten less bad these days).
If you went and bought a used laptop that has official Linux support, like an XPS 13, then you could also open it, turn it on, and have it work with zero issues with Linux—the same way as a MacBook Air. Try Hackintoshing a random laptop from Best Buy and I think you will encounter similar issues with macOS.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#434Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…
I doubt Microsoft cares that you migrated away.
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Apparently not, since every time Microsoft does something boneheaded that alienates their "command line devs" we hear about it on hackernews.
If they didn't keep using it we'd've only heard about the first time.
It's almost as if those are multiple people with different tolerances for microsoft induced pain
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#436Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…
What DAW are you using that is Windows-only?
Ableton is the only thing keeping me on Windows.
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#437Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you. There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marke…
Windows has always been like that though. I remember switching to Linux full time back when XP was first released because I hated the direction Microsoft were going. The complaints people make now aren’t any different from the complaints I was making 20+ years ago.
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Ah yes, you can also use Mac for most. I meant, rather, that I don't think any of the Linux audio production stuff is great. Reaper and Waveform are good, Ardour is not yet (in my opinion, it's buggy and requires too much configuration that is not required in other software, but they'll get there). The big-name software is genuinely better than what is available on Linux and is worth using, and the latency introduced…
Bitwig is available on Linux now and works great in my experience. I actually prefer it to Ableton anyway.
What about VSTs? They won't all work on Linux.
Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
#439Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…
Those features are annoying, I agree, but they're also a checkbox away from being disabled. Less time than it took you to write this rant.
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If you don’t use it, how have you seen “shady behavior” or been able to definitively assert that they “do nothing significant”?
I used it briefly in the past 1 year.
With all due respect, that’s not enough time to be saying anything about it and especially not enough to be telling people not to install updates when that’s the most common way people have their computers breached.
I don’t own a Windows device (and haven’t since Win98) and have had dislikes about it since the early 90s, but I’ve also supported it professionally and would never recommend someone avoid updates. Buy a Mac, perhaps, but until you’re ready to switch you should stay current.