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Just curious what is DevDiv? Tools division?
As I understand it, .NET, developer tools, and VS. Basically you have tight OS integration vs developer friendly cross platform.
Thank you!
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
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My work computer takes a full five minutes to become usable on the first login after a cold boot, and that’s not even counting the time from boot to entering my password. Before the upgrade from Windows 10, it only took three. Teams, of course, takes another five minutes to become functional. Meanwhile I have a 13 year old low end Asus laptop at home that boots to a fully usable Linux desktop in well under a minute.…
> My work computer takes a full five minutes to become usable on the first login after a cold boot, and that’s not even counting the time from boot to entering my password. Yeah, that’s a misconfigured system. I bet you can fuck up Linux enough to get a similar experience. I’ve always been using Windows and the only time I ever had to wait that long was around the Win98 times on slow hardware. After login, I can inst…
A lot of it is probably the shoveled-on layers of enterprise endpoint security bloatware.
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#513“start menus made with React Native, control-alt-delete menus that are actually just webviews” Haven’t used windows in five years or so but I’ve kept hearing bad things. This really is the icing on the cake though. Yea the AI stuff is dumb but if a OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong.
> OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#514> then just shat all over them with start menus made with React Native, control-alt-delete menus that are actually just webviews, and forcing Copilot down everyone's throats Thank god I've been using Linux long enough to not experience any of that. At my job in a large non-tech company, almost everyone uses Windows (except for the dev team) purely because of Microsoft Office. As long as that thing exists, they can do…
Ironically, MS Office is one of the best working Microsoft software on Linux, through Office 365. It works so well, that on my Windows work computer, I worked for months editing Word docs and Excel sheets every now and then, without realizing I didn't have Ms Office installed.
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>Win32 is a stable API and I hope they don't let anyone from the Windows 11 modernization team touch it. I've heard a Microsoft executive talk about win32 as legacy that they want to replace. I don't think that's realistic though, it's probably the last piece of technology keeping people on the platform.
It was the goal with UAP and UWP, but they clearly messed up the execution. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/win32-and-com/win32-an... Win32, the C API, is stagnant since Windows XP, other than some ...Ex and ...ExN kind of additions. As mentioned above, the new APIs are mostly delivered as COM, occasionally with some .NET bindings. There is still a silo trying to push WinRT now on Win32 side, although given how…
Last year I ran into the issue of .NET network bindings not returning all NICs. [0] This issue has been present in the .NET since the genesis and only resolved in .NET 9. I had to create my own Win32 wrapper so everything works properly in .NET 4 frameworks ... still need to maintain Windows 7 pre-SP1 support in some applications.
Smells like Microsoft was trying to create APIs based on assumptions versus a 1:1 method that exposes managed code and hides unmanaged.
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#516I have been using arch for a while now everything is good except BIOS updates after which I need to reset & fix secure boot everytime
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Wasting resources affects usability, and not just through latency.
It doesn’t necessarily. A lot of resources are being wasted without impacting usability. Users only start noticing and complaining about it when it does.
It does, period. Less things can run in parallel, fans get louder, batteries live shorter and devices feel old years before they should, all of which directly affects usability. The user not noticing the direct cause or having enough resources to waste to at least perform some tasks acceptably doesn't change anything.
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I maintain to this day that the Zune was one of the best designed hardware and software platforms I've ever used. Probably the only truly design forward product that MS ever produced.
The Zune hardware was slick, particularly the solid state players. The music store worked great and their music licensing was so much better than Apple - $10 a month for unlimited streaming, unlimited downloads (rentals) to Zune devices and 10 free mo3 downloads to own. Their only misstep was making one of their colorways poop brown! That and being too late to market with a phone that used the same design language
> Their only misstep was making one of their colorways poop brown
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Can’t stand the MacOS UI philosophy and built in software. Gotta skip. The hardware is pretty good though.
This is the biggest pickle for me. Mx Macbook Airs are pretty amazing, but Asahi is just not there, and I don't think it will ever be without Apple playing ball a little bit unfortunately. (I'm currently on a t2/intel macbook and it's got more quirks that I care to deal with...but it was free so gotta do what I gotta do)
Yeah that’s sad. Mac hardware with a Linux Os with proper drivers is the dreamland. Asahi is good for M1 though I heard?
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#520“start menus made with React Native, control-alt-delete menus that are actually just webviews” Haven’t used windows in five years or so but I’ve kept hearing bad things. This really is the icing on the cake though. Yea the AI stuff is dumb but if a OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong.
I am forced to use Windows 11 at work on my laptop (produced in 2023). When resuming after hibernation - from the time I press the power key and I see the the release-lock prompt screen with the password/PIN box - that's maybe 5 to 10 seconds; but from that point, until the OS actually responds to key presses and shows characters typed into the text box - well, that takes between 2 and 3 _minutes_. And that's just on…
On my work laptop, the only Windows 11 OS I use bare metal, the UAC prompt can take 30 seconds to one minute to show after requesting _Task Manager_ to start. IT decided to hide a number of applications behind UAC.
Newer version of Windows seem to add latency were there was none before.