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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by cbozeman »

wvenable wrote: post #290
bee_rider wrote: post #152

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Yep! That’s what I was thinking of. It is a cloud hosting company that keeps some legacy software around for sentimental reasons.

The only reason Azure is a success though is because of Windows. Maybe now it's so big that it can exist without Windows but Windows is the gateway into Azure. So many other companies would kill for a platform (aka Meta) and here Microsoft has one and is treating it poorly. In pure financial terms it makes sense but, as a business strategy, I think it's severely lacking.

It's because Satya is worried about next quarter's earnings call, not what Windows looks like in ten years.

BillG had that big meeting with everybody at Microsoft awhile back and basically told them they had about 6-12 months to right the ship. Personally I hope they don't. Nothing makes me happier than arrogant jackasses being utterly destroyed by life, which is what will happen if they continue to enshittify Windows.

Satya seems to forget that Azure exists because of Windows. It's the deep integration into Windows that makes it worth anything, otherwise we could all switch to Linux / Mac OS X and run everything in AWS / GCP. You quite literally don't need Azure at all for anything if you don't have Windows-based machines.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by SomeUserName432 »

pedalpete wrote: post #364
toddmorey wrote: post #9

Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wants to leverage what came out of VisionOS and unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop--two things no one asked for. For Windows, it feels like ads for their partners and ensuring they don't fumble the ai/agent tran…

Mac feels like it is constantly trying to sell you on their cloud services. A few times a day it will tell me that I haven't backed up to the cloud. Windows is strangely less direct, but will regularly automatically try to save something to onedrive and force a subscription. Plus, it is just full of ads and nonsense.

How odd.. I have this on my iPhone, but to my recollection the mac has never not once asked me to enable any kind of cloud stuff or sell me storage.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by cbozeman »

einr wrote: post #402
bee_rider wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep! That’s what I was thinking of. It is a cloud hosting company that keeps some legacy software around for sentimental reasons.

I don't think it's sentimentality, exactly. Who picks Azure or OneDrive or AD or Office 365 or Sharepoint or Teams or any Microsoft product or service if they're not already running Windows? The desktop operating system, "legacy" though it may be, has near universal reach and has therefore been key in pushing people to their more lucrative services. But they pushed too hard, it's too obviously shit, and now people an…

Microsoft slowly becomes IBM.

That's "what then".

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by cantalopes »

Same! High five!

I picked manjaro because rolling updates + being more noob friendly than arch sounded good and gnome because i wanted something completely fresh than a windows layout i'm used to. Now i'm eyeing after hyprland as the next step but couldn't fimd guts to disrupt my workflow in order to get used to it

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by UltraSane »

blauditore wrote: post #73
toddmorey wrote: post #9

Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wants to leverage what came out of VisionOS and unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop--two things no one asked for. For Windows, it feels like ads for their partners and ensuring they don't fumble the ai/agent tran…

>unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop Lol, that's what Microsoft tried 10+ years ago and everybody gave them shit for it, especially Apple fans. Now Apple is "inventing" this again.

That is because Microsoft put a touchscreen GUI on servers. Windows server had the stupid charm menu thing. It was just amazingly stupid.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by [deleted] »

cwillu wrote: post #565
shinycode wrote: post #395

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In what way does MacOS feels like garbage ? I use it everyday on a +5y MacBook and it’s an absolute blast. Powered on for weeks without reboot, 3x4K 32inch screens, hundred of chrome pages and apps opened and it’s all smooth. Ofc I don’t even hear a fan but the software is amazing for me. It all works, all the time.

Presumably the way he described in the previous paragraph.

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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by pjmlp »

einr wrote: post #402
bee_rider wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep! That’s what I was thinking of. It is a cloud hosting company that keeps some legacy software around for sentimental reasons.

I don't think it's sentimentality, exactly. Who picks Azure or OneDrive or AD or Office 365 or Sharepoint or Teams or any Microsoft product or service if they're not already running Windows? The desktop operating system, "legacy" though it may be, has near universal reach and has therefore been key in pushing people to their more lucrative services. But they pushed too hard, it's too obviously shit, and now people an…

Meanwhile they have very cool tech like .NET, VS C++ debugging/hot reload, that gets overshadowed by Microsoft being Microsoft.

Then the .NET team asks why there isn't more uptake outside Windows, in spite of all open sourcing efforts, this is why.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by pjmlp »

mr_toad wrote: post #493
palata wrote: post #431

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> What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well. Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Everybody was running after VR/AR headsets, now everybody is running after AI. They see the others run somewhere, they run in that direction. Just in case.

> Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Monopolies so scared of the competition?

Yes, because of inventors dilemma.

That is how Kodak lost digital photography, Microsoft tablets and phones even though it had them for a decade before the competition, and so on.

Monopolies double down on what they know that prints money, and are averse to taking any risks.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by pjmlp »

derrheat wrote: post #286
SilentM68 wrote: post #267

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Windows has evolved into the world's highest security risk. MacOS feels like Eye Candy due to its increasingly inaccessible price for people with low resources. So, price and security are the reasons why I switched to Linux.

Getting a macbook is cheaper than it has ever been. You can get a new m4 macbook air for around 750 on amazon. The prices of apple laptops have been dropping every year despite inflation in the rest of the economy....

Still lots of cash, versus a 400 euro laptop, which is what many regular people end up buying.

There is a reason so many European operators have contract offers for TV or Internet packages, where customers get Apple gear "for free", naturally with a several years bound contracts.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by pjmlp »

cocoto wrote: post #88
bee_rider wrote: post #63

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Why would anyone come back? Nobody is bothered by you having a device that you like, and nobody cares if you replace it. People without this particular 12 hour battery life requirement (which is quite niche, most of us live near plugs) are talking about what works for them.

Battery life is the best selling point of MacBooks and the reason these are selling like crazy. I’m a full time Linux user and I’m even considering buying a macbook and running a Linux VM full time because of the battery.

They certainly aren't in Europe, Africa or Asia, as not everyone has the income to afford Apple prices.
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