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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.
Hopefully this new CLAP plugin format takes off though.
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> pissing off people who love computers the most is a terrible idea. back when balmer jumped up and down in a presentation yelling "developers, developers, developers", they were still good (despite balmer's terrible leadership). I think they're just losing the battle for mindshare now. Users would more easily move to macs, if they're a casual consumer of tech, and linux if they're more hardcore. Windows has no raiso…
I don't know man. Half the developers I know are now using a Microsoft tool to write code (more among web developers). Nearly everyone is using a Microsoft site to host their code, or relies on code hosted there. WSL and the new terminal have removed a couple of major roadblocks to using Windows for development, and Azure is doing gangbusters. Office is cross-platform and still ubiquitous in the corporate world and i…
(In millions, except percentages) 2021 2020 Percentage Change
Processes $ 24,351 $ 18,724 30%
Intelligent Cloud 26,126 18,324 43%
More Personal Computing 19,439 15,911 22%
Total $ 69,916 $ 52,959 32%
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar21/index.html
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Hey, sorry that happened, it should have preserved all of the default applications, etc. There are multiple suites of tests and processes that exist to try to ensure updates preserve user data and preferences but clearly something went wrong here. I’m just a developer, not a spokesperson, but I want to ensure that this is investigated if possible. If you file a bug in feedback hub under the Windows Update category it…
> I frequently work with the teams that are responsible If this bug is rare and your personal insistence on prioritizing this fix makes any kind of difference, that's a bug in the organization and a misalignment of individual and business priorities. If a team can be randomized by an isolated instance without taking overall impact into consideration, that's a warning sign about the health of the business and the prod…
In college one of the most transformative assignments I was given was actually a term paper where I was required to study what were then considered the three major sociological models for society (as I recall, so forgive me as it's been quite some time): structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction. In studying each of those sociological models, the one that resonated the most with me was that of symbolic-interaction.
The core idea behind the symbolic-interaction model, as I recall, being that society is a result of the everyday interactions between people just like you and me. With that in mind, I continue to believe that there are often key individuals within any given group of people, whether that is a corporation, government, or otherwise, that can drive significant, positive change throughout that group and that can have a profound effect outside that group as well.
I'd like to encourage folks to stop and consider for a moment that there are more than 1.4 billion monthly active devices running Windows 10 or 11. Obviously not all of those devices run any specific version of Windows, but that should provide some useful perspective. As a result, I'm always looking at the data, checking for patterns, and trying to identify both positive and unexpected trends. Cases like this are another opportunity for growth and to help others, and I'm happy to do so when I can.
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Apt-news made me finally leave Ubuntu after over a decade. I went to Debian and Arch depending. Seeing ‘apt update’ shill r/Linux was the last straw after forcing-snap, forcing-Amazon ads, Wayland vs Mir, etc. I should have left years ago. Canonical, are you listening? Stop.
I'm surprised Canonical doesn't get more shit than they do. Not sure why no one talks about it
People complain about snap and unity (and wayland, systemd, gnome 3) all the time instead; some of those are harder to avoid any particular distribution.
Last week I allowed it to "upgrade" to Win 11 22H2. Part of the upgrade involved silently resetting a heap of my default apps. When the upgrade was done, Firefox was no longer my default browser, it was changed to Edge. Also, the default apps for PDF, JPG, PNG, TXT, MKV, and probably others that I haven't yet discovered, were set to their MS equivalent apps. Microsoft, this was not a nice thing to do to a user.
Never run Windows updates. I've always seen shady behavior with them and they did nothing significant in my case for my system in any way. I don't use windows at all but it is just giant pit of advertisements targeted towards the very basic computer users
Microsoft used to be the "trust us with your workflow" company. The one that would go out of the way to make sure your badly coded DOS games still worked.
They've gone so far in the other direction-- blowing up user settings and workflows to push whatever KPI-of-the-week they're chasing-- that the trust is gone. People are afraid to accept even necessary security fixes because they no longer trust Microsoft not to break their experience.
Remember when the upgrade script started showing a friendly "all your files are right where you left them?" That's freaking TABLE STAKES. Your customers expect that. You shouldn't have to reassure them of that. It's like saying "our hamburgers don't give you genital warts."
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"it's easier to post a one line command then screenshots for 7 different GUIs" Yeah, that's the thing. It often feels GUIs on linux are meshed together from at least 7 different styles and paradigms and too often they are indeed made like this. So in Ubuntu for example I sometimes had to click left to close a window and sometimes right. What laypersons want, is one single way to do things, that works. But you just wo…
I get this effect much worse on windows. Right click the volume icon in the task bar and look through the windows you get. There's three different styles dating back to Windows 95! Flip through stuff on the control panel and you'll get the same mash of code heaved forward from the 90s. It's a bad look, and I've always been so confused why Microsoft doesn't do anything about it. Seems like a great pet project for some…
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If you're a veteran Linux user, you probably know where to look for config files and how to hack them. Trying to use Linux using GUI only, whichever you choose, is awful. It's like the designers copied the worst ideas from both Windows and MacOS on purpose and then added some of their own.
Using KDE, everything can be changed using only a mouse (or a finger with a touch screen).
Linux/*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…
This resonates with me, as someone who switched to Linux awhile back for similar reasons. Having an overtly adversarial relationship with the company who makes a major tool of mine is not a pleasant experience. In addition to the points you raised, it always feels possible to fix something with Linux. It might an annoying PITA problem, but I can probably figure it out if I care enough to. With Windows (or Mac) when I…
This is such an important point imo. It characterizes an essential aspect of why using GNU/Linux just feels good to me, and why I feel boxed in on the big two proprietary desktops these days.
On Linux, the problems feel like my mess, my unfinished chores. They might be annoying, but they're not an invasion.
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I could not tell you the last time I had Windows in the home. I would guess around 2013. After then I kind of went (almost) 'Full Stallman' - I had been moving that way for a few years already. The only Microsoft product I have is an old Xbox 360 that was updated once and then left permanently offline. Side story - I remember in late 2001 when the 1st Xbox was coming out and I was in a retail store. There was couple…
Last time I had a windows machine in my house was 2005. Even my elderly parents run Linux, supported by me of course. They don't know even know the difference.
Everything I do takes place in the shell, an IDE (of which there are tons), or by far the most common, in the browser.
I used Firefox because that's what my distro comes with but I also have Chrome installed for just in case. That turned out not to be an issue with the sites I typically frequent.
Today I had a random person look over my shoulder and ask "what kind of computer is that? Must be really old..."
Grrrrr.
What I find more encouraging trend wise is that I’m now seeing more alternative devices in the offices I work in. Even 5 years ago the standard device in the various banks and insurance shops I consult with has been a dell latitude or an hp elitebook, whereas now solid bet most of the devs have a macbook, and even a few linux boxes for the more adventurous orgs.
I’m not saying the macs are in any way perfect, and I’m sure they’ll eventually try many of the same things, but for the moment they have a user experience in a different league and i can’t see myself moving on from them for quite a while.