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Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by ravel-bar-foo »

dano wrote: post #513
fortyseven wrote: post #396

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Windows-free Ubuntu guy here, for over a year now. I even kept my old Windows box hooked up to a KVM "just in case". So far it only gets turned on if I accidentally bump my foot on the power switch.

I encapsulated my old windows machine into a VM - it gets fired up to run Quicken and another accounting program for which there are no reasonable client based substitutes. The VM boots fast, I have a "safe" copy of the VM image incase of a viral compromise, and it's out of the way of my normal workflow. Windows machine free for about a decade.

Do you have any pointers to how to do this? I have a dual-boot Win7 machine I would like to have run Windows as a VM in Linux, to keep the proprietary executables I need for work running with a smaller security footprint.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by pjmlp »

blibble wrote: post #482
pjmlp wrote: post #470

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By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively. Those 2% market shared are filled with games that are developed on Windows, targeting Windows. Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money, and letting Valve do the needful to work on their platform.

> By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively. this is a stopgap measure to bootstrap demand for the platform because these days the target platform isn't Windows it's the game development kits sold as a service, like Unity and Unreal Engine both of which are now supported natively > Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money now you've…

I am an employee of a well known Fortune 500 consulting company, but definitly not Microsoft, better luck with your search next time.

Microsoft is a company, there is no such thing as honour for business, only money and profits.

Same applies to dumb quotes like "do no evil" and similar.

You're right, Windows isn't the main target platform for AAA game studios, Playstation, XBox, Switch, iOS and Android are the ones briging big bags of money home.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by npteljes »

fomine3 wrote: post #609
intelVISA wrote: post #480

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Annoyingly LTSC costs around $300ish for the typical end user and has an inordinate amount of hoops just to buy it... makes it difficult to recommend to family so I curse them with Arch instead.

If what your need is LTSC, why is Arch rolling update fine? What about RHEL clone or Debian for stability?

Well, they wrote "curse".

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by pjmlp »

sedatk wrote: post #542
pjmlp wrote: post #72

Windows is still my favourite OS, but I surely am not rushing to adopt Windows 11 beyond work requirements. It is just another Vista.

> It is just another Vista. Not really. Vista was overly ambitious, and because of that, it had had many problems which were later fixed in Win7. Modern audio, networking, display driver model, 64-bit, drive encryption etc have all been released with Vista, and most of that code still runs on Win11. Vista was only immature, nothing was wrong with it otherwise. Win7 is what Vista should have been. Windows 11, on the o…

Windows 11 is the reboot of Windows 10X, after the Surface Neo got canceled.

"How Windows 10X runs UWP and Win32 apps"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrmrIlgbIc

You're missing the infrastructure rebuilding that is taking place to bring all that UWP pluming back into Win32 and COM, without App Identity and sandboxing, so that eventually one day they can drop legacy UWP from Windows, and have Windows Runtime being just another COM based framework.

So they have to undo about 10 years of pushing UWP, back into standard Win32 + COM infrastructure.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by weberer »

joe_the_user wrote: post #297
progman32 wrote: post #197

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…

I use Linux (Ubuntu Mate) at home and Windows 11 at work (care giving at someone's home, helping him do minimal things). Linux is like a friend, not even awkward at this point. Windows is like a drunk at a bar, who, half an hour ago, was just talking too loudly but now has started groping you. In ten years, I can imagine Windows trying to override literally anything someone does on their machine, including the text t…

>Windows is like a drunk at a bar, who, half an hour ago, was just talking too loudly but now has started groping you.

That's the best analogy I've seen of what modern Windows has become.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by rejectfinite »

chii wrote: post #446
HeckFeck wrote: post #374

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No, but pissing off people who love computers the most is a terrible idea. The Windows 98-7 era made me like the system and aspire to be a developer for it. I remember wanting to make my own window! Now it is simply a hostile wasteland that I regard with suspicion and resentment. There is no love for it left. I now use Linux and bear with OSX when I need to. Windows 8, but especially 10, made a hardcore Unix freak ou…

> 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…

>Windows has no raison d'etre except for the gaming space imho

Enterprise.

Either cloud with Office 365 + Azure AD + Intune to get Office/Teams/Sharepoint/Onedrive echosystem and manage clients PC settings and updates over Intune.

Or do it on-prem with Windows server, AD domain, Group policy, Fileshare server and all that. Some enterprise software that is not a SaaS may still require this.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by 112233 »

cageface wrote: post #423
PostOnce wrote: post #404

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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.

Second the Bitwig, with a caveat: Read the Manual or Suffer. There are a alot of absolutely non-obvious UI rakes you can step on, can be really off-putting if messing around blindly (from the top of my head: if you accidenly turn on clip player for a track, it will not play the timeline; not disabling polyphony will prevent your Note Grid from running continuously; microtonal notes are being sent to MIDI differently depending on the MPE settings ...)

Bitwig + Pianoteq is the ultimate toy to tinker and relax with.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by rejectfinite »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #164
CWuestefeld wrote: post #135

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

Dogshit advice. Windows updates include security patches. What may happen is this screen where you need to click no/remind me later, and it will not change anything.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/windo...

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by maxbaines »

layer8 wrote: post #452
maxbaines wrote: post #422

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Yes you can however every so often I see the let’s finish setup screen will appear to prompt you, again you can continue without an account and then be nagged again.

Go to the Notifications page in Settings and untick “Offer Suggestions on How I Can Set Up My Device”.

Thank you that's useful, ill sure be setting it. I just wish it was not necessary, certainly in Pro version.
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