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The day Windows died

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Re: The day Windows died

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Post by windowsrookie »

gigel82 wrote: post #480
localghost3000 wrote: post #167

I am sure I will get all kinds of hate for saying this: despite the extra up front cost, apple stuff is a better value. Lets take device lifetime: I have a 2013 MBP 15 and 2015 MBP 15. I use them for intensive things like music production. Both devices work flawlessly. I also a System 76 Oryx Pro which cost more than any mac I own. The webcam failed 5 months in, several keys don't work anymore, and it gets hotter tha…

I have a 2016 MBP 15 that is struggling with anything other than browsing. It cost $2800 new (luckily bought by my employer). I also bought an Asus ultrabook in the same year (2016) for under $700 for my wife and it's still going strong (neither it nor the mac's batteries last as much as they used to, but otherwise no issues). In my experience, I pay less upfront for a Windows machine and get to enjoy it just as much…

Unfortunately 2016 was the worst year to buy a MacBook Pro in the last 10 years. 2016 models still only had a 4-core CPU and DDR3 RAM. 2018 models saw a big improvement in performance (6 cores, DDR4), 2019 models fixed the keyboard, and then 2021 the M1 chips arrived.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by secondcoming »

Aeolun wrote: post #576
h4ch1 wrote: post #492

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about OP but they're significantly more expensive for me (non-US; Asia) than any other offerings, that I feel like I'm being scammed. That with more subscriptions for anything I might want to use (Spotify/Netflix/Prime) just make it kind of a pinch, and so for a lot of people in my country. Edit: for ex: the $799 iPad pro costs an equivalent of $994.35 in India.

To be fair, you can easily use apple hardware for 5 years, where windows is just completely dead and unuseable after 2.

I'll let my desktop running a 4790K know. Thanks!

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by shortrounddev »

I'm a fan of Windows, and I went into the article skeptical of it, expecting it to be another rant by an RMS-type privacy nut lining his walls with tin foil to prevent the government from sniffing his wifi packets.

But this is an article about product, and not technology, and I have to say I agree with him. The reason I am a Windows fan boy is because I grew up with the same experience. Though Windows has a reputation for being closed source and predatory, its association with games made it much more of a hacking toy for me growing up than any *nix-based system ever did.

However, the last iteration seems to be moving closer and closer to the tablet-UX world that modern product designers want us to be in on every device. Monetizing our intent is more lucrative than serving pre-existing demand.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by johlits »

magpi3 wrote: post #147
superchroma wrote: post #133

"windows is dead because it has ads in the start menu (that you can turn off), it ships with unwanted apps and doesn't ship with properly free games" Profound, truly. This is of course completely forgetting the era when every prebuilt would ship with crapware, completely omitting the fact that via giveaways on places like GoG and EGS, children have access to more free games in one year than I was bought in my entire…

>This is of course completely forgetting the era when every prebuilt would ship with crapware This was a clean Windows install, not one that came from an OEM. Clean Window installs at least used to be exactly that: they came with nothing but Windows.

MS Paint was always there.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

jiggawatts wrote: post #142
tester756 wrote: post #17

Windows 11 start menu search is slowest shit i've ever seen I can't stand when I type app name (e.g paint or vs) and it appears but click needs like 5-10 sec to be registered what the hell It worked perfectly fine on Win10 on the same hardware (my OS has been updated recently either automatically or by company). I'd call Windows 11 pretty OK once you tweak one or two things in register settings, maybe the lack of rig…

As a life-long Windows user, the most frustrating part is how broken search is, and always has been, but… in new and unique ways in every version I’ve ever used! It’s astonishing: they’re clearly working on it, making material changes, but only ever sideways. I’ve never observed an improvement. To those people that say “version x has worked”: I doubt it. Maybe after a month it successfully indexed the 100KB of text i…

It's been baffling to me how such a high % of the world is using this OS for work but the search function is fundamentally not functioning.

I have the same set of files on two machines and its actually faster for me to turn to the mac, search on there to find where the file will be on my windows machine than to watch the windows search churn away for minutes only to not find it.

Not to mention if it does find it there is this obtuse dance you have to do to get it to actually open the containing folder in a way thats navigable because the search results are all fake shortcut links or something that burn the path hierarchy. Rolls my eyes every time I bump into that.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by Ekaros »

askvictor wrote: post #644
Ekaros wrote: post #631

Don't worry. If Linux ever comes popular in Desktops it will end exactly same place, or probably beyond as anyone doing the customization probably knowns enough to be more dangerous and nothing prevents those changes... Just look at many Android phones and how something like Facebook can't even be permanently removed...

Does SteamOS do this? (genuine question - I don't run it, but it's probably one of the bigger consumer-grade Linux distros)

Nope, but Valve makes the money from selling games on Steam. So they do not need it from others. Same really doesn't apply to other manufacturers.

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Post by thedanbob »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #633
elihu wrote: post #485

I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad from Costco for about $500. The last time I bought a computer preloaded with Windows was about a decade ago. My experience so far: I turn it on, there's a license agreement. Actually, there's two. One is from Microsoft, and it's rather long but I guess it's about par for the course. Then there's the Lenovo license agreement, which is actually a bunch of other license agreements concaten…

Been a Linux user for almost a decade. Built a PC for someone recently and they wanted 11 Pro. Whatever, I shrugged, and downloaded the iso from Microsoft. I dd'd it to a usb, like every other iso, and boot to the installer menu. I'm greeted by an error that there are missing drivers. I'm familiar with this error, still, but I'm surprised to see it on the latest O/S. It looks exactly like I remember from 98. So, I sp…

This post needs a trigger warning lol. I couldn’t count the hours of my life I’ve lost to installing / updating/ fixing Windows. I put Linux on all my computers about 6 years ago and have no regrets. If something breaks it’s usually my fault, and it’s always way easier to fix. And updates beat the pants off both Windows and Mac.

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

contravariant wrote: post #645
raxxorraxor wrote: post #524

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I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much. If they really wanted to emulate Apple, they wouldn't fill their OS with trash in every corner. This also extends to the default landing page of Edge. This is the worst form of bullvard, it is a tiny bit better than directly advocating for penis enlargement on the internet. But not by much at all. There should be no ads on the OS level. Especially…

To be fair to Microsoft this was a Lenovo laptop. Though why Microsoft continues to do business with a company that thought it was a good idea to install a root certificate (with a publicly known private key) onto every single laptop they sold so they could MITM some ads into websites is beyond me.

I have a Microsoft computer (a Surface Laptop) and it's not that bad. There are dumb news stories in the search menu and it pleadingly tries to stop you from using Firefox, but then the interface is pretty clean.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by acomjean »

localghost3000 wrote: post #300
acomjean wrote: post #296

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As someone who replaced a 2014 MacBook Pro with a system 76 oryx pro. The oryx does get warmer and has terrible battery life, but mine is currently 4 years and and working fine. It’s significantly faster than the mac (it’s newer) and can play games (it has a fairly decent video card). You can do unreal development on it. A more apt comparison would be that MacBook with a pangolin amd 5600? machine. It’s much better o…

> It’s much better on battery This is not my experience. At best I'd get a few hours. If I'm using the GPU? An hour or so.

The system76 amd computers “pangolin” don’t have a separate gpu. Battery life is good to great, I’ve easily gotten 6 hours. New ones even better.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by xmcqdpt2 »

elihu wrote: post #558
microtonal wrote: post #544

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Oh wow, they unironically posted a video that a chat application takes 9 seconds to launch. What is wrong with computing?

...and they're congratulating themselves on having reduced the memory overhead of a chat app from ~1GB to ~500MB.

I'm so glad we have modern computers with gigabytes of RAM so that we can do real-time chat. This app would have been impossible fifteen years ago when computers had only 1GB of RAM or less. Without modern hardware development we would still all be sending eachother long emails like it's 2006. /s
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