I'll believe it when I see the quality increase.
Our commitment to Windows quality
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Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#942Microsoft has spent over a decade swimming against their users interests at this point and during that time frame Linux has been improving its desktop and improving kernel performance. We are now at the point where Linux emulating Window's entire API space for games with worse drivers is dangerously close on performance with none of the privacy invasion and anti user features. Its pretty late in the game for them to…
So are you predicting that 2026 will be the year of “Linux on the Desktop”?
I'm waiting for a better Nvidia drivers/performance in either Ubuntu or Fedora family and that's it for me.
I prefer user experience on Linux so much more (I've been always using Linux laptop as a work PC), its just that I like gaming casually in my free time.
I'd try the migration already, but due to the *** up NVMe prices I don't have a new disk to start with, so I'll have to do the slow and more careful migration.
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#943Microsoft has spent over a decade swimming against their users interests at this point and during that time frame Linux has been improving its desktop and improving kernel performance. We are now at the point where Linux emulating Window's entire API space for games with worse drivers is dangerously close on performance with none of the privacy invasion and anti user features. Its pretty late in the game for them to…
Are the Linux graphics drivers actually worse, though? I thought it was widely agreed that the open-source user-space drivers, e.g., in Mesa, are actually very good these days.
Could be, but I can't afford the GPUs they are so very good on.
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#944To demonstrate the seriousness of their commitment to Windows quality, you can now move the taskbar to the left side of the screen. No no, it's not vaporware, they even included four screenshots. Everyone can rest assured now.
It might sound like a joke but it's because they are re-adding a feature they had in Windows 95, why was it removed? One can only speculate but given the pervasiveness of webviews in places where there used to be plain (and performant) win32 stuff, one is led to the conclusion that the recently on-boarded interns simply can't write any C++.
The more likely sounding conclusion is that everyone non-technical at Microsoft (sales, marketing, design, product management) uses macOS and assumes “look like macOS” is automatically good and they’ve never considered anything else.
There’s nothing about C++ which makes it “the only programming language which can draw things on the left”.
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#945Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely nothing wrong with an "agentic OS", agentic UX is the future of personal computing. The ideal is that something intelligent understands what you want to do and gets it done. Unless you really think we've reached the pinnacle of user interface with repetitive clicking around and menus. The problem is with shoving AI down user's throats. Make it an option, not the only option.
There's nothing wrong with an "agentic OS" if it's built on top of a regular good OS. There's everything wrong when "agentic" means that the regular bread-and-butter functionality of the OS becomes unusable.
> There's everything wrong when "agentic" means that the regular bread-and-butter functionality of the OS becomes unusable
Can you provide an example of agentic functionality in Windows making regular bread-and-butter functionality become unusable?
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#946Microsoft deserves credit where credit is due. Windows Insider is a great program that takes a lot of effort to manage, and this mea culpa is a response to community feedback . Windows is a fabulous operating system. I encourage people to see it as a tool and as an engineering marvel, rather than as an enemy or target of ridicule. I’ve been tremendously productive on Windows, and I have run every desktop OS , includi…
I agree with most of what you say about Windows, technically, it's an excellent and reliable operating system honed over three decades. Like you, I make the above comment based on my long experience from the IBM 360 through to Assembler, CP/M, OS/2, VAX, Linux and many others including Win 95, NT, W2K through to the present. What you fail to acknowledge is that Microsoft has changed the Windows paradigm to such an ex…
Linux will soon have identified login. There’s been little pushback on the age setting, which will soon be an identity setting.
Don’t jump to conclusions. I’m not “okay” with it. I’m using the best tool available for the job.
Don’t feel so high and mighty.
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#947Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows is superior to Linux because people can actually use it. Everything else is secondary.
Largely because that's all they've experienced since it was probably the first computer OS they used throughout their entire life.
Lots of people used MS-DOS before they had Windows, and still didn't prefer Linux.
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#948Microsoft has spent over a decade swimming against their users interests at this point and during that time frame Linux has been improving its desktop and improving kernel performance. We are now at the point where Linux emulating Window's entire API space for games with worse drivers is dangerously close on performance with none of the privacy invasion and anti user features. Its pretty late in the game for them to…
The media is a powerful force. When I first tried Ubuntu decades ago it was like an awakening and I started seeing every developer using Windows and Mac as brainwashed fools. That's not to pick on others because I also started seeing my former self as brainwashed. For a developer, Linux is far superior for many reasons. Moving from Windows to Linux reminds me of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. A lot of times, with soft…
Yes, for a developer it's great.
But then you come across things like "movie not playing due to missing DRM support" and crap like that.
Normal users are probably better off with a Macbook.
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#949Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just go for whatever DE looks pretty to you, I personally like KDE. Don't be afraid to switch to a different desktop later on, its just a few packages to install most of the time. As for distros, pick something established that looks good to you. You said you have experience, so you probably know what you want from a distro. I ran arch on my machine a lot but recently switched to fedora for its simpler installation.
You know, I tried KDE recently on a UBUNTU install it's got some nice features, but man is it buggy when it comes to scaling on 4K monitors. Also, the UI is a little rough. I switched back to gnome.
Well the look and feel is subjective, I like KDE because it feels like what windows could have been if it was done well.
As for the scaling, I use it on a 1080PC laptop screen but also sometimes my 3440x1440 display and haven't really run into bad scaling. Were you using X11 or Wayland? I've been on Wayland for years.
Re: Our commitment to Windows quality
#950I'm somewhat surprised that Windows is still most of personal computers. In my eyes, it's fundamentally inferior to Linux, and its superficial superiority only comes from the ecosystem, which is to say adoption, not some inherent trait. But then, since Linux adoption didn't meaningfully change in the last 20 years, I'm forced to confront the fact that either I'm wrong about its fundamentals, or the market is able to…
I recently installed Fedora and holy shit it's still not production ready. During the initial setup you need to input your location, you have a choice between clicking on the map or typing the city, I don't remember which it is but one of them makes your system freeze, no way to get out other than a reboot. It's documented since Fedora 42, and was still there on Fedora 43 Every time my swap is full the entire system…
I've been using Fedora since version 36. It can become unresponsive when running out of RAM. True. Never had any of those problems. It literally just works. Would you mind uploading that png file so I can try it?