There is a negative Moore's law for software, valid when the one for hardware stopped: with constant CPU speed, the speed of software decreases as its version increments.
Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
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Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#972It's still not quite there yet, for me. A lot of older games (which I'm a big fan of) won't run well or at all - and support for Nvidia is still not great. If I could get within even 10% of the performance I get on Windows, and know I could safely choose to play some old 2000's game or something that just released just fine, I really wouldn't mind. But it feels like a roulette wheel and some important game I wanted t…
Which games?
For older games: MechWarrior 3 and 4 (plus expansions). Thief 1+2. Freespace 2. Gothic 1+2. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
But in general, I play a lot of weirder, niche games that just don't get a lot of traction for community fixes and so on.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#973Many years ago before I stopped using Windows and switched back to NetBSD (I had originally used it on the VAX), I used Cygwin and later MSYS on Windows in the process of moving back to UNIX
I was not interested in graphical programs, I only wanted a UNIX shell and standard UNIX utilities
I recently received a used computer with pre-installed Windows 10 Home for personal use so I will be experimenting with it offline^1
I used Windows Services for UNIX ("SFU") on work computers back in the day to compile programs I wrote for UNIX. I am curious about using "WSL" in a similar way
NetBSD is still favorite OS but I use Linux the most
1. I can boot this computer from USB stick so I will also use it to run NetBSD from RAM
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#974Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Windows 11's file browser lags when opening directories with more than 100-ish files. Windows 11's file browser takes a few seconds to open at all. > Context menus take a noticeable amount of time to appear. I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software your company installed. I have a Windows 11 workstation that I use all the time for some CAD software and the occasional game. Everything is…
I don't share his experience entirely, by even on my desktop built for gaming I can notice the right click menu is delayed in comparison to Windows 10. Even more heinous, before you remove it, the AI button would lazy load causing you to sometimes hit it by accident when you mean to hit something else. God forbid I'm not 80 years old and click my menus with any sort of speed. Also, if I'm going to have to adjust anyt…
I had a comment a few days ago about my freshly installing, configuring, and A/B testing W10 and W11 on a not-too-old HP laptop, using both HDD and NVMe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750358
That was then.
Now last night my partner comes back from the dumpster with a Toshiba laptop that's in great shape, its 20 full years old, came with Windows Vista, had been upgraded to Windows 7, has 1GB of memory, 120GB SATA2 HDD (slower than modern SATA), dual-core 1.73GHz CPU.
Seems to work perfectly and With W7 it's snappier than the 2019 HP booted to old or new Windows 10 or Windows 11 even more. All comparisons at baseline without the internet.
When you try W11 on a HDD it really emphasizes the difference from W10 on the same hardware.
But when this kind of W7 thing just falls in your lap, it really hits you how much better performance could have been available by now from Windows if they really tried.
Or didn't drop the ball every time they were at bat, depending on the general manager ;)
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#975> Adobe Suite: Runs via Winboat. Far from perfect (no video acceleration, laggy at times), but functional That’s not acceptable to most professionals and one of the things holding me back on a Mac. Adobe has so many different cross-platform layers that a solution like Proton may never be viable, practically speaking. For Photoshop alone I remember reading that they still have some custom MacApp Pascal UI code, along…
> The only hope for fast and reliable Adobe-apps-on-Linux IMO is through a Windows VM with GPU pass-through and a focus on making that as easily and seamless as possible. I've heard of people doing this, do they? I'm so desperate for Premiere, even 6+ years after switching OSes. Resolve won't install on Fedora (???), our all-Flatpak future cannot get here soon enough...
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Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#976My story is simpler. Microsoft dropped the support for Windows 10 and gave me no upgrade path to Windows 11 because my CPU was 5 years too old apparently. So I installed Fedora on that machine, I learned the process, I went through the hurdles. It wasn’t seamless. But, Fedora never said “I can’t”. When it was over, it was fine. Only if Microsoft had just let me install Windows 11 and suffer whatever the perf problem…
My story is even simpler. I have a friend who wanted to upgrade to Windows 11 because 10 is losing support. I wrote the Windows 11 installer to my flash drive using Rufus. It worked perfectly. I'm not expecting a man who has no interest in learning Linux to change.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#977I just started a new job where I'm subjected to Windows 11. They gave me a behemoth of a laptop. 64GB of RAM, absolute screamer of a CPU, big GPU, the whole deal. Windows 11's file browser lags when opening directories with more than 100-ish files. Windows 11's file browser takes a few seconds to open at all. Context menus take a noticeable amount of time to appear. I'm getting used to a new keyboard, so I keep hitti…
> Windows 11's file browser lags when opening directories with more than 100-ish files. Windows 11's file browser takes a few seconds to open at all. > Context menus take a noticeable amount of time to appear. I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software your company installed. I have a Windows 11 workstation that I use all the time for some CAD software and the occasional game. Everything is…
Either you haven't been when context menus / explorer was blazingly fast or something odd happens there, since I can confirm that on brand new PC (128GB RAM, 9950X3D, 5090) with vanilla Windows 11 it still lags and annoys a lot after some linux distro.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#978Between using macOS at work and macOS at home, I really only had my Windows 10 PC for running games in Steam (and I don't even really game very much. I had originally built it with all new parts for Flight Simulator 2020) so its behavior was already becoming annoying whenever I went to use Windows such as the nagging and lack of consent implied with the "finish setting up your PC" window having "continue" (in a bold…
What's your experience with MSFS2020 under SteamOS?
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#979> Adobe Suite: Runs via Winboat. Far from perfect (no video acceleration, laggy at times), but functional That’s not acceptable to most professionals and one of the things holding me back on a Mac. Adobe has so many different cross-platform layers that a solution like Proton may never be viable, practically speaking. For Photoshop alone I remember reading that they still have some custom MacApp Pascal UI code, along…
> The only hope for fast and reliable Adobe-apps-on-Linux IMO is through a Windows VM with GPU pass-through and a focus on making that as easily and seamless as possible. I've heard of people doing this, do they? I'm so desperate for Premiere, even 6+ years after switching OSes. Resolve won't install on Fedora (???), our all-Flatpak future cannot get here soon enough...
It’s possible but I’ve never used it as a daily driver.
One thing that scares me is that Adobe apps are already buggy on their own officially supported platforms. If I encountered a glitch, I’d always have in the back of my mind “is it because of my crazy set up or is it their fault?”
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#980Earlier quoted context omitted.
> idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro It could be a deliberate measure to set the bar high and filter out people who don’t want to troubleshoot themselves.
The arch advantage is that your system gets setup exactly how you want it and you have to consciously choose the software set you want to work with. That minimalism is somewhat the point of the OS.
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