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Windows has turned itself into the operating system Apple uses to scare people into buying Macs.

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This morning, I made a post, reporting, among other things, that this computer has been updated four times in two days. (Once by Norton, three times by Windows) I just got a message saying that Windows is going to update this computer again - AGAIN! - in the overnight. Sometime after Windows 7, Windows management and staff seemed to get the idea that we buy computers mainly for them and hardly at all for our own use. Getting at our computers almost constantly is insanity - Windows insanity. The guy who posts under "Linux Is Best" is right.

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Windows has gotten WAY out of hand. This computer has been updated four times in two days! It is a sickness unique to Microsoft. Windows doesn't work too much of the time. Startups are terribly slow, while my Dell computer running on the user friendly Ubuntu version of Linux just starts. Many Windows startups are delayed further without explanation. Windows updates fantastically too often and updates often take fantastically too long, all the while our computers are not available for our use. "Working in the background" - one of the main aspects of the Windows sickness - causes sluggishness and browser or software crashes and sometimes, at least in the case of this Windows computer, it brings the operation of my PC to a grinding halt. Pointers are disabled fantastically too often with those damned hourglass symbols and there are fantastically too many "Not Responding" messages. Why do we put up with this obstruction? Familiarity is the answer I always get. Lets keep in mind, then, all the Windows negatives we are familiar with. When Windows peaked with XP and Windows 7, it was the best operating system in my opinion. Now, in my personal opinion, it is by far the worst. I go back with Windows to Windows 2(!) and I am so fed up that I'm switching to Linux.

Mein Urlaub verläuft bislang sehr produktiv, bin wahnsinnig glücklich. Jetzt erstmal Linux Ubuntu auf einem alten PC installiert, um damit zu üben und auszuprobieren, bevor ich mich wirklich an meinen Gaming PC wage. Bin überrascht wie gut und einfach das funktioniert hat. Morgen installiere ich die nächsten Programme, wenn ich endlich ins Internet komme, es wollte nicht auf den ersten Versuch.

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This version of Ubuntu started the development with one of the most significant changes ever done. This time, it’s about compiler optimization level used on Ubuntu packages by default. When this version of Ubuntu had started its development, the mailing list entry said the following:

While the Perl one is irrelevant in this blog post, the second entry in the toolchain changes is interesting. The default build flags for all Ubuntu packages that are determined by dpkg-buildflags have been changed so that -O3 is being used as a default instead of -O2.

This means that all future builds for all Plucky Puffin packages will be more optimized. Because of this, the build times will increase, but that doesn’t affect the end user. As a result, the packages that are built with the third optimization level will be faster than before, which means that your computer will be faster the second you upgrade to 25.04.

However, the binary size for the packages will be bigger, and there is uncertainty whether all packages benefit from this level of optimization that will be applied to all the packages. Furthermore, all builds and tests will be run, so expect delays. After that, when you test 25.04 during the development cycle, you should experience performance improvements.

On a side note, Perl 5.40 was released to Ubuntu 25.04, which brings several new features, new analyzers, and breaking changes, such as the :reader attribute for field variables, the breaking changes related to use VERSION declarations, the Infinity (inf) and Not-a-Number (nan) constants in builtin static class (module), the medium-precedence Logical XOR ^^ operator, the try...catch...finally block being a stable Perl feature, and stable support for multiple value iterations for the for loop.

Let’s see what Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin will offer as the next LTS, 26.04 RR, gets closer to the development period.

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffins-packages-are-more-optimized/

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