Maxi 12x 💉»Microsoft acting like 11 year old me placing the start menu at the top, installing a dock application, and putting the Apple sticker from my iPod on the back of my Dell laptop.«
»On a 16:9 display, giving up 10% of your vertical real estate is really stupid. On any operating system, have a toolbar at the top of the screen and another one at the bottom of the screen is awful. It's bad when Mac does it too. The menu bar is a holdover from a time when you could only run one app at a time, and has no place in a proper multitasking OS.«
»Whatever #Microsoft's vision for #Windows is (I cannot say that I understand it), it is something that I do not share. I do not want ads, bloatware, spyware, or overly-intrusive AI in my OS.«
»I just don't see #Microsoft being able to salvage #Windows in any meaningful way. They haven't demonstrated any understanding of what their users need or want since the release of Windows 10.
I've installed CachyOS on my gaming PC, and it hasn't been painless, but I'd much rather deal with configuring launch options in Steam and trying out different Proton versions than deal with all the ads, overwritten defaults, and general sluggishness of Windows.
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It literally takes 10x as long for Steam, Discord, Spotify, and Chrome to startup on boot in Windows than it does in Linux. […]«
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»#Microsoft is down three of the four #Windows PCs in my house, and I'm someone who has been reading Paul Thurrott and Ed Bott for decades. The only thing keeping me on Windows is Adobe Lightroom. I can't run that seamlessly in a Linux VM with GPU support, while keeping the GPU enabled on Fedora.«
»I've been a long time advocate for Windows. But I no longer feel in control of my own computer. Too many ads, too much bloat, too many attempts to override defaults, too many forced restarts against my wishes. So many irritations I never had in the past.
After years of resistance, last week I installed Linux on my second desktop to begin the learning process.«
Brick Duck@frumble I would like to favorite each of your posts in this thread but I’ll just do this one and boost. 100% agree.