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imho it is useful, not to be canned
This is the year of the Linux desktop
People having to interact with computers with translated UI need to deal with similar bewilderments very often. It doesn’t even need to be AI translated, just shittily.
I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.
Doesn’t have to be Ubuntu, Mint would work too, but yeah, windows keeps going down hill, I switched to Linux early last year and not regretted it once
Side note: if you want something more windows like, KDE is a good desktop environment, its got a lot of customization settings too
Though I’m told cinnamon (what Mint uses) is also pretty windows like
I’m sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I’m annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I’m all set up and have learned it, it’ll probably be better than Windows but I’m just not willing to spend even a minute on it.
Try Linux for a month and you won’t even think about coming back.
Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I’m starting soon I’ll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers
I have dual boot on my work PC. I think the last time I booted into Windows was a year ago.
I can boot the physical Windows partition in Virtualbox and QEMU. I do that maybe 3 times a month for a few hours.Yeah I’d still need Windows every day for work
No forced upgrades if your computer is too old to upgrade. taps forehead
Microsoft continuing the tradition of alternating good and bad releases of the OS.
I always hear this repeated but I feel like it doesn’t hold up. Most Windows releases are bad these days. Last release that was mostly decent was Windows 7 but they were even fucking that up towards the end with ‘telemetry’.
I think they also throttled gpu performance at the kernel level or something. I vaguely remember reading a post about that but don’t have source or anything. However back in the day I was getting dogshit framerates in VR and I had a “pretty good” computer. After trying everything to solve these performance issues for months and failing, I tried out Windows 10 and suddenly all my framerate problems were solved.
Didn’t they say that they were planning to no longer release new “versions” per se, but just keep on updating the existing operating system indefinitely? Perhaps they had the bad luck to start that strategy with one of the bad releases.
They said that with 10, which by some is considered great, better than 11 for sure
(Edit for the record, 10 broke my machine and got me to switch to linux, so by no means do I consider it great)
Better than 8 too
They made nothing good since Windows 7. And that was only good compared to Vista.
XP and 2000 were a lot faster.8.1 was better than 7 in every way though?
I hated 8.1 it was way worse than 8 for me.
Although I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 12+ years, I do like win 11
What do you like about it? I’d like to know some of the good things that OS has possibly done. Silver lining and all of that!
