any word on GOG offering links to upgrade to linux, i think it would speed things up, right now we are almost at the part where the mortally wounded leviathan trashes everything about in its final death throes.
it really would be nice for early emancipators to have a comfortable landing, and avoid being subject to collateral damage.
So part of me agrees, but part of me also feels like a victim of the boy who cried wolf.
People have ragged on Windows going back for as long as I can remember. Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). It's hard for me to distinguish how much of the vitriol is legitimate this time from developers, or will nostalgia glasses just haunt Windows forever.
I've been using Windows 11 and... it feels fine? If anything, it doesn't feel substantially different enough from Windows 10 to care. My other comparison points are a Macbook and a Steam Deck, and both of them have so many faults of their own that I don't understand the need to rag on Windows in particular.
Surely there are ways to measure its quality objectively, and separate dumb nostalgia from real concerns. Are support tickets down? Is the OS a less frequent root cause for tickets? IT people with big enough fleets could settle this debate.
I’m a Mac person but Windows 11 seemed as fine as Windows 10 when I used it.
To be fair, compared to Linux (and to an extent, Mac), Windows has been sluggish, bloated and unreliable for a long time. XP was the last one that felt "solid", aka: fast, reliable and "just works".
What was shocking to me is discovering that Windows 11 on a managed company laptop and Windows 11 on a store bought personal laptop feel so different, they might as well not share a name.
It's insane the amount of bullshit Microsoft is pushing on private users.
My daily small annoyance is that when my work laptop goes to sleep, it doesn't shut off primary and secondary displays at the same time and moves all my windows onto one monitor. Which monitor seems totally random, so I'm perpetually moving windows back to one screen or the other. And it doesn't respect my sleep settings if I put up the lock screen, instead almost immediately turns the monitors off.
GOG's business relies on Windows going above and beyond to remain retrocompatible with older versions of itself so trashing on it feels like a shitty move
I am perfectly happy with Windows 10 and want to throw my work Linux PC out the nearest window almost every day because of Linux package dependency hell.
I work on different application and are pretty much forced to setup a specific Linux VM for each one to not have package dependency problems.
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[ 28.2 ms ] story [ 2507 ms ] threadit really would be nice for early emancipators to have a comfortable landing, and avoid being subject to collateral damage.
People have ragged on Windows going back for as long as I can remember. Only in hindsight did people ever express fondness in public for Windows XP (and maybe a bit for Windows 7). It's hard for me to distinguish how much of the vitriol is legitimate this time from developers, or will nostalgia glasses just haunt Windows forever.
I've been using Windows 11 and... it feels fine? If anything, it doesn't feel substantially different enough from Windows 10 to care. My other comparison points are a Macbook and a Steam Deck, and both of them have so many faults of their own that I don't understand the need to rag on Windows in particular.
I’m a Mac person but Windows 11 seemed as fine as Windows 10 when I used it.
There is no support for Windows. At least for the mere mortals. Bugs are not acknoledged for months and then they might be, silently, fixed.
It was miles ahead of XP from an architecture standpoint, Aero looks positively futuristic today, security was improved, file transfers improved.
It was rock solid and good to look at. I used Vista right up until EOL.
It's insane the amount of bullshit Microsoft is pushing on private users.
Ironic, given their website showed me two unrequested popups.
I work on different application and are pretty much forced to setup a specific Linux VM for each one to not have package dependency problems.
I never had that problem developing on Windows.