Dave & I don’t always agree, but this was a good video. Admitting Windows coddles it’s users too much, showing why Windows lost it’s hardcore audience, and what it would take to win any of us back. (Not that that’s likely, but what it would take)
Great line at the end:
…Windows tries to be a friendly town for everybody and the zoning board forgot to include a neighborhood for the weirdos who build their own furniture. We don’t want to take over your town, we don’t even want to change it. We just a workshop with sharp chisels and permission to make a mess. Give us that and we’ll stop complaining about the art you choose for City Hall.
i don’t understand the analogy, what is that actually referring to?
“You do you but let me do (and fuck up) my own stuff. And stop preventing me doing that”
I take it as them saying: give those interested the tools and ability to mess with deeper systems and customisation and ability to break things. That doesnt have to change the experience for everyone else.
that’s what i mean, i don’t get that criticism. what can’t you do with windows? what specifically are they asking to do?
- Use it without OneDrive being bundled
- Use it without a Microsoft account
- Use it without ads
- Use it without Copilot
Yes, I know there are ways around each of these but the settings are all in different places, Microsoft keeps changing where the settings are, resetting to defaults on OS updates, and at least for trying to use it without a Microsoft account, actively closing loopholes for doing so.
Use it without telemetry Use it without mandatory notifications that turn themselves back on if you turn them off Use it without file grouping by date if I so choose
There’s a giant list of configuration options they took away from 10 to 11 and more that they keep making more and more difficult to find, and this trend has been going on since aero was introduced in xp.
Some of us liked the power user options in win2k and feel they should have been expanded, not removed.
Honestly what Microsoft should have done was sorta what Apple did with BSD but with Linux, write a killer front end but leave the Unix bits underneath. There’s your workshop to make a mess.
I’d make an actual good stable version of Linux. Jokes aside, I haven’t seen a stable Linux except for steam os. Amazing what a full company can achieve.
“before steam os there never was a stable Linux distribution”
what a galaxy brain take
valve would have never taken the risk of using Linux if it was not stable in the first place
also you do realize the entire web runs in Linux, do you think these servers just randomly crash for no reason ?
Unix
The actual unix distribution hosts, those being primarily the BSD’s, are a very small portion of the net, where Linux is close to 90%.
Wtf are you talking about
What are you on about? Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse… not stable. They’ve collectively been stable approaching a century.
For me, no. I like the simplicity of just installed stuff. I’ve tried many distros and I always have to Google how to install stuff. And then whenever I have to use the terminal shit just break. Last time I used Linux it destroyed my ssd to where I couldn’t boot anymore
I don’t know how to use it != unstable
Forgot how toxic the Linux community is
You literally came in firing and now youre complaining that someone stood up for themselves? Lmao fuck off
It can be, because it is huge. But I’m pretty sure it is more toxic to call something unstable because you don’t understand it than to point that fact out. Now, if you have a concrete complaint or question, I’d be happy to try and help, but stability isn’t your issue.There are machines that have been running for decades.
I didn’t call anyone unstable. It was the other way around. Just read the posts. I said I have problem with Linux. And I have for years. But then everyone attacks me over it 🤷♂️
Didn’t say you called anyone unstable.
I haven’t seen a stable Linux except for steam os.
What you did, was call Linux unstable. Which is just objectively untrue. I’m not attacking you. On the contrary, I generally try to be helpful about it. But what you did was say something toxic, maybe accidentally and then call others toxic for pointing that out. Bottom line, Linux isn’t unstable.
They’re right. Linux didn’t break your system, you did. Which has happened to pretty much every Linux user at some point. You can either take it as a learning opportunity or get frustrated that there are no guardrails
SteamOS kinda has it easy. They target a single device and are able to deploy a new image and fall back if it fails. They also have a beta channel of nerds to test all the shit.
