The company that's obsessed with putting popup tutorials in every fucking app and os function? Ambient my ass, stop lying.
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no one wants to sit in their office talking to their computer verbally, its fucking awkward. Its cool on star trek as a means of exposition and plot, but not in real life.
Start fixing the actual architecture issue of Windows. An immutable base system and modular containerised app workflow might be a start, but we already have that in every other operating system
All those offices with open floorplans are just going to be a auditory nightmare, like some call center every single day.
So: an even more disempowering user experience.
Sounds like shit to me.
Opensuse still over here .... Just being a computer.
Gave my mom a machine with Mint, havent heard a peep out of her.
Question. Can't you get around all this shit just getting win pro?
I still hate to give any $ to microshit, but if anyone wants to use popular software or play new games they need windows.
It will be true if people are unwilling to put in a little effort to demand better or stop using windows.
You want your games to run on something else? Don't buy them until they do. Sadly, most people are 100% unwilling to delay that instant gratification and sacrifice even the smallest convenience.
That's how we got here. You cannot expect change if you are unwilling to do anything to make it happen.
This is why sloth is a deadly sin.
100% , people are lazy as shit so there is no hope for linux until every single thing runs perfect without the user ever having tp touch a terminal or search a fix. Just how it is. I love to tinker, and thats why I love linux. But its not for the general population.
Even if true, that doesn't mean you have to put up with it everywhere else.
I dual boot linux. These days, I only boot an extremely neutered Windows for most games or anything HDR, but basically for nothing else. Honestly a lot of old Windows stuff works better in Wine anyway.
You and I do this, but 99% if the world runs on ms. They wont change. My friend says it sounds exhausting to do anything like that.
Fair.
And it’s the default.
Eventually, OEMs might find all this stuff is hurting sales and start offering Linux. I think that would be huge, as 99% of buyers will just stick to the default.
Oh for sure. I've had my SO look over at my mint pc (they are on 10 still) and go woah that is awesome!! So i am trying to convince them to change over. I really dont want any windows pcs on my network. But they use vr which still isn't good on linux without a lot of work.
BTW you can share NTFS partitions with Windows and Linux, if that's your SO's concern.
I do this, and it works really well! This used to be an issue in Mint because its kernel was kinda old, but no more.
Obviously getting into partitioning is a lot of configuration for most people, but still.
I exclusively use Linux. In fact I don't even own a computer that Windows would install on, at least not without hacks or workarounds.
I also play a lot of games. In my experience only the trashiest of the trash games don't work on Linux. Developers have to go out of their way and do extra work to make a game not run on Linux these days. I will happily play an indie alternative of whatever trashy enshittification-sponsored game won't run on Linux in the increasingly rare situation where I encounter one.
People posting stuff like this either aren't really trying or are pushing an agenda of some kind. Remember how random users you had nothing to do with would insult and fight with you on reddit any time you say anything good about marijuana but on lemmy no one really does that? This type of thing smells like that. I'm just saying.
Im sorry but many popular games wont run well on linux.
Maybe you only play single player ??
-Any battlefield game
-Valorant
-Fortnite
-Gtav online, likely gta6 will also not work.
-pubg
These are huge among young gamers.
And good for you! I only use windows at work where I have to. And I just yell my friends i wont install shitty kernel anti cheat games. But they will play them without us anyway, so really we lose.
More gluant, juxtaposing and hereditary.
I too can just string adjectives together.
What is gluant? I couldn't find it in the dictionary.
Sticky
Seems logical. Glue, gluant, sticky.
I hadn't expected a dictionary search to come up empty, though.
I'm not native English speaker so maybe I just made it up mixing some other languages 😱🤓
Uh. You really gonna force me to switch to Linux, are you?
You haven't switched yet? What the hell are you waiting for?
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Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
Since I don't feel the need for ambience nor multi-modal experiences in my OS, considering the implementation of that "modality" I'm afraid that even as a long-time Windows user I'm going to have to switch to another OS that closer aligns to my needs.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what everybody were looking for in an OS. /s
I've been very happy to be using Linux for the past decade and a half, but never more so than now.
None of these are things I want in an OS.
Yup, I want "unobtrusive, lightweight, compatible, and secure." Basically, the best case for an OS is that I don't notice it.
Windows XP was the greatest OS of all time.
All we're doing now is wandering away from perfection.
Best Microsoft OS maybe...
Xp was peak. Fight.
XP was just 98 with lipstick
Yeah. But I loved 98 as well for what it was ha
7 > XP
Windows 7 was peak. OpenShell for the win.
Have you heard of Linux Mint?
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bill look what they did to your baby
Microsoft: the biggest promoter for using Linux. "Our goal is to make Windows and it's apps so extremily repulsive even your grandma wants Linux instead. Because we care."
Yup. Off to Linux I go.