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I'm convinced that this is all a result of Microsoft being a rudderless ship. That and their unkillable telemetry telling them shit like "n% of people spend x%
by _Understated_ 5y ago
I'm convinced that this is all a result of Microsoft being a rudderless ship. That and their unkillable telemetry telling them shit like "n% of people spend x% more time in Settings than Control Panel" so that means that Settings must be better. Right? Cool, let's take 5 years to slowly destroy the control panel.
Many things I've read over the last few years about Microsoft is that it's utterly disfunctional. It's become so big that it's impossible to achieve any kind of coherence. As another comment pointed out: they've had 10 years to make the UI all look the same and still haven't achieved it! A single dev could have redesigned the whole thing in a couple of years at most so it can't be a technical issue: it points to them either having incompetent management or just being too damn big to actually manage!
Now I've worked mainly for large corporates over the years and they're never a single entity: they're always made up of multiple internal entities whether officially or unofficially. And they all have their own goals so steering a company as a whole is not an easy task but Microsoft are a fucking mess and thanks to all this forced shit, Windows 10 will be the final version of Windows for me.
So what does that mean? It means that Linux has 4 years to get its act together before I switch to it permanently, come hell or high water. Coz right now, Linux is not a replacement for Windows for a great many people. Myself included. Even though I've tried multiple times with Fedora, Pop_OS and Ubuntu, shit always goes wrong. Always: dodgy sound issues, Nvidia drivers issues, scaling issues etc... stuff I don't get with Windows! Ever.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoWith open source software you have to select the right hardware. If you want things to keep working I would recommend NixOS (if you're comfortable writing code and learning a new language). If things break you'll roll back your entire system (except /home essentially). I was on manjaro, but my move to NixOS made me stay Linux (still have 2 gpus to GPU passthough to a Windows VM though)
- tdsamardzhiev 5y agoTrying (and failing miserably) to kill Control Panel blows my mind every time. There's not a single thing that Settings improves upon. Even its "touch-friendliness" is a direct result of omitting important features.
- fractalf 5y agoWin7 was my last version. Then I switched to Linux Mint permanently and never looked back. I'm a developer using open source web tech, and this made my life a million times easier. Sure, there's some things that require some/lots of tweaking/research and yea I still miss a few "apps" (Total Commander), BUT you gain so much more. When I rarely dual boot onto Win7 now I really cannot understand how I survived using it earlier. Windows gets worse every time. Linux just gets better and better. No brainer if you ask me.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoI get NVIDIA and audio issues on Windows from time to time. It depends on your audio interface's drivers. Likewise, NVIDIA issues depend on what card you're using. Linux is 'there' for audio for me. Working on post for a feature-length documentary that is receiving theatrical distribution, entirely in Linux. More stable than Windows has been in years in my experiences.