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Tabloids being forced upon you: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tab

by darzu 3y ago

Tabloids being forced upon you: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabl... Microsoft account horribleness eg: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-daughters-school-took-over-my-personal-microsoft-account https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-daughters-school-t... Win key being unbindable for app specific shortcuts. Windows update undoing all user preferences https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1504572255665201154?s=46&t=o5CM8PutFnPe1JVwCeKsSw https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1504572255665201154?s=46... Janky crashes: https://twitter.com/litherum/status/1279164544544157696?s=46&t=o5CM8PutFnPe1JVwCeKsSw https://twitter.com/litherum/status/1279164544544157696?s=46... Forced internet accounts: https://twitter.com/rianflo/status/1589346472335937536?s=46&t=o5CM8PutFnPe1JVwCeKsSw https://twitter.com/rianflo/status/1589346472335937536?s=46&... I could go on. A lot of these i found just searching “windows update” amongst people i follow on twitter.

tapoxi 3y ago
And then you go into the Linux world where fractional scaling doesn't work properly yet, your XWayland apps interact differently than your Wayland apps, Chrome doesn't support hardware accelerated video decoding, and using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module and hope for the best. Oh, and you can't play most shooters since anti-cheats won't trust Linux. The grass isn't always greener. I just treat my PC as a dedicated gaming machine. Though these days the PS5 is becoming the more appealing option.
- the_gipsy 3y ago
  Yea but it's not a company shoving hostile features down paying user's throats.
- bavell 3y ago
  Good points but YMMV: - fraction scaling: I don't need it - Wayland: still using X - hardware accel: I think that's true for chromium but IIRC there's a package with it and widevine (google-chrome-stablevon Arch AUR) - nvidia: the AMD drivers are great and well supported (I've even been using ROCm to play with stable diffusion on my 6750XT) - shooters: I mostly play strategy, puzzle, sim and 2D games. Haven't run into multiplayer issues yet but I'm sure there are some in the FPS genre with heavy DRM Not for everyone but when I got my AMD card I stopped using my qemu virt-io VM w/ GPU passthrough and started using native steam with proton - much better experience all around and haven't booted windows ever since
- pizza234 3y ago
  > using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module and hope for the best There's nothing inherently wrong with having an out-of-tree kernel module; a lot of software has, including software that is open source but has an incompatible license. As far as I remember (I'm not on Nvidia anymore, but I've been for many years), the Nvidia module was one or two minor versions behind the latest release kernel, which is very reasonable support - for example, stable distros like Ubuntu LTS, or OpenZFS, are always a bit behind as well. I've actually changed filesystem because of this, but I certainly don't blame the OpenZFS devs.
- Krssst 3y ago
  At least those are not intentional, just lack of development time/resources. Knowing that somewhat brings me peace of mind. (and for the kernel module thing, the distro usually does it for you when the kernel is updated)
- rektide 3y ago
  > fractional scaling doesn't work yet Sway/wlroots and KDE support the fractional scaling extension. Seems to be an experimental setting in Gnome for now. > your XWayland apps interact differently than your Wayland apps How I can't wait for old legacy X stuff to no longer be a question. I feel like it's mostly Zoom & other randos holding me back from never seeing X again. https://arewewaylandyet.com/ https://arewewaylandyet.com/ is looking generally pretty excellent. > Chrome doesn't support hardware accelerated video decoding, and using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module Vendors gonna do what a vendors gonna do. Chromium does have fine support. ChromeOS has been slowly ticking along adding their own support, which hopefully rolls-forward. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ozone-reviews/c/yl33-bN-U_Y https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ozone-reviews/c/y... Nvidia people say things have gotten better but also you bought a card from a company that has forever been adversarial.
- antifa 3y ago
  > The grass isn't always greener I'll take "slightly less green" over "looking to subvert every choice you make".

by darzu 3y ago

tapoxi 3y ago

And then you go into the Linux world where fractional scaling doesn't work properly yet, your XWayland apps interact differently than your Wayland apps, Chrome doesn't support hardware accelerated video decoding, and using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module and hope for the best. Oh, and you can't play most shooters since anti-cheats won't trust Linux. The grass isn't always greener. I just treat my PC as a dedicated gaming machine. Though these days the PS5 is becoming the more appealing option.

the_gipsy 3y ago
Yea but it's not a company shoving hostile features down paying user's throats.
bavell 3y ago
Good points but YMMV: - fraction scaling: I don't need it - Wayland: still using X - hardware accel: I think that's true for chromium but IIRC there's a package with it and widevine (google-chrome-stablevon Arch AUR) - nvidia: the AMD drivers are great and well supported (I've even been using ROCm to play with stable diffusion on my 6750XT) - shooters: I mostly play strategy, puzzle, sim and 2D games. Haven't run into multiplayer issues yet but I'm sure there are some in the FPS genre with heavy DRM Not for everyone but when I got my AMD card I stopped using my qemu virt-io VM w/ GPU passthrough and started using native steam with proton - much better experience all around and haven't booted windows ever since
pizza234 3y ago
> using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module and hope for the best There's nothing inherently wrong with having an out-of-tree kernel module; a lot of software has, including software that is open source but has an incompatible license. As far as I remember (I'm not on Nvidia anymore, but I've been for many years), the Nvidia module was one or two minor versions behind the latest release kernel, which is very reasonable support - for example, stable distros like Ubuntu LTS, or OpenZFS, are always a bit behind as well. I've actually changed filesystem because of this, but I certainly don't blame the OpenZFS devs.
Krssst 3y ago
At least those are not intentional, just lack of development time/resources. Knowing that somewhat brings me peace of mind. (and for the kernel module thing, the distro usually does it for you when the kernel is updated)
rektide 3y ago
> fractional scaling doesn't work yet Sway/wlroots and KDE support the fractional scaling extension. Seems to be an experimental setting in Gnome for now. > your XWayland apps interact differently than your Wayland apps How I can't wait for old legacy X stuff to no longer be a question. I feel like it's mostly Zoom & other randos holding me back from never seeing X again. https://arewewaylandyet.com/ https://arewewaylandyet.com/ is looking generally pretty excellent. > Chrome doesn't support hardware accelerated video decoding, and using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module Vendors gonna do what a vendors gonna do. Chromium does have fine support. ChromeOS has been slowly ticking along adding their own support, which hopefully rolls-forward. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ozone-reviews/c/yl33-bN-U_Y https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ozone-reviews/c/y... Nvidia people say things have gotten better but also you bought a card from a company that has forever been adversarial.
antifa 3y ago
> The grass isn't always greener I'll take "slightly less green" over "looking to subvert every choice you make".