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They should focus more on this kind of features, instead of paddling Copilot and AI every 5 minutes, or doing crazy stuff like removing the right Ctrl key to re
by Rinzler89 2y ago
They should focus more on this kind of features, instead of paddling Copilot and AI every 5 minutes, or doing crazy stuff like removing the right Ctrl key to replace it with the new Copilot key. The only advantage of the latter is that is pushes more people to Linux faster.
If they just focus instead on developers ("developers! developers! developers!") and gamers, instead of AI gimmicks, things would be more peachy for them instead of being the most hated big tech company.
- bongodongobob 2y agoWaaaaaay more people use Copilot than WSL. Like probably 100000x more. Most businesses run everything on Windows and Microsoft. That's their business. They don't give a shit about Windows Home edition or nerds crying and switching to Linux. You're not their market.
- mhh__ 2y agoUnfortunately there are lots of devs stuck on windows, wsl is very popular.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoStuck on corporate Windows, but WSL is verboten.
- illusive4080 2y agoLots of people prefer Windows + WSL over Mac. I can’t fathom why anyone would choose Windows over Mac or Linux.
- Dalewyn 2y agoFor what it's worth, I'm seeing more and more common people using Macs to run their business/office and daily life needs when last decade and prior they would have been using Windows.
- highwaylights 2y agoI’m mostly on Mac but I do prefer WSL to the Mac terminal experience. Most things end up happening in Docker regardless, but things are just smoother in WSL. Not to mention that Windows has proper Window management and multiple display support.
- illusive4080 2y agoI use Rectangle for window management and have 3 monitors. I’m really not sure what you mean by the multiple display support. The window management is easy to rectify with Rectangle or Spectacle.
- highwaylights 2y agoWindows (and to a lesser extent Gnome) have much better Window handling. Shortcut keys for tiling, snap to grid, snap to fill, window-walking (I don’t actually know what this feature is called but it’s when you cycle through window snaps and the window will “walk” across each position of each display in order). Meanwhile macOS has none of these things and struggles to remember my display arrangement between restarts. Sure I can download Rectangle/Spectacle/Amethyst and solve some of these problems (while giving screen observing permission to a third party) but it’s far from ideal and not at all what I used to have on Windows.
- drop_the_mike 2y agoNot OP but Mac doesn't support daisy chaining via display port alt mode over usb-c. It's a little ridiculous cause a hackintosh does so we know that they can support it. I assume they don't because it drives sales of their absurdly priced monitors.
- nozzlegear 2y agoI’m with the other poster, I don’t understand what you mean by multiple display support. I use my Mac Studio with a two monitor setup and it works beautifully. Even better, when I set my MacBook next to it, some kind of Apple magic happens in the background and I can move my mouse over to it like it’s a third display, letting me drag files between the two machines, control windows, use my keyboard, copy/paste, etc.
- jacooper 2y agoHonestly macos is in my opinion, a worse system in every regard, the only good thing is apple doesn't annoy you with ads, but if you can ignore that or just work around it somehow, I think windows is a better, more flexible OS. The only advantage macos has for me is the battery life, and that's gone when the X elite drops, hopefully with great Linux support too (though I'm worried about X86-64 emulation on Linux) That's all without mentioning the absurd pricing of Mac devices (in usable configurations, no, 8gb isn't enough).
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoI want to use my own hardware - Hackintosh requires too much effort to boot, let alone work reliably.
- TillE 2y agoFor Windows: Visual Studio, familiarity Against macOS: Not wanting to fight the OS when I want to do something like attach a debugger to a program I didn't build Against Linux: Having an NVIDIA card in my desktop
- ghshephard 2y agoAt work I spent 13 years on the Mac. Then 5 solid years on nothing but Linux. And the last two years on WSL+Windows. My home system is an M1 Macbook Air. I'm an SRE so I mostly write lots of code and bash scripts and run 50+ tmux panes/day in parallel. I run 3 monitors - 35", Laptop, 27" to my left. All three monitors are in constant use. All three have something to offer - the "Why" of Windows+WSL. - WSL offers a pretty pure modern Linux experience - which takes an awful lot of brew effort to replicate on a Mac. - The windows GUI is far superior to anything Linux has to offer - PowerToys/Fancy Zones offers snapping and window control I could never replicate on Linux - despite multiple years of trying to. - I spend 80% of my time in tmux/terminal. - Bare Bones Windows Terminal is absolutely rock solid and high performance. - Linux native is more stable than Windows+WSL - I would go months without rebooting my Linux system. My windows system rarely makes it more than a couple weeks. - I use my laptop as a workstation (Precision 5560 - it only get ~80 minutes battery, even with all the discrete NVIDIA stuff turned off) - so the (significant) superiority of Mac Laptop Portability doesn't do anything for me. If Microsoft can dial in the stability of WSL -speaking as one who has spent at least 1/2 decade on all three platforms at work - My preference for work is Windows + WSL for GUI + Linux experience reasons. If I didn't think Microsoft was going to fix WSL, I'd probably switch to Arch. For personal use - I have a NUC11 with a Decent RTX2060 video card for Steam Gaming, and would never consider anything for a personal laptop than a macbook in one form or another.
- hulitu 2y ago> - The windows GUI is far superior to anything Linux has to offer - PowerToys/Fancy Zones offers snapping and window control I could never replicate on Linux - despite multiple years of trying to. Fvwm ? I won't comment about Windows.
- nikau 2y agoAt this stage it's because office on Mac sucks. With the push to the new fisher price version of unified office that benefit will go away.
- illusive4080 2y agoMicrosoft products, while better than they were 10 years ago, are still terrible on Mac. Completely agree with you.
- pjmlp 2y agoPlenty of us also know UNIX, and rather not use it more than what is needed to the extent of job requirements. We rather enjoy our IDEs and graphical workflows as much as possible.
- bongodongobob 2y agoRight, but there are a lot more non devs that use windows, probably 100000:1 ratio.
- wvenable 2y agoWeird comment to make on a thread about exactly this kind of feature. They're a big organization with many people working on many different things. Some will maybe great while others will potentially suck.
- RicoElectrico 2y agoOnly if there's no person at the helm with some sort of... um... vision, they call it?
- Rinzler89 2y agoIf only Satya Nadella would dogfood the OOTB experience of Windows 11 and not whatever his IT departments set up for him, he'd probably throw his laptop out the window and fire half the Windows managers.
- wrs 2y ago~20 years ago BillG would occasionally send an unhappy internal email to execs/architects with a list of annoying or nonsensical things he ran into using Windows, Office, or whatever. I can't say that it had much effect! Other than all installers being terrible, the only one I can sort of remember is a rant about "My Documents" and how the word "My" made no sense.
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- Dalewyn 2y ago>being the most hated big tech company. I thought that was either Google, Facebook, or Amazon depending on which way the winds are blowing on a given day.
- quickslowdown 2y agoI hate all of them equally, for what it's worth. Maybe Facebook a hair more, but it's too close to call.
- userbinator 2y agoIt's easy to avoid Facebook and Amazon. Microsoft and especially Google, not so much.
- happypumpkin 2y ago> especially Google Yup... Firefox, Kagi, & Protonmail get me away from the worst of it but YouTube doesn't really have a good competitor and other people using things like Google Forms (whatever the surveys are called) sometimes ends up forcing me to log into a Google account or have certain features locked out.
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- gonzo41 2y agoremoving right Ctrl key to replace it with the new Copilot key - What the hell are t hey thinking! OMG.