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WSL is really great, and I loved the fact Microsoft moved towards being more developer friendly and bringing all great tools and utilities to the Modern Windows
by princevegeta89 2y ago
WSL is really great, and I loved the fact Microsoft moved towards being more developer friendly and bringing all great tools and utilities to the Modern Windows (10 and above).
But..... the predatory nature of Windows and the half-ass revisions done to the UI elements, with decades-old applications with the legacy UI that can still be accessed directly, makes Windows a mess. To add to this, The hold that Microsoft has on Windows is so nasty that it keeps overriding settings like default browsers and applications, to favor Microsoft-built apps like Edge, along with the heavy telemetry just leads this platform to be a mess.
It is not a clean system at all, and even sometimes pales in comparison to Linux Desktop, let alone OSX.
- ljm 2y agoReally does feel sometimes that Microsoft's tech is held hostage by growth KPIs. Nothing they build is left untouched by the invisible hand of ad-driven enshittification. Shows how skewed the market is when you can actively fuck up your products and still stay ahead of the competition. Nobody without hundreds of billions behind them would stand a chance if they tried the same.
- skydhash 2y agoMy entourage is not representative of anything, but from what I see, most people have gone to iOS and Android as they're more than enough for their computing needs (light browsing, entertainment, and communication). They only use a laptop for professional purposes and it's mostly for redacting documents or specialized software. The OS is a background thing that just pops its head to annoys you with updates and other notifications.