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For me, if they put Windows 10/11 on Debian that’d be an endgame desktop. MacOS was nice for awhile but they’re trying to do too much.

by lvl155 1y ago

atoav 1y ago
As a long year user of Windows (Windows 95 till Windows 11), MacOS and KDE Plasma, I have to say that KDE Plasma by this point is the best of the bunch. What sucks in Windows is that you have multiple layers of old configuration editors none of which allow you to configure everything, want to change Network settings? There are literally 10 different places to do that and some haven't changed since Windows 98. MacOS has this things where stuff you should be able to configure isn't or at least you can't rely on it being configurable next time. Just running a binary can be a challenge of remembering which obscure key you need to hold down so your OS treats you like a big boy. Every software update removes icons from my dock and I have to pray my audio interface still works (or roll back, which is a pain in the..) The thing Windows and MacOS got going for them is that there is a lot more softeare for them, but since the enshittification-wave you can't really trust that something that works today, will work in a year. KDE Plasma on the other hand just gets better, everything is configurable, the network settings alone put any other OS to shame easily. All the rest just seems to work, the desktop environment never once got into my way and when it did I could change it into not doing that ever again.
pjmlp 1y ago
Windows kernel has lots of nice features that people wishing for this usually don't get, including virtualization based security for key kernel modules, and drivers. If Microsoft would care they have all the penguin tools, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/product-overview/what-is-azure-sphere https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/product-overv...

For me, if they put Windows 10/11 on Debian that’d be an endgame desktop. MacOS was nice for awhile but they’re trying to do too much.

by lvl155 1y ago

For me, if they put Windows 10/11 on Debian that’d be an endgame desktop. MacOS was nice for awhile but they’re trying to do too much.

atoav 1y ago

As a long year user of Windows (Windows 95 till Windows 11), MacOS and KDE Plasma, I have to say that KDE Plasma by this point is the best of the bunch. What sucks in Windows is that you have multiple layers of old configuration editors none of which allow you to configure everything, want to change Network settings? There are literally 10 different places to do that and some haven't changed since Windows 98. MacOS has this things where stuff you should be able to configure isn't or at least you can't rely on it being configurable next time. Just running a binary can be a challenge of remembering which obscure key you need to hold down so your OS treats you like a big boy. Every software update removes icons from my dock and I have to pray my audio interface still works (or roll back, which is a pain in the..) The thing Windows and MacOS got going for them is that there is a lot more softeare for them, but since the enshittification-wave you can't really trust that something that works today, will work in a year. KDE Plasma on the other hand just gets better, everything is configurable, the network settings alone put any other OS to shame easily. All the rest just seems to work, the desktop environment never once got into my way and when it did I could change it into not doing that ever again.

pjmlp 1y ago

Windows kernel has lots of nice features that people wishing for this usually don't get, including virtualization based security for key kernel modules, and drivers. If Microsoft would care they have all the penguin tools, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/product-overview/what-is-azure-sphere https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere/product-overv...