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I mentioned this in the Scott Hanselmen trying to re-allow local-accounts for Windows thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498494 https://news.ycombin
by jauntywundrkind 7mo ago
I mentioned this in the Scott Hanselmen trying to re-allow local-accounts for Windows thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498494
It just seems so beyond-belief that Microsoft keeps having such depraved anti-consumer behavior. Maybe perhaps this was just a not-ready-yet feature folks had enabled being moved around or shuffled. But it seems just as likely Microsoft intends to keep consumers using a decade and a half years old shitty NVMe-downcast-to-SCSI layer indefinitely, to upsell folks to fancier Windows versions or gaming systems. Microsoft intends to keep Windows consumer disk access slow and bad.
As a seasoned Linux veteran & believer, it's somewhat against my interest to share this view, to try to arouse the slumbering behemoth to action. Microsoft not getting the message and doing great misservice to their users is somewhat in my interest. The status quo of Linux being far better at everything is great: gaming is already much faster on Linux, & that should be no surprise, and disk io too. Just holding my tongue and letting Microsoft make a fool for themselves with absymal performance would be ideal. But I also believe in competition, and Linux is going to start slacking off if Microsoft can't be arsed to update a disk io subsystem that was a filthy pitiful hack when they slammed it into service a dozen years ago. We all need some pressure sometimes to get off our hinds, wake the frak up, and pay some attention.
And perhaps, maybe: even Windows users don't deserve this malpractice.
- anakaine 7mo agoHonestly, who cares if it wasn't ready. It was shipped, available, and required active screwing around by hobbyists to make active. If something goes wrong, thats not on Microsoft - its not an advertised feature. Should have let the hobbyist crowd keep going and kept tabs on performance and crashes. Its inane that they still rely on scsi downcast, however.
- karlgkk 7mo ago> Should have let the hobbyist crowd keep going and kept tabs on performance and crashes. Or they believe that it has serious issues in a consumer SKU or consumer application.
- pjmlp 7mo agoThere is no Linux gaming without Proton, being feed from Windows games, developed on Windows, by Windows developers that will put up with this issues, because they still see no value on targeting Linux natively, and couldn't care less. Linux might finally take off on the desktop if the normies that get Windows laptops and gaming rigs at Media Market and similar chains, finally get to them with Linux pre-installed. Otherwise there will be a few HN folks getting them from System 76 and Tuxedo, Dell online store, and that is about it.
- coffeeling 7mo agoThe fucked up thing is Windows is the most stable Linux environment to build against. Linux overall relies far too much on the idea that the software is either actively maintained, or open source and can be recompiled for new systems.
- pjmlp 7mo agoI see an advantage of finally having the Year of Desktop Linux, given the current geopolitics. However until we start seeing those systems being sold on regular stores, with normies distros, it will always be as has been all over these years. The "everyone is going to migrate to Linux" meme keeps coming up since Windows XP Toy's R us UI, however here we are, Steam Hardware survey 2.20% after two decades, since XP.
- raxxorraxor 7mo agoProton serves as a target for now. You cannot have a target that is Linux like you have with Windows, you would have to target different distributions where users are additionally fragmented. Sadly, people getting notebooks in the first place become much rarer. I have seen gen alpha developers that want to start with tablet and smartphone. They don't even know that they are prisoners, just like us and our economic system.