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Gosh, 7.2 literally just dropped with a bunch of awesome of performance/gaming related improvements (large folios, cache-aware scheduling, improved MGLRU reclai
by d3Xt3r 2mo ago
Gosh, 7.2 literally just dropped with a bunch of awesome of performance/gaming related improvements (large folios, cache-aware scheduling, improved MGLRU reclaiming, Fair GPU Scheduler etc)... and I already can't wait for 7.3 to come out.
Meanwhile in the Windows world, users hate updates... Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday!".
- toredash 2mo agoDidn't we eagerly await on updates in the good old days of Windows?
- a012 2mo agoThe only Windows update that made me “eagerly await” is the Windows XP SP2.
- toredash 2mo agoAnd what an update it was. I still remember how Windows ME looked at first, the feeling of something better. That didn't last long
- alt227 2mo agoBeing able to preview media files directly in the preview pane of explorer was mind blowing to me. This feature alone made me love ME, let alone the interface customisation it allowed.
- patrickmcnamara 2mo agoWindows 7 was pretty neat.
- frollogaston 2mo agoMy Mac ran XP SP2 in Boot Camp for an insanely long time. Best version of Windows that will ever exist.
- d3Xt3r 2mo agoFair point, the old school service packs and hotfix rollups were cool. But I think that sort of enthusiasm towards updates ended with XP, at least it did for me, because I switched to Linux permanently after Windows 7 came out.
- noir_lord 2mo agoXP was indeed when I stopped caring about Windows updates, SP2 was a huge deal - after that they where either "eh" or actively things I didn't want. To be honest I think the reason I stopped care was more that I started using Linux as an OS in the 90's and over time more and more of my computing life was on Linux (except gaming) so by 2004 (or a little earlier) Windows was just for games.
- PunchyHamster 2mo ago....No. And those were not good days, unless your definition is fun is reinstalling OS
- alt227 2mo agoBack when updates were add on packs like Plus! they were very exciting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Plus!
- anonymars 2mo agoThe days when updates used to add things instead of taking them away!
- frollogaston 2mo agoHm, Microsoft Plus! actually looks cool. Way better than Google Plus.
- christophilus 2mo agoI never did. I did wait eagerly for new .NET releases, though.
- aruggirello 2mo agoWe did, and there was some cool stuff coming out of MS now and then. I remember when the first Power Toys came out - there's nothing really magic in current ones though.
- timpera 2mo agoI might be in the minority here, but some of the latest Windows updates that dropped in the Insider channel are really cool, and I'm excited to see those coming to main.
- dainank 2mo agoDo you have a link for a list of these changes. I am curious.
- timpera 2mo agoSure. The Insider blog tends to be pretty up-to-date: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/ https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/ They seem to be focused on performance improvements because of the MacBook Neo pressure and RAM crisis, but right now, I'm mostly excited for the right-click menu and taskbar improvements. You can already do this with third-party software, but it's not the best experience unfortunately.
- chongli 2mo agoAre they finally going to fix the issue of having introduced a second right click menu that forces me to click “show more options” literally every single time I want to do anything?
- noir_lord 2mo agoRun (as Administrator) in a terminal reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Should restore the old right click menu (it did last time I used it at any rate). So much of windows 11 configuration is removing things you never asked for and putting things back. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/article-restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in-wi https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/...
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- zekrioca 2mo ago[1] Linux 7.2 Reverts DRM Scheduler Change After Serious GPU Regressions: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-72-reverts-drm-scheduler-change-after-serious-gpu-regressions https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-72-reverts-drm-sc...
- alt227 2mo agoI personally am very excited for the upcoming Windows 11 update which will allow users to move the taskbar to any edge of their screen.
- HugoTea 2mo agoAh it'll be just like 2015 again
- vladvasiliu 2mo agoI don't use windows too often, but I remember I was happy with an update a year or two ago which allows changing the volume by scrolling on the tray icon. Now, of course, it still doesn't work with a touchpad, but baby steps, right?
- plingbang 2mo agoThis feature has been was available on GNOME since forever. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to steal another nice thing: MRU (Most Recently Used) keyboard layout switching. If you have two often used keyboard layouts A and B, and less used layouts C, D, E, then pressing the switch shortcut once will switch between A and B without the need to cycle through C, D, E.
- vladvasiliu 2mo agoI never really cared for Gnome so I've never actually used it, but I can't say I'm surprised. But this has worked in KDE since version 3, like, 20 years ago? And also with pasystray running under i3, since before win11 was a thing. They both support scrolling with the touchpad, too. It drove me up a wall not being able to do this when I had to use Windows at work. As for your MRU layout thing, I'm not sure I'd like it. While I like MRU for alt-tab, i like my not-so-often-used functions to be predictable. For this specific case, I always use us-macintosh, so I'd like to be sure that if I press the shortcut X times I'll get Y layout, without having to remember the order in which I used them. Now, to be fair, in my case I only have US-Mac available since it does everything I need.
- Abishek_Muthian 2mo agoAny improvements with fractional scaling? Can anyone please link to any material reg the work being done for improving fractional scaling in Linux; it would be great if it could match the rendering quality of macOS.
- d3Xt3r 2mo agoWhat's your setup like? I'm on AMD+Wayland+KDE, no complaints with fractional scaling on my ASUS ProArt PX13 (255 PPI screen).
- vladvasiliu 2mo agoIME it works fine on Intel iGPUs, too. I even use multiple ratios with no issue (constant 125% on the laptop, 100% on an external screen and 200% on a different screen at work). Contrary to Windows, this also works well when hotplugging screens. Menus don't end up a blurry mess, and apps seem to work fine. On Windows, even some 1st-party apps are borked (task manager comes to mind).
- Abishek_Muthian 2mo agoIn my laptop 200% fractional scaling of the built-in QHD+ OLED display on KDE Plasma is great, but when I connect my portable 1080p displays or e-paper monitor (UXGA) the fractional scaling of it is not as good as when compared to when the same monitors are used with macOS (M4) in HiDPI mode under lower resolutions. As the other comment says, I suspect it to do with GPU as the built-in displays are usually driven by intel and external displays are always driven by my Nvidia 4090. But surprisingly, when I drive my e-paper monitor using original Jetson Nano (Ubuntu 20.04 ESM / Nvidia Maxwell); the fractional scaling is quite good perhaps even better than macOS.
- lvales 2mo ago200% isn't fractional scaling, as far as I understand it. Are you using Xorg by any chance? This would explain the issue.
- Prunkton 2mo agoPhoronix.com is my go to place for good news. It always gives me a sense of progress and makes me feel humble since so many smart people share their work
- amlib 2mo agojust... never delve into their forums.
- TiredOfLife 2mo agoI use arch based linux. This year updates have broken video decoding twice. Font rendering once (still not fixed without manually deleting files.). And broken the whole system due to there not being a mechanism that makes sure all QT libraries upate at the same time once or twice. That is all one system. Meanwhile 4 separate windows pcs have not had problems with updates for at least 6 years
- d3Xt3r 2mo agoIt's not fair comparing Arch and Windows as they are two very different types of OSes. Arch is bleeding edge and it is completely normal and expected to be prone to breakages. It's not meant for the average PC user, it's meant for experienced users who're comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues, reporting bugs, and know and are happy to downgrade packages/rollback to previous snapshots etc. On the upside, Arch also gets fixes before anyone else. If you want a stable Linux experience though, pick something like Fedora, or even better, pick an immutable distro like Aurora or Bazzite, if you really, really care about stability.
- frollogaston 2mo agoDo you mean Arch is getting more bleeding edge kernel versions? I don't see what else that's Arch-specific would cause those issues.
- d3Xt3r 2mo agoIt's not just the kernel, it's also mesa, KDE, pretty much everything really.
- 0x457 2mo agoArch is rolling release distro. That story would be different even if it was rolling release linux vs fixed release linux. That said, even some fixed release linux distros break things almost every release. That's because Windows updates is just windows base + kernel + drivers, while most linux updates are everything all at once with no distinction between base system and user applications. Plus windows and macOS present certain things more or less as a blackbox to user - I never had broken DE and keyboard layout switcher during windows update, while every ubuntu update used to break everything for me.
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- mrec 2mo agoThe best thing about Win10 reaching EOL is not being at the mercy of Windows Update any more. It was by far the biggest risk to having a functioning system.
- embedding-shape 2mo agoWindows is such a horrible OS to use when you work in a small company that isn't big enough to have IT to shield you from all the horrible stuff, like in a small studio. Normally I work in Linux, sometimes need to boot Windows just to do some export or something, then goal is to boot into Linux again ASAP. But time and time again fucking Windows forces me to prepping updates when shutting down for next boot, with literally no way around it, even weird terminal incantations can't stop this, nor changes in the registry, it just refuses to shut down without prepping to apply updates on the next boot. Which means next time I have something to do on Windows that in reality takes ~30 seconds once I'm in, it'll instead take 15 minutes because Windows decides that my time is worth nothing to them. Add in that I use Windows maybe once a month or something, and every single experience with using Windows for me is this fucked up process of time wasting.
- aruggirello 2mo agoThis sounds like the perfect use case for a simple, straightforward VM. Dual booting is dangerous, time consuming, and makes it inconvenient to share clipboard, stuff... why don't you use a Windows VM instead? You can freeze a VM (saving state) rather than restarting it. Windows won't bat an eye since it's not being shut down or suspended. No longer unexpected 15 minutes pauses - restart it when you have time to spare, and keep working in your host Linux OS while the Windows VM does its shenanigans.
- embedding-shape 2mo agoSometimes it's for Ableton, sometimes for Unreal Engine stuff, or other stuff that technically you could run in a VM (or even Proton) but it works iffy enough that dual booting ends up simpler, except for these annoying updates.
- flaunf221 2mo ago> Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday!" Majority of Windows users are not programming enthusiasts and just don't care. OS works. Programs continue to work. Good. Keep it that way.
- izacus 2mo agoI mean, Windows has managed to fix a lot of gaming/GPU stuff like this lately as well. They properly support HDR, VRR and even VRR with bornderless mode on older games - all of which has been very buggy and broken on Linux for a long time. Not to mention actually working eGPU support - trying to use DaVinci on Linux with eGPU still ends up with "Not enough GPU" errors and constant crashes. This goes especially when used with more powerful GPUs from nVidia - so perhaps arrogance here isn't warranted?