• floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    212·
    23 days ago

    I haven’t used windows in so long, the only thing I know about it is the incredibly high volume of complaints regarding it.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      47·
      23 days ago

      Yes, the most popular OS on the planets used by the most people on a daily basis, also has a high number of memes about it. Shocking. What information you’ve gleaned.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.world
        3·
        23 days ago

        For what it’s worth, just because something is popular does not mean it’s perfect, or even better.

        I think a lot of the complaints about Windows 11 are overblown, but a lot aren’t. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          23 days ago

          Oh I don’t think it remotely is. I just find it irritating that someone sees lots of complaints about the most popular thing and takes that as an indication that it’s bad, and ignores the indication that it’s not (it being the most popular thing).

          Lots of complaints about something popular literally means nothing on its own. The content of those complaints have validity, but there’s nothing to learn from their metadata.

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
        2·
        23 days ago

        the most popular OS

        It’s barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          23 days ago

          Fair point, I would argue that it’s not e entirely fair to compare a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility, for a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications, but it’s not entirely unfair either, they’re still both OSes and lots of the complaints have nothing to do with the burden of legacy support.

          • balsoft@lemmy.ml
            1·
            23 days ago

            a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility

            I have an app built for Android 4 running on my Android 15 device. It looks ugly but it works. Of course other apps will not be so lucky, but some backwards compat is absolutely there.

            a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications

            Not really, Microsoft is steadily breaking old stuff. For example lot of 10-15 year old software that was doing something hardware-related would be broken now due to driver signing changes/restrictions (e.g. WinRing0 things).

          • mcv@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            23 days ago

            Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.

            • black0ut@pawb.social
              1·
              23 days ago

              This is true, especially for games. But for some reason, even though some compatibility features have been removed from windows, others still remain. Hell, if you look into System32, you can still find the dialer app from windows 95 (still with its original icon, btw!), or Windows Vista’s “bubbles” screensaver, and they still run.

              Edit: this is not a windows praise, it’s a critique. Those parts are dead weight, and windows isn’t even that good at offering compatibility for old software

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    12·
    23 days ago

    I’m thinking that maybe I should upgrade my old Win 10 Pro laptop to Windows 11 Pro, “just in case”, instead of going full Linux everywhere.

    And then I read shite like this.

    You’re not making it easy for me Microsoft.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    8·
    23 days ago

    Windows is basically malware now. My wife is forced to use W11 for work and she fucking hates it with a passion (and that’s the pared down IT version).

    I pulled out my old gaming laptop that had been unplugged for quite a while and found it somehow updated itself to W11. I immediately wiped the computer and installed Nobara as the main OS. No regrets, no issues, and no half-assed bullshit.

    Windows on the ASUS ROG Ally is absolute dog shit. It would constantly reboot to install unwanted updates that offered zero value on a handheld (let alone anything).

    Nothing I own will ever run Windows.

    Windows isn’t popular. It’s forced onto tons of prebuilt computers and most people wouldn’t know what to use instead. Fuck Windows. Rant over.

    • feinstruktur@lemmy.ml
      1·
      23 days ago

      If someone can please make Autodesk stuff install and run under Wine, not saying Autodesk to deploy their stuff natively for Linux, I’d be gone with the blink of an eye. And I bet a lot of professionals too.

        • wischi@programming.dev
          0·
          23 days ago

          Probably won’t happen under capitalism. It’s way too expensive (time consuming) to write good software/make good products.

            • wischi@programming.dev
              01·
              22 days ago

              (sorry for the long answer)

              Besides the vendor-lock-in and “enshitification” things (which are also a direct consequence of capitalism) just compare the Microsoft Office Suite against LibreOffice. It’s not even close.

              Don’t get me wrong it works good enough for typical use-cases but the difference in depth, quality and polish is huge. Same with Photoshop vs Gimp, After Effects and other Adobe stuff.

              Tons of software doesn’t even have proper Open Source equivalents because they are so nieche (compared to office software or VLC for example).

              Unity (vs Godot), IDA Pro (vs Ghidra), EnCase, SolidWorks, etc.

              Check out how Mozilla Firefox makes its money. They are over 80% funded by Google and make all kinds of shitty decision. Not because they are bad people but somebody has to pay development because good software doesn’t just happen because a hand full of junior devs have some free time.

              Look at the shitty Ubuntu decisions, also done because somebody needs to pay for development.

              Look at audacity, redis, FluentAssertions, OpenOffice, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MySql, IdentityServer4 and many more OpenSource projects that went commercial or changed their license because it was unsustainable.

              You can of course always fork, but the forked project than has the same issues. Development works as long there are skilled people motivated to practically donate their free time in exchange for nothing. That already greatly limits the people that even can work on open source and if their situation changes history repeats.

              It’s not even OpenSource only. Look at YouTube creators especially science educators. A lot of them with great content and talent explaining various topics. But also trying to sell you stuff like squarespace, Brilliant and NordVPN because it would be unsustainable otherwise.

              So yes great (by that I mean big polished good quality “unenshitified”) FOSS won’t happen under capitalism because writing software is time-consuming.

              Why do you think people pirate commercial software like AutoCAD, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, MS Office, SketchUp, SolidWorks, etc.? Because they are polished in a way no open source project could be, because hundreds of engineers worked for decades on those.

              All that said, FOSS is great. I use and rely on a tons of OpenSource software, self-host a lot of services, regularly contribute to quite a few projects and also am the maintainer of some libraries other people use (even commercially) and I still stand by what I wrote before:

              Open Source can’t be as polished and high quality as big commercial software because it doesn’t have the funds to do that. Five motivated people are not enough to write an After Effects competitor.

              • seestheday@lemmy.caEnglish
                01·
                22 days ago

                Adding to this, but I’m also not aware of many great Product Managers, UX designers or UX writers contributing to FOSS. Many devs have worked with shitty PM’s and like to dismiss their value, but a great one can make a massive difference in the quality of a product.

                Same with the extensive UX design and UX testing that goes into making great products.

  • Shape4985@lemmy.ml
    7·
    23 days ago

    This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.

    Microsoft why can we not turn this off!

    • Backfire@lemmy.world
      2·
      23 days ago

      It’s simple, really.

      If the first results are a web search, you wouldn’t notice how terrible the local search indexing is.

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
        2·
        22 days ago

        I legitimately cannot believe how comically powerful medium level hardware has become yet the windows user experience is so much shittier than it was almost 20 years ago. I remember school machines struggling less to power up on 1gb ram and a one core machine that my gaming rig does sometimes. Windows is such a fucking waste of computing power.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      0·
      23 days ago

      You can. I’ve had it off for years. It just needs a registry update, and persists across updates.

  • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    22 days ago

    I banished Windows from my life a long time ago. My quality of life improved shortly thereafter. I had reached rock bottom after spending a day trying to unbugger my mother in law’s computer. It felt like waking up after a long bender in a pile of my own sick. She caused the pain herself because Windows invited it without guardrails - yet somehow I was holding the bag. I’m Windows-clean now and no longer offer to try (or agree) to help. I know the personal risks. I support you if you’re still enraptured by the Windows range and despair. I get it. Getting clean isn’t easy. Gather the strength.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      2·
      21 days ago

      My flatmate is now a Linux user. But it took her so long to make the switch. What finally did it was when she sat down at a default windows 11 PC that I was fixing and we just opened the start menu saw a ton of ads and software applications that weren’t installed and you had to pay for. I showed her that almost every single application has ads for products built in (co pilot buttons, one drive etc) and I said this is what you’re going to pay money to upgrade to.

      She installed mint and loves it. (I hate it because mint has so many small issues that are fixed in newer versions and it uses x11)

  • Jourei@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    22 days ago

    Is right click menu one too? After boot, it always takes like 5 seconds for it to show up, recurring times it takes <1 second (not instant). I run last gen ryzen somethingsomethingXD and 4070 so my PC can definitely run a context menu.

  • Read Bio@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    23 days ago

    No wonder why Windows is sluggish
    I thought they were using winui or win32 ngl