All they had to do was release "Windows Optimal", an operating system with 0 telemetry, 0 bloatware, 100% choice to not even let AI and Edge get installed in the 1st place, a single screen with all the 10000 options to control privacy and all of them set to good defaults. Charge 4x the price of Windows Professional if you must. But "Windows Optimal" is 2x faster than Windows 7, "here are some benchmarks" Imagine the amount of people who would seriously consider hopping to it even for a higher price
They're just not as interested/invested in Windows any more. They make obscene amounts money from their cloud services, even if they charge 4x for a special edition Windows, it won't bring them any meaningful increase in income.
And now their focus is all on AI. A MS employee I spoke to recently said that all there meetings now revolve around AI, like how they can add more AI and sell more AI, that's all they call about these days. :/
Baldur's Gate linux native build performed poorly on Gamers Nexus tests.
Where's a proper comparison between the fastest linux OS "CachyOS" and Windows 11 LTSC with all the crap removed, particularly the biggest offenders: Defender, Update, Edge, "fullscreen optimizations" and all the weird little services from print spooler to NPSV_xxx "now playing service" ?
This would actually maybe get me back from linux. but only if they make fixing stuff easier, most of the online threads recommend these things in this order:
1. Search for updates
2. Reboot
3. Dism/Sfc Scannow
4. Reinstall windows
The Windows Mixed reality portal needed for my VR headset didnt work and the only solution after multiple weeks of trying stuff was to reinstall. and that worked. for 3 months until i had to reinstall again.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine with the entirety of the microsoft store (the install is only a month old tho, so i cant tell yet if it will happen again in 2 months)
Which is also why i am so hyped for valves headset, i love VR, but bugfixing multiple hours and reinstalling windows every 3 months just to play 2 games wasnt worth it.
Feels like I've been hearing "Update X makes Y worse" or "Update X destroys hardware Y" a lot more this year with Windows. Seems like they are fully embracing AI at Microsoft.
Steam box will be too expensive for mass adoption. Sure it will sell ok but it’s going to be priced like an equivalent gaming PC, not like a console.
The folks that game on steam already have their gaming PC. The reason the steam deck sold was portability. People buying the steam box are those with above average incomes to afford two gaming PCs or those that are valve supporters.
Steam box won’t make it suddenly the year of Linux
If it costs the same as a gaming pc, people will certainly consider it for a gaming pc. The big thing, though, is that it’ll legitimize Linux as a gaming option for desktops.
As much as i love using linux i just kinda dont see it tbh.
especially since many have a fear of linux for some reason (I would guess just the fear of the unknown?). So often i have seen people get scared and tense up and just that alone makes them spiral into a loop.
It really opens the market for a commercial RedHat-like offering. There are already those out there, and Microsoft is working really hard to piss off most of us with bad updates and AI.
Their October update forced me to do a clean reinstall. That NEVER happened before.
I don't think the problem is the money. Neither of them provides a long term stable API, let alone ABI. So progress gets reset on a regular base.
Gnome is further hampered by no respect for user choice. They provide an appleish UI, with an Enterprise, one size fits all experience.
KDE is better, but they are not the official GNU/Red Hat choice. They will choose practical above esthetica.
A big part of the Linux success is POSIX, a standard to provide direction. The UI world never had anything line it, so it is very fragmented. A real solution could be a complete enough UI standard, used by OSX, Windows, Gnome and KDE.
Can we also talk about how Win11 just randomly drops audio for no reason after even a brief period of silence, then takes some random amount of time to start playing sound again? I'd say it was a problem with my home theater/gaming rig, but it happens on my work machine too.
Sounds like the audio device going to sleep during periods of silence, then taking a short time to wake up again when audio is played. Maybe to avoid hiss?
For a data point of 1, my laptop does this regardless of OS.
Shameless plug: I've developed and maintain a couple of tools to control Windows 10/11 updates, telemetry and other potentially unwanted network traffic: FlashBoot and Emergency Boot Kit. Using these tools you can make Windows 10/11 completely silent online if you want to (akin to Windows 7 or Windows XP).
There's WinAeroTweaker, Win11Debloat, FlyOOBE, ChrisTitus App, and dozens more that don't cost a thing because they're basically a collection of powershell scripts and a wrapper.
It's a valid question. What does a paid app offer that these free and easier to get alternatives do not?
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