@@davidddo That's true-- they need to install with it disabled and then you have to add the keys later, because the installer images tend not to be signed with the Microsoft keys that ship with most computers. I think it would be actually illegal though to sell computers locked down with Microsoft secureboot keys without any good alternatives. I would hope anyway. Yeah, I think I see the problem now.
"Secure boot" isn't that secure, but if you are wedded to the idea you use mokmanager and mokutil to verify the shim and have the shim verify the kernel and third party kernel modules in Linux
2:28 Honestly it doesn’t sound far fetched at all. Everything you said is true. It’s ridiculous how Windows gives absolutely zero privacy and ownership of the operating system to their users.
I had been duel booting windows and linux for a while. Deleted my windows partition a couple months ago. Everything I want to do works just as well if not better on Linux. Even fixed the micro stutters in SCP SL. No regrets
Honestly it’s kinda sad to see the state of Windows. Sure things have improved but overall it lacks what could be a really good OS. Grew up with Vista, then 8, 8.1 and currently on 10. A damn shame I never got to try 7! I recently started going on a “time machine” on YT, watching old videos or footage of older OS’s and times around launches of new OS’s and back then was different. Mfs were downright celebrating Windows XP launch, concerts or bands would play with Gates on stage, parties would be thrown and even ice cream of the OS would be released for a limited time…. Compared to current times and the last hyped OS was probably Windows 7. Now with 11 there’s data gathering “Tele” and I think it’s been going on even before 11, it’s just sad. Ads and AI Pilot being shoved at us without our consent… I’m switching to Mac for the first time ever. Was gonna build a really solid PC but nah even intL kinda sus rn too… shame.
The issue with Windows has been that it seems that they essentially have people that don't understand what the product is or they are trying to turn it into something which it isn't. This has been true since Windows 8 where they tried to mush a desktop OS and a tablet/phone OS. This was mostly fixed with Win 10 and then undid again with 11 which is going to be some consumer horseshit OS. They seem intent into turning into MacOS. Windows has always excelled at being a desktop OS that was relatively easy to use if you were wagie office worker, good software compatibility and hackable enough that if you were a software developer/tinkerer that you could do some cool stuff with it. I could tolerate Windows 10 after doing the usual debloat with Powershell. Windows 11 required more of this and quite honestly I was spending more time messing with the OS than Linux. Most of the software I use is cross platform or has decent cross platform alternatives and I just ended up spending more time in Linux than Windows to the point where the Windows installation only gets booted into to basically update it.
Also I'm mad at myself that I didn't find out about BTRFS before, man I used to do IT user support, and having BTRFS running on business desktops would have saved us so much time and hassle. Instead you had to guess your way through windows obtuseness, really don't miss that. Most small businesses don't bother with backups for the desktops but just the server, so the call with "Oh I've deleted a super important file, can you get that back" would have been so easily fixed by booting from a rolled back /home and copying the file over then rebooting from the later version.
I use a very stripped-down Win 10 Pro, with no telemetry, no Cortana, no XBox shit, no spam upsell, and no remembering frequent folders. It's okay, but Microsoft have definitely f***ed up the way updates work, since Win 7, and I do worry that an update from MS could screw up my customisation. Unless there's a big direction change in the way Windows is implemented from Microsoft (unlikely), then it could very much be the last version of Windows I use. There are so many bad stories about Win 11 (MS account insistence, updates reverting customisations, system requirements, pushed advertising, data harvesting, and general UI and settings confusion) that there's no way I'm putting that on any of my computers. Microsoft will lose a huge chunk of their user base to Linux if they continue down this path. But they won't listen...
Nah, it's more likely that they're going to lose a huge chunk to Apple (MacOS) because most people are average joes who are unlikely to be putting up with Linux's rather... steep learning curve. While it's likely that a sizeable amount of folks (mostly power users, and power users aren't that huge in numbers anyway) are going to switch to Linux over Windows recent enshittification, there just won't be many of them making the move.
@@user-kr6ih2gz5l Linux does not have a steep learning curve at all. That's now an old wives tale now, a legend that will not die. Sure, if you insist on going raw Arch or LFS then, yeah, it's a steep learning curve but those are distros designed to learn the workings of an OS fromo virtually constructing an OS. Pick an average Desktop distro like, I would say Mint, MX-Linux, OpenSuse maybe - I would avoid the snapcentric ubuntus now) Linux is easy. Actually, easier to pick up and run with than Windows in sooooo many ways. I have put Linux on many a laptop here in SE Asia and my wife, who is NOT a techie at all LOVES Linux KDE and asked me to remove Windows 7 from her old Toshiba about ten years ago. She's never asked about Windows since, And... indications are people ARE jumping to Linux. I am putting Linux on old laptops that the poor rural folk here have to keep running but cannot go to Windows 10 - forget 11! They run with it fine! Linux desktop use has increases 400% in 18 months. In the USA 12% of desktop users now run Linux. There are more desktop Linux users on Steam than Apple users and if you read the comments on YT on Windows 11 so many are saying "I'm going Mint Linux." Even today a friend stated he would have to go Linus thanks to 'Recall.'
Problem is, Linux is nowhere near as well-advertised as Windows. You don't get Linux ads coming up everywhere unless you actually go to relevant sites, a.k.a you're already in the know.
@@jedipadawan7023 good to know that, but some hardware incompabilities are still there, my Realtek wifi antenna won't work well with Linux because it has an old chipset (8812au), I could just a new wifi antenna, but an OS forcing me to buy/upgrade something (hello Windows is that you!?) isn't what I'm asking for. Most games will run well with Proton but some of them still with bugs, and knowing that most game devs won't be making native versions for Linux anytime soon... I could only hope I'm wrong because I really want Linux to take off like it deserves, then devs will finally shy away from that idea Linux is only a "niche OS for nerds".
@@user-kr6ih2gz5l Well, I am handing Linux out to the locals who have 10 year laptops and no way can they upgrade so Linux allows them to carry on using up to date software. So they are not concerned by a sense of 'nerd OS.' Odd that an OLD chipset would cause problems. It's usually state of the art that causes troubles. Note there there are different kernels for different occasions. MX-Linux is very good at supporting range of kernels including liquorix and there is xanmod out which use propitiatory drivers that you wifi might need.
AMD have already said next Gen graphics cards will not be maintained for windows 10. If you game you will be forced to Windows 11 and 12 after that. I will switch to Linux desktop, I run all my server applications off Linux headless already but tbh Im not really looking forward to it.
Since micro-softie forces OEMs to buy the license, "windows" isn't going away soon. I wish we got to choose the OS at point of purchase, but in most cases we don't have that opportunity.
Its would be pretty sweet if Valve released SteamOS once NVK for Nvidia becomes viable which it should be by the end of the year. Then in 2025 release Steam Machines and maybe another deck the year after that. This could double Linux's marketshare and entice Adobe and others to jump on board. After that MS is screwed, imagine an 8%-10% marketshare.
I dont want to have to switch from wjndows to another os because its what I'm used to, I'm lazy, I'm worried I'll lose all my data because I don't know what I'm doing, and of course my favourite games aren't compatible... but I cant fucking stand what windows is doing. I cant stay with windows in these conditions but I hate my alternative just as much so its 8 days later and Ive installed linux mint cinnamon on an old laptop. Going okay, but I have to use recovery mode every time because if I don't all I get is a black screen after log in. I've just installed steam, gonna test out some games. I like the document options they have but I do sorely miss wordpad :( Also its saying my cpu is being used at 100% capacity despite nothing going on so theres that too
Exactly, when alternative basically requires you to be a software engineer level akill to make stuff work, its a bad alternative from the start. We need an actuall desktop OS, not some server/workstation stuff with too much complexity
Literally. That said I have an old spare laptop so I might bite the bullet and try out linux mint, I'll update you on how it goes if you'd like @@roklaca3138
ghostbsd is kind of a crapchute. i managed to break it within like a day and had to give up on it for now. FreeBSD probably your best bet if you have the right hardware and know a lot about unix.
Why install Kali? If it was something you should be using, you would have been using it since so long ago as it's kinda the industry standard. Just go use some Linux distro made for end-users, not cyber security experts.
kali is cool but it's generally not recommended to be used as your main desktop os since it has intentional security holes and is more a preconfigured toolkit for debian. not to discourage you though, just the pentesting distros like blackarch and parrotsec will probably give you more headaches than they're worth
Kali is not recommended to be installed on bare-metal, it's meant to be used in VMs mostly, if you want to something like that, just get Debian, Linux Mint, or Fedora even, and just look up what software does Kali have, and install them.
I just want the old days of windows back without all the spyware and bloat. I'd use linux if it wasn't for the horrid compatibility with many of the things I use, especially anything gaming related. Like if someone managed to remake windows xp with modern compatibility layers for modern software that would be lit. At least some of us tech savvy users can mitigate some of microsoft's bullshit. I've written a batch file that will run on start to shut off the windows update service to make it so *I* get to choose when I want to update. I'm also learning C# and plan to examine windows to see what all of microsoft's bs I can disable via stopping services and then making a basic control panel program to disable or enable them at will. Probably gonna call it MicroShafter.
funnily enough, there are projects to get modern software running on old versions of windows. Since you mentioned XP, One Core API is the project for that, and it is known to be able to run a lot of modern applications, including modern chromium and electron. It's super impressive. If MS kill an OS, you bet the community will come together to make modern stuff work. This has happened time and time again, with Windows 98 SE/ME's KernelEx, the Windows 2000 Extended Kernel, One Core API as mentioned before, Vista Extended Kernel and VxKex for Windows 7. The only reason projects like these exist is because of the mess that Microsoft has made in recent years, and I can't wait to see how they develop in the future.
I gave up on Windows, I keep it on standby so I can dual-boot for gaming, but for all other purposes, it feels like I am walking barefoot through a never-ending hall of legos to do anything else on it.
@@Forty8-Forty5-Fifty8 yeah I agree with how windows is now... Bloated pile of spyware shit nowadays. I've been trying to get into linux so I can use it for everything that it's actually compatible with. Just trying to figure it out and how exactly it works. I got a spare 500gb SSD I can put in my PC to use as my linux drive and plenty of USB sticks to make bootable media with, but I'm not sure which distro to try (a beginner friendly one preferably). About dual booting, is there like some kind of convenient way to do it? Like when I wanna play with other OS's I end up just playing with the boot order in bios.
@@whitebeartigtig interesting... I may have to look into this a bit more. I also heard of this thing called "atlasOS" on a LTT video that apparently debloats windows and shuts off many of the microsoft spyware services running in the background. I'm just sick of modern windows.
@@RedVRCC Honestly Win7 would be a better choice, I think. It looks better (IMO) and is way more modern. An extended kernel here, and a few ports there, and it would be perfect. Even though I was the guy who always wanted to use the latest software my whole life, I would switch to it if it existed like right away.
My favorite thing is the OS not respecting my default browser when I click a help link. Then there's the ads for *more* Microsoft products on the lock screen.
hopefully iot ltsc should fix the second problem. edge being default browser is rly irritating though. plan on making a video on iot ltsc when i get the chance but i haven't booted into windows for so long that i haven't bothered installing it yet.
The windows ecosystem for developers and power users just feels like an inconsistent buggy pile of steaming hot proprietary trash with instability issues. The Linux community seems to love transparency and openly sharing ideas which instills much more confidence for the longevity and stability of my system. When I use Linux, I feel like I am a skilled fisherman sharing ideas with other skilled fishermen, but when I use Windows, I feel like I am visiting an unregulated shady fish market and hoping I don't get some sort of brain eating parasite.
Modern OSs are houses of cards built on functions and objects calling functions calling objects calling functions, many of the above were made by people no longer working for the company, who did not bother to document exactly what they did. One feature is changed, and the walls tumble down. Something that worked in 32-bit fails in 64-bit, even when 64 has no issue running 32. Objects and programs are declared deprecated, only for so much else to just suddenly stop working. Something as simple as playing back a general MIDI file can't be done without downloading third party software. Games and other software that people poured their hearts, minds, and souls into (if they were interested in programming) or at least their minds AND STRESS (if they only pursued programming as a safe, high-paid job), that also contain the genius work of graphic designers, audio engineers, etc., that brought people joy, that people made their fortunes with, that people NEED to use a piece of software, SUDDENLY STOP WORKING. A tool that once allowed the misfits to be misfits with impunity is now being patrolled any way they can, and who knows what the AI will do if it ends up corrupting the captures and making it look like you intentionally sought out illegal things. Fuck the Supreme Court for humoring the concept of terms of use as a form of contract. Fuck Apple for acting like modifying, upgrading, or repairing YOUR OWN DEVICE is fucking tampering. FUCK MICROSOFT for pouring more into deals with OpenAi than actually making a workable operating system, for policing our machines, for giving us no privacy, for destroying HOURS UPON HOURS of human work with a BUGGY operating system built on a house of cards! Instead of "Deprecating" certain features and raising DLL Hell, why not either leave them as is in addition to something better, or, IDK... make a new OS? I miss when the "nerds" were in charge of SV and Redmond. I miss when it seemed like many programmers were the type of person with a passion (perhaps autistic special interest) in software and getting it to work with hardware, who'd code just for fun and publish homebrew if they were in any other line of work, who treat SV like singers treated Hollywood. Nowadays, these companies are full of people who are only in it for the money, who might not even bother to learn anything not required for their job, who will be happy to get a role in sales or mid-level management for the financial/non-programming side of the company so they don't have to write another line of code, look at a circuit schematic, etc., again. Like the session musician who never liked the bass taking spots from people who'd LOVE to work in the music industry. Less than 2% of professional programmers in 2019 are on the autism spectrum... yet something tells me that if you narrowed it to people specifically interested in computers, the number will go up, as it probably will if you looked at recreational programmers. And Agile is frustrating for people on the spectrum. I'm not saying that non-autistic people automatically make bad programmers... but the environment isn't really hospitable to autistic people in SV anymore. Or to anyone who doesn't want to BS around at "corporate culture" events. And Agile in general reminds me of the Hollywood studio system in reverse - instead of too many union-guaranteed roles like a separate focus puller, you have low-level programmers who might suddenly be tasked to do graphics. Software keeps taking up more space on hard drives since no one wants to optimize any code, and this codebase is recycled because it works... until it doesn't. Silicon Valley needs more passionate programmers.
There's no way I'm trying to switch to Linux. I already switched from 10 to 11 and it went smoothly, but I fucked it up because of user error(I wanted to fix my buggy user account and I did, but then I forgot to backup parts of my appdata folder, so I had to reinstall a bunch of programs). Thinking about how most programs that have a dedicated Windows install method and dedicated Linux install method, I would have to reinstall COUNTLESS stuff(not to mention the file system incompatibilities, so who knows, some of my data might be inaccessible on Linux). I will not forgo my years of data, and I will only ever switch if all my data gets corrupted or something.
4:00 The issue isn't necessarily the proprietary nature. It is more the fact that (you mentioned earlier in the video) is the constant attitude that permeates the entire industry of "agile". Nothing is ever finished and you have to finish features in sprints which means everything is built in a way where it is intended to be thrown away later on because you know you are going to have to change it about 10 or 11 times. This causes fatigue in devs as they can never just think through a problem properly. It has infected their .NET development now and you get these insane feature requests that almost nobody wanted (because most people using these languages don't participate in the community at all and are wagie corp developers and don't care about whiz bang language features).
@@RealWaffles Nice!! I installed Openbsd the other day and really like it (maybe not as much as Gentoo tho). Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos (BSD related or not).
The actual foundation of windows' core (windows nt) is rock solid. It just has crap installed and running and that's the issue and installed crap can change and be removed. Use LTSC
8:50 apple is not that good either, they are good at specific market niches, at the cost of being bad at everything else. linux and windows are better for gaming than mac for example, apple also charge a lot for their hardware.
i ended up getting some no name pcie capture card from a friend and it just worked. a lot of cheap capture cards basically use a fake webcam so they should be compatible. idk about avermedia though.
Yes you are correct. Code shouldve never been treated like a physical good. The balance of control and user experience is for companies to solve and Microsoft has failed horribly in this regard for years. The industry is still new, AI and Rust-like language features will write the final code of our nested simulations
It's the opposite. Companies act as if code isn't a good. They sell it to you, then act like you paid for a license instead of the software itself when in reality, yes, you did pay for the software, and the license just came with it. This is why they think they can do whatever they want to your property. Ironically, Linux being free means it is in a better legal position to wreck itself than Windows is.
100% gaming support without some shady tinkering behind it? Full nvidia support with dlss, rayttacing etc? Gaming peripherals support? ( logitech, thrustmaster). Usable multimonitor support?
So linux, that depends on programmers working for free to maintain the code is the answer to windows? Sure, as much as gimp is answer to photoshop....Good luck.
it's kind of a misconception that it's people working for free. the reason linux can run on volunteer labor is because these developers already work on linux at their job and they just want the software they use to work better for them. companies end up becoming contributors and they do it for free because linux encourages that kind of behavior. this is also why sony is kind of an outlier with BSD, because they maintain a lot of downstream code and are constantly fighting with upstream rather than contributing their changes back to BSD. they pay the price every day because they actively choose not to be like netflix. but this is kind of the topic i should turn into a video.
Have you ever used Linux? Ever even tried? Linux runs almost all of internet, all of defense, all of cloud, all of IoT, all of data science. Linux is de facto choice when actual professional work is being done. Window is rather limited to desktop, to people who has never seen anything other than that.
@@RealWaffles Sony bankrolls freebsd and doesn't talk about it because they're scared people will do something funny like making emulators better. They don't "pay the price" just because they don't send their code upstream, they purposefully make things incompatible and tweak things.
People are trying to transition to Linux Mint from Windows because of the aesthetic look and feels it has a well customizable environment and mostly everything is plug and play tried it for a week and loved it more than Windows 11 if you want something firm and easy do definitely try Linux Mint because it's for beginners and casual Linux option.
Apart from Adobe Suit, Windows is a shit for every aspect. BS for gaming, BS for configuring, BS for animation, very surface level for anything related to data, shit for web dev, shit for anything deeper.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Windows is better in almost every way. 1. *Gaming* : Dominates the market with top performance and DirectX 12 support. 2. *Customization* : Offers deep configuration options and WSL for Linux tools. 3. *Animation* : Runs industry-leading software like Maya, Blender, and Adobe Suite. 4. *Data* : Powerful tools like SQL Server and Power BI. 5. *Web Dev* : WSL, Docker, and VS Code and so on....
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Windows has been amazing for me. It has had a few annoying bugs, but I fixed pretty much all of them. The only issues I have are not at all with Windows, but that I don't quite have money to get terabytes of storage and beefy graphics cards for 4k. I still use a GTX 1070 and 60hz 1080p monitors. The only thing I really had to do in terms of gaming once I upgraded to 11 is turn down like 2 settings in Fortnite, because I was getting 50 frames instead of 60(and only in certain parts of the game).
why are you randomly moaning at the end of your sentences 😭 besides that this is a pretty average linux schizo rant with brainless points like "you are giving microsoft your entire pc" as if you don't do the same with literally every program you execute, that includes any linux packages you have btw (many of which have anonymous authors/maintainers)
If you don't like softwere as a service, then you should hate linux. Linux is the worse in that regards. Everything is living creature, that is getting constantly updated. You can install Windows 7, and it works. But in Linux if you have some 20years old softwere, it's almost impossible to install it, and make it work. And it case of modularity, good luck replacing SystemD. Witch btw is made and maintained by Microsoft. I was planing to install Linux once WIndows 7 support stop, but once I saw how Linux is right now, I changed my mind. If I will go with Linux, I will just put on my computer Linux Kernel, few libs, and write everything else my self. But still, anything is better than apple. :)
so linux is different from windows, i'm kinda repeating myself from the video but each package in linux has a different development team and on each distro it has a different maintainer. so while microsoft has to update every component in their own operating system themselves, linux has the advantage that each package can be updated separately and eyes are always on the code. so while you can discover a 0day in windows that can be unpatched for months, on linux there's constant eyes on every package so they see updates far more often as bug fixes and security holes are patched. as far as systemd, i've made several videos on systemdless distributions. they don't have the same audits as systemd gets, but security through obscurity can sometimes work when exploits are written with systemd in mind. while packages are very init dependent, some distros like artix or gentoo have multiple inits supported.
On the init side you don't have to run systemd, although alot of software will need to be patched to not use it unfortunately. Void Linux uses runit by default and has a systemd build. Devuan Linux and Gentoo Linux uses OpenRC by default. The point is Linux you have choices to swap things out if need be and distro's that are built for another init system will patch in the changes needed for compatibility. As far as legacy stuff goes that is a problem for Linux, but flatpaks and appimages will solve this issue going forward and they have for almost 10 years now. With your arguments, you should run Windows XP or even 98, where the OS came "as is", since Windows 7 had a crap ton of updates during its life.
Except when it comes to phones. With the stupid Gemini copy paste decisions Google has been making(and just how much subjectively worse they are than Apple). I'd rather have a Mac than...a nasty filthy Chromebook.
Let me start with saying that you're the least insufferable Linux user I've yet heard. Every other one makes me want to jump out of my window with how much they're delusional and arrogant. - MS has had bugs recently. Yes, as has everyone and everything. If someone tells you their code is bug free, they're lying to you. - The Windows 10 installer being buggy is (my guess) probably negligence rather than malice, which I will comment on later. - Yes, they most definitely are trying to push everyone possible to Win11. However, that's such an obvious thing to do, from many points of view (monetary, security, user satisfaction, pure logic, etc). And they will obviously do the same when 12 comes out or whatever they call it. - Yes, it is SaaS, and yes updates can sometimes break it, but that is, let's be honest, very rare, and is usually fixed quick (like when AMD had some issues semi-recently). You can also disable windows update if you think you're smarter than MS. - You technically are right with the "you're giving MS full access to your PC" statement, but realistically no. - Technically you can replace the DWM. I have a patched version running on my PC atm. It being closed source just makes it harder, but not impossible to work around. But yes, if we're being honest it's realistically not replaceable. - Windows having compatibility issues is crazy to hear. You again may be right, but it has to be some weird niche. Windows is made for the masses, for almost everything to just work. - I would disagree that modern OSes are too complicated and not sustainable. You kinda disagreed with yourself later anyways. - As you said Apple has good devs (I wouldn't know, I'll have to believe you on that), but what I do know and agree is that the MS ones are indeed dogshit. I mean it is kinda stupid that I (a random nobody) is trash-talking them from the RUclips comments but comparing modern windows to old releases (even Vista which had terrible reputation) just speaks for itself. I don't know if the devs are limited by the management (maybe to a certain degree, probably), but it is obvious that manage isn't the whole problem. A big percentage of them has to suck ass. I have my own gripes with Windows (mostly UI/UX related) which also made me at least consider MacOS even though it's realistically not gonna happen. Linux on desktop is never gonna be mainstream. Not in a 100 years. If an asteroid were to hit MS HQ (and every other MS office around the world) and Windows ceases to exist, people would just move to MacOS. Linux is just not ever gonna happen outside of freaks. And LGBT people for some reason.
i mean linux has some problems, but for 90% of people it is probably a solid replacement, assuming you just wanna play steam games and browse the web. also there have been many projects to make windows applications run on linux like WINE+Proton or Bottles etc.
Natural. Most tech-illeterates these days are proud that they are so illeterate. For example, you don't even know that MS almost always had serious bugs and security issues, or the fact that the largest Windows users are enterprises, if MS stop pushing, Windows desktop will indeed disappear, no need of an asteroid. Somehow you people also feel that people who understands every bit of a computer are measurable dellusinal freaks! And what are you guys who doesn't even know what to do when you get a blue screen of death? I'm not an American, but feels like American stereotype of good for nothing looser who bullies technically sound people is somewhat true.
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This is my fear every week now. Windows will decide "You know what, I will do nothing until you enable Secure Boot."
Linux works fine with secure boot. Does Windows overwrite the Linux secure boot keys or something?
Block updates or move to Windows 10 ltsc
@@rothn2most distros don't out of the box though
@@davidddo That's true-- they need to install with it disabled and then you have to add the keys later, because the installer images tend not to be signed with the Microsoft keys that ship with most computers. I think it would be actually illegal though to sell computers locked down with Microsoft secureboot keys without any good alternatives. I would hope anyway. Yeah, I think I see the problem now.
"Secure boot" isn't that secure, but if you are wedded to the idea you use mokmanager and mokutil to verify the shim and have the shim verify the kernel and third party kernel modules in Linux
Its wover. Billions must install linux
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Nope, they should rather voluntarily hand over their entire workflow to MS and be proud how little they understand about PC.
totally new development when?
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Honestly it doesn’t sound far fetched at all. Everything you said is true. It’s ridiculous how Windows gives absolutely zero privacy and ownership of the operating system to their users.
I had been duel booting windows and linux for a while. Deleted my windows partition a couple months ago. Everything I want to do works just as well if not better on Linux. Even fixed the micro stutters in SCP SL. No regrets
Honestly it’s kinda sad to see the state of Windows. Sure things have improved but overall it lacks what could be a really good OS. Grew up with Vista, then 8, 8.1 and currently on 10. A damn shame I never got to try 7!
I recently started going on a “time machine” on YT, watching old videos or footage of older OS’s and times around launches of new OS’s and back then was different. Mfs were downright celebrating Windows XP launch, concerts or bands would play with Gates on stage, parties would be thrown and even ice cream of the OS would be released for a limited time….
Compared to current times and the last hyped OS was probably Windows 7. Now with 11 there’s data gathering “Tele” and I think it’s been going on even before 11, it’s just sad. Ads and AI Pilot being shoved at us without our consent… I’m switching to Mac for the first time ever. Was gonna build a really solid PC but nah even intL kinda sus rn too… shame.
Then install WINE as a compability layer.
bilions must seed linux iso's
The issue with Windows has been that it seems that they essentially have people that don't understand what the product is or they are trying to turn it into something which it isn't. This has been true since Windows 8 where they tried to mush a desktop OS and a tablet/phone OS. This was mostly fixed with Win 10 and then undid again with 11 which is going to be some consumer horseshit OS. They seem intent into turning into MacOS.
Windows has always excelled at being a desktop OS that was relatively easy to use if you were wagie office worker, good software compatibility and hackable enough that if you were a software developer/tinkerer that you could do some cool stuff with it.
I could tolerate Windows 10 after doing the usual debloat with Powershell. Windows 11 required more of this and quite honestly I was spending more time messing with the OS than Linux. Most of the software I use is cross platform or has decent cross platform alternatives and I just ended up spending more time in Linux than Windows to the point where the Windows installation only gets booted into to basically update it.
Also I'm mad at myself that I didn't find out about BTRFS before, man I used to do IT user support, and having BTRFS running on business desktops would have saved us so much time and hassle. Instead you had to guess your way through windows obtuseness, really don't miss that. Most small businesses don't bother with backups for the desktops but just the server, so the call with "Oh I've deleted a super important file, can you get that back" would have been so easily fixed by booting from a rolled back /home and copying the file over then rebooting from the later version.
I use a very stripped-down Win 10 Pro, with no telemetry, no Cortana, no XBox shit, no spam upsell, and no remembering frequent folders. It's okay, but Microsoft have definitely f***ed up the way updates work, since Win 7, and I do worry that an update from MS could screw up my customisation. Unless there's a big direction change in the way Windows is implemented from Microsoft (unlikely), then it could very much be the last version of Windows I use. There are so many bad stories about Win 11 (MS account insistence, updates reverting customisations, system requirements, pushed advertising, data harvesting, and general UI and settings confusion) that there's no way I'm putting that on any of my computers. Microsoft will lose a huge chunk of their user base to Linux if they continue down this path. But they won't listen...
Nah, it's more likely that they're going to lose a huge chunk to Apple (MacOS) because most people are average joes who are unlikely to be putting up with Linux's rather... steep learning curve.
While it's likely that a sizeable amount of folks (mostly power users, and power users aren't that huge in numbers anyway) are going to switch to Linux over Windows recent enshittification, there just won't be many of them making the move.
@@user-kr6ih2gz5l Linux does not have a steep learning curve at all. That's now an old wives tale now, a legend that will not die.
Sure, if you insist on going raw Arch or LFS then, yeah, it's a steep learning curve but those are distros designed to learn the workings of an OS fromo virtually constructing an OS.
Pick an average Desktop distro like, I would say Mint, MX-Linux, OpenSuse maybe - I would avoid the snapcentric ubuntus now) Linux is easy. Actually, easier to pick up and run with than Windows in sooooo many ways.
I have put Linux on many a laptop here in SE Asia and my wife, who is NOT a techie at all LOVES Linux KDE and asked me to remove Windows 7 from her old Toshiba about ten years ago. She's never asked about Windows since,
And... indications are people ARE jumping to Linux. I am putting Linux on old laptops that the poor rural folk here have to keep running but cannot go to Windows 10 - forget 11! They run with it fine! Linux desktop use has increases 400% in 18 months. In the USA 12% of desktop users now run Linux. There are more desktop Linux users on Steam than Apple users and if you read the comments on YT on Windows 11 so many are saying "I'm going Mint Linux."
Even today a friend stated he would have to go Linus thanks to 'Recall.'
Problem is, Linux is nowhere near as well-advertised as Windows. You don't get Linux ads coming up everywhere unless you actually go to relevant sites, a.k.a you're already in the know.
@@jedipadawan7023 good to know that, but some hardware incompabilities are still there, my Realtek wifi antenna won't work well with Linux because it has an old chipset (8812au), I could just a new wifi antenna, but an OS forcing me to buy/upgrade something (hello Windows is that you!?) isn't what I'm asking for.
Most games will run well with Proton but some of them still with bugs, and knowing that most game devs won't be making native versions for Linux anytime soon... I could only hope I'm wrong because I really want Linux to take off like it deserves, then devs will finally shy away from that idea Linux is only a "niche OS for nerds".
@@user-kr6ih2gz5l Well, I am handing Linux out to the locals who have 10 year laptops and no way can they upgrade so Linux allows them to carry on using up to date software. So they are not concerned by a sense of 'nerd OS.'
Odd that an OLD chipset would cause problems. It's usually state of the art that causes troubles. Note there there are different kernels for different occasions. MX-Linux is very good at supporting range of kernels including liquorix and there is xanmod out which use propitiatory drivers that you wifi might need.
AMD have already said next Gen graphics cards will not be maintained for windows 10. If you game you will be forced to Windows 11 and 12 after that.
I will switch to Linux desktop, I run all my server applications off Linux headless already but tbh Im not really looking forward to it.
Since micro-softie forces OEMs to buy the license, "windows" isn't going away soon. I wish we got to choose the OS at point of purchase, but in most cases we don't have that opportunity.
Its would be pretty sweet if Valve released SteamOS once NVK for Nvidia becomes viable which it should be by the end of the year. Then in 2025 release Steam Machines and maybe another deck the year after that. This could double Linux's marketshare and entice Adobe and others to jump on board. After that MS is screwed, imagine an 8%-10% marketshare.
I dont want to have to switch from wjndows to another os because its what I'm used to, I'm lazy, I'm worried I'll lose all my data because I don't know what I'm doing, and of course my favourite games aren't compatible... but I cant fucking stand what windows is doing. I cant stay with windows in these conditions but I hate my alternative just as much
so its 8 days later and Ive installed linux mint cinnamon on an old laptop. Going okay, but I have to use recovery mode every time because if I don't all I get is a black screen after log in. I've just installed steam, gonna test out some games. I like the document options they have but I do sorely miss wordpad :(
Also its saying my cpu is being used at 100% capacity despite nothing going on so theres that too
Exactly, when alternative basically requires you to be a software engineer level akill to make stuff work, its a bad alternative from the start. We need an actuall desktop OS, not some server/workstation stuff with too much complexity
Literally. That said I have an old spare laptop so I might bite the bullet and try out linux mint, I'll update you on how it goes if you'd like @@roklaca3138
@@roklaca3138 GhostBSD, Linux Mint, Pop OS. Я: Windows 10 user
ghostbsd is kind of a crapchute. i managed to break it within like a day and had to give up on it for now. FreeBSD probably your best bet if you have the right hardware and know a lot about unix.
Turns out Windows 11 doesnt meet the minimum requirements of me owning my PC... Hello, Kali Linux!!!
Why install Kali? If it was something you should be using, you would have been using it since so long ago as it's kinda the industry standard. Just go use some Linux distro made for end-users, not cyber security experts.
Don’t use kali it’s got a bunch of preinstalled pentesting stuff use a normal distro
please for the love of god don't use kali as a daily driver
kali is cool but it's generally not recommended to be used as your main desktop os since it has intentional security holes and is more a preconfigured toolkit for debian. not to discourage you though, just the pentesting distros like blackarch and parrotsec will probably give you more headaches than they're worth
Kali is not recommended to be installed on bare-metal, it's meant to be used in VMs mostly, if you want to something like that, just get Debian, Linux Mint, or Fedora even, and just look up what software does Kali have, and install them.
its winover
winderp bad, install gentoo
That’s what I did lol
Ooft...mint user here 😅
@@Chris47368
You’re a mint user for now but the more you go down the Linux iceberg you’ll be using Gentoo before you know it.
Gentoo for new users, its going to work out just fine🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@roklaca3138 of course it will
CVEs are a joke, security in SW in general is a joke.
I just want the old days of windows back without all the spyware and bloat. I'd use linux if it wasn't for the horrid compatibility with many of the things I use, especially anything gaming related. Like if someone managed to remake windows xp with modern compatibility layers for modern software that would be lit.
At least some of us tech savvy users can mitigate some of microsoft's bullshit. I've written a batch file that will run on start to shut off the windows update service to make it so *I* get to choose when I want to update. I'm also learning C# and plan to examine windows to see what all of microsoft's bs I can disable via stopping services and then making a basic control panel program to disable or enable them at will. Probably gonna call it MicroShafter.
funnily enough, there are projects to get modern software running on old versions of windows. Since you mentioned XP, One Core API is the project for that, and it is known to be able to run a lot of modern applications, including modern chromium and electron. It's super impressive.
If MS kill an OS, you bet the community will come together to make modern stuff work. This has happened time and time again, with Windows 98 SE/ME's KernelEx, the Windows 2000 Extended Kernel, One Core API as mentioned before, Vista Extended Kernel and VxKex for Windows 7.
The only reason projects like these exist is because of the mess that Microsoft has made in recent years, and I can't wait to see how they develop in the future.
I gave up on Windows, I keep it on standby so I can dual-boot for gaming, but for all other purposes, it feels like I am walking barefoot through a never-ending hall of legos to do anything else on it.
@@Forty8-Forty5-Fifty8 yeah I agree with how windows is now... Bloated pile of spyware shit nowadays. I've been trying to get into linux so I can use it for everything that it's actually compatible with. Just trying to figure it out and how exactly it works. I got a spare 500gb SSD I can put in my PC to use as my linux drive and plenty of USB sticks to make bootable media with, but I'm not sure which distro to try (a beginner friendly one preferably).
About dual booting, is there like some kind of convenient way to do it? Like when I wanna play with other OS's I end up just playing with the boot order in bios.
@@whitebeartigtig interesting... I may have to look into this a bit more. I also heard of this thing called "atlasOS" on a LTT video that apparently debloats windows and shuts off many of the microsoft spyware services running in the background. I'm just sick of modern windows.
@@RedVRCC Honestly Win7 would be a better choice, I think. It looks better (IMO) and is way more modern. An extended kernel here, and a few ports there, and it would be perfect. Even though I was the guy who always wanted to use the latest software my whole life, I would switch to it if it existed like right away.
My favorite thing is the OS not respecting my default browser when I click a help link. Then there's the ads for *more* Microsoft products on the lock screen.
hopefully iot ltsc should fix the second problem. edge being default browser is rly irritating though.
plan on making a video on iot ltsc when i get the chance but i haven't booted into windows for so long that i haven't bothered installing it yet.
The windows ecosystem for developers and power users just feels like an inconsistent buggy pile of steaming hot proprietary trash with instability issues. The Linux community seems to love transparency and openly sharing ideas which instills much more confidence for the longevity and stability of my system. When I use Linux, I feel like I am a skilled fisherman sharing ideas with other skilled fishermen, but when I use Windows, I feel like I am visiting an unregulated shady fish market and hoping I don't get some sort of brain eating parasite.
i use https everywhere and ublock origin in my browser and i edited the host file to block ads and malware, am i safe?
yeah youre golden
Modern OSs are houses of cards built on functions and objects calling functions calling objects calling functions, many of the above were made by people no longer working for the company, who did not bother to document exactly what they did. One feature is changed, and the walls tumble down. Something that worked in 32-bit fails in 64-bit, even when 64 has no issue running 32. Objects and programs are declared deprecated, only for so much else to just suddenly stop working. Something as simple as playing back a general MIDI file can't be done without downloading third party software. Games and other software that people poured their hearts, minds, and souls into (if they were interested in programming) or at least their minds AND STRESS (if they only pursued programming as a safe, high-paid job), that also contain the genius work of graphic designers, audio engineers, etc., that brought people joy, that people made their fortunes with, that people NEED to use a piece of software, SUDDENLY STOP WORKING. A tool that once allowed the misfits to be misfits with impunity is now being patrolled any way they can, and who knows what the AI will do if it ends up corrupting the captures and making it look like you intentionally sought out illegal things.
Fuck the Supreme Court for humoring the concept of terms of use as a form of contract. Fuck Apple for acting like modifying, upgrading, or repairing YOUR OWN DEVICE is fucking tampering. FUCK MICROSOFT for pouring more into deals with OpenAi than actually making a workable operating system, for policing our machines, for giving us no privacy, for destroying HOURS UPON HOURS of human work with a BUGGY operating system built on a house of cards! Instead of "Deprecating" certain features and raising DLL Hell, why not either leave them as is in addition to something better, or, IDK... make a new OS?
I miss when the "nerds" were in charge of SV and Redmond. I miss when it seemed like many programmers were the type of person with a passion (perhaps autistic special interest) in software and getting it to work with hardware, who'd code just for fun and publish homebrew if they were in any other line of work, who treat SV like singers treated Hollywood. Nowadays, these companies are full of people who are only in it for the money, who might not even bother to learn anything not required for their job, who will be happy to get a role in sales or mid-level management for the financial/non-programming side of the company so they don't have to write another line of code, look at a circuit schematic, etc., again. Like the session musician who never liked the bass taking spots from people who'd LOVE to work in the music industry.
Less than 2% of professional programmers in 2019 are on the autism spectrum... yet something tells me that if you narrowed it to people specifically interested in computers, the number will go up, as it probably will if you looked at recreational programmers. And Agile is frustrating for people on the spectrum. I'm not saying that non-autistic people automatically make bad programmers... but the environment isn't really hospitable to autistic people in SV anymore. Or to anyone who doesn't want to BS around at "corporate culture" events.
And Agile in general reminds me of the Hollywood studio system in reverse - instead of too many union-guaranteed roles like a separate focus puller, you have low-level programmers who might suddenly be tasked to do graphics.
Software keeps taking up more space on hard drives since no one wants to optimize any code, and this codebase is recycled because it works... until it doesn't.
Silicon Valley needs more passionate programmers.
yeah it seems all the good programmers are being hired for crap projects now cause bloated webshit is the new meta
I thought, why does this look so not representable. Then I saw, linux
Which linux distro do u use?
i use gentoo!
He's used void as well.
MX Linux.
There's no way I'm trying to switch to Linux. I already switched from 10 to 11 and it went smoothly, but I fucked it up because of user error(I wanted to fix my buggy user account and I did, but then I forgot to backup parts of my appdata folder, so I had to reinstall a bunch of programs). Thinking about how most programs that have a dedicated Windows install method and dedicated Linux install method, I would have to reinstall COUNTLESS stuff(not to mention the file system incompatibilities, so who knows, some of my data might be inaccessible on Linux). I will not forgo my years of data, and I will only ever switch if all my data gets corrupted or something.
To reinstall Windows it takes me hours: to reinstall everything on Linux Mint takes me about 30 minutes. F**k Windows.
4:00 The issue isn't necessarily the proprietary nature. It is more the fact that (you mentioned earlier in the video) is the constant attitude that permeates the entire industry of "agile". Nothing is ever finished and you have to finish features in sprints which means everything is built in a way where it is intended to be thrown away later on because you know you are going to have to change it about 10 or 11 times. This causes fatigue in devs as they can never just think through a problem properly.
It has infected their .NET development now and you get these insane feature requests that almost nobody wanted (because most people using these languages don't participate in the community at all and are wagie corp developers and don't care about whiz bang language features).
Just found your channel, good video. Subbed !
are you crying over an operating system or? it sounds like you are literally breaking down through the entire video what the hell
I've never ever had license for my windows and for a reason
Work on a local account they can't really fuck with you unless you're signed into Microsoft.
Just all in in Linux. Everything will be alright.
Question
Will you ever make a Linux vs BSD video? Have you used any of the BSD’s? If you have which one do you like?
i did just install ghostbsd today and im trying to get it setup now. so far ive got audio working and i can voice call lol
@@RealWaffles Nice!! I installed Openbsd the other day and really like it (maybe not as much as Gentoo tho). Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos (BSD related or not).
Thank you for talking about this, Moist Critical
The actual foundation of windows' core (windows nt) is rock solid. It just has crap installed and running and that's the issue and installed crap can change and be removed. Use LTSC
u sound like moist critical lmao
he does not
@@markusTegelane ok
@@markusTegelane not exactly like Moist Critical, but somewhat similar. Not the exact sound, tho.
Sorry, but what DE is that?
MATE with catppuccin installed
Maybe include some content on screen to illustrate your points
i thought you were the wattles Minecraft youtuber LOL
Go linux always, Zorin is better then win11 to everything
8:50 apple is not that good either, they are good at specific market niches, at the cost of being bad at everything else.
linux and windows are better for gaming than mac for example, apple also charge a lot for their hardware.
Loving the fall of windows, slowly but surely
Microsoft is a data scraping company run by interns. Went to Linux years ago.
Good thing I just started using Linux. Wow, thanks for the info.
if Avermedia capture cards would work better on Linux and if most Anti Cheat games would work on Linux, i'd switch over to Linux for good
i ended up getting some no name pcie capture card from a friend and it just worked. a lot of cheap capture cards basically use a fake webcam so they should be compatible. idk about avermedia though.
@@RealWaffles i see but i'm more concerned about older AverMedia capture cards
Yes you are correct. Code shouldve never been treated like a physical good. The balance of control and user experience is for companies to solve and Microsoft has failed horribly in this regard for years. The industry is still new, AI and Rust-like language features will write the final code of our nested simulations
It's the opposite. Companies act as if code isn't a good. They sell it to you, then act like you paid for a license instead of the software itself when in reality, yes, you did pay for the software, and the license just came with it. This is why they think they can do whatever they want to your property. Ironically, Linux being free means it is in a better legal position to wreck itself than Windows is.
100% gaming support without some shady tinkering behind it? Full nvidia support with dlss, rayttacing etc? Gaming peripherals support? ( logitech, thrustmaster). Usable multimonitor support?
Another video telling people to switch, been three today, neat :)
Best thing about these are the comments from salty M$ shills losing their marbles
Bro breath more
Mimimi 😂
w video
So linux, that depends on programmers working for free to maintain the code is the answer to windows? Sure, as much as gimp is answer to photoshop....Good luck.
it's kind of a misconception that it's people working for free. the reason linux can run on volunteer labor is because these developers already work on linux at their job and they just want the software they use to work better for them. companies end up becoming contributors and they do it for free because linux encourages that kind of behavior. this is also why sony is kind of an outlier with BSD, because they maintain a lot of downstream code and are constantly fighting with upstream rather than contributing their changes back to BSD. they pay the price every day because they actively choose not to be like netflix.
but this is kind of the topic i should turn into a video.
Have you ever used Linux? Ever even tried? Linux runs almost all of internet, all of defense, all of cloud, all of IoT, all of data science. Linux is de facto choice when actual professional work is being done. Window is rather limited to desktop, to people who has never seen anything other than that.
@@RealWaffles Sony bankrolls freebsd and doesn't talk about it because they're scared people will do something funny like making emulators better. They don't "pay the price" just because they don't send their code upstream, they purposefully make things incompatible and tweak things.
just install TempleOS
based
Super based.
People are trying to transition to Linux Mint from Windows because of the aesthetic look and feels it has a well customizable environment and mostly everything is plug and play tried it for a week and loved it more than Windows 11 if you want something firm and easy do definitely try Linux Mint because it's for beginners and casual Linux option.
Windows is better for almost everything tho, I only install Linux on old computers
Apart from Adobe Suit, Windows is a shit for every aspect. BS for gaming, BS for configuring, BS for animation, very surface level for anything related to data, shit for web dev, shit for anything deeper.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365
Windows is better in almost every way.
1. *Gaming* : Dominates the market with top performance and DirectX 12 support.
2. *Customization* : Offers deep configuration options and WSL for Linux tools.
3. *Animation* : Runs industry-leading software like Maya, Blender, and Adobe Suite.
4. *Data* : Powerful tools like SQL Server and Power BI.
5. *Web Dev* : WSL, Docker, and VS Code
and so on....
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Windows has been amazing for me. It has had a few annoying bugs, but I fixed pretty much all of them. The only issues I have are not at all with Windows, but that I don't quite have money to get terabytes of storage and beefy graphics cards for 4k. I still use a GTX 1070 and 60hz 1080p monitors. The only thing I really had to do in terms of gaming once I upgraded to 11 is turn down like 2 settings in Fortnite, because I was getting 50 frames instead of 60(and only in certain parts of the game).
Not BS for gaming
why are you randomly moaning at the end of your sentences 😭 besides that this is a pretty average linux schizo rant with brainless points like "you are giving microsoft your entire pc" as if you don't do the same with literally every program you execute, that includes any linux packages you have btw (many of which have anonymous authors/maintainers)
the moist critical of linux
If you don't like softwere as a service, then you should hate linux.
Linux is the worse in that regards.
Everything is living creature, that is getting constantly updated.
You can install Windows 7, and it works.
But in Linux if you have some 20years old softwere, it's almost impossible to install it, and make it work.
And it case of modularity, good luck replacing SystemD. Witch btw is made and maintained by Microsoft.
I was planing to install Linux once WIndows 7 support stop, but once I saw how Linux is right now, I changed my mind.
If I will go with Linux, I will just put on my computer Linux Kernel, few libs, and write everything else my self.
But still, anything is better than apple. :)
so linux is different from windows, i'm kinda repeating myself from the video but each package in linux has a different development team and on each distro it has a different maintainer. so while microsoft has to update every component in their own operating system themselves, linux has the advantage that each package can be updated separately and eyes are always on the code. so while you can discover a 0day in windows that can be unpatched for months, on linux there's constant eyes on every package so they see updates far more often as bug fixes and security holes are patched.
as far as systemd, i've made several videos on systemdless distributions. they don't have the same audits as systemd gets, but security through obscurity can sometimes work when exploits are written with systemd in mind. while packages are very init dependent, some distros like artix or gentoo have multiple inits supported.
On the init side you don't have to run systemd, although alot of software will need to be patched to not use it unfortunately. Void Linux uses runit by default and has a systemd build. Devuan Linux and Gentoo Linux uses OpenRC by default. The point is Linux you have choices to swap things out if need be and distro's that are built for another init system will patch in the changes needed for compatibility. As far as legacy stuff goes that is a problem for Linux, but flatpaks and appimages will solve this issue going forward and they have for almost 10 years now. With your arguments, you should run Windows XP or even 98, where the OS came "as is", since Windows 7 had a crap ton of updates during its life.
Except when it comes to phones. With the stupid Gemini copy paste decisions Google has been making(and just how much subjectively worse they are than Apple). I'd rather have a Mac than...a nasty filthy Chromebook.
@peterSobieraj Yeah, use Windows 7 and get all sorts of crap on an unsupported system. Great idea, NOT.
@@tonywise198 OK. Please tell me how would you get remote access to Windows7 machine with method that won't work on newer Windows ?
Let me start with saying that you're the least insufferable Linux user I've yet heard. Every other one makes me want to jump out of my window with how much they're delusional and arrogant.
- MS has had bugs recently. Yes, as has everyone and everything. If someone tells you their code is bug free, they're lying to you.
- The Windows 10 installer being buggy is (my guess) probably negligence rather than malice, which I will comment on later.
- Yes, they most definitely are trying to push everyone possible to Win11. However, that's such an obvious thing to do, from many points of view (monetary, security, user satisfaction, pure logic, etc). And they will obviously do the same when 12 comes out or whatever they call it.
- Yes, it is SaaS, and yes updates can sometimes break it, but that is, let's be honest, very rare, and is usually fixed quick (like when AMD had some issues semi-recently). You can also disable windows update if you think you're smarter than MS.
- You technically are right with the "you're giving MS full access to your PC" statement, but realistically no.
- Technically you can replace the DWM. I have a patched version running on my PC atm. It being closed source just makes it harder, but not impossible to work around. But yes, if we're being honest it's realistically not replaceable.
- Windows having compatibility issues is crazy to hear. You again may be right, but it has to be some weird niche. Windows is made for the masses, for almost everything to just work.
- I would disagree that modern OSes are too complicated and not sustainable. You kinda disagreed with yourself later anyways.
- As you said Apple has good devs (I wouldn't know, I'll have to believe you on that), but what I do know and agree is that the MS ones are indeed dogshit. I mean it is kinda stupid that I (a random nobody) is trash-talking them from the RUclips comments but comparing modern windows to old releases (even Vista which had terrible reputation) just speaks for itself. I don't know if the devs are limited by the management (maybe to a certain degree, probably), but it is obvious that manage isn't the whole problem. A big percentage of them has to suck ass. I have my own gripes with Windows (mostly UI/UX related) which also made me at least consider MacOS even though it's realistically not gonna happen.
Linux on desktop is never gonna be mainstream. Not in a 100 years. If an asteroid were to hit MS HQ (and every other MS office around the world) and Windows ceases to exist, people would just move to MacOS. Linux is just not ever gonna happen outside of freaks. And LGBT people for some reason.
i mean linux has some problems, but for 90% of people it is probably a solid replacement, assuming you just wanna play steam games and browse the web.
also there have been many projects to make windows applications run on linux like WINE+Proton or Bottles etc.
Natural. Most tech-illeterates these days are proud that they are so illeterate. For example, you don't even know that MS almost always had serious bugs and security issues, or the fact that the largest Windows users are enterprises, if MS stop pushing, Windows desktop will indeed disappear, no need of an asteroid.
Somehow you people also feel that people who understands every bit of a computer are measurable dellusinal freaks! And what are you guys who doesn't even know what to do when you get a blue screen of death? I'm not an American, but feels like American stereotype of good for nothing looser who bullies technically sound people is somewhat true.
Linux is shit in every aspect, just use debloating tools for windows
How on earth Love?
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