Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11
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It's been a year since my work machine was upgraded to Window11 and the bug where the taskbar search just stops working after a couple of hours still remains. This commitment to quality is hard to see from my perspective.
My home machine is still Windows 10 for a couple of reasons. One is that it's too old and doesn't have a TPM, not even in the BIOS. But the other is that I still don't trust pushing my login info off to Microsoft's servers and Windows 11 is really pushy about that. Even on Windows 10 I'm now technically out of support because I think that is just a terrible idea. Luckily I have also not booted into Windows at home in ages. It is just for the occasional (and increasingly rare) piece of software that doesn't work properly under Wine.
My home machine is still Windows 10 for a couple of reasons. One is that it's too old and doesn't have a TPM, not even in the BIOS. But the other is that I still don't trust pushing my login info off to Microsoft's servers and Windows 11 is really pushy about that. Even on Windows 10 I'm now technically out of support because I think that is just a terrible idea. Luckily I have also not booted into Windows at home in ages. It is just for the occasional (and increasingly rare) piece of software that doesn't work properly under Wine.
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Just look at Microsoft's history to show you that they have ZERO foundation for us to trust them with anything. It's like trusting a pedophile with unsupervised visits with young children.
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My Acer Swift 14 laptop from 2024 runs Ubuntu Linux flawlessly and without any driver issues. Which Acer laptop do you have and which parts of it are "not that well supported in Linux"?
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Acer Swift 16"- Or SFE-43 R0ME - 7840U/16GB/1TB - The 3.2K OLED panel is not well supported and battery drains much faster than in Windows in general, there are graphical glitches that make it not a comfortable Mint machine. Tried other distributions, but it is the same. Seems to be an Acer thing after weeks of research. I am selling it though soon and i will get an Air instead.
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FWIW: I'm running Linux Mint on a machine with an Nvidia GPU, and Doom the Dark Ages runs for me just fine. (This despite Nvidia's linux support being "bad").
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Especially when you can now get an Apple laptop for $600.
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As it always is with micro$oft, this... "reduce unnecessary Copilot entry points" contains the word necessary within; and that's where the microslop meets the road cos M$ doesn't want to lose the big butt money it expects from snooping on you as you use your computer. I'm set for Linux and will migrate as soon as I am ready to deal with the stuff I want to keep.
I have 11 right now and it's... fine, but I used a sneaky progrram to kill as much of the fat as possible... but, it's still windows and with the slant taken by the company... no. Just.. NO. You've lost what little trust you had. Bye winderz
I have 11 right now and it's... fine, but I used a sneaky progrram to kill as much of the fat as possible... but, it's still windows and with the slant taken by the company... no. Just.. NO. You've lost what little trust you had. Bye winderz
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It is actually 14+ years of Settings/Control Panel mashup bs.
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While that's the correct answer, look how deep they buried it. They may as well have hidden it in the basement, labeled the door "beware of the leopard" and taken away the stairs. The average non technical user is never going to find the Off Switch. Now put that switch in a more obvious part of the user settings, with maybe a couple of options for were you want copilot to appear, and a lot of the complaints will go away.
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Funny. My Acer Swift 14 (SFG14-63) has the AMD 8645HS with a 2880x1800 OLED panel and it runs Linux with no discernable difference from Windows 11, which is installed on the other SSD that the laptop allows. I guess a one year difference in release date means something in this case.
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It seems to me that mobile OSes were a chance to rethink things and make (sometimes) better decisions. For example, with iOS instead of allow programs to do everything by default all the time, they locked various things down behind specific APIs (which they introduced gradually over time). This lead to much tighter security, but it’s hard to change the thinking on desktop where compatibility and history and user knowledge encourage things to stay the same.
So it’s not an accident that they focussed on new things, that’s where the chance for improvement lay, whereas the desktop exists mainly to be the same as it has been for the last 30 years.
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Because it's "still" in Alpha. It's not a complete OS (yet), and even if it was, it doesn't have the software support of the actual viable alternatives (Apple or Linux). You can't just install (or unbox) it, and use it as a daily driver. I suspect the folks that actually have the time and skills to finish the project are either employed by Apple or working on various Linux projects.
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Nvidia Linux support isn't perfect, but as long as the linux version / driver / GPU all match up it works great. Some older cards have dropped out of support with new Linux kernals, and sometimes manufacturers do weird things with their BIOS etc, so you can't guarantee Every combo will work. 98% chance it will, but I have some older cards that don't want to play with the latest version of Mint. AMD does seem to have more reliable Linux support.
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My suggestion for everyone's personal Win11 PC is to do the following:
MacOS is just as bad these days. There are so many annoying things you have to disable to have a decent & simplistic UI. This is just software enshittification. For now, there are still ways to get around it, but I envision in the future, there really won't be.
- Setup a local account
- Run this script to remove all of the bloat: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
- Disable S0 sleep (enable the old style S3 instead)
MacOS is just as bad these days. There are so many annoying things you have to disable to have a decent & simplistic UI. This is just software enshittification. For now, there are still ways to get around it, but I envision in the future, there really won't be.
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The worst part: we are paying for all advertising. It’s all built into the cost of every fucking thing we buy.
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On the macOS side, I would say Spotlight. Truly, truly instant search changes the way you use an OS.
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I do like Raphire's debloat but if you're installing clean, an autounattend script gets a clean start for all profiles rather than just one: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
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Really? Does anyone actually care deeply about Windows? The idea of it is baffling to me. I’ve been developing on Windows for the past ten of the forty years I’ve been a developer. At best, I’m ambivalent toward Windows.
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Government can keep Windows, good riddance and that includes Microslop……
If Apple is behind dishing up the AI Slop, I’m fine with that too. Just keep working/pushing ahead on Apple Silicon and integrating the cross communication between the Mac/iPad and the iPhone….
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Ughhhhhhhhh, don't remind me!!! Windows 10 is sooooo good!!! I really don't want to chose between Slop 11 and Linux
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“Natural” scrolling is called that because one pushes the content when they scroll instead of pushing the scroll bar which was the default for years prior to touch screen phones. So scrolling up when not “Natural” makes the scroll bar move the direction you scroll and the content scrolls the other direction. “Inverted” goes the same direction as natural and that terminology comes from control setups in video games.
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And to add insult to injury, Microsoft now justifies their ad pushing crap because the OS is “Free” since they no longer charge for upgrades , which is absolutely false: You paid for a Windows license with the machine, that license today, unlike pre Windows 10, includes version upgrades.
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What's really funny is that it's obvious they thought Recall was exactly this. They rolled it out with pride and great fanfare, clearly expecting people to say "whoa, my disorganized file backlog is manageable now!" And they were utterly gobsmacked when the world recoiled in horror and disgust.
I suspect this is far from the last time the blinkered techbros will be shocked when the rest of us have an immediate allergic reaction to some new idiotic brainstorm.
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Microslop is not only committed to making Windows 11 -> 10 again, it will further commit to make Windows 11 -> 7 again.
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The fun part is that if you uninstall the "Store" version of notepad with all the junk there's literally a registry key that prevents you from just assigning the OG notepad as a default file handler for files. have to hunt that down and kill it just to set it as a default app.
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It's funny, all the Linux distros I've used came with free upgrades and none of them seemed to feel the need to shove advertising in my face.
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Window's RAM usage shows significant evidence contrary to the idea that Microsoft carries even slightly about quality. I don't understand how they can't fit the basic OS in under 1GB at the desktop. And the idle CPU usage is all over the place.
And when it comes down to it, they still haven't implemented per app sandboxing as standard or dumped old insecure APIs. Windows is a very dated OS at this point and they're not doing much to fight tech debt.
And when it comes down to it, they still haven't implemented per app sandboxing as standard or dumped old insecure APIs. Windows is a very dated OS at this point and they're not doing much to fight tech debt.
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My elderly mother-in-law uses Windows. It is a cancer of unnecessary ads and affordances. She is utterly confused. The Windows team is clearly incapable of (or uninterested in) designing a usable product.
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For awhile, Ubuntu did have a deal with Amazon to shove advertising in people's faces. Needless to say it was hugely unpopular.
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We'll see what Microsoft ends up doing over the next few months, because Windows 11... it's weird. I enjoy the operating system if not for the multitude of paper cuts that it has (like how it seems to always reset the theme for my background when using virtual desktops), and the need to stuff Copilot into everything. In many ways, the problem I find with Windows 11 is that it tries being way too clever by half, which isn't so much an issue with Windows 11 than it is an issue with the way that Microsoft develops software. That being said I've pretty much become a committed Fedora Linux user, so my interaction with the Windows side of my partition is pretty limited.
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Backwards compatibility is the only thing Windows has going for it, so that's never going to happen.
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Ubuntu advertise their "Pro" client at least once per day when starting a new shell, and almost every time when I run apt.
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One way to calm down the Copilot (stuff) is to use trailing edge technology, it seems. I have 10th & 11th gen Intel chips (Sig Other has similar generation AMD in her laptop, I think) that, regardless of RAM load, don't seem to qualify for use of AI. They all work with Win11 though. So I get lots of Copilot announcements but little of the action. Of course, that means at some point I will no longer get updates, and certainly will not get "Windows 12" whenever it appears.
Amusing that in the email I got (probably what triggered this article and similar ones in other pubs) announcing all the great stuff MS will be doing was a note about ability to move the taskbar around the screen (including to the side, not just the top). Billed as an improvement, but really it's the return of something that Windows 10 had since near its beginning (did Win8 have it?). Perhaps banging on that issue again and again finally got through to somebody?
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