https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11s-latest-endearing-mess-contains-rigorously-enforced-britishisms/
Microsoft's patchwork OS will now sometimes auto-translate Zip files to postcode files for UK users.
I always hear this repeated but I feel like it doesn't hold up. Most Windows releases are bad these days. Last release that was mostly decent was Windows 7 but they were even fucking that up towards the end with 'telemetry'.
Didn't they say that they were planning to no longer release new "versions" per se, but just keep on updating the existing operating system indefinitely? Perhaps they had the bad luck to start that strategy with one of the bad releases.
They said that with 10, which by some is considered great, better than 11 for sure
(Edit for the record, 10 broke my machine and got me to switch to linux, so by no means do I consider it great)
I think they also throttled gpu performance at the kernel level or something. I vaguely remember reading a post about that but don't have source or anything. However back in the day I was getting dogshit framerates in VR and I had a "pretty good" computer. After trying everything to solve these performance issues for months and failing, I tried out Windows 10 and suddenly all my framerate problems were solved.
I honestly don't know how people us it every day. If they're not trying to shove politics or celebrity gossip down your throat with Edge or that 'weather' thing in the taskbar then they're sending boat loads of data back to Microsoft on your every move. Why does anyone put up with it? And pay for the privilege?!
I need it for work and am too lazy to set up some sort of VM to limit data sending etc. I also used to game quite a bit and never got Wine working very well – but I don't really play these days so that's a moot point.
Plus I don't think you need Wine as much either because there are a lot more native games these days
On one hand that's true, but on the other not counting competitive multiplayer games (curse you anticheat shakes fist) it's honestly hard to find a game that doesn't work on Wine/Proton/GE-Proton these days
Unless I can debloat Windows 11 like the way Windows 10 Ameliorated Project did, with network spying fully stopped, this is going to be my last version of Windows I will keep running offline for years.
I'm holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They've tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it's been a minute.
Doesn't have to be Ubuntu, Mint would work too, but yeah, windows keeps going down hill, I switched to Linux early last year and not regretted it once
Side note: if you want something more windows like, KDE is a good desktop environment, its got a lot of customization settings too
Though I'm told cinnamon (what Mint uses) is also pretty windows like
Seconding Mint on this, It's so easy to get used to it that it felt almost as familiar as Windows during my first week of using it.
I'm sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I'm annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I'm all set up and have learned it, it'll probably be better than Windows but I'm just not willing to spend even a minute on it.
Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I'm starting soon I'll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers
Not necessarily too old, but as long as it can boot in "legacy BIOS" mode, I think I'm safe 🤫
Save yourself some valuable braincells & other resources. Seriously consider Ubuntu LTS, this is not a joke.
I dunno.. I've always used Windows, being annoyed by their requests to update me to the newest version isn't enough to want to learn a new OS or anything.
I'm running 10 LTSC on my main desktop pc and get no nagging to upgrade at all. Tbh the only thing stopping me from switching to Linux is lack of driver support for my simracing wheel (still waiting, thrustmaster...)
This is what happens when you just automate everything and you don't have people who speak other languages involved
It's an immediate result of a cost saving measure. Go here and read the red banner: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language/
Thank you for using Microsoft Language Portal! The site will be removed on June 30th, 2023.
imho it is useful, not to be canned
That's what happens when you don't hire enough people to do the job. The job still gets done, but poorly.
People having to interact with computers with translated UI need to deal with similar bewilderments very often. It doesn't even need to be AI translated, just shittily.
What do you like about it? I'd like to know some of the good things that OS has possibly done. Silver lining and all of that!
I don't know. The GUI is prettier. Notepad & File Explorer have tabs now. What got me is that a few years ago I had to edit a spreadsheet that had over 12,000 columns and at the time Libre Office couldn't do it. So I bought a seat of 365 and now I'm here. I do miss Ubuntu though. The other thing is that my day job uses windows exclusively and I felt that since I was using ubuntu at home for 12+ years I needed to brush up on my windowsisms.