Windows 11’s market share is not increasing, and that’s concerning because Windows 10’s extended support ends in eight months.
    • armandoenlachamba@piefed.socialEnglish
      24·
      3 months ago

      Copilot is not the problem. If Copilot was just one more program (like Notepad or Paintbrush), I wouldn’t have an issue with it. But Microsoft (and other companies) insist in putting it every-fucking-where. Like in Notepad? WHY?! So yeah, fuck Microsoft.

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I know that isn’t the point of your comment, but what issues do you have with Logitech hardware on Linux? I have just mice from them, but honestly an embarrassing amount. I just use Solaar and I can configure all I need? I also have always only used the onboard memory (so I can move them between computers), and don’t really use macros though…

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    3 months ago

    Windows is being re-written from the ground up to be ‘agentic’. This means that Copilot is not going to be a feature of Windows, Windows is going to be a feature of Copilot.

    Oh, and Copilot is going to be writing the code too. Microslop brags that 30% of their code is AI.

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      Hey hey, let’s be honest here, bragged, it’s been 9 months or so by now. Who knows how much of windows is vibecoded at this point, it might be as high as 50%.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Maybe the new stuff. The Windows NT core has 22 years’ worth of code.

        • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          If it’s a matter of quantity over quality, LLMs are fantastic at that. I can totally see them bloating the codebase by letting loose a few LLMs and have them do whatever.

        • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          And following decent coding practices there shouldn’t be a ton of code there (not saying a small amount, just little enough that AI would be able to compete in volume in this amount of time), just because less is so often more.

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    Mac is going to shit too, which is so sad since that transition to ARM was a huge success. Their OS is ridiculously janky dogshit now. It’s not Microsoft level bad but it’s heading in the same direction.

    I’m glad I finally started switching. The Linux stuff is more annoying in some ways but in predictable and therefore manageable ways. Mac=there is no war in bag sing sei. Windows=I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.

    • E_coli42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      What is wrong with Mac? I find macOS to be very clean and nice. I find it similar to KDE Plasma.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Okay, cmd+space and search.

        Waits.

        Fucking why?

        Results pop up, if what I want is on top (never is) I click and just before I do, it changes the top result and opens something else.

        Fucking why?

        Liquid Glass just existing.

        Fucking why?

        Giant window corner radius

        Fucking why?

      • Tim@lemmy.snowgoons.roEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I gave up with MacOS a couple of years ago (after nearly a lifetime of using them - my first ‘own’ Mac was a Lombard PowerBook G3 - lovely machine,) because it became increasingly apparent that Apple had stopped caring about the desktop operating system and were intent on turning it into a mobile phone with a keyboard and bigger screen.

        Annoying desktop bugs - like constantly (and randomly) forgetting the resolution and position of second displays, not powering up external USB drives properly after sleep, and (as a developer) endlessly having to fight with “why is my build suddenly broken? oh, MacOS decided it doesn’t trust the linker again” type problems just wore me out. Every time they released some pointless new UI fluff but ignored the fact that the Finder had been essentially unusable since Mac OS X (because why should you be using the Finder anyway, you should just trust that your files are stored in Magic Apple Cloud Land…) just reminded me they really didn’t care about desktop users, they just want desktops as accessories to their mobile phones.

        So, I cut the cord and finally switched to Linux on the desktop. Which is a shame, because they do make some really nice hardware…

        (Although now that I’m actively trying to cut all US suppliers out of my life, it’s actually been a blessing.)

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I’ve said this before but if Apple really cared about their users then the iPad Pro would essentially just be a touchscreen laptop. It has the hardware to run a full-on operating system, but they keep it locked to iOS so they can sell you apps via the lockdown ecosystem.

        • E_coli42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          Interesting. I’ve never had any of these issues. It might be because I use a tiling window manager (shoutout Aerospace) instead of Apple’s own window manager. Also, I’ve never really done any development on the mac itself. I just SSH into my Arch Linux server. MacOS is just a frontend to my browser and terminal basically lol. I don’t really care about my laptop’s OS since it’s just a frontend for my server. I just bought whichever laptop was sexiest.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        It’s been a while since I used Mac OS but I remember it was quite janky even around 2020.

        And of course the whole liquid glass thing is just bonkersly stupid. Vista did it years ago and it was terrible back then because it just made the UI hard to see. I’m not interested in how clever it is.

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      There was a period when “ergonomics” became something users assumed to have been achieved for all eternity. Late 90s, early 00s, when developers generally made UIs following strict guidelines and looking natively with no designer bullshit.

      Before that period (and before popularization of computers) “ergonomics” was something absolutely paramount, half of any mechanism a human uses. Another half would be the actual functionality, which differed between domain areas, but ergonomics didn’t. And once a factory would start issuing those mechanisms with some kind of control panel, it wouldn’t just release an update a few days earlier, no Star Trek transporters, no Harry Potter transfiguration, Carl!

      So, somehow making ergonomic UIs is now irrelevant for profitability of making a product.

      It’s not really about AI. It’s not really about ads. It’s not really about telemetry. And it’s not even really about something being slow.

      It’s just about ergonomics of old concepts implemented being by inertia not totally awful, but gradually worsening, and ergonomics of new concepts implemented being non-existent. That’s all.

      After spitting left and right for a few years even I would generally be fine with agentic AI or whatever else. If those things had ergonomic controls. They don’t.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’ve actually been really enjoying MacOS because of how they’ve sort of abandoned it. There’s no gimmicky bullshit in it. It’s just simple and old school and just works.

  • Goretantath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    3 months ago

    I’ve got till 2032 I’m good. Then I’ll switch to Linux which will hopefully by then be better than windows at running windows games.

  • tio_bira@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    3 months ago

    I’m migrate my notebook to Linix Mint, perform way better than Windows 10.

    I’m trying to figure out a way to transport my modlists from MO2 in Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim to run on Linux, once this is done, i goodbye windows forever on my personal devices

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
    142·
    3 months ago

    My office jumped ship at XP, it was that bad. We went to Linux because getting work done was actually more important.

    So many things finally caught up, we did a lot of server client things with the Linux stack for field offices.

    Now they call it the cloud. Which means it isn’t your server.

    XP started the enshittification and it continued year after year…

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    3 months ago

    Get off American monopoly tech. The desktop is the easiest.

    A GNU/Linux desktop has endless advantages and doesn’t include the anti-features.

    Linux, in some form, runs a lot of your life already, even if you don’t know it.

    If your a tech, you really should deeply know Linux/UNIX anyway.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    But they so generously extended their blackmail ultimatum date support!! Why won’t people switch? It’s so weird. Don’t they know that MS CEO Satya Nadela ($1.1 Bil) has their best interest at heart, always?

    • Einar@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      That’s not how you spell “Windows 7”.

      XP properly started the rubbish which keeps piling up in Windows 11. Remember the online activation, for example?

      Still, Windows XP was much more user friendly/user respecting than 11 is.