Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Funny how we’ve forgotten already the rage and backlash from users when it was revealed you could never completely disable telemetry in windows 10.
  Now the general attitude is ‘well, it’s not as bad as 11.’
  For the better part of a decade I used windows only for gaming, and now I’ve dropped it for that too.
  I’m not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.

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  • breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Gaming on Linux has gotten really good thanks to proton. Never look back!

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.

    1. Adobe programs
    2. some online games
    3. not having to fuck around in CLI if I want to change obscure settings (e.g. regedit or group policies)

    Those are the main points that keep me from switching.

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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1. Winboat or Winapps - Both will let you use Adobe programs in linux pretty well with a sandboxed vm. Getting better every day. That is assuming you can’t get done what you need on Open Source software alternatives - some are really good, others are a bit of a let down.

      2. If you are fully on board with Kernal Anti-Cheat, then you have already given up on actually owning and controlling your PC. That said, there has been talk recently by windows about kicking 3rd parties out of the Kernal, so KAC might actually die soon (we can only pray).

      3. I’d be curious to know what you are regularly using regedit and group policies to change. For a start, I bet a lot of it can be changed in the settings GUI or aren’t problems that need changing to start with in Linux. Secondly, I think learning CLI is significantly easier than learning regedit - the navigation at least is a lot simpler imo. Unless you are just running .reg files you find on the floor of the internet, if you learned to use regedit you can definitely learn the Linux CLI (as much as you’ll need to in order to do what you want).

      Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our “team”. :)

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      • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        1. Thanks, I’ll check Winboat and Winapps out! My existing info came from the WineHQ website, and InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop were all reported as various levels of broken. And yes, sadly the FLOSS alternatives don’t meet my needs, I did quite a bit of research on this a few months ago.
        2. I guess some of it is habit, kernel-level anti-cheat has been a thing as long as I’ve been gaming, so it feels “normal” :| But I’m looking forward to the day when my favourite games won’t use it!
        3. Not using it regularly, but when I do need it, I extremely strongly prefer GUIs to CLI. I’m just a visual person, so it feels important to be able to navigate in a visible interface and see “where I am” and what my actions are affecting. With CLI I find it quite stressful to e.g. have to memorise modifier letters, instead of just clicking a checkbox. I’ve seen screenshots of people doing everything (including PKM) in CLI and it honestly baffles me how they can feel comfortable with it.

        Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our “team”. :)

        Of course! Make no mistake, I feel no affection towards any corporation, their main goal is to bleed us dry for their shareholders. But giving up my fully featured software and favourite games to follow my FLOSS ideals does not seem to quite balance the scales for me yet.

        Though disclaimer: if I wasn’t doing piracy, but actually had to pay for Microsoft and Adobe’s rent-seeking, and be subject to all their bullshit restrictions, I would probably have jumped ship years ago. Enterprise group policies can remove a lot of user-hostile crap from Windows.

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  • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sadly I’ve got too many programs that don’t work on linux, or don’t work well. And and old synthesizer that I can’t imagine would work on linux unless I made a driver for it myself, and that’s a bit beyond me.

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