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I used to help maintain a Linux distro, and there is a level of polish Windows has that I feel cannot be reached by the FOSS ecosystem due the resources dumped into hiring dedicated teams at MS. Microsoft has tons of money. I’m sad about the direction of windows, but it generally works pretty well for how it’s designed (which is in some cases awful).

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c0ber@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
there was a time where that may have been the case, but microsoft has been chipping away at any polish they had for years. sure there’s still some rough edges in linux, but it’s only getting better where windows continues to get worse

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AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I agree with your point, but I never would have thought of describing Windows as “polished”.

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- ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a sliding scale
  
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  - AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure. I could accept hearing “Windows is more polished than most Linux distro’s”. But to say blankly that Windows is polished is crazy talk. It’s jank as balls. It’s got like 3 totally discrete and independent UI frameworks for the menus operating in parallel, and somehow none of them provide all the functionality you would need, have to mix and match them.
    
    That’s just a single example. I could rant for hours.
    
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    gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    please do, i LOVE long rants about windows :]
    
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kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s my point, people may complain but nothing else competes.

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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m sad about the direction of windows, but it generally works pretty well for how it’s designed

That is a bold claim. And absolutely wrong for many configurations.

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ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A good amount of Linux distros don’t seem to want to get the basics down. Constant churn vs stable but way out of date is more how is describe the choice, while windows at it’s core is actually a pretty stable platform. I don’t have to, for example, get annoyed at Firefox middle mouse scroll not working because I forgot this distro still defaults to x11 even though it installs Wayland too blah blah blah.

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- blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Firefox middle mouse scroll works fine in X11. I use it all the time. But I guess that’s beside the point; I’m sure we could come up with a different example.
  
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  - ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You right, that’s just a weird firefox setting
    
    Was thinking of touch: superuser.com/…/enable-touch-scrolling-in-firefox
    
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