i cringe so hard at how pathetic and ridiculous microsoft has become.
Literally the only reason why people still use windows is that everyone else writes their programs for windows. But let's be honest here. Out of the three big OS's (Win, Linux, MacOS) windows is by far the worst. Big developers have to start writing their software for Linux and windows will crumble very fast.
Devs follow the crowd, and its usually not the other way around unless theres a financial incentive (e.g valves position).
The easiest one is AI/ML. Devs could switch to linux and help make AMD better with open source drivers. Most of them continue to feed into the already existing CUDA network Nvidia created for devs. The major libraries for ML (e.g tensorflow) already have AMD backends, most devs just rather not do that work until its the mainstream.
I find for most day to day uses, there are already decent options available for Linux. There still needs to be a bit more polish for non technical users, but it's getting really close to being a viable mainstream option nowadays.
There's still a lack of professional software for music, photography and video production. It's not just a matter of there being a good tool; you want a good tool that's established and widely used in the industry. If some of the makers of professional software in these fields were to port their stuff to Linux, Linux's market share would grow and the momentum would prompt more software companies to do the same. But getting that ball rolling has proven hard for decades. Maybe as Windows becomes more and more frustrating, more ordinary users who don't need these particular tools will migrate and increase Linux's market share, causing software companies to take note. But people are quite used to putting up with a lot of nonsense on Windows.
Honestly, the use case with the least/worst options on Linux is CAD. Yes, FreeCAD is a thing but it's terrible and it's established userbase insists that actual modern CAD packages are unnecessary.
Apart from FreeCAD, there's a browser-based option that looks good, but most people won't use it because it forces everything designed on their service to be open-source.
needs to be a bit more polish for non technical users
There's a curve to this. If they're non technical enough, learning to use Linux for browsing Facebook is just as easy as learning windows. I've switched a handful of my older customers to Linux and they're my least needy customers now.
I really think there's a huge potential market for companies like System76. This is basically the same model Apple has where they control the software and hardware stack to make sure everything works well together. Being able to just get a machine with Linux already set up, and everything working out of the box lowers the barrier for adoption significantly.
glad i got off of windows 10 before windows got worse. now i'm just sitting here laughing but also disappointed that people have to put up with let alone use this shit because it's the mainstream os
Microsoft now wants you to explain exactly why you’re attempting to close its OneDrive for Windows app before it allows you to do so.
Neowin has spotted that the latest update to OneDrive now includes an annoying dialog box that asks you to select the reason why you’re closing the app every single time you attempt to close OneDrive from the taskbar.
Microsoft has been pushing OneDrive in Windows for years, with it taking over the Documents and Pictures libraries in Windows 11 by default to sync files to Microsoft’s cloud-powered storage.
This new behavior follows years of Microsoft’s demanding Edge prompts that appear if you dare to download Chrome or change your default browser.
Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.
If you want to avoid this latest OneDrive nonsense, then feel free to open Task Manager, search for Microsoft OneDrive, and end that task the old-school way.
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