Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that?
Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
Microsoft promise way ahead of time, fail to deliver, reduce scope, kick out a broken half finished product, get the customers to beta test it, change their mind on the direction of the entire organisation in that space and generally leave everyone confused and a bit burned out. This happens every time and has done for the last 20 years. Even the latest reinvention has just increased the frequency of this incompetence.
Most marketing at least delivers an 80% product.
> Why do people tolerate this as the norm? How can people stand it?
Not to say that that one thing should be unbearable to everyone, but that it struck me as a hallmark of a culture with totally different expectations that I can't really imagine sharing at this point.
As for this:
> I think most Linux users would admit Windows is a solid option, if just not for them.
Idk how to hash the meaning of this out, exactly. It seems indisputable that it's a viable option in that you definitely _can_ use it for various things, as evidenced by the fact that millions and millions of people _do_ use it for various things. But that seems like a totally separate question to me from liking it, or whether it's good in this sense or that.
Is it coherent to say that it's a ‘solid option’ and also that it fucking sucks and I don't understand how anybody can put up with it? Maybe somehow that's where I'm at with it
I tend to agree with that for my own uses. I don't care if it's pretty if it works.
Backwards compatibility is not an excuse to allow 20 years of tech debt to accumulate anyway.
I am literally burning hours dealing with this shit on a weekly basis. It’s a flaming shit show and to call this mire childish complaining is nothing short of insulting.
”sorry I’m late for the meeting my laptop is hosed/rebooting/fucked” is a daily occurrence. It’s not good.
They need to do a better job considering I pay them money. That’s all I’m asking.
And don't get me started on the issues with Linux desktops, which can hardly even get screensharing to work.
My and others' point is that there is no perfect OS. Windows is good, MacOS is good, Linux is "okay", and if you're determining good by the critera "is there zero issues" then you're going to be very sad for the rest of your life.
As for Docker on the Mac I agree. I don’t use it. I use a Linux VM which is where I’m currently heading on windows at the moment, unpicking all the garbage.
The least troubled combination I can suggest is: use macOS on an M1 machine and keep it close to default as possible and do all your dev on a Ubuntu LTS box via SSH. And just avoid windows entirely.
Mac makes a good cloud terminal. Linux makes a good cloud server. Windows makes…err no idea.
Are you using Windows 10X by any chance? Sounds like the way it should be.
At this point, considering every mobile phone requires you to sigh into some account as step 1 of setting up the device I don't really care that MS asks too. As a bonus all my Windows 10 keys are associated with my account and it makes things easier.
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Edit: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-calle...
this one goes to 11
It happened with a lot of other software (Firefox vs Chrome is just one example).
Version number envy?
We joke but these are marketing names intended to make a big deal of a large batch of features. With today's continuous delivery (ie. incremental upgrades) this is no longer needed, at least not for technical reasons. But from a marketing perspective, it provides the opportunity to generate buzz in the news with "OMG best version yet"-style announcements.
They won't make that mistake with the next Windows. I'm sure they will still offer the Home edition bundled with new computers and locked to that hardware. But I would bet money that for the next version of Windows, the Pro edition and any license not locked to a specific motherboard will only be available by monthly subscription. This will allow them to make it truly evergreen because they'll have permanent recurring revenue.
Sure. You could have used the posted article itself as your source since that already covered it.
"Windows Stonehenge"