All the more reason to avoid Windows I guess. MS is busy crippling the user experience in exchange for short-term profits and now this.
I'm glad Linux has good driver support and maintainers who would say no to BS like this.
I'm glad Linux has good driver support and maintainers who would say no to BS like this.
Microsoft isn't crippling their user experience considering that doesn't benefit them; it's bad-actors cultivating that idea to push people on less-secure platforms, and/or naive Arch Linux first-time installer bros that want to push the idea of a worst desktop experience everywhere for no deep reason.
Microsoft doing whatever they're doing to Windows benefits the average person who otherwise isn't going to deep lengths to improve their security and experience. I want more people to be as-secure as possible considering they'll become bot net contributors otherwise, or leak data that I share with them in some manner.
I have to use Windows at work, and have done so for decades. From where I sit, Microsoft is absolutely crippling the user experience. Every release after Win 7 has been a degradation in that.
Ten Dutch guys can make for free a better piece of software than a multi-billion dollar corporation can because better UX isn't profitable when you've already captured 99% of the market. :p
Meanwhile, guess what's the most popular operating systems for workstation use is. You're implying everyone using Windows willingly is dumb and being inefficient. Dolphin works, so does Explorer, Nautilus, and even Thunar. Only two of those are relevant for most people.
In general, it seems that those who are used to Windows get along better with KDE.
> KDE should stop assisting with fragmenting Linux
Having a selection of DEs to choose from is not "fragmenting Linux". It's a rather large strength of Linux to be able to select the DE that works best for you. I wish that were possible with Windows!
DWM and Explorer have low-latency, good hardware-acceleration, and power efficiency down to a T. GNOME 44 isn't on-par. I haven't heard anyone ever compliment KDE in these regards recently and back when I last tried it when Plasma 5 was relatively new it also wasn't up-to-par.
More work should go towards making these GUI toolkits run as efficiently as possible, instead of re-inventing the wheel slowly while macOS and Windows continue going strong.
You lose transparency and animations, but the smoooooothness is amazing (and it even extends to games)!
I don't recall how smooth Windows 7 or Vista felt, but my conspiracy theory is that Windows lost all that Aero transparency IN ORDER to be so smooth (but that's probably apocryphal).
Nevertheless, Windows's DE and platform limitations are still horrible compared to Linux with KDE. :D As for Mac, that's tantamount to GNOME, so to me it's not worth considering as a contending GUI.
Honestly, it's better than GNOME at being an alternative to Windows UX, so calling them out for fragmenting Linux is kind of moot.
Like when their video drivers overstep their bounds and gather information on what applications are run and what websites are visited?
Just wait until you hear about your cursor being tracked on pages and what images and positions on the site you hover and stop scrolling over :p
Intel isn't giving my browser data to enemies of the state. What do you really think Intel is doing with this information?
And yeah, website URLs are important since people want to bootstrap and toss WebGL all over the place needlessly; all that is GPU accelerated. Blame anyone not using a plain-text website.
I actually have no idea, which is part of the point. The concern isn't [primarily] Intel. Eventually, it will be leaked or sold or shared with third party contractors who will leak or sell it or share with third party contractors who will...
Once private data leaves your system, you have no control over it. The reputation of any one company doesn't protect it.
AMD is what you get without telemetry; crap API support on Windows (they took their already mangled stack and Jay Wilson'd it May 2022), next to no innovation with AI, flopped OpenCL, and have to concede with HIP since CUDA is too good. They can't even fix their botched TPM support that's so bad it had to be disabled globally on Linux.