I had to re-upload this video because in the first version there were some glitches with the audio. Specifically, Final Cut has a bug where it will seemingly randomly mute parts of an audio track. I thoroughly checked the Nebula version, which had no problems so I assumed the YT version would be fine too, but it wasn't. I know, kind of ironic to upload a video sponsored by a microphone and talking about how stable the connection is just to have the audio glitch, lol. Anyway, enjoy the video and check out the ModMic with a 15% discount by using my code “TA15” and this link (sponsored): antlionaudio.com/?KZread&TA&NQ423

@muhalimachrus406

7 ай бұрын

Lol, at first, I thought this was weird censorship.

@vasylzhydun8879

7 ай бұрын

I also thought, the mic sponsor and glitch combo is kinda funny)

@kineticsyntax

7 ай бұрын

Very interesting video, and I will be looking forward to future content. The original video auto played when it was unlisted, I left a comment about it and when I went to sub and edit the comment the video was down and I was unable to find you, however I have found you once again and I will continue were I left off.

@NizaSiwale

7 ай бұрын

Why didn’t you show the graph of Microsoft’s revenue as well. As a company they’ve grown and Windows is no longer their primary revenue source

@OrigEntertainmentOfficial

7 ай бұрын

Which version of FCPX are you using?

Considering how much data mining MS does I find it incredible that they manage to consistently misunderstand the needs of their customers

@stefannilsson2406

7 ай бұрын

lmfao! So true!

@NotSoMuchFrankly

7 ай бұрын

Lily Thomlin had a joke about AT&T long ago when everyone had landlines b/c AT&T figured that cellphones would be a costly transition for them and they had no competition so why bother: _"We're AT&T. We don't care. We don't have to."_ As for MS not understanding the needs (or desires) of the customers? Oh they know damn well. _They just don't care. They don't have to. They're Microsoft._

@chbrules

7 ай бұрын

You really thought the data mining was being used to improve the products? 🤣 It was for sales to marketers.

@fuckshit8208

7 ай бұрын

The overwhelming majority of Microsoft's revenue comes from the corporate sector. Server products, Cloud computing solutions, the Microsoft 365 ecosystem... so on and so forth. Let's say you purchase a new computer every five years. A Windows 11 Home license costs $139 to buy outright and is much cheaper (around $60) if it comes preinstalled with the PC you purchase from BestBuy or wherever. My organization spends around $139 on licensing per user every three months. That's just licensing for the 365 suite and we're a small-medium sized company. That number doesn't count any of the other sources of revenue that I've mentioned, either. When you put things into perspective, they understand the needs of their customers very well. It just so happens that if you're a personal Windows user, you're not really a customer, more like a cow to have your data mined and sold for ad revenue. I'm sorry to break the news to some people.

@FarrellMcGovern

7 ай бұрын

They don't use it...they sell it!

Users: We want a clean stable and well done operating system! Microsoft: *Adds AI bloat in every corner of the OS*

@st.altair4936

7 ай бұрын

Then spends the next few years ripping the bloat out, wasting resources and making the OS even less coherent

@AmigaWolf

7 ай бұрын

Just use Pop OS (Linux), works fantastic on my two computers, Mini Media/Console-PC and my Game-PC.

@deann7898

7 ай бұрын

​@@AmigaWolflinux just isn't there yet for gaming. anyone saying otherwise is lying or willfully ignorant. linux has come a long way and has a lot more support for major titles but there are still plenty of popular titles that simply will not run on linux. i love a lot of stuff about linux but it's still not a great "works out of the box" experience for the common end-user. with the amount of control you get over every aspect of your system is the tradeoff of having to do lots of stuff yourself, even with distros that aim to be more user-friendly like popOS, mint, ubuntu, etc. there's also a lack of well fleshed out apps and the community seems to hyper focus on things being bloat free rather than having great functionality.

@CommandoBlack123

7 ай бұрын

@@deann7898 It got much better. But still isn't perfect yeah. Its the best for emulation though

@OutOfNameIdeas2

7 ай бұрын

Broken ai crap with ads if I may add

I remember the first time i got a windows 10 pc, first thing that happened is i accidentally installed Onedrive that straight up hijacked all my files in my documents and stored it through their cloud services, and as i didn't pay for Onedrive i only had a very small cloud storage that became used up within like a day or so, when that happened most games or programs that tried writing data to my documents told me the folder was full, - Onedrive popped up telling me i have to pay to get more storage. Games couldn't find stuff like savefiles and so on... i tried deleting Onedrive, but it literally reinstalled itself, i tried taking out all the files from the cloud storage and changing location of my documents folder - didn't work, Onedrive just changed everything back to how it was before. It was like a damn virus man i had to disable and shut down my microsoft account for it to stop messing with me.

@Ashh602

3 ай бұрын

Yep. One drive and the forced upon you nature of it pushed me over the edge. I will not buy another windows laptop pc. They're still the monopoly on games for now though so my desktop remains but I don't do any real work on it anyway

@mal74

3 ай бұрын

I knew what one drive was in the beginning and have never used it.

@lociflow6154

3 ай бұрын

​@@mal74 you made the right call lol

@careem3463

3 ай бұрын

I agree that one drive is annoying, but it's manageable and changes are reversable so it isn't half that bad as you are saying

@twinkharrylwt226

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@careem3463i got a surface boom for my work and my ‘documents’ I automatically programmed as onedrive documents.. I have always used windows and changed to mac os a few years ago and I just hate that onedrive takes over your files if it was just a separate option to choose from while saving files it would be nice.. it’s hard to find what settings you have to use to get what you want.. I always love the simplicity of windows while still being able to di what you want, but the simplicity in settings and configuration is kinda gone

Their 'big bet on AI' is literally what makes me consider to go to Linux.

@connivingkhajiit

3 ай бұрын

if you do, go with Linux Mint

@colonelfustercluck486

2 ай бұрын

I have done the switch to Linux (Linux Mint) a couple of years ago. It is trouble free, and if you come off Windows it is pretty intuitive. Just don't mess around deleting this or that in the file system (as Windows people tend to do) unless you really know what you are doing, or you may delete something essential. That was my leaning curve. Then get to know the system and how it works... then you won't make silly errors. It is easy and just works. But it is different. I keep my Windows for anything that I cannot do on LINUX.... but I haven't done that in months. There are 'work around's' for games, STEAM, Windows on Linux, Wine etc. Or do a VM inside linux... using any other O/S including any variety of Windows that you like. Or Dual Boot. You can use 'Terminal' on linux, or use GUI. Linux Mint has a good GUI and makes it all easy. Accessories like printers and other devices are plug and play, it just all seems to go. And if it doesn't work, the drivers are on-line, after you check out the Forum for advice.

@scottcaramel

2 ай бұрын

Switched to Linux Mint just a couple days ago. Setup was a little annoying with my WiFi adapter, but it’s been smooth sailing ever since. I have yet to boot into Windows ever since, since all Windows really offers above Linux is multiplayer games that I don’t even play anymore. All the games I care about are still available on Linux, and most everything I do as a hobby like art is available too. I don’t see myself turning back anytime soon.

@Zeakthecat

2 ай бұрын

same. i don't mind AI, but i rather AI stay out of my computer. give support to AI, but don't integrated AI. and windows fucked themselves with AI integrated. windows 11 will be the last OS of windows i use.

@DefaultBoyBand

2 ай бұрын

@watersquid8376 so you chose ubuntu as a replacement for windows based on the amount of spyware? i mean it makes sense, yeah. ubuntu will be the closest for an average windows user in that field

Microsoft shot itself and continues to shoot in the foot by chasing fads when most people just want a stable operating system that stays out of the way. I'd still be using Windows 7 if it was still supported.

@megatronskneecap

7 ай бұрын

You can still use it. Opera still supports it and you just need an antivirus and a firewall. Also, install something you can monitor your IP communications with like wireshark so you know if something sketchy is going on.

@megatronskneecap

7 ай бұрын

And that Areo glass is gorgeous. Theres also so much less s*it on it.

@koshnarnarek5910

7 ай бұрын

Exactly. If only Microsoft made an operating system that was what people actually wanted, they would have no problem maintaining their market share and wouldn't need to chase these silly fads. But with Microsoft, it's always about pleasing shareholders ahead of doing things the right way or making meaningful improvements for its customers.

@scifino1

7 ай бұрын

@@megatronskneecap Steam doesn't, though.

@Knowbody42

7 ай бұрын

They saw how successful Android and iPhones were, and decided to try to force windows to become a mobile OS with Windows 8. It was just awful. And they didn't exactly admit they were wrong, they just slowly evolved their ham-fisted mobile UI to become more of a desktop UI.

"removing old context menus etc" Often, those old context menus are the only way, or easiest way to do things. They pushed the new base interfaces (Settings, etc) without actually finishing it. It's still not finished.

@mikkelens

7 ай бұрын

still waiting for the day that a modern windows menu can outdo all the legacy windows 7 system utilities that are slowly getting replaced. Have they improved Regedit, Control Panel, "Advanced" Firewall, Network Adapter settings, Sound Control Panel etc. in Win11? They never did in Win10 and I haven't jumped to 11 yet. At this point I think they've just realized that its too much effort to change stuff that most users try not to touch anyways.

@stanzacosmi

7 ай бұрын

most of those are either the same or worse. control panel is missing options even from win10, regedit is the same, same to the firewall, network adapter settings is more confusing now, and sound control panel is probably the only part that's better, but that's because functionally it's the same but now actually blends with the rest of the OS@@mikkelens

@PwnySlaystation01

7 ай бұрын

@@stanzacosmi Exactly

@STCatchMeTRACjRo

7 ай бұрын

​@@stanzacosmi most windows users dont use advance features, or at least the people i interacted the most. They just want to plug and play (use/work). If that were the case, the development team could have viewed those areas as not that important, if only a small % interacts with it. But that's just my opinion.

@stanzacosmi

7 ай бұрын

@@STCatchMeTRACjRo My dad just uses the web browser, and sometimes things happen that result in needing those advanced settings to fix issues that occur either from a computer or router update. so no, they still need to be in tip top shape

the thing is: i dont feel as comfortable with windows as i used to . its not just because i got older and became more sensetive towards certain topics, but more that MS changed so much in terms of privacy and policies. on windows 95,98,ME,2000 and XP i never dropped a thought about MS gathering my data of usage. windows 7 was the first time i heard rumors about it and since windows 10, it feels to me that MS wants to control, what we use on the pc and be a police of some sorts. it feels like if MS could have it their way, then they want to able to block the installation of software like torrents, or survey what you do with torrents in order to report it, if you do something with it that isnt allowed. its not about crimes, its not about allowing illegal stuff, its about the policy of snooping around to see IF someone uses it the wrong way. but iam so used to windows that changing to linux or something else feels hard and i dont wanna run into situation, where software X doenst run and i need to use alternatives or have to live with the fact, that game X doesnt run at all

@JimAllen-Persona

3 ай бұрын

Welcome to the world of Apple. The difference with Apple is they make no bones about it being a walled garden, but on the other hand shit generally just works given you understand it’s their way or the highway. I’m no Apple fanboy despite my driving a Mac at home, 30 years of supporting windows apps just burnt me out. I wish I could say Linux desktop isn’t ready yet… but the truth is I’m too old and too lazy to reinvent the wheel.

@dp055

3 ай бұрын

Win 7 had tracking ? Really ?

@DefaultFlame

2 ай бұрын

Thanks to Win 8, 8.1, 10, and 11 I've started on softly working my way into switching to Linux by installing Debian on my old gaming laptop, and it is hard. In Win XP and Win 7 shit just worked. In Linux you have to get very comfortable with the terminal and reading a ton of wiki manuals and guides, and watching youtube videos about how to do things. It feels like being back in the 90s and trying to get games, hardware, and drivers to work together, but you have to do it through the equivalent of a DOS prompt. I'm still working on making the move despite how hard it is because Microsoft and Windows is trash now, and I don't see it getting better unless they scrap everything and start over with making a proper successor to Win 7.

@zoltrix7779

2 ай бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona Windows 11 "just works", this isn't the old days.

@diegoaugusto1561

2 ай бұрын

sorry but it's not that hard a transition honestly. you're just afraid to try without, well, trying at the end of the day, you can always just go back to windows if you want

As an IT Professional, I hate the unnecessary changes that are regularly made to Office products, apparently just for the sake f change. I think a lot of people at Microsoft make changes simply to justify their employment w/o adding any real benefit. In fact, many times it resets the learning curve and user comfort using the applications in a work environment.

@cj4088

22 күн бұрын

I 100% agree with this. It’s frustrating sometimes. Have to tell staff to forget what they know and teach them something different is insane. Some already aren’t tech savvy and have a hard time learning tech bigger than a smartphone.

You never even talked about the elephant in the room which is the gaming industry! For a lot of people, it's the only reason they still have a Windows installation at all. And I hope Valve's efforts with the Steam Deck improve gaming on Linux to the point where I don't have to deal with Windows anymore.

@coastaku1954

7 ай бұрын

No, fuck Linux!

@hman2875

7 ай бұрын

Can valve really fix the nvidia drivers?

@aungthuhein007

7 ай бұрын

@@hman2875 indirectly, as more people play games on Linux, everyone will want to improve the experience

@koool56

7 ай бұрын

unless anticheat companies are pressured into proting their stuff to Linux, esport scene can't migrate. If not bloody anticheats, I would of stopped using windows 8 years ago, since I use Linux happily for everything but gaming, but for both my day job game engine and playing Counter Strike tournaments I need to have windows...

@drac124

7 ай бұрын

Exactly. There is absolutely no way I'm using xbox or ps5. And I can't use Linux because of gaming.

The issue is all the half finished features. The UI is a mess. For example, transparrency. Not even all their OWN apps support it. WinAero looked and functioned better than Windows 11 transparency and was MUCH more consistent. I'll never understand why they scrapped it only to trickle it back in.

@haralds.5832

7 ай бұрын

Exactly. Not to mention The lack of system admin settings, the fact that you need internet and a windows account to even use it, etc. etc.

@ShiroColdkeyesTheHedgehog

7 ай бұрын

Windows Experience Index Score System in Windows 7 was actually good; it should be brought back to handle modern cpus and gpus

@xpforevergaming8609

7 ай бұрын

​@@ShiroColdkeyesTheHedgehogIt wasn't completely useless, but had its shortcomings. For instance, swapping an HDD for literally any SSD would max out your score for drive performance. Which isn't very accurate, as there are clear differences between SSDs. For instance a low-end SSD without DRAM vs some high(er)-end NVME drive.

@MarchettLPR

7 ай бұрын

the worst is that win aero continues to run in the background on the system. It was not eliminated, they just removed all transparency so that the "legacy" part of the system adapts more to the minimalist interface that they wanted to adopt in the visual Frankenstain of Windows 8 and then they never returned it to normal. all windows in non-windows store apps work under aero

@BloodyMobile

7 ай бұрын

Win 10 originally had "themes" which allowed to apply different looks to the OS, similar to what 7 introduced. Then they took that away, forced updates for the win. It was also afaik originally possible to rearrage windows of the same process in the taskbar, so you could for example have 2 Explorer windows open, and if the left window on the task bar was actually on the right monitor, you could go hover over the window group and then rearrange them in the taskbar so the window on the right monitor is also on the right side of the taskbar group. Can't do that either. In 7 it's possible with a 3rd party tool at least. Windows is to me just THE example for removing features that (a portion of) users actually liked. Like how since 7 the option was removed to set the power button to "Ask me" and you got a dialog for picking "Shutdown, Restart, Standby" etc. Last version that let you do that was XP. And with their forced updates and "we don't care about you" attitude, there's just no saving them anymore. Even if they might bring out 12 next year and claim that YOU get the control over updates again, how many of us would actually be able to verify that this is the case by digging through the binary of the damn thing? Given how often a megacorp says "A" and does "B", I wouldn't believe it for a second that the claim would be true and just expect some update "backdoor" being hidden that lets them force updates onto you whenever they feel like it.

"this release has not introduced any new computing paradigms but instead has primarily focused on refining the actual core PC experience" so an non functional file explorer is them refining the experience?

@panan7777

Ай бұрын

LEARN and USE Total Commander, like the pros do. Comes from ancient history of DOS, was named Norton commander. There are several different versions. It REALLY help you create the folder tree and keep files ordered, so you can find them. Explorer does the opposite. Using it for 25 years. Not well known in the US.

@snorttroll4379

25 күн бұрын

Tell us more. And someone else chime in so we understand why we should care and where we should check it out

As a Linux user, I'm happy to see that it's slowly becoming more popular. Open source is the best

@Dark979Ichigo

3 ай бұрын

I just switched from windows to fedora around 2 weeks ago! I've had quite a lot of problems I've to say but I love the responsability it lays on the user. I love how it work compared to windows. I feel windows and mac treat you like a retard

@chadwickemcphearson

3 ай бұрын

​@@Dark979Ichigo speaking from experience, a lot of the problems i encountered when switching to a linux system many years ago, was me trying to make things work "the windows way" or trying to shoehorn windows software into linux. once i started to look for real alternatives to windows software and do things the canonical way (pun intended, sorry i had to), i started having less problems.

@c99kfm

3 ай бұрын

@@Dark979Ichigo Not that Fedora doesn't work as well as any other distribution, but my advise to everyone moving away from Windows to Linux is to go for Linux Mint Cinnamon. Many guides "out there" will just casually talk about apt, which isn't what Fedora uses, and many applications are only available for a select few distributions which includes Ubuntu, which Linux Mint is based on.

@woodenmonkeyfox

3 ай бұрын

@@Dark979Ichigo Fedora is pretty good ^^ If you want to try, pop os (full name: Pop!_OS) is also great for windows users that want to switch to Linux. My main distro is Pop os with dual boot windows to play to video games and that's it, it works very well ^^

@connivingkhajiit

3 ай бұрын

​@@Dark979Ichigo Keep spending time with linux and eventually you'll get comfortable, then the issues will stop appearing.

One thing you need to understand is that the engineers, managers and VPs working at these companies are incentivised to do whatever will get them promoted. Launching a new type of Windows demonstrates "impact" and "leadership" they can claim on their next performance reviews, whereas cleaning up, stabilising and improving existing features is nowhere near as sexy or showcaseable.

@tanveerhasan2382

7 ай бұрын

True true

@dava00007

7 ай бұрын

Also, the company wants to push everything in the cloud to create a synergy among their products (with their cloud offering in the middle). This is useless for what I do on Windows. As is AI. As is the MS account. As is the constant nagging for me to get Office 365 ans what not. They don't make Windows for us, they make it for them.

@philipgumm9243

7 ай бұрын

This is wrong, they need to demonstrate value generally.

@dijoxx

7 ай бұрын

@@philipgumm9243 In theory, but not always in practice. The value is not always quantifiable. Some short term value realised within a promo cycle may also be not as valuable or even detrimental over a longer timespan.

@MarioLeCarre

7 ай бұрын

@@dava00007 "They don't make Windows for us, they make it for them." This is endemic in the computer industry. Gaming has 'live service games,' these games are made for the corporations not the players. The players in live service games actually end up working for the company that makes the game, only they pay for that privilege. If computer industry corporations made something with the user in mind, my mind would be blown. lol

I like Windows in terms of compatibility with a lot of programs and a good variety of hardware. However, I think part of the reason why Windows is probably slowly declining is because of the way that Microsoft is just adding a bunch of telemetry, data collection, and half-baked gimmicky features for no apparent reason instead of focusing on the quality of the OS.

@RyuuTenno

7 ай бұрын

Don’t forget ads

@koshnarnarek5910

7 ай бұрын

They go out of their way to annoy their customers and pretend that they can't go elsewhere. They seem to be stuck in the 1990s by assuming that they still have a monopoly. They will never change...

@PXAbstraction

7 ай бұрын

" telemetry, data collection, " Which is funny to me because the same people who complain about this are daily using other OSes (forget social media platforms) that do the same thing. As a life-long Windows user who will never buy a Mac (especially with how anti-repair Apple's become), I agree though that they're focusing on the wrong things. There are core parts of the OS that are still very dated and frustrating (the audio and video subsystems for one) and rather than focusing on that, they're focusing on UI changes no one asked for and pre-installing 17 apps I have to remove every time I setup a new machine.

@Beryesa.

7 ай бұрын

Customers don't really care about telemetry, otherwise they wouldn't switch to Apple or chromeos lol

@jensenraylight8011

7 ай бұрын

the biggest reason are that they did a lot of brain dead decision, something like releasing windows 11 and treating windows 10 like a third class citizen. they even announce to kill windows 11 and replace it with 12. they did fear mongering and harrassing their biggest userbase which is windows 10 users, which a completely fine and good OS. no wonder they switch, if they didn't feel like upgrading to windows 11, then they just switch to MacOS, they didn't give those Windows 10 users a choice to stick around with their OS what they don't know is that, people stick with the OS no matter what OS is more important than forcing people to upgrade to the latest OS, because they would rather switch OS than Upgrading their existing OS.

I wholeheartedly believe that the biggest thing that is keeping windows alive is gaming. If the paradigm was diferent, watch Windows die in the 2010s

@DefaultFlame

2 ай бұрын

It's the only reason I'm still using Windows for sure.

@scottcaramel

2 ай бұрын

A lot of it is also creative applications. While creative apps on Linux are fantastic no doubt, a lot of companies require employees to use Adobe Illustrator instead of Inkscape, Maya instead of Blender or Unity instead of Godot for no real reason. While there’s usually ways to run them on Linux, a lot of the time just using Windows is easier for a lot of people. Hopefully in time companies will start to see that open-source projects are really the only way to get guaranteed long-term solutions.

@5h4ndt

2 ай бұрын

That is changing fast. I'm on linux since over 2 years and theres only 1 or 2 games that don't work completly. I'm sure it's not completly there and i just have a coincidentally good selection of games that work on linux, but compared to about 12 years ago when I first tried to switch over to linux (where almost nothing worked, and if it did, very slowly ), it has come a very long way. In my opinion, the thing that keeps windows alive, is the same why they got big in the first place. It's installed by default on almost every machine you buy and no one, except tech enthusiasts, know how to install anything else on a pc.

@machtmann2881

2 ай бұрын

That's the only reason I had a gaming PC. Maybe the Steam Deck will expand and have default compatibility in the future (much like Apple's Rosetta Stone 2 with Intel programs) so I can dump that gaming PC for good.

@solidmatzo

22 күн бұрын

@@scottcaramelI thought Unity works with Linux, though

I remember when I would remove Windows built in bloatware, and then secretly in the background, they would load it back up again. Peeved me off to no end.

I currently don't think that the people running away from windows will be convinced by ai to come back

@the1necromancer

4 ай бұрын

I ran and AI is more of a reason to stay away imo.

@MorganSullivan

4 ай бұрын

AI only made me run faster...

@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx

4 ай бұрын

Yeah privacy concerns overload, ai checking everything i do even not on the web and communicating it with Microsoft is the last of it

@kuroenekodemon

4 ай бұрын

AI made me sprint to the door on the way out. No thanks I'm good

@douglaidlaw740

4 ай бұрын

AI is not restricted to Windows. It is a feature of the iPhone and Samsung Android in 2024.

I'm in the process of migrating from Windows to Linux, not because of any practical reason, but because I believe that Microsoft's "you don't really own your computer" attitude is reaching a critical point. Windows 11's requirement that users use a Microsoft account, not a local account, is a great example of this, as is their endorsement of Google's plan to require "certified" browsers, and thereby kill the internet. If Microsoft reverses this trend, I'll happily revert to Windows.

@gotoastal

7 ай бұрын

Good luck on your Linux journey!

@msp5138

7 ай бұрын

I think you have Microsoft confused with Apple... You are welcome for the free education.

@willi1978

7 ай бұрын

for a good experience start with an easy distribution

@jayefe17

7 ай бұрын

I migrated because of the demolition of the entry level windows pc by microsoft. Linux is way friendlier to my pc and I haven't seen a reason to migrate back in a year.

@mskiptr

7 ай бұрын

@@willi1978 Fedora KDE if you're tech savvy, Mint if you want things to get out of your way and Arch or (better yet) Alpine if configuring computers is your hobby.

I used to be a Windows 10 user. Now I'm using Debian 12 (KDE Plasma desktop) and Kubuntu on my computers and have since never looked back.

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

Ай бұрын

good job now that you are adapting to linux you will stick with it instead of going back to windows which will continue to get worse and worse with time while linux does get better over time even if progress is slow slow improvements beat slowly getting worse for an os

@acajoom

15 күн бұрын

Same for both OSs you mentioned for decades. Debian on servers, Kubuntu on workstations.

@acajoom

15 күн бұрын

@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue I would not agree that progress on Linux is slow, the opposite and we constantly have to adapt, tech on Linux is pulling us to the future super fast. Unless you mean it like,. ..want to see Linux beat the statistics.

The killer AI feature I'd like would be for the device to adjust all audio levels to be consistent and time of day appropriate. Its strange to me that we still don't have an OS that does this. If I am blasting music at noon and then open the device at 4AM to check meetings, the audio should be leveled down to 1.

@Daimo83

2 ай бұрын

That's the most random complaint I've ever heard

@visheshl

Ай бұрын

This is the reason everything is so messed up. Don't give your controls to ai, take them back, it's just a few button presses of the volume control. You don't want everything to be automated. You can press the down volume button a few times. You don't need the os to do it for you.

@niggacockball7995

20 күн бұрын

why would you want AI for this?

@acajoom

15 күн бұрын

Why not have a computer shut down itself by telling you to go to sleep ? That would be a killer feature.

Those who worked in tech support during Windows 8, specifically those who had to try and teach people how to use it, will have to live with PTSD for the rest of their life.

@Christobanistan

6 ай бұрын

The VP responsible for Windows 8 is still working at Microsoft? Those guys have ridiculous power, no clue about the industry, and no accountability.

@darkwoodmovies

5 ай бұрын

I called those guys back then asking if there's anyway to "upgrade" to Windows 7. The lady on the phone was not pleased with me.

@BillAnt

5 ай бұрын

The best Windows with the least problems were the following XP > 7 > 10 > and probably 12

@Christobanistan

5 ай бұрын

@@BillAntXP had a LOT of problems with peripherals that you probably don't remember. Don't you remember every time a drive had to spin up, the entire system hanging? That was an issue with the kernel blocking API calls used by drivers. Lots of stuff with the driver model annoyed people to no end, and weren't fixed until the new driver model of Windows Vista came around. Security was also a severe problem before 8, when many Windows subsystems were rewritten.

@BillAnt

5 ай бұрын

​@@Christobanistan Well XP was still better than 95 or me. imo

Windows losing market share is GOOD. It makes for a more balanced market for operating systems, so developers don't just ignore Mac/Linux forever.

@dubble

7 ай бұрын

Developers aren't ignoring Linux at all - as far as Mac goes, that's pretty much Apples choice by forcing development to happen on vastly overpriced hardware, with stupid programming languages that nobody uses, with releases through a terrible App store that you need to pay a license for. Not to mention the different keyboard layout and complete disregard for any type of backwards compatibility. And plenty more, really.

@camsta_

7 ай бұрын

@@dubble you don't have to release apps on the app store though?

@ItsRyanStudios

7 ай бұрын

As a developer, windows actually gets ignored more than Mac and Linux. I'm not a windows user, but the people I work with are constantly frustrated with the lack of support for windows by cutting edge software

@Redisia

7 ай бұрын

There also needs to be a decline in those hardware giants that keep price hiking (certain parts are really hiking prices)

@msp5138

7 ай бұрын

Windows is not losing market share. This clown cherry picked fake US data from a very unreliable source. Also, globally Windows has around 77%-80% global market share.

Extremely happy to be part of the 3% 🐧

@alexk6745

2 ай бұрын

Fedora Silverblue is the best!

@rishimalnad8716

Ай бұрын

@@alexk6745 nah fedora plain kde is way better, immutables arent good

@alexk6745

Ай бұрын

@@rishimalnad8716 What's wrong with immutable? Just use toolboxes and distroboxes.

@snorttroll4379

25 күн бұрын

I would love to, but it doesnt work out of the box and requires programming for tasks that could have been a gui

The saddest part of this video is according to Steam survey March 2024, Windows still is the operating system of choice for 96% of Steam users. Linux and MacOS are a such a significant minority that it still does not make sense for software developers to care about them.

@Robbie-mw5uu

Ай бұрын

Market share represents nothing to the common personal computer user because Linux is used by business machines like cash registers and ATMs. Not powerful workstations, who all use Windows and to a lesser extent MacOS.

@crazywarp36

Ай бұрын

Only about 5% of ppl in the world use mac

I think Windows' AI integration will be the next start of a cycle. The truth is, people don't want fancy tools or technology built into their PC, but a system that just works for day to day use. That's the key success factor for any product since the introduction of the PC.

@bits360wastaken

7 ай бұрын

"The truth is, people don't want fancy tools or technology built into their PC" Yes. OS-level spyware isnt welcome either. Windows 11 has a keylogger baked in, which is more than enough to scare me off of anything above windows 10 permanently.

@st.altair4936

7 ай бұрын

Idk some people in the comments actually seem to want AI garbage for some reason

@gdutfulkbhh7537

7 ай бұрын

Bing AI is way off the pace, anyway.

@johnsuckher3037

7 ай бұрын

maybe the AI will make their search work and it will be a big win for AI :)

@jwarendsen

7 ай бұрын

So far all it has done is try and sell me things I can't even buy in my region, if when I didn't ask for any purchase recommendations at all. For example when asked what vitamins one should take to prevent shortages during the winter months it went straight to trying to sell me supplements. Instead of answering the question...is that really what people want? A new way to be monetized by Microsofts ad-sales machine?

I just want an OS that isn't a bloatware, doesn't force apps and telemetry on you, or has garbage forced updates that doesn't tell you anything what WAS updated which causes confusion like the time Windows taking control of which GPU to use from Nvidia control panel while also storing the downloaded update files within the drive therefore causing even MORE bloat on top of forcing scheduled restart after update has been downloaded, while being lightweight and doesn't hog your ram because of the aforementioned bloat, and many more that isn't on top of my head right now. Note: Just because Linux exists and fulfils my criteria, it doesn't invalidate my issues with Windows, not to mention that there are certain programs and games you can't play on Linux. I use Arch btw.

@Lurch-Bot

4 ай бұрын

You mean you want Linux but you're too lazy to learn how to use it.

@escapetherace1943

4 ай бұрын

sounds like you want Linux lmfao. Guess it's time man, I recommend Mint or Endeavor

@Boatfornicator

4 ай бұрын

@@Lurch-Bot Bro I'm already on Endeavour OS, that doesn't remove the issues I have with Windows

@Boatfornicator

4 ай бұрын

@@escapetherace1943You're based for recommending Endeavour OS

@escapetherace1943

4 ай бұрын

@@Boatfornicator it's literally the best distro! If I installed pure arch I'd just install all of endeavor's stuff too it's "arch but better(tm)"

I saw you were using Affinity photo. What are your thoughts on the program? how far behind is it from photoshop? I have a license from them because I didn't want to pay enormous amount of money for some app I needed only a few times a year and I don't do intensive editing anyway. I've noticed that both programs are similar I was surprised to learn that it had all the features that I normally used in photoshop. But I still have the feeling that it lacks behind.

Microsoft: AI will surely save us! Customers: RECALL DOES WHAT!?!?

It'll be interesting to see how much of the AI that is "built into Windows" works when the internet is unplugged.

@coreC..

7 ай бұрын

Probably it'll work like Siri.. When people think they are not using their phones, and talk about silly bumperstickers with friends, they "suddenly" get advertisements of bumperstickers in their apps and programs. Your data will get to MS and/or Apple and/or Google (etc) anyway.. right away, or else sometime later it will.

@stelardactek

7 ай бұрын

@@coreC.. I'm honestly not expecting it to work at all without internet, but I agree that even if any functionality is client-side, obviously it'll get sent to MS eventually.

@coreC..

6 ай бұрын

@@stelardactek Soon some person fires up their Wireshark, installs the Windows AI update, and shows us what extra network-traffic it spawns. And then we know..

@Brian-jv8iy

6 ай бұрын

@@coreC.. Siri works offline, at lest the only things it is useful for, those work offline thankfully. Siri does not work like that, I dont ever get any kind of advertisments related to what I talk about. It only works through what you do on your own, and it is a button in the settings on your own. Siri works

@Brian-jv8iy

6 ай бұрын

also those adds only appear while using apps from google or facebook, and then only when youre logged into search they obviously appear, nothing on apple@@coreC..

It would also help if Microsoft didn't actively make Windows worse by displaying ads in various places, forcing you to use a MS account, shoving OneDrive and Edge down your throat, SmartScreen and Defender refusing to run stuff, forcing automatic system updates, using your bandwidth to upload the updates to random users, omitting important settings from the new control panel, collecting and selling your data, ruining laptop standby mode (modern standby) and a lot of other things. They even tried to get rid of Windows' main selling point - regular Win32 apps and replace them with UWP apps (another failed attempt). Windows is an increasingly user-hostile OS and I wouldn't be using it, if I wasn't held hostage by games and pro apps like Photoshop, Premiere, Live, etc. I think the AI features will make Windows even more dependent on "the cloud" and I wouldn't be surprised if features like subscriptions and always online requirements were on the horizon. Maybe it's time to switch the OS after 25 years.

@ResoluteMujigae

7 ай бұрын

Games are like the big reason people use Windows. A lot of people who use Adobe Creative Cloud apps and/or DAWs like Ableton Live use macOS. I left out apps like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro because those are macOS and iPadOS exclusive. I am currently taking a break from macOS because I am waiting to upgrade to perhaps a beefy 16-inch MacBook Pro, so for now I am using Linux for my daily tasks.

@vinson3725

7 ай бұрын

i somehow still dont have these problems, and linux is still far too unstable for me to use, i change one settings it doesnt boot the next time i turn it on

@__cornflake__4252

7 ай бұрын

Sorry that you had problems with using Linux. Which distro you use with which computer makes a big impact on stability. Maybe you can find a different distro that works better for you and it will be more stable. Remember that GNU and Linux are built by volunteers, not a company, and not every distro is the same, so you can't expect stuff to work the same on Ubuntu vs Debian vs Arch vs Manjaro.

@gradystephenson3346

7 ай бұрын

If games natively played in Linux I would have switched years ago

@blade_sk

7 ай бұрын

Linux is getting there. Steam Deck works incredibly well, but when I tried Kubuntu and Proton on my laptop, I've run into various issues, most likely due to Nvidia drivers being a mess on Linux.

8:41 Cleaning up the system settings? Right... and it's still incomplete and you have to go to Control Panel for some stuff. I can't believe it took them this long to get... nowhere near completing the transition of the settings into a single place.

Working in the IT, 20 years ago everyone was laughing at Linux. Now, all companies servers run Linux

As a retired reseller installing Windows for 3 decades and billions of reboots, drivers and drivers and drivers and licenses I tried some Linux distros and ended up with Linux Mint. Linux Mint just worked out the box and is very fast to install. Almost no reboots and no fight with with drivers and licenses and so far no need to debloat trackers and telemetry. Most the the shortcuts I have used since the DOS days - I loved DRDOS - just worked and even the updates very seldom requires reboots. Then I did the most dangerous mission - I reinstalled my wife's 10 year old PC with Linux Mint LMDE with an i3 CPU. Copied all her documents. I was surprised that even our network combi printer just worked and the scanner also automatically. My wife just started the PC and used it without hassle and I'm still married!

@caimano55

6 ай бұрын

The “I am still married” is gold!

@johnknight9150

6 ай бұрын

I have Mint running on my parents' computers and they understand it easily (and still haven't broken it!). Mint is like a Toyota Camry or a good accountant: it's an excellent kind of boring.

@grimvian

6 ай бұрын

@@johnknight9150 Well put. Now in Linux Mint I just spend my time on doing work, almost no reboots and and updates are quickly done. I have Windows drivers for 3 decades and suddenly I don't spend a second about installing drivers - a strange, but good feeling. I use the Ubuntu based Linux Mint and my wife is using the Debian based Mint LMDE. She does not update as often as I do and I had a little wrestling with my Brother combi printer. So all in all I think I will go with LMDE in the future. Before, when using Windows, I was not productive for some hours when I decided to reinstall. Linux almost just install it self. :o)

@Armadurapersonal

6 ай бұрын

i installed linux in my mother's old laptop, some i3 -8gb laptop from 2015. it worked fine, she uses chrome and libreoffice perfectly. i've begun installing libreoffice to windows laptops in relatives as well, as getting pirated office is harder and harder everyday

@johnknight9150

6 ай бұрын

@@ArmadurapersonalWell that's good, it should become harder and harder to get. Piracy is bad for free open source software because it takes cost factor out of the equation.

I'll say they should put more ads in their OS, bake the ads in just like they do in EDGE, just do it more. Put more useful software in, such as candy crush, Netflix and TikTok default with fresh install, and in every upgrade. Get Cortana to speak as loudly as possible at setup time, it is not loud enough, at the moment. Probably further decrease the usefulness of the search. completely disallow local search, and every search is a Bing search. Heck, every mouse click should be a bing browser trigger, and each keystroke should be a Bing search. They should have more updates, say, once every 15 hours, and reboot the moment the update is done. and yes, they should totally disallow Local account, and under no circumstances that a user is allowed to login without internet connection and 4-factor auth. make windows a pure subscription based model, with force updates without skip, this will certain boost Windows market share. yes.

@corey7219

7 ай бұрын

You're kidding right?

@axethepenguin

7 ай бұрын

@@corey7219🙄 obviously

@francisquebachmann7375

7 ай бұрын

​@@corey7219its probably sarcasm.

@pacem6910

7 ай бұрын

Oh, and make sure that Windows does not shut down or sleep properly, and heat up in your backpack. Of course untested patches and making sure bootloops.

@bouchrafakher

7 ай бұрын

And they should physically force my hand to make edge my default browser since they are not bullying me enough to switch

My OS Journey: - Back in school and college, it was all about Windows for me, with a bit of GNU/Linux on the side just for fun. - When I started my career, I mixed things up with both Windows and GNU/Linux running on my computer. - Since 2012, as a software engineer, I've mainly been using macOS and GNU/Linux for work and my own projects. - My desktop PC has an Intel x86 chip and an RTX3090, running GNU/Linux for machine learning stuff and playing around with compilers. I'm also dabbling in robotics, using ARM and RISC-V based mini-computers with GNU/Linux. - For daily tasks, I use a MacBook with Apple Silicon (I have 3 in total since Intel time). - I haven't used Windows regularly in more than ten years, and everything's been great.

If 30 years ago we knew windows would be like this, no one would have bought into it.

Windows 11 is like Skype. Users are on official forums begging Microsoft to not remove previous options while the company do the exact opposite out of spite, killing the software in the long run.

@lokelaufeyson9931

7 ай бұрын

they killed skype proper and real.. They were unable to offer the same quality of service with their own software so they bought out skype (if you cant beat it, kill it) and copied every line of code from it and used in their own worse solution.. until skype was a empty egg shell.. At that point they added it to windows 10 as a "default voip and video call app".. (app? its a pc and its called a program but back to the subject) but it was in general a empty shell that they used as a advertise platform..

@slickrcbd9543

2 ай бұрын

Microsoft has owned Skype for the last 15 years. Big surprise they ruined it too.

@rammani7170

Ай бұрын

EXACTLY! They keep pushing updates after updates and all it seems to do is make things worse. I dont need the damn copilot, just please dont break the MS Teams, Im running into new varieties of problems every day with the apps I use regularly.

I really hope that companies like canonical and valve make the Linux kernel more popular with SteamOS and Ubuntu, hopefully speeding up gaming support for Linux and making it easier to game on Linux which would make it easier to get rid of Windows.

@qrsx66

7 ай бұрын

Yes I dislike Apple and Google as much as Microsoft, the only alternatives I like are Linux-based.

@Gadottinho

7 ай бұрын

Perfectly said, if I was able to use every program I use in windows on Linux and with the sa,e performance I'd 100% already be using Linux, I really hate windows and microsoft

@tratam447

7 ай бұрын

Linux' problem is not the kernel, it's good enough, even more than required for consumers. The problem is everything else including the lack of a couple of really big companies or whatever that could focus a lot of resources on consumer oriented OSes and software for them. Now we have "over 9000" distros and the most important ones are either made by community or focused on servers and enterprise. Open Source stuff is good, but it's not the answer to Mac OS or Windows, that's why we are almost there at those 2-3% for many years. In theory Google could have been the 3rd big company with their own serious OS (hopefully based on Linux), but we have ChromeOS and Android from them that are focused on different environments.

@RandMV

7 ай бұрын

​@@GadottinhoProton moment

@DanielBulyovcsity

7 ай бұрын

@@Gadottinho what are the software that are holding you back?

I switched to Arch Linux and Cinnamon Desktop for my OS full time in 2020 and never looked back! I haven't used Windows even once in over two years.

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

As someone who uses arch,(BTW) I can’t suggest anyone who wants to wean themselves off windows to try it. I suggest an easier distribution, such as Linux Mint or Ubuntu

@hopeseekr

Ай бұрын

@@BitTheByte I install Arch + RAMDisk. Then every time they reboot, it's exactly the same. It stays stable for years and years for my loved ones. Every time I visit, I do an upgrade, usually every 3 weeks, some family members I visit once a year. So far, raves about it. 20,000 MB/sec + inability to screw up the system === very awesome.

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

@@hopeseekr screwing up (and subsequently fixing) is half the fun of arch! It’s why the wiki exists. cx

Once upon a time, Windows was a trendsetter. It delivered what users wanted. Nowadays, Windows is just chasing whatever is en vogue at the time, and becomes more and more hostile towards the user.

honestly microsoft not having a monopoly is good. But I would prefer anyone having it over apple having it. I hope linux desktop gains more popularity rather than macos

@nylotical

7 ай бұрын

iPads pretty much have a monopoly. Whenever Apple has a good device like the iPad, they do a lot to keep it ahead instead of getting lazy. It’d be a good thing although I like Linux.

@TalesOfWar

7 ай бұрын

Linux on the desktop is never going to be mainstream. It's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness in this regard. There won't ever be a single distro of it that takes over, because the point of it is that you customise it to how you need it, which makes it more work for developers to support it. This is why it's so great at the behind the scenes stuff that runs everything, but less so for your every day computer user. It needs big backing and a primary distro for it to really win here.

@circuitdotlt

7 ай бұрын

I am constantly reevaluating my addiction to some windows programs, especially now that web based office is not too bad. I'd switch to linux, however it is still too easy to break and not as user friendly. Like 20 years ago, I'm still having ridiculous problems with linux, that then require a lot of googling and competence to solve. For example: plug in mouse, move it forward, cursor goes left. Linux is great when it works and I do use it for servers etc, but on desktop it's still pain. Sadly, as I do hate all the closed source, cloud-based nonsense.

@TalesOfWar

7 ай бұрын

@@dreaper5813 So your solution to a platform not being beholden to a single distro is to basically target a single distro? As I said in another comment, this is both the strongest and weakest aspect of Linux. This is also why Windows is the dominent platform outside of the consoles. It's a single target to aim for. You're asking for more centralisation and less really when you think about it.

@spicychad55

7 ай бұрын

Linux companies like Oracle, Canonical, etc they to get their shit together or merge together to fight Microsoft.

Win 8 definitely feels like the original sin here, I know some people like myself are always resistant to new OSs but Win 7 was and still is my favourite version I've seen so far, all the newer ones don't feel like they've added much

@heyhoe168

7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately MS waged a war on old systems.

@VijayaGopala

7 ай бұрын

ReactOS runs circles around Windows, it is so much cleaner, faster and resource-efficient.

@michaelwalsh3474

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. The smart move on Apple's part was releasing the dev kit the day the iPad was announced and giving partners time to learn about it. The second thing is making it a separate OS because it is a separate product. Trying an all in one solution wasn't going to work and someone at Apple was smart enough to see it. Sorry for my long windedness.

@kirigayamitsuru

7 ай бұрын

I'm still using win7 idk when i will upgrade it. Last time games im interrested to it isnt working on win7 anymore and im not sure i should upgrade to newest windows OS or linux.

@spod2998

7 ай бұрын

seriously. Most of the people I know are just biased towards windows 7 because they grew up on it, but I feel like it was genuinely the best OS in terms of UI, especially with Media Center.

ironically, just last month I switched my general desktop environment back to Linux from Windows... specifically because of how MS are already plastering AI on everything. if they approached it from an "opt-in only" point of view things might be different, but instead they seem to be going for a "good luck trying to opt-out" point of view. so with regards to whether or not AI will "save Windows", I guess we'll just have to wait and see how the general public respond to it. having said that, I will keep my x86 system as a dual-boot setup, at least until support for gaming on Linux improves.. bottom line: it's MY computer. I picked the hardware by hand, built it myself, and I fully intend to use it how I choose to, not how MS thinks I should.

The day Proton will be able to do Easy AntiCheat it will be my last day on Windows.

@BillyPage1337

23 күн бұрын

Add proper hardware and peripherals driver support, Adobe suite, Microsoft office suite and more.

@Stuke51

14 күн бұрын

All that's holding me back at this point. The day I can play a complete game of Fortnite on Linux is the day I say goodbye to Windows.

@BillyPage1337

14 күн бұрын

@@Stuke51 you will go back to Windows eventually, because gaming isn't the only issue with Linux

@Starlok007

11 күн бұрын

​@@BillyPage1337The issues on linux are much easier to handle than the issues in windows tbh

@BillyPage1337

11 күн бұрын

@@Starlok007 no matter what you do and how advanced you're with knowledge of Linux you will never get as good hardware, peripheral and software support on Linux as on Windows.

I think the thing that is killing windows is the decline is customizability that started with windows 8. I have a windows 10 desktop, and a windows 11 laptop, and I frequently find that things on win11 are either much much harder to change or setup how I like to have them, or simply cannot be changed. Even after many many hours of tinkering and googling I've found many features that I use frequently on win 10 simply not present on win 11.

@jiffonbuffo

7 ай бұрын

How to make fonts readable on win10 desktop. 1. Settings > Personalization > Themes > High contrast settings. 2. Turn on High Contrast. Set Background to Black. 3. Alt Tab to Desktop. 4. Go back to High contrast and turn it off. 5. Desktop fonts are now White Text with Black borders. 6. Heap curses at MS for not adding an option to just change the font without resorting to this BS. 😂

@dskygn

7 ай бұрын

Because of that, I immediately switched back to windows 10, what a mess.

@rubyvi5442

7 ай бұрын

@@dskygn Same. I think I will skip windows 11 completely and will probably switch to a unix os as the modern games on windows aren't even interesting anymore, most game studios are even owned by microsoft. Go figure

@Slavolko

7 ай бұрын

@@rubyvi5442 Besides games, I do use other applications for photo and video editing, so I would want those as well. Davinci Resolve made the jump, but Adobe certainly doesn't care.

@vel0_rouge

7 ай бұрын

I can no longer put the windows start bar on the left. I'll never forgive them for this.

Other things to keep people from moving away from Windows: stop spying, make it easier to turn 'features' off, stop requiring a MS account.

@InventorZahran

7 ай бұрын

There is a way to bypass the Microsoft Account requirement, but it's needlessly opaque and complicated. I doubt that very many users have the knowledge or patience to even try it...

@nicdemai

7 ай бұрын

@@InventorZahranfor every update microsoft tends to restore previous “features” that you previously turned off. They have extremely scammy practices when it comes to spying on you.

@patricko9479

7 ай бұрын

TBH: thats just something enthusiast care about. I've never seen someone outside our bubble even know about it and after being lectured by me, they simply don't care.

@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket

7 ай бұрын

They don't require a M$ account but it sure is difficult to figure that out as an end User and I believe Windows 11 now requires an internet connection to setup.

@gwine9087

7 ай бұрын

Can you use Apple products without an Apple id?

It’s funny Microsoft got so scared by the iPad because now it’s in decline. People never really fell in love with that form factor

Me: Source? Tech Altar: My source is I made it up.

Microsoft seems to have no idea what real users actually want, in fact they've not known what they want since Windows 8.

I treat my Windows machine as a glorified game console. All my real work is done on my macbook either in MacOS or in Linux.

@st.altair4936

7 ай бұрын

Even that use case seems to be disappearing now thanks to SteamOS lol

@Longlius

7 ай бұрын

​@user-ty5nq7sp3d I can't play Rust or DayZ on Linux because the anticheat doesn't work. Also I've been using Linux since 2002.

@rotte5537

7 ай бұрын

​@user-ty5nq7sp3dTrash mindset, you won't be seeing any regular PC users on linux with that mindset, software compatibility is the single most important thing for the majority of people

@DrSloww

7 ай бұрын

@user-ty5nq7sp3d Not all, but most, and most is good enough for me. If the game doesn't run on Linux, I just don't buy it. No game is good enough for me to use Windows to play it. Except maybe GTA 6, We'll see.

@koool56

7 ай бұрын

@user-ty5nq7sp3d Wrong, Valorant / Any CS2 third party platform for tournaments, Fortnite, basically any esport titles with anticheats

PC market has been on the decline because there's been a lack of innovation couple that with the fact that for most people it's not necessary to upgrade to a new computer every 3 to 5 years unless you're gaming or using resource intensive software like video editing 3D model making things of that nature you could keep whatever your current PC is for a long time

Not only this, windows is just unstable now, period. Every time I restart my PC I'm clenching my ass hoping that a sneaky windows forced update doesn't corrupt my drivers and potentially brick components, it's happened more than once.

Already made massive moves towards becoming Linux full time, and I will never look back once it's done. The only thing stopping me right now is games with anti-cheat, and that's beginning to fade too. Valve is doing an amazing job.

@coastaku1954

7 ай бұрын

Nothing works on Linux, everything is open so people can hack your shit. If people know how something works, they'll know vulnerabilities and know how to crack it open. Windows for Life

@TywinLannister0

7 ай бұрын

@dreaper5813damn i love your atitude. i am a Linux user and Love playing Linux games on pop us,

@TywinLannister0

7 ай бұрын

@dreaper5813 i use Pop os, and I play Vrchat. But i assume at some point you were playing games on Microsoft Windows? what got you into playing games on Linux instead of Windows?

@TywinLannister0

7 ай бұрын

@dreaper5813 You did say this, That also includes certain apps made by certain software corporations. If they don't work on Linux, they aren't worth running to begin with. Question: what happens if you work at a job And you need to Use CAD software Like Autodesk or Fusion360 or CATIA, You can't use those programs on linux. But you wouldn't even consider using a Windows 10 Virtual machine to run software for Work? I support your Stance Towards Gaming And I am shamed That i want to play Roblox on Windows Rather then my Smartphone But Certain Software that i want to use for Aerospace and work Requires Microsoft Windows. So If you worked at a Job that required Windows Only Software what would you do? I can always play PS5 Games and Steam Deck and oculus quest Headset if i want gaming without windows. But for work Spefic software is better for Microsoft Windows

@RickRobinsonDonnellan

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. What Valve are doing is great for the future demise of Windows. Steam Deck is a massive wake up for developers to take Linux gaming seriously. I go to work however and it is all Windows 11, connecting to Microsoft Azure which is all Linux based in the back-end :facepalm:

I really want to see more Linux out there, it has become a real competitor in the space it just has no giant marketing corporations behind it. If most people tried modern Linux Mint, they would probably consider just switching, especially after learning how no one is invading their privacy and it just works!

@mikkelens

7 ай бұрын

the truth is that they don't just *not* have a powerful enough corporation to market it aggressively, Linux distros are also inherently community projects, even if sponsored by individuals or organizations, which has serious implications about its target users and platforms. Something like Linux Mint may work great in a certain solved capacity, but if anything breaks, because computers do, not just on windows, there is not a support line to call. It will never be preinstalled on mainstream computers unless some mega-corp finds a way to fork/use it for other means, like a chromium/android situation. I'm definitely going to be using Linux more myself (currently experimenting with WSL, learning computer science/engineering etc.), but I am not the standard user Microsoft or Apple is interested in capturing.

@toxicturkeyy

7 ай бұрын

When system76 gets the cosmic de out i'm switching. Whenever that is.

@anfrex3342

7 ай бұрын

The only sin of linux is that it doesn't have much support for video games or popular applications/programs. For this reason many community projects were created years ago precisely to have alternatives, but the lack of money slows things down and the lack of users has an impact. The right thing to do would be to educate younger generations to learn with linux, this leads to more developers creating content for linux and that makes it more competitive in the long run against the corporate OS.

@JohnSmith-pn2vl

7 ай бұрын

linux is the opposite of "it just works", so is windows and android, that's undeniable

@dubble

7 ай бұрын

Linux distros have a serious problem with creating shared binaries that run on every Linux OS, so I wouldn't hold my breath. For wherever Windows goes wrong, it's the only platform that enables wide compatibility across devices and backwards and forward compatibility. Outside of few changes over the last years, nearly any 32 bit application built for Windows XP still works these days. Any application built these days will probably still work in 20 years. And all that with battletested tooling to consistently target the same libraries or create entirely static binaries. Apple's apparent aim to kill backwards and forward compatibility just about every year makes it a terrible OS to target (amongst the requirement to use their hardware, crappy programming language and pay licensing fees) and Linux has a very big problem with consistent tooling. There's half a dozen libc implementations with the most prominent one largely crippling static compilation, so when you do see applications directly distributed for linux you typically see a dozen different versions out of which you have to pick the correct one. As far as open source goes, there's a ridiculous community effort of recompiling and packaging up everything for specific package managers or repos.

@the intro It doesn't matter about home users. Microsoft makes so little money from home users, they make their money for charging companies 500$/yr for each employee that uses windows and office. And now through in co-pilot.... boom another 300$+/yr for each user.

how is market share evaluated? like if i have dual boot can both 'linux' and windows have 100% MS?

@TyGadzieTY

3 ай бұрын

That's good question, also with people like me, I've bought laptop with Windows, but changed to Linux after year, and also assume that people like me are not taken into account in these statistics.

@-vaniii-

3 ай бұрын

​@@TyGadzieTY its probably based on website views, statista doesnt say where their data is from if you dont give them money(lol) but atl the source wikipedia uses does it like that and their data looks similar plus also starts in 2009 so ig its the same source. so with dualboot they would probably just count it as 2 seperate machines. could also mean that linux is underrepresented since if youre using linux your probably more likely to use more obscure privacy focused webservices that dont give the data away to thirt party statistics companies

Us: "just stop putting spy ware that rinses performance in our OS and we will stay, we will even pay lots of money" MS: "MORE TELEMETRY YOU SAY?!"

@clray123

7 ай бұрын

Don't forget the mandatory M$ account, their great desire to control what software you are allowed to run on your own computer/device, and their helpfulness in "filtering" your cloud-stored files for "inappropriate" content (including automatic reports to Thought Police in the near future).

@Chriserino

7 ай бұрын

there is actually more at play here than just silly spy ware. It has more to do with their bit lock encryption than "spyware" . It doesnt take much effort to turn off these things in windows.

@Chriserino

7 ай бұрын

@@clray123 not mandatory. account or otherwise. cloud storage has no connection with what software you can run on your computer. Sheep vomiting trash contributing nothing.

@IrrationalDelusion

7 ай бұрын

@@clray123 Do you really think they need you to create account to log every single action across all their services and OS?

@clray123

7 ай бұрын

@@IrrationalDelusion They don't need it to log, but they need it to associate your actions with your identity. Their vision is that you will have to swipe your id card or better yet biometric data through some scanner in the near future in order to log in to your, and by "your" I mean Microsoft's, computer, and by "computer" I mean cloud. They will cram it down your throat by telling you how you no longer need to remember any passwords. Just behave like Microsoft & friends tell you to or they will cut you off, that's already included in the fine print. (It also applies similarly to other "as a service" crap, but Microsoft is Excel-ling at it.)

one thing to keep in mind here. You seem to be talking about sales figures, and not current active users. Windows PCs can last over a decade. People aren't buying new windows machines every 3-6 years when what they have is perfectly fine, plus a lot of people just fo simple upgrades with their existing PCs making them last even longer, and people can Linux on any old hardware since it's a free OS. Apple doesn't do that and they literally orphan their users in about 8 years forcing them to buy new hardware. This is because Apple hardware have no upgrade paths, since everything is integrated with no user serviceable parts, so most people buying Macs are replacing their old Macs.

@DocNo27

3 ай бұрын

I haven't upgraded a windows box in over 20 years - it's no more practical than to upgrade a Mac. Especially with Intel - every generation or at best every other generation they release a new socket. And memory standards. Thankfully PCI express slots are backwards compatible so you could preserve some value with video cards, but if you care enough about that sort of thing your going to be upgrading every four years at most anyway. It may be nice to have the option to upgrade, but really it's not that slam dunk advantage people seem to think it is. Also I find my Macs routinely last three to four times as long as my Windows boxes - more than evens out the cost differential. All while performing overall a heck of a lot more smoothly and reliably. Although Apple seems to be figuring out how to screw that up with each successive macOS release too. A pox on all their houses :p

@dantaeusb

3 ай бұрын

​@@DocNo27I can't express how much I love your comment, though I have harsher words for Apple recent releases, in general it's nice that someone has had the same vibes lately.

@galaxspace1

3 ай бұрын

almost nobody besides gamers upgrade their PC. Not to mention the vast majority of computers are sold in mass numbers to companies, educational and government institutions who wont bother ever uprading anything because its literally more work then using their negotiating power to get new computers

@rswow

3 ай бұрын

I gave up using two new $3k Windows laptops last year (A Dell and a Lenovo), and now use a decent new $600 Chromebook for most of my work. The Chromebook with only 8GB of RAM does things as fast, even with hundreds of tabs open, than the 64GB Windows laptops, and does so silently! It has awesome memory management, although a 16GB model would allow me to expand my workflow with more apps open since 8GB is pushing it. The Windows machines are now collecting dust. My sole reason, besides the fan noise, is their convoluted non-working 'power-management" features that won't let you control the monitor off/on and sleep on/off states to your needs. I tried for two years, I even, multiple times, posted on forums and gave Microsoft feedback, to no avail. I've had to give up monitoring my security cams, but I needed a live view yesterday: so i turned on the Windows 11 laptop..and the monitor keeps shutting off after a minute, even though I set it to turn off after a few hours in power management ! And when you want the machine to sleep, it stays on. (e.g. I thought, since I can't monitor the cams due to monitor shutting off, at least let me put the puter to sleep so I can work on the Chromebook in quiet...so I clicked the "sleep" option...I even closed the lid...and it wouldn't sleep! Had to unplug it and then it slept, though at times even that doesn't work). Etc.. Shame on you Microsoft.

@ivanschekoldin7315

3 ай бұрын

@@galaxspace1I don’t know a single person who doesn’t upgrade their PC

Windows used to be amazing. The never needed to change anything to continue being successful. I used it because it could run anything, was easy to use, reliable and the ui was easily customisable. I no longer use windows becasue I like it. I only use it along linux, only for the stuff that won't work on linux. Learning linux sucked but now that I've been using both for a year, I am never going back to using only windows. I am much more productive and happier using both systems interchangeably.

I just want an up to date and super fast version of windows XP, every version after XP has slowly caused this or that to feel bad, Win7 was acceptable but even then I always felt it was kinda bloated

@acajoom

15 күн бұрын

I never understood why people think of XP and Win7 still in 2024. There are superior alternatives but I guess people are scared of changes.

You forgot AI and the Bing nightmare, oh and cortana, and watson........ And the annoyance on One Drive restructuring a 20 year standard folder convention. I mean it outright breaks stuff for developers.

@FoxBonly

6 ай бұрын

One Drive literally drives me to the brink of insanity

@johnchristian7788

6 ай бұрын

@@FoxBonly What happened with Onedrive?

@whalen4400

6 ай бұрын

@@johnchristian7788for me at least, when I sign in on my Microsoft account. One drive just wants to back up everything in my computer in which I don’t want. It’s intrusively bad and a pain to get it to stop doing that. I like one drive but not when it obsessively try’s to back up every single file on my computer in which I don’t want it too.

@jimmyscringlo

6 ай бұрын

@@johnchristian7788 m$sft team up with five eye and put one drive on everyone pc now evybody crazy

@sugarvenom2189

6 ай бұрын

Let me humbly introduce Windows Ghost Spectre.

This is the fate of any mega company that treats people badly. Also remember that Microsoft gained its power and influence through crimes and not because they gained the customers favor.

@dr_ned_flanders

7 ай бұрын

You don't think that Apple treats its customers well do you? Their customers are just cash cows to them and they milk them for everything they have got.

@basilcat3111

7 ай бұрын

Disney is a realistic example. Look at their woke Snow White remake and their Terrifying Lilo and Scratch Remake that they fortunately cancelled.

@haraldbackfisch1981

7 ай бұрын

This! Microsoft was scummy from the start

@DJDiskmachine

7 ай бұрын

@@basilcat3111 Almost thought you were gonna point out what a terrible terrible person Walt was 🤣

@doctahjonez

7 ай бұрын

Literally this, wouldn't shed a tear if they just went out of business tomorrow.

It's not just about web apps. Windows 8,10 and 11 are buggier than 7 and have taken control from the user. People buy PCs because it gives them control, and MS have taken that selling point away.

windows 11's "cleaning up" is annoying because now a lot of things are just less accesible or takes longer to acces than on windows 10 i want an operating system that just works but i also dont want to switch to linux (not because i dont like linux but because a lot of programms that i use are not for linux because its not as popular) if people actually made those programms for linux too i might have switched aleready

@svr5423

3 ай бұрын

I think it's just a push from Microsoft to have people use the power shell more. Most of the stuff doesn't have to be done in the GUI anymore.

@BWB_Cubing

3 ай бұрын

@@svr5423 yeah I still dont know much powershell, the only thing i use regularly is winget upgrade

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

@@svr5423so, they want to take what most laymen hate about Linux, and put it in their OS as the “accepted solution”

@svr5423

Ай бұрын

@@BitTheByte Microsoft started out with pure CLI based operating systems. The GUI was just an expensive addon that some software used. You could boot without a GUI until the ME (afaik). Only the NT kernel based OS needed a GUI.

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

@@svr5423 I know this, but modern day users, (the laymen) are not the same kind of people that are okay reading 250 page manuals on how to use computers. If they were they’d not be in windows. 99.9% of desktop users expect to do everything they need with their GUI. By removing gui functionality at this point is shooting yourself in the foot. I am a Linux user, (I use arch BTW) I am no stranger to the terminal. But if I were to recommend a Linux distro to someone who is a layman, It would be a distribution that requires ZERO to MINIMAL (Linux Mint or Ubuntu) use of the terminal, because I know most people don’t want to screw with it

I'm actually considering switching back to Linux after years of not using it, with Proton getting better every year that pretty much takes care of my main concern which was being able to run my library of games on Steam. I already mostly use open or libre software for most things and those have always been available for Linux.

@bevanfindlay

7 ай бұрын

Yes, this. My question on response to the video's title was, "Why should we save Windows?" I've just made the switch to Linux and while there have been a couple of minor hiccups, the overall experience is far better than on Windows. Some games even run better on Linux than Windows (notably Minecraft, which is hilarious when you consider who owns it...) I tried using Linux as my main OS a bit over a decade and a half ago but switched back mainly because of games. That, and most other reasons to stay on Windows, are no longer an issue. There's a bunch of usability stuff that's just better on Linux. It made me realise how much Microsoft haven't been designing to be good but to corral users into doing things the Microsoft way, some of which is actively hostile (like trying to switch browsers). I've find Linux refreshingly free of MS's BS. Grab a live installer and give it a try sometime. That's a pretty low-commitment way to give things a try, and you can shop around to find the distro and desktop that suits you.

@coastaku1954

7 ай бұрын

@@bevanfindlay Linux sucks and isn't user friendly

@kanrakucheese

7 ай бұрын

Do it. Older (especially pre-DX9) games will actually run *better*. Only thing you miss is things with malware/anti-cheat (and even some of that works now).

@rigierish3807

7 ай бұрын

​​@@coastaku1954In what way Windows is more user friendly, if we exclude the "everybody use Windows since they're 4 yo, so nobody needs to learn it, unlike Linux" argument?

@CuivTheLazyGeek

7 ай бұрын

I hope you have an AMD GPU! I'm waiting for Linux to properly support my VR games...

I've left Windows to Linux for years now and AI features is for me just another reason to stay away. Can't wait to see the Linux ceiling break apart (will not happens lol). 🐧

@MarkusHobelsberger

7 ай бұрын

The year of the Linux desktop is nigh :D

@the_mariocrafter

7 ай бұрын

At least Microsoft is actually winning at AI this time

I was helping my brother reinstall W11 last Saturday between classes since the narrator wasn't willing to work properly, hilariously, reinstalling the OS without deleting anything else solved it. The Wi11 setup of "no, no, no, no, no, no, none, nothing, no" is amusing and annoying and it makes my experience with with Samsung phones seem sane. When W10 gets a spree of update after update after update it gets really boring and annoying. Whenever I mention this people yell "Linux", yeah, no, I use CAD software on my PC, neither does AutoCAD, SolidWorks or CATIA work on Linux.

that is very true, I used to find all sorts of programs compattible with windows and not mac or linux but now every app I find is compatible with macOS and/or linux

Windows 11 isn't all as good as you say, as they removed a bunch of things that were super useful, and didn't even do it well, for example, the display-on-top Volume Mixer applet was 10x better than the equivalent in the Settings App, and I feel the same about the removal of the "Devices and Printers" menu in the Control Panel

@gt8200-0

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, is a nice-looking OS a good trade-off for a bunch of features? I don't think so. I gave up on Windows as a whole but I'd rather use Windows 10 over 11 if I needed to use Windows.

@davidlp3019

7 ай бұрын

Actually devices and printers is still in windows 11, but you have to access it through the settings app which is kind of annoying. I believe there is a registry tweak you can use to change it though.

@TexasCat99

7 ай бұрын

Two things to fix Windows 11 (and even some 10 issues) - #1 is Chris Titus Tech's Toolbox. It'll rip out all that telemetry and has easier access to some older style settings. I paid $12 for an add-on (CHM Tech) which for 3 PCs, fixes the Win11 Tasks bar and other UI elements options. I am running a Win 11/Win Hybrid config. The windows with round corners and functions, but the Start Menu and Taskbar is Win7. When it comes to multi-monitor support, Win11 is better at it than Win10 and Win7. On my 2nd display, the only items that shows up on its task bar are 2nd display tasks. Main monitor has all of them, it works. I can make my Start Menu function like Win98. But I prefer WIn 7. There is also Power Toy.

@leopoldo3884

7 ай бұрын

windows 11 strongly gives the impression of windows 10 with a skin installed

@TexasCat99

7 ай бұрын

@@leopoldo3884 a bit more than skin. It's more unified. But when those 11 is closer to Windows 10. Then Windows 10 is closer to Windows 8 or 7.

Other than when I feel like PC gaming, I have moved onto Linux completely. The desktop experience on Linux vs. Windows these days is just more pure feeling. It's a no-bullshit desktop OS and that is what people want.

@Blackadder75

7 ай бұрын

Correction: that is what 3% of the people want. Seems like many more people want: look at me, I have a fruit logo on my laptop, I am sexy!

@IGabeLincoln

7 ай бұрын

Hell, Linux now even works well with gaming thanks to Proton.

@646464mario

7 ай бұрын

Everyone wants it, it's just that the vast majority of people do not know alternatives or cannot be bothered to learn something new... but rest assured everyone wants a no-BS experience.@@Blackadder75

@RAN-os5gz

7 ай бұрын

@@Blackadder75 a number MUCH higher than 3% would love Linux, the problem is that only 3% are willing to learn how to install it and use it.

@fnorgen

7 ай бұрын

@@IGabeLincoln It works, but it doesn't "work well". While gaming on Linux there's been a number of times I've had to hunt down obscure Proton versions, tailor made to get specific games running, and even then, many games will have online features disabled because the anti cheat software freaks out. Oh sure, there's usually some workaround that theoretically makes it possible to get everything running perfectly, but digging through forum threads for hours and end and trying 5 different supposed fixes before you finally get online multiplayer working, with a slight risk of getting banned for cheating, is not what I would classify as "working well".

You can use a WIndows7 key for Windows11. I think Sales is not a good number to measure Windows Users. I have used my Windows7 Pro key in Windows10 and Win11.

I really wish the sound was better. All the consonants and mouth sounds are so loud that it's really not pleasant to listen to. Maybe it would be better to move away from the microphone a bit or use a de-esser or de-noiser or just play with the eq to reduce those harsh consonants. Thanks, I like your videos!

I run a computer repair shop and one of the biggest things I hear from my clients about Windows is that they aren't convinced Windows 11 is really worth the upgrade. Considering the rocky launch and the fact that here we are over a year later, the OS still has problems. Not only that, Microsoft has been engaging in shady practices trying to trick people into installing Windows 11 through Windows Updates by giving upgrade buttons the size of Alaska while putting the decline link (not even a button) off in the corner with really tiny text making it look like they don't really have a choice. They're doing this because Windows 11 has one of the lowest adoption rates of any OS they've ever released. I get a couple machines a month in my shop of people requesting I wipe their system and reinstall Windows 10. My expectation is that near the end of the Windows 10 service life, Windows 11 will be forced in as a mandatory upgrade on systems that meet Microsoft's arbitrary supported hardware list. While I probably won't take issue with this on my home machine, I'd be pissed if I walked into the office one day and found Windows 11 on my workstation. I'm probably going to take a page out of Amazon's book and switch to Ubuntu for both my workstation and servers.

@tokyojon4344

7 ай бұрын

Microsoft always pulls that carp, tricking people to upgrade even when they don't want to. Then, of course, they "apologize," until the next time when they do the exact same thing.

@Zepsky383

7 ай бұрын

it's already over 2 years, and it's really sad

@nelyrions1838

7 ай бұрын

What kind of issues does windows 11 have? I installed it on day 1. No issues. Worked just as intended. Shady practices aside, cause most companies engage in them to certain degrees and i completely agree windows can go stuff it on that point. What im most interested in is why so many people have issues with it. Is it driver issues?

@Manigo1743

7 ай бұрын

Similar to Windows 98 and Windows 8, which where also garbage.

@dabbinghitlersmemes1762

7 ай бұрын

And here I am, still running 7...

To be completly honest, I have a 10 year PC which has a decent CPU for everyday tasks (not gaming or video editing) and windows 11 not supporting even newer CPUs is another shot in the foot too. If the PC doesn't die I will switch to Linux in 2025 on that PC at least

@gt8200-0

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I did the same when my Windows 11 install corrupted and installed Linux Mint. Not using Windows on my home computers ever again.

@Nordjyden9000

7 ай бұрын

Why wait? I use SUSE and the KDE desktop - yes you can even chose what desktop to use - which is easiest for people used to the classic windows desktop. Everything is there: A very good office package capable at reading whatever you throw at it, video viewing, downloading and editing, an image programme comparable to Photoshop, and a wide variety of scientific stuff, as most Linux are developed at universities.

@JeffRyman69

7 ай бұрын

I have a 9-year old HP ENVY PC with an i7-4770 that still works perfectly fine with Windows 10 after I replaced the HDD with a SSD. I may install Linux on it. I have been using Linux off and on since I was dual booting Red Hat with MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11 back in the late 1990s, as well as being a Linux sysadmin on a set of HP blade servers running RHEL in the 2000s. I also have a new PC I built myself with an i9-10850K, two NVMe SSDs, 64 GB RAM, etc. that will run whatever Windows is out there for another 8 years or so. If I need Linux on that system I can run it under WSL 2.0. But I am comfortable with a variety of computer tech as I am a retired engineer who started programming in 1966. A lot of others who are comfortable with computer technology may run Linux too, but the average Windows user is not going to switch. They may migrate to a smart phone or to a Chromebook if all they need is simple web browsing (and purchasing) and texting or email.

@user-ev4ov6wr1d

6 ай бұрын

Linux...lol.... have fun!

@baraka629

6 ай бұрын

​@@user-ev4ov6wr1d save for a couple games that require anticheat software which is windows-only, linux does everything better. the NT kernel is just shitty and whoever thought to cram all system stability relevant info into a single file - the registry - must have been off their meds for a long time.

I've been on linux exclusively since I sent Vista back to M$ for a refund 16 years ago and I never looked back. Linux just keeps getting better and better. Steve Ballmer's rant about linux being the cancer of the internet ended up being translated in my brain as "linux is a serious threat to us, you should go check it out right now". Thanks Mr. Ballmer, I can't thank you enough for that!

The only thing you are wrong about is calling win8 the original sin of this 4 step failure mode. We've actually seen this in a lot of MS's development cycle going all the way back to Windows Bob. The problem with their approach to Windows 11 is that a lot of that old bloat that they are clearing away is essential features for small fractions of their user base. This means they will need to decide which features are actually core to the Windows experience, and when they cut out the others, they will lose some of their user base to alternative platforms. The difference is that when that happens, it should be a one time loss of market share that is not subsequently repeated. The problem with tying windows to ARM is that a huge set of legacy applications become non-performant on the new windows arm devices if they can run at all. I don't see that flying as Windows has always been a Business product first and consumer product second.... Businesses are often married to legacy applications that hey simply can not divest... and these are often applications that are no longer supported or developed, or were written in-house by software engineers who have since left the company... that is to say no amount of software makers responding to Windows-on_ARM will be sufficient for large portions of the Windows customer base.

Its all the pop-ups and Microsoft "IN YOUR FACE" full screen attempts to try to get you to switch to a Windows Account, rather than a local account that really grind my gears.

I couldn't be more thrilled that the Windows monopoly is finally breaking. I grew up in the late 90s/00s when Windows was literally all you could get. Apple was sitting at ~1% share recovering from their near death experience as Steve Jobs came back and turned the tide. And there were no other devices yet such as tablets or smartphones. Microsoft and Bill Gates were sitting in court in one of the biggest anti-trust cases in US history as Microsoft kept crushing any potential challenger to their OS supremacy, such as Netscape. The fact that we have lived through that and there is now a healthy variety of OSes and device types to chose from is like a modern day fairy tale to me.

@coastaku1954

7 ай бұрын

I love Windows, I don't want any other OS

@danil-old-web

7 ай бұрын

Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP forever! Windows! Windows! No Internet! No smartphones left as be alone! Computers!

@AZmotion

7 ай бұрын

Sure, but then it's just a duopoly. Look at what's happened to the mobile OS market.

@joel345

7 ай бұрын

​@@coastaku1954me too but competition is absolutely a good thing. Windows will genuinely benefit from Linux (and others) thriving.

@coastaku1954

7 ай бұрын

@@joel345 Nah

MS digging into AI and putting into everything is just speeding up their death. I work IT, and everywhere I look my colleagues are leaving Windows because of the pervasive AI, pervasive connectivity, and security concerns it brings with it.

If you use a Linux Desktop, you don't really need Windows OS. Unless you are a gamer, perhaps.

I've just switched to Linux after 30 years of windows. The do-all-in-the-cloud-on-our-servers-thing is getting out of hands. I just want a slick operation system that is doing what I want it to do. It's crazy how good moat applications (including windows ones!) Are running on a modern Linux! Tried it years ago, but wasn't happy. First time I think I'll keep this!

@aartjansen1252

7 ай бұрын

The do it all in the cloud via a browser trend, is part of what makes dumping windows easy.

@hermanwooster8944

7 ай бұрын

@@aartjansen1252 Yup. They fell on the very sword they crafted. Poetic justice at its finest.

@Duke49th

7 ай бұрын

Same here. Many attempts with Linux in the past 15 years. Just recently switched as this year it became so good, that even Gaming (aside from some multiplayer games) and windows-only apps do work fine now. I'm happy now after a steep learning curve. The Devs of certain Linux distros still have to do more to cater Windows user to have an even easier experience switching from Windows to Linux. (=all the non-techie people that are not willing to play around with terminal and such) If more people switch and Linux gets a proper market share - we will see more native Linux apps.

@lokelaufeyson9931

7 ай бұрын

linux have evolved into a better and stronger operating system. Without adding bloat or other junk.

@fabriglas

7 ай бұрын

Which linux is good...

It's like everything Microsoft touches gets poisoned with incompetence. My next OS will be Linux. Windows 11 is such a pile of junk. In file explorer, Ctrl+V is broken, extracting .zip is broken, auto-hide/extend taskbar is broken, copy+paste in notepad does not select linebreaks, display brightness control is broken. Yet the built-in ads and bloatware ("widgets") work.

@rumisbadforyou9670

7 ай бұрын

Autohide has never worked, not on Win7, Win8.1 or Win10. If one rogue window overtakes foreground, you can't get the task bar to the front without Win+D and clicking on it.

CHROME OS DOES NOT BELONG ON A PC OS LIST, IT'S ORIGINAL GOAL WAS TO CREATE A WEB BROWSING APPLIANCE FOR YOUR GRANDMA, IT FAILS AT THAT TODAY DESPITE IT BEING DESIGNED AS A FULL PC OS

And yet Windows 11 is somehow failing to beat... Windows 10. I mean, isn't it strange that W11 shares have been in decline since February? That's what happens when you do yet another UI redesign nobody asked for, drop a bunch of features people use and introduce a few people actively want to undo. Then start blocking applications that help with that undo part.

Oh yeah, win 11 is great: stuff that you used to acces on just one right click is now buried in layers of context menus, you cant rearrange your taskbar to be on any other part of the screen but the bottom, and it now has even more spying and ads and random bloat built into it. Plus the new window arrangement system is buggy and slow as hell

@chairforce0ne

3 ай бұрын

omg this i wanna downgrade to 10 so bad

I remeber visiting Seattle in 2012 and meeting a Microsoft dev, even at that time he was highly dubious about the win 8 "metro" interface straying to far from the original. Interesting how it turned out.

@megatronskneecap

7 ай бұрын

Windows 7 was the last True Microsoft. Balmer left and then the new CEO absolutely trashed Microsoft. Windows 7 just worked and took less than an hour to setup. With Windows 11 you're going through so much setup and disabling so much tracking shit it takes half a fricking day.

@kuldipmaharjan

7 ай бұрын

@@megatronskneecap the new CEO actually saved microsoft :). I am still pissed at Satya killing windows phone but Microsoft stocks are flying since he took over.

@megatronskneecap

7 ай бұрын

@@kuldipmaharjan Microsoft wasn’t “dying” lol. Windows XP is what saved Microsoft. The rest is history. The current CEO is just ruining Microsoft.

@kuldipmaharjan

7 ай бұрын

@@megatronskneecap yup it wasn't dying but the sentiments were on the low end for the company. Yes, windows OS "used" to be the biggest cash cow for the company but the world has changed and moved on to SAAS, cloud, and AI services. Just look at their latest revenue breakdown where cloud/SAAS dominates everything and soon AI as service will dominate them. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love windows OS (for eg I used windows phone till the pulled the plug). Change is inevitable and we just should learn to embrace it and not fight it :).

@prebenjaeger

7 ай бұрын

Microsoft focus has shifted to Azure

Most people hate windows for what the company have done to millions of users over the years and if there was a real alternative most people would switch as soon as the could.

@alexk6745

2 ай бұрын

Fedora is the best. Then once you're good with containers move to Fedora Silverblue toolboxes and distroboxes are the best.

@BitTheByte

Ай бұрын

There is a real alternative, but people are lazy and don’t want to learn. If the entire world used Linux instead of windows, people would say when trying to switch that windows is confusing, bloated, and frustrating. Seriously, Linux mint, or Ubuntu desktop. Those are perfectly usable for a vast majority of all people, even if you don’t know a single thing about command line. “My apps don’t run on Linux!” First off, chances are if you don’t mind learning a bit more, you can get it running using WINE. Secondly I guarantee there are alternatives that work just as well. Maybe you need a program for work and it absolutely won’t work on Linux, fine. But for a vast majority of people, that isn’t the case. If you want your favorite apps to be supported on Linux based operating systems, USE LINUX BASED OPERATING SYSTEMS. There are real alternatives, several of them. In fact I guarantee there is one just for you too. I mean, we call them distributions, but point being they’re out there. Everyone is just too lazy to modify their thinking a bit. I had friends switch to Linux mint, they have not once ever needed to use the command line. If you want a bit more compatibility, Ubuntu Desktop is incredible, you may have to use the command line once or twice in your time running the OS, but most of the time you are golden.

Honestly, if gaming wasn’t a thing, I think windows market share would be considerable lower. Biggest market share is windows so that’s where the games and or peripherals are going to be focused on

We don't save Windows, we move to Linux.

@Sectonidse

7 ай бұрын

For people who don't understand what i mean: Just stop saving Windows, it's useless. You see, AFAIK, they're just adding spywares and making your experience in Windows just bad. Remember when you got a notification to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10? That caused such a drama back then. If you don't believe me, just read the past news online. And trying to save Windows is like trying to move the house with your bare hands. What about Linux? Well, it's *open source*. If there's something you don't like that's in code, you can always learn the programming language just to remove it, and in fact, you can add something to it, whatever you like seeing in them. If they don't approve it, then just fork the repository code and make these changes yourself. That's the power of open source; While at first it might seem like just a simple thing, for programmers it's a powerful thing that allows them to improve or, hell, make their own versions of their favorite programs, OSes, tools, etc. Why did i suddenly started talking about open source? It's because Windows is closed source. That means you can't make things i've mentioned above.

@Yeeterboizn-wg5dd

Ай бұрын

​@@Sectonidse Microsoft is definitely falling down this year...

@LRM12o8

Ай бұрын

Yes, fμck Microsoft, take back control of your computer! ✊ I switched to Kubuntu 10 days ago and it's immediately been a better experience than Windows 10! Yes, even games, both modern and old ones (especially old ones, holy moly, I'm effortlessly running games I haven't been able to play on Windows in years! 😳) run better on Linux!

@LRM12o8

Ай бұрын

Also, about that notification stuff: Migrainesoft is doing that sh¡t *again* on Windows 10, but *even worse:* they're displaying a FULL SCREEN advertisement to "upgrade" (more like sidegrade) to Windows 11, while also telling you to *buy new hardware,* just because the TPM2 on your desktop mainboard is by default disabled! That was the final push that made me jump ship to Linux! I was already considering the switch because I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 due to it always crashing immediately in ANY game. Even a fresh install on my NVMe SSD began to display this behavior after three days, but a fresh install on an older SATA SSD was running fine for weeks until I got said full screen ad for Windows 11 displayed upon entering my desktop. Linux on the other hand runs even the most demanding games without a crash on that very same NVMe that Windows 10 only worked fine for three days on... 💁

@felipedeornelas8054

Ай бұрын

​@@LRM12o8How are you running older games that were not released at the time for Linux?

Started using Linux now on my cheap laptop and its like finding back to the joy of computers again. Windows is really not necessary anymore for most purposes.

@privateagent

7 ай бұрын

Many people haven't even found LibreOffice on Windows and the huge burden ($$$) they can save compared to M$ Office licenses.

Yeah i switched from Windows to Linux with a Windows VM ( for compatibility with some programs ) 3 years ago and it's been the best choice i've ever made. I love how Linux Mint never gets in my way.

now 6 months later Windows slowly coming back

The real question is how do we increase Linux adoption? Then we would not have to worry about Windows and let it die. The current fragmentation is actually hurting Linux instead of helping it.

@maxnew453

7 ай бұрын

The thing is, adopting Linux would probably just mean adopting distributions like ubuntu or fedora which could become a problem if the companies behind decide some wild stuff like implementing telemetry

@krazownik3139

7 ай бұрын

In my opinion it's the other way around. Fragmentation is a good thing, it prevents forcing dumb design decisions on the users through the power of sheer monopoly like Microsoft and Canonical constantly try to do. And on top of that it allows to tailor the system for specific needs of specific people. The only issue is resulting chaos, but it's more due to lack of basic knowledge about Linux distros among common people. Most of them consider distros a totally separate systems that don't have anything in common but it's just plain wrong misconception born due to exposure only to Windows and Apple systems. I think that with Linux gaining popularity more people would be accustomed to how things on the Linux side works.

@rasenche4562

7 ай бұрын

probably make support for it easier but that costs ppl time and money so chances are they wanna implement more Telemetry into the system. Personally im new to Linux for about 2-3 years with Mint now. and im just terrible with searching where to go if i encounter issues that i don't know how to solve.

@Eren_Yeager_is_the_GOAT

7 ай бұрын

​@@maxnew453but if they do that people could switch to a different distro that has the exact same things (init system, dekstop enviremont, package manager, etc.) but whitout all that crap

@st.altair4936

7 ай бұрын

The fragmentation is a good thing. Just use any modern distro

It's just insane to me that Windows 7 still stays as one of the purest Windows' Versions, Meawhile Windows 8 wanted to be more of a Windows Phone for PCs and then Windows 10 and 11 and their bloat and just lack of stability, harmony and just peace of my mind that Windows 7 had and even has to this day! It's like they want me to make switch to different platforms on PURPOSE!

@RickSanchez-ig3lp

7 ай бұрын

Windows 10 is quickly becoming the new Windows 7 at this point. It's starting to hit that sweet spot.

@jimbotron70

7 ай бұрын

@@RickSanchez-ig3lp Quickly? after, like 5? 6 years? 🐌

@jamesaron1967

7 ай бұрын

@@RickSanchez-ig3lp In what way?

@jamesaron1967

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's no coincidence that MS peaked when Win 7 was its newest OS. Windows users were very disappointed with Win 8. So much in fact that MS skipped 9 and went straight to 10 to separate itself from that debacle. When Windows users still kept their distance from 10 for countless reasons, MS tried everything to entice or compel its clients to migrate.

Making Windows 11 incompatible with older CPUs/PCs is likely to reduce their market share. It doesn't exactly warm their customers towards the company, either.

I want to return to Windows for its window management and file management and proper MS Office apps. But it's hard to see how they can grow market share with so many conflicting chips and computers. I also like some Apple apps like iMovie, so MS needs to make good free competitors for those apps. Also, fanless is the way to go - love the fanless Macbook Air.

I guess now we know why the man who was *"not really a software guy"* now became a *"not really a pharma guy"* and is now planning to become a *"not really an agriculture guy".*

@JTKroll12

4 ай бұрын

@@AnarchoGoonar dont need to be

@aqua-bery

4 ай бұрын

​@@JTKroll12shut.

@karbinunit

4 ай бұрын

Think he and the WEF are going for for all four badges, "the four riders of the apocalypse set" War, Famine, Pestilence and Death...............

@pigboydigger

4 ай бұрын

is that the "not really safe to walk amongst us" guy?

@serviteccompletojimenez8995

3 ай бұрын

@@pigboydigger definitely yes!

Windows' only saving grace is corporations and video games. If it weren't for those two, their share would dip so much. Even gaming is getting so much better on Linux and MacOS is getting there, too.

@Bpinator

7 ай бұрын

Losing enterprise is going to be next to impossible for Microsoft for a long time, it really is by far the best OS for enterprise use. But at this rate it will be the only thing left lol

@mctechcraft7

7 ай бұрын

@@Bpinator also enterprises are SUPER stubborn, they hate moving platforms and will stick with them till the day they die (sometimes this can even happen because one person in management out of 100 does not want to switch)

@seiji-kun9488

7 ай бұрын

It's all about the budget. Windows platform has a plethora of hardware options unlike MacOS.

@themariokartlick

7 ай бұрын

@@mctechcraft7not really stubborn, migrating anything is very expensive, both in terms of time and money. But staying with windows has nothing to do with stubbornness. It is by far the easiest system to configure, manage, and monitor at scale. It integrates well with all major cloud platforms and has a ridiculous amount of information surrounding it online. Microsoft’s real genius has nothing to do with the OS itself though, rather everything that is built on top of it and integrates with it. ADDS, ADCS, windows DNS, windows DHCP, basically everything azure.. imitating that would take Apple at least a decade of hard work, and if you wanted to start from scratch even longer. Microsoft will dominate the enterprise market well after I (and most people currently working in IT) are dead.

@MyReviews_karkan

7 ай бұрын

@@themariokartlick Very well said. That's why I said their saving grace is corporations. I personally don't use windows for personal use, I use Linux, but I'd never want the company I work for to switch to Linux or macos. Absolutely not, it'd be an absolute nightmare for everyone from the service desk all the way to infrastructure. Mac is tighter than a nun's pants and Linux is just not very user friendly for your average grandma who just wants to take calls and crunch numbers. lol

I have been using a left aligned task bar for a while now, MS silently chose to remove that feature. Why would you remove such a feature?