They HAVE to be seeing some attrition.
Prepare to see them sabotage Wine.
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Windows < 11 is legacy software and Windows > 10 is slop. Nobody should care about either.
Simply: Windows XP began the enshittification and it has only gotten worse since then.
Microslop
The Microslop Winblows 11 Sloperating System, brought to you by Slopya Nadella's non functioning brain and an army of prompts
Too little, too late.
Already left for Cachyos and it is for me without a doubt better at everything than Windows.
Good riddance.
I setup a mini pc using CachyOs for my Jellyfin server and I am surprised by how easy it all was. I am still going to use windows for my gaming pc (Nvidia gpu…if the drivers get better, then I will switch entirely over), but I am glad I got a Linux computer now.
At this point, the only thing I have Windows around for is VR. Every non-VR game I have runs swimmingly (often better!) on the Linux partition, but VR still struggles to keep up...
yup, this is exactly the reason I switched back to windows sadly... but I made sure to delete all the rubbish... even if sometimes edge decides to reinstall itself, but I can manage to uninstall an app every once a while
Ive been on linux since the 3000 series nvidia cards. PopOS works well with nvidia cards. I used bazzite for a while with no problems, then switched to cachyOS and no problems there either.
My next card will be AMD but you should be fine to use linux with nvidia right now.
I'm also on an NVIDIA GPU (4070 Ti) and I have no problem so far.
Even if the NVIDIA driver are marginally less performant, i think the leaner OS makes up for it.
I'm fairly sure I have better FPS and stability in Rocket League.
As long as you are ok with some tinkering with proton from time to time I think cachyos can work as a daily driver for gaming and most desktop tasks.
Anti cheat is the main reason I should have said on top of the slightly worse drivers
I play DBD, Arc Raiders, Wild Assault, and others just fine. Funny enough, it's just a few specific big names with the most anticheat problems: Valorant, Fortnite, BF6, and COD. In some ways, I'm happy not to have to even consider them.
Yeah. I have BF6 so...
But at this point I'm reluctant to boot up my windows partition just to play this game.
I've been using Linux with Nvidia for a few years now without any problems. I don't play the most cutting edge stuff at high resolution, but like path of exile 2, elden ring, expedition 33 all ran just fine.
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I’m sorry, but you don’t sweep windows, you wipe or squeegee them. It also helps if the manufacture doesn’t fill the gap between the panes with actual feces.
This is fear. They screwed up on requiring you to purchase new hardware for Windows 11. Now everyone who held off so far will purchase those cool looking, inexpensive Apple Neons.
It's more than just the hardware.
They screwed up by finally forcing everyone onto an objectively shitty OS. Every other time MSlop has dropped support for an OS, they've had at least two others to choose from, and one of them was passable.
They screwed up by letting AI vibe code updates, which were then vibe tested and vibe deployed. The last 3 "patch Tuesdays" have been absolute nightmares of system breaking bugs.
They screwed up by sloppily forcing AI in to every aspect of their OS, and then (allegedly) bragging about how the next one is just going to be an AI.
They screwed up by not recognizing that AI is not popular among the common user. There are like 3 people at my workplace who actually use it, and the main thing they use it for is to add fluff to a chat message to turn it into an email.
They screwed up by putting a "line go up" business moron in charge of the company, who then put more "line go up" business morons in charge of the projects and departments. It's no wonder that the new outlook sucks and is not fully featured, despite being the "default" outlook for years. It's no wonder new teams is buggy, inconsistent, bloated, and always changing for the worse. It's no wonder why all the perfectly functional menus and features of 10 have been hidden by slick and useless facsimiles in 11, while confusing and clunky elements of Win95 still lurk in the shadows.
If Microsoft wants to get back on top, they need new leadership. An apology changes nothing, action does. The current man in charge and his posse of yes-men flat out lack the character and understanding to make a good product that people and businesses want to use. They've been coasting on the momentum of being the top dog for 30 years, but that source of market force is not infinite.
Nup, we’re sticking with Linux. It was the elevation we really needed.
This is, like, 95% in response to the Neo. MS hardly gives a shit about your or my opinion but they do care about the common computer user who sees it as just another appliance.
Meanwhile, Apple made a laptop\appliance that's capable enough to do the things these people care about in a very affordable and attractive package without really mentioning AI, the cloud, or people losing their jobs.
There is no committment to quality. Marketing lies. Nothing new.
And I dont think anyone who uses windows cares deeply about it.
The revealing part isn't what they're changing—it's the opening. 'We hear from the community' followed by zero acknowledgment of the actual problems people complain about (bloatware, forced updates, telemetry) is classic corporate messaging.
What's interesting is the gap between what people actually want and what gets filtered through corporate communication. Companies sanitize feedback to protect the business model. That's not just Microsoft—it's how the system works.
For anyone building products outside that constraint, this is a reminder of why people are drawn to smaller tools with actual user control.
Thanks, Claude
Item 3 is even shovelling more AI into more places. About the only thing that is real in that list is the taskbar being able to be moved, and this was something they have promised would happen since they rewrote the taskbar and crippled its functionality.
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It's funny, because technically they are hurting themselves in multiple ways. They are investing loads of money in AI. Then using the same technology to produce crap that no one wants. People are starting to lose trust in their OS because of all the issues.
AI is now using up all the resources, making gpus and memory skyrocket. People are not going to be able to afford PCs for gaming. Most people that want to stay on windows are gamers. While Linux is getting better, it's still a shit show when it comes to Nvidia cards.
With Apple releasing a budget computer, this opens the door for everyone else. These devices are also fast enough and last way longer on battery life. They can also be more powerful in other ways as well.
Enterprise is another big user of Windows, but we can already see Europe and other places moving away from Microsoft products due to privacy concerns.
You can easily manage apple devices at an enterprise level. You can also do the same with Linux, albeit it's a little harder. The only other thing people are missing in enterprise are the collab tools. But tbh, Google stack is actually good enough for that. Then people use slack for chat, which is way better than teams, even if it's now owned by Salesforce. Then zoom for video calls. Even on this stack, it's typically around the same price, if not cheaper than Microsoft anyway.
Because of all these things, Microsoft is literally choking themselves out.
Personally, I already use a MacBook for work. It's a good balance between Linux and Windows and makes my life easier. I use Windows right now because of gaming and using an Nvidia card. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be using Windows right now. As soon as AMD releases their next gen gpus, I'm gone.
Microsoft dug their own grave and are slowly lowering themselves into it.
While Linux is getting better, it’s still a shit show when it comes to Nvidia cards.
Is it? Ive had exactly zero issues with my Nvidia card since converting to Mint 2 years ago.
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Microsoft: I'm sorry you think you deserve an apology.
Apologies are an admission of liability in the corporate world, therefore extremely rare. Corporate-speak non-apologies (with sweeping changes to reverse the damage) are just about the best you can hope for. If you’re looking for someone to blame for the non-apologies, blame lawyers. Otherwise blame Microsoft for everything they’ve done to screw up Windows (which is far worse than a silly non-apology).
Change, just to change. Apologize, just to say that you apologized.
When I read that paragraph, I was gobsmacked. They "spent months analyzing feedback"? Seriously? They needed charts and graphs to figure out that people just want Windows to work?
Should they have not analyzed feedback? Out of everything you could complain about Microsoft, complaining about them taking their time to get it right this time wouldn't be one of them. I mean, they aren't going to get it right this time, but that seems like a different complaint.
This is marketing speak for "We realized that we could lose market share if we further don't listen to our users".
I suppose my question is why did they need to spend months analysing the feedback? Couldn’t they just point copilot at the data and have it instantly analyse it for them?
The editor's name is Ed Bott?! As in Editorial Robot?! You can't make this shit up.(well, i kinda did)
Did Copilot write this whole thing?
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The only reason Microsoft is doing anything is their enterprise customers have had enough of their BS.
I think it’s because laptop vendors are threatened by the MacBook Neo, which is the first serious threat to PC sales for non tech people who buy the shitty $300 laptops at Best Buy since Chromebooks, which is the majority of the market. Bad press about Windows absolutely will convince people to get one instead of a windows laptop
Linux could also be a genuine threat if someone like Valve comes out with a Linux laptop for gamers or a major vendors starts preinstalling like Ubuntu or Fedora on consumer oriented laptops but I doubt any major vendors would unless they have a serious falling out with MS
Yes 100% The neo devices will lock in the newer generation to Mac OS and the next three decades will be them switching to Mac based enterprise solutions. And windows will be losing marking share then - linux and mac over taking enterprise solutions because of the bs Satya Nadella and his team did, with COPILOT. I am just laughing imagining that day.
Bloat after bloat. Fuck em. Microslop.
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The sweepingest of changes to Windows?
Moving to Linux.
I encourage everyone to take a major dump on Microslop and move to greener pastures
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I see that photo and i think.
I believe the MacBook Neo was a real wake-up call for management. Apple dominates the high-budget market. Now that Apple has entered the low-budget market, it could threaten their market share, as well as Copilot's.
I agree. They’re getting attacked on three fronts - Linux for the gaming user base and now macOS for the student, education and casual user base; and all the while, the professionals and creatives get tempted by Apple hardware increasingly running faster, cooler and more energy efficient than anything in the Intel/AMD world. It’s Microsoft’s game to lose and boy they sure seem to want to lose it.
I would never have believed it a few years back, but a world where Linux and Mac collectively have a higher market share than Windows could actually be possible. It’s the perfect storm of M-series chips kicking ass, Valve investing so much in Linux, and Microsoft giving the finger to their customers.
And m$$ demanding user hardware that's flat out unavailable because chipset cash machine go brrrrrrr
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What now windows 14 already??
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