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If someone other than Microsoft managed it, it might have gone farther, honestly. Nobody kills a good idea as efficiently as Microsoft.

Keep a windows VM available with Boxes.

It broke legacy hardware compatibility. Sorry I should have been more specific. They need to maintain software compatibility.

Linux can be made to do those things too. That’s a management issue. Head office is dumb and doesn’t know what they are doing and they make that your problem.

As for the CNC, aren’t those all some variation of GRBL anyway? I feel like there’s a major disruption opportunity for retrofitting a more standard control system onto existing CNC machines. Something supported by Linux/bsd/temple/whatever. The CNC machines are technological anchors for any shop and honestly they don’t need to be. They aren’t as complex as people think.

Honestly there are some things I feel Microsoft and Apple do still do better and since they are UI-first considerations, Linux will likely never keep up.

For example: Apple has app packages. Imagine a flat pack to install by just dragging into a folder. Thats it all dependencies are there in the package. When you double click, the default action is to run a predefined binary within the package. It’s basically a folder whose default action is launch a binary within rather than open and browse. If you want to uninstall, just drag to trash. The OS keeps receipts and when I sees a package is sent to the trash, it handles the cleanup for you.

Flatpaks kind of do this but not really. It’s really clever and there’s no reason Linux can’t do this other than it just doesn’t face the same design pressures Apple did when they made it. Apple was GUI first, Linux had a GUI as an afterthought.

Microsoft has the plus of turn it on and it’s already there. Anymore, that’s pretty much all it has. Linux is getting much better with easier to use graphical installers and pushing themselves into a system much faster than windows does. But if a user doesn’t understand how a computer boots, that they can tell the computer to just boot something else, it’s overwhelming to get to the Linux-is-easy part. I feel like there should be a single click installer that creates a recovery partition, tells the uEFI to boot into it, wipes the original windows partitions out and installs to the computer, then removes itself, lets Linux reboot and reclaim the entire drive with a partition resize.

Windows has different design pressures. They have painted themselves into a corner and can no longer afford to manage it. If they make sweeping changes they break the number 1 rule of windows, maintain legacy compatibility wherever possible. If companies have to buy new, it’s a harder sell for Microsoft because there are better, cheaper options out there they can’t compete with. Their own ecosystem is holding them back and they cannot do anything about it.

To be fair, windows 8 was great at what it was designed to do: make a touch friendly UI for doing actual work, which iPad couldn’t really do at the time. Apple has since copied the best ideas Microsoft demoed back then in win 8. But Microsoft mismanaged the project and shoehorned that UI into everything and ruined it.

Microsoft can do amazing things, even now. They just cant manage themselves out of a paper bag. When they try something new, they generally come up with some impressive shit. But then it gets handed off to the shareholders goons to mismanage and weaponize. So the metro UI went from a problem solver to a punishment.

I left windows years ago and have been splitting the difference between Mac and Linux since.

I’ve been working on moving off Mac too. The current beta is a speed demon (seriously impressive compared to Tahoe) but it’s still just a faster set of things I’ve come to hate. They are not even trying to solve a problem with their changes anymore. They are just selling things they have decided I must have.

Remember when Siri just used wolfram alpha for everything and was loaded with Easter eggs? Now we have an invasive AI nobody asked for and all efficiency gains get wasted on horseshit.

Fedora workstation with KDE.

Took like 10 minutes dude.

This was not what Detroit promised me. Connor was hot, damnit!

It should be a crime.

Microsoft tends to undo settings they don’t like during updates.

$29 a month without ads (we only consider it an ad if advertisers didn’t pay us enough to force it into this tier anyway)

Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav

It’s always been that way.

Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.

They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.

I went back to fark.com and I’m so happy it’s still doing well.

Git doesn’t even need a central repository.

Oh yes you can. Shareholders have decided an upskirt cam they sell access to online is a perfectly acceptable revenue stream that will double as a Republican feature to ensure the trans folks aren’t in their cars.

We think you’ll love it.

We’re gonna see a lot of i2p and webtorrent tech in the coming years. I should spin up my amnesia node again now that I think about it. I moved and never got around to setting it back up.