>Note that downside: you could only resize from that bottom right corner, not from any other edge!

This was one of the worst things about MacOS and why they lost me as a user early on. I used to be a Mac Sysadmin for 3 years, and the awful window system (and Finder) made it a living hell. I still don't find much to like about the GUI part of MacOS.

>When I enter a building, I know that an engineer with a degree, or even a team of them, have meticulously built this building taking into account the material stresses of the ground, the fault lines, the stresses of the materials of construction, the wear amounts, etc.

You can bet that "AI" is coming for this too. The lawsuits that will result when buildings crumble and kill people because an LLM "hallucinated" will be tragic, but maybe we'll learn from it. But we probably won't.

Of course it's not "a conspiracy", but it is a major, gigantic, huge, alarming failure by Apple. Resizing a window is just about the most basic and useful thing a window system can do after opening a window, and Apple totally messed it up. It's like they've never worked with a window before, but TBH though, their window system has always sucked.

>Watch the Dow Jones collape in minutes.

>it's the end of the American economy.

You assume that this is not the goal of the current US "leadership". They want the country to fail, so they can rule over the ashes. They are a lot more fucked up in the head than you probably think they are. They simply don't care what happens, so long as they are the ones in power.

Trump would love nothing more than to dissolve NATO, and isolate from all of the EU. He would see that as an accomplishment. I wish I were joking.

The only reason I'm not using Linux on my work-provided computer is due to the security software. None of it runs on Linux, it only runs on Windows and MacOS. Glad I don't have to use any software that only runs on Windows to do development. Hopefully the security software will someday support Linux.

A big reason why Linux runs better than Windows is the absence of Crowdstrike and similar real-time-fuck-shit-up—alyctic engines

Frustrating UX? Nope. Slow? Nope. Constant hardware problems? Just no.

I've already switched to Linux, but this was not at all my experience of Windows. The only reason I switched was because Windows is going towards an "AI" focused OS which I do not want, as well as the cost of the Pro version - I run many VMs and not shelling out for Pro for all of them.

You are obviously one of the stars of dwitter.net, getting my vote on every dweet you've created for years. Dwitter is the thing I look forward to every evening, instead of doom scrolling I'm dweet scrolling. I hope you (and the others on dwitter) know that your creativity there is valued.

I started with Ubuntu but had some problems installing software. Then I moved to Mint and it stuck with me. I converted 6 virtual machines from Windows to Mint Linux, and it's been great.

I then moved my main server that runs the VMs from Windows to Linux Mint, and that went far better than expected, basically no problems at all. I had two LSI x8 SAS RAID cards, each running an 8 disk RAID 10 array. Moving over to Linux there was nothing to do except plug them in, and they just worked. No drivers to install. I did have to find a copy of the management software, but that runs exactly the same as it did on Windows.

The last VM I have is running a somewhat complex IIS web server setup that I have to move over to Linux, and I haven't had the time to dig in on that yet, but I will do it this year.

The last system I have on Windows is my laptop/workstation. It doesn't behave that well on Linux with my 3 displayport monitors, and a few other things. I have it dual-booting to Mint, so I will keep trying. There's really not much software that I need that only runs on Windows (I do not play any games).

> There's really not much software that I need that only runs on Windows (I do not play any games).

This is the main barrier for most people, I reckon.

I mostly play on consoles nowadays, but I recognize that games are important as they bring the masses. If gaming on Linux becomes important, the rest will follow.

Yeah, I requested to have a Linux desktop from my employer and was flatly told "NO". None of our many security applications supports it, which is a real shame. As we use Windows and MacOS, I can't see how we'll really be more secure on those platforms, even with the security theater applications they force us to use.

The standard approach is to use intrusive spyware to monitor all activity "for security" rather than to use systems designed to be resistant to attack. I call it the "fucking for virginity" approach to infosec. The reason why is because it's assumed that all attack-resistant systems break down somehow, under some circumstances but the audit trail to determine who committed the attack and how is non-negotiable, especially in regulatory and compliance settings. So institutional infosec tools are more interested in gathering the audit trail if/when an attack happens than in preventing the attack (in a "while we value the things in column A, the things in column B take priority" kind of way). And since they're almost always proprietary and considered beyond reproach by the corporate infosec division, well... occasionally something like the Clownstrike incident of 2024 does happen. But even that's not as bad as having had a breach without a sufficient audit trail to defend against liability or claims of noncompliance with regulations or industry standards (e.g., HITRUST in the health field).

You are hilariously wrong. Seriously, what century are you living in? It's been a very long time since I had to install a specific driver for any piece of hardware on Windows, and I go through a lot of hardware. Every piece of hardware I had is automatically installed and configured without any hassle whatsoever.

no, you are wrong. Windows is able to install many drivers by downloading it for you, but we talked about bundled IN windows.

No, just no. Across dozens of machines with different hardware configurations, I've never had Windows download a driver. It just doesn't happen. But neither of us can provide any proof, so this comment thread isn't going to go anywhere.

but lets make it simple then, I obtain a retail copy of windows 11, go and buy the latest nvidia gpu, released AFTER win11 was released, and it has a proper driver without downloading?

edit: or another scenario, i go out and buy a new lenovo or dell or whatever laptop, format the disk, install retail windows, and now windows just has the drivers for all this?

or another scenario, I go and buy motherboard, ram, cpu, gpu, install windows, and it just magically has drivers for all the hardware?

the answer is: it does not, absolutely not.

and what hardware exactly do you plug in? obviously its not gonna do it even if you plug in 1000 different USB hid mice, other than that, drivers are totally needed for many things, and windows just doesnt come with drivers for remotely all hardware, which is a very very easily provable fact.

not OC, as i mentioned in parallel thread, an USB witreless antena. The brand of the antena is not important, what is important is the chip used in it, since same chip is used by many brands , some chap no name brands or some well known brands use same chip and package it in a more expensive looking package.

In Windows it does not recognize it, so I pluged it in Linux and just worked directly, no need to scan for drivers or shit like that, so I run the "lsusb" command in Linux, found the chip ID , searched the internet for a Windows driver from Linux, put it on a USB stick and install it on Windows.

Also I am 100% sure that when I bought my desktop the box had CDs for everything from motherboard, sound, network and video card, I am remember for sure that if I would install the drivers in the wrong order in Windows the OS willb e confused and not detect my sound card)because some cofusion between the Realteck network and sound card I think)

Would be an interesting experiment to get N random PCs and N random non tech people and have them install Windows and Linux on them, have them setup the random hardware in the PC, setup a printer and scanner, connect the phone to it and download photos etc the Linux distro must be a distro targeted for normal people not the extreme dev/game/nerd targetd distros so IMO Kubuntu LTS would be a good choice.

You realise printers are NOTORIOUS for having horrifically bad Linux support, right? Linux would lose that battle 10 times out of 10. Manufacturers have a massive incentive for devices to plug and play on windows and they all basically do.

There is no magic plug and play in Windows, you need to install the giant bundle of crap the printer CD comes with, In Linux it actually works this days, no internet and no CD needed.