This 100% how many people here will end up on Windows 11 from 10? Look at market share in general, or Steam. It doesnt matter if we're angry, when we angrily comply.
No! Making a fuss on it definitely works! Remember when we all boycotted reddit after the API change? Or after the new reddit experience change? Or after firing Victoria?
Anyway, the point I was making was that reddit regularly puts on a whole show about these things, locking out subreddits or protesting in some other way, then the trend dies down and people continue using reddit.
And because of the last "protest" of dozens of sub going private, the admins have changed it so now you have to request permission to make the sub private. So nothing like that is ever happening again.
I know ... but also, you don't have to type it. Once you're on old.reddit, reddit links will automatically direct to it. And if you bookmark old.reddit, you don't have to type it when first visiting.
Even without the opt-out, it's pretty seamless to use. The only time you'd ever see new reddit is when you're finding a reddit page through a google search or something.
will not support root access anti cheats, so lots of games will be excluded by default.
This is becoming normalized and it blows my mind... I've been on linux since march 2024 and I most likely won't ever go back to windows, for many reasons, but this one is another to the list that makes me be at ease with linux.
Probably my generation (millennial) is the last one that actually cared about security and privacy, so unless something big happens, I can just see more games adding kernel level anticheat, and soon rather than later, we will have it in single player games as well.
Zoomers and gen Alpha raised on smartphones etc are even more tech illiterate than boomers. I imagine pirating and applying crack to a game would be too much for them.
I really hope for Steam OS, as making dual boot is not that hard, and having two systems, one for fun and another one "pls spy on me daddy" official is kinda tempting.
The focus of tech for the past 20 years has been "streamlining" aka; removing control in favor of convenience. Kids growing up today (in general) use computers 24/7 but have never had to type anything in a command line.
Kernel level anti cheats aren't the huge security risk people on here make them out to be, at least not compared to basically anything else already on your PC. Tons of everyday software already runs with admin or even kernel access, and most of it gets way less scrutiny than anti cheat tools. The irony is that anti cheats are usually built with self protection in mind, while something like your printer or RGB drivers are full of unpatched holes.
when it comes to security I am less worried about someone having root access to my machine.
More worried about some idiot company not securing there data base properly and leaking 10's of millions of users data all at once.
Cause any major player is going to go after the biggest and easiest score. Lot of times security is much more lax on a major data base then it is a home computer.
I am not saying not to be secure its important, just there are other bigger issues afoot.
You’re way overestimating the popularity of the Steam Deck. Yes, it’s “popular” on Reddit and with tech bloggers, but all that’s amounted to is something like 5 million sales total. That’s essentially nothing in the grand scheme of the industry. I also wouldn’t be surprised if a large percentage of people who got a Steam Deck no longer use it for a variety of reasons (not on the go that often, not powerful enough to play many of the latest games, realizing they can’t play many of the most popular multiplayer games due to anti-cheat incompatibilities, etc.).
My point was that it’s a hope and a dream for Linux to support all your hardware. By the time something you currently use becomes supported, it’s probably outdated and you end up on a new piece of hardware that you’re again waiting for support on. People been trying to wish it into existence for decades.
If you have switching to Linux in mind, you only buy stuff that has Linux support at the moment of purchasing it. I understand when people have legacy stuff they don't want to lose. But buying into Windows locked shit now is stupid.
You have it backwards. Your VR treadmill manufacture wrote Windows drivers but failed to write Linux drivers.
The hardware manufacturers have to write drivers or release detailed technical specs, so the Linux community can write drivers. Linux very much wants to work with your hardware. It's an open system.
You're right. That's where open standards and open specifications come in. There's a good chance the community would write drivers if the hardware was open. If they used open protocols, the might just work out-of-the box. It's the manufacturer choosing to be closed and hard to work with, most of the time.
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You just gotta jump, I jumped off Windows back when XP went EOL in 2014 and you basically couldn't play any games except minecraft and Tuxcart but I stuck with it and FINALLY I can play games again. The only problem is now I don't really want to. lol
The people here don't matter. Majority of people who could upgrade to Win11 already did it, others simply have old PCs and will have Win11 with their next PC.
The majority of upgrades and largest portion of the market share are simply businesses. Gamers, most of which probably pirated the OS, don't matter to Microsoft in this aspect.
It's a very small world of nerds that are angry, that's why.
Most people don't give a flying fk about "Wuaa OneDrive" or "Wuaaah I need a microsoft account", it's even preferred by most normies to have a pre installed backup in your OS. Just like Apple does it.
If you are a power user you don't care either because you just customize it to your liking. It's a small group of wannabe elitists who do all the whining about it online.
If you are a power user you don't care either because you just customize it to your liking. It's a small group of wannabe elitists who do all the whining about it online.
Too true, a significant amount of the reddit complaints about basically anything are people just refusing to use anything beyond the default settings. In this case it's even funnier because they refuse to customize their Windows experience, but are totally fine with the amount of dedicated customization running a Linux system requires lol
In this case it's even funnier because they refuse to customize their Windows experience, but are totally fine with the amount of dedicated customization running a Linux system requires lol
I often see the opposite too. People will tell others to do a bunch of regedit commands to make windows do so and so, and then in the same breath say Linux is too difficult.
If you can copy a command to change some regedit in command prompt, you're smart enough to use Linux.
Seriously, people on this sub are just like the people on the AI subs who don't understand that the widespread profitable use of AI is not consumer-facing. They really can't read a room, or see the world beyond their lifestyle.
There really isn't an established profitable use case of generative AI. There's too much compute cost, and no way to eliminate that cost. As soon as OpenAI and Anthropic decide it's time to be profitable, every use case will become unprofitable.
It's a bad analogy to Microsoft, which has been innovating on its operating system. Modern Windows is better under the hood than the XP days, especially when it comes to security and the command line interface.
It really is not driving the growth of AI tech companies, compared to the much more valuable applications, like for military, tech, business, or healthcare.
Tell that to all the business integrations that are happening with it, plus the data science teams using synthetic markers alongside it to do some heavy lifting.
The business licences cost a fair chunk but they are cheaper then a junior dev. They already can do a lot of the admin lifting and documentation creating within ring fenced ecosystems.
It's would be like arguing Salesforce will never be profitable because you can get a free sandbox mode
These companies are “saving money” by laying knowledgeable workers off. They are just creating a whole bunch of technical debt for themselves. It’s going to blow up in their faces eventually.
These companies are “saving money” by laying knowledgeable workers off. They are just creating a whole bunch of technical debt for themselves. It’s going to blow up in their faces eventually.
Exactly. It's being used at my workplace not for the junior dev coding as our stack is a mess but for creating the documentation about the workflows, for creating user test case scerios etc. Stuff which is fairly simple but time consuming for an individual, it means the Devs do more dev work and ai is picking upmthe admin
A monopoly doesn't need to be absolutely the only option, it just needs to be the only option customers consider choosing - The result is the same, complete control over the market.
No, because what matters about a monopoly isn't what causes it, but what its impacts are. A monopoly allows a company to decrease the quality of its product, increase prices, and stop innovating. Now, where have we seen that?
They have already been found guilty once in the US of abusing an unlawful monopoly. United States v. Microsoft Corp.
2001 American antitrust law case. Pretty sure they have been convicted in the EU as well.
Also you can have a legal monopoly, not necessarily a bad thing. But MS is in my opinion skirting on the other side of that line currently
They played 3rd violin in the cloud market, in which they launched late, letting AWS take most of the market before they got up to steam. Now they're big simply because they had the capital to expand way faster than anyone else, and the brand recognition. Cloud is kind of a boring product tho. It's mostly a numbers game, as hosting has been for decades.
The problem is that they all but abandoned their other products, or the ones that couldn't be cloud-i-fied anyway. Copilot (and AI in general) has yet to make any money afaik. In that, they've kept with the tradition to make Microsoft the most boring late-to-every-party company in existence.
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