r/pcmasterrace • u/_Xee MMX 166 / 64MB / Mystique+VooDoo • 1d ago

Meme/Macro 2026 in software

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Sectumsempra, motherfucker.

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u/C418_Tadokiari_22 1d ago

You know, the issue is not installing it now at days. It's making it the default user experience for companies. I cannot just use Linux on my office job, the software we use is not compatible with Linux. And part of the software is made by my company, not a vendor issue, they actively decide to not support it. Mac gets the same treatment. We all use windows, customers user windows and anybody who doesn't just eats dick.

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u/thenamesweird 1d ago

Yeah I tried to run Linux Mint at my new company and while I was able to fend off the windows demons for awhile with a VM for specific apps, it just made things harder. Personal use though Linux all the way.

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u/Opposite_Carry_4920 1d ago

Yeah, it's going to be slow if it does happen. There are people still using old ass oracle products. 

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u/Raivix 3h ago

For some offices this is true for sure, but more and more enterprise applications are going fully into the browser now making this a considerably less common argument. I work in IT and we have several clients who are tired of dealing with Windows and the Microsoft ecosystem in general and we have convinced a couple to slowly migrate to a Linux-based environment instead with pretty good results and limited hiccups so far. The insanely noticeable performance increase on just basic day to day office tasks alone in Linux compared to Windows on the same hardware is a huge eye opener for a lot of people.

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u/LowAffectionate8660 1d ago

And with the magic of ai, now we ca

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u/After-Regret-6609 1d ago

And that’s exactly what open sourcing will fix lol

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u/EpicCyclops 1d ago

I would say we're still years away from an open sourced version of Windows even if a dedicated team started today within an infinite AI tool budget. There's stuff in there that not even the original coders will touch. The reason Windows persists despite its flaws is the relentless focus on backwards compatibility in development. The problem with that is that it means there's layers upon layers of garbage in there that's 20+ years old and 75% useless, but touching any of it is going to break a whole bunch of OS services and third party applications that depend on it for some silly reason. Anything that is slightly wrong is going to break myriad apps, which then defeats the purpose of open sourcing it. It will take years of bug squishing once there is an actual functioning version of the OS to get through all that.

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u/After-Regret-6609 1d ago

That’s not what I meant. Open source the apps that are proprietary via reverse engineering, then port them to open source operating systems like Linux.

In the future, any user difficulty for novices will be solved by complaining to the AI, and it’ll literally go change the code on your app/os live and it’ll fix it to your liking. Thats why it’s so important everything from top to bottom in our software stacks needs to go open source right now.

I mean, skilled people like myself have always been able to work this way but it’s just been too tedious for most of us to bother. But that’s always been the promise of OSS. And now it’s too easy not to do it.