sunryze Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 1 hour ago, vinifera said: honestly when they make WINE to play ~90% games (non DOS games) MS-Windows will DIE With Proton, it already pretty much does. As of late any problems are usually caused on purpose, mostly by anti-cheat software. That is a whole different problem, and there really isn't a solution.
vinifera Posted November 26, 2024 Posted November 26, 2024 isn't that only for steam client ? i talk about games that you usually install manually
UCyborg Posted November 27, 2024 Posted November 27, 2024 Somehow I doubt games are the deciding factor. Still prefer older Win10. I'd still load Win10 on a new computer. Don't know what the future holds though.
vinifera Posted November 27, 2024 Posted November 27, 2024 well with 10 they enforced and shamelesly admited they can see what files are on your hard drive with 11 they enforced to record your screen (or to see what you see) you hope for something nicer ?
NotHereToPlayGames Posted November 27, 2024 Posted November 27, 2024 43 minutes ago, UCyborg said: Still prefer older Win10. Same here. I'm still on "1607". Microsoft PowerToys is the only thing I have found thus far that requires newer windows (20H1). I'm sure that there are THOUSANDS of programs out there that will not run on "1607" - but that's kind of meaningless to me if I only want to run ONE of those THOUSANDS, lol. I use PowerToys at work but the "fancy zones" feature doesn't work with Official Chrome (I cannot run Ungoogled at work, IT slapped my wrist a month or so ago, lol).
UCyborg Posted November 30, 2024 Posted November 30, 2024 On 11/27/2024 at 10:02 PM, vinifera said: well with 10 they enforced and shamelesly admited they can see what files are on your hard drive Who in their right mind would care about the trash I have on my disks? But seriously, doubt anything will change unless somehow a bigger shift takes place in the entire society. On 11/27/2024 at 10:07 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said: Same here. I'm still on "1607". I'd be on 1909 but I got curious about 20xx line and switching again is too much bother. I noticed they're showing monitor refresh rates in settings more precisely. If I recall they did something in 2004 with handling multi-screen setups with different refresh rates, though running one screen at 60 Hz and other at 75 Hz still doesn't feel right, so just run both at 60. Maybe it's better for other combos, which I certainly can't try on old hardware. On 11/27/2024 at 10:02 PM, vinifera said: you hope for something nicer ? No, the history spanning centuries show there's nothing to hope for. Maybe for Putin to press that button.
vinifera Posted November 30, 2024 Posted November 30, 2024 14 minutes ago, UCyborg said: doubt anything will change unless somehow a bigger shift takes place in the entire society. i'm actually surprised this s*** flies through in EU, when they were so adamant to jump MS for IE i guess they changed their minds ...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted November 30, 2024 Posted November 30, 2024 52 minutes ago, UCyborg said: doubt anything will change unless somehow a bigger shift takes place in the entire society. 36 minutes ago, vinifera said: i'm actually surprised this s*** flies through in EU, when they were so adamant to jump MS for IE i guess they changed their minds ... I don't think it's about the UE changing their minds. But rather silently admitting THEY MADE A MISTAKE. The whole "browser choice" EU thingy BACKFIRED. The EU fined Microsoft for having a 34% market share to Google's 26% and Firefox's 23%. See here. Think about it! Would Google really be at 65% of market share today if the EU DID NOT fine Microsoft over IE ??? And would Firefox be at a tiny 2.7% today if the EU would have allowed Google and Microsoft to spend ALL THEIR TIME "competing with each other" ??? EU had to learn this "Law of Unintended Consequences" for themselves (they drug the rest of the world with them). The US had to learn this lesson the hard way also (when we broke up AT&T). The Chrome Monopoly we have today can be, in essence, tracked down directly to the EU "Browser Choice" thingy. But maybe I'm just off my rocker, lol...
vinifera Posted December 3, 2024 Posted December 3, 2024 (edited) lol maybe i'm late on the wind0ze 11 train but just saw yesterday they gonna integrate AI into notepad and paint ahahah Quote Would Google really be at 65% of market share today if the EU DID NOT fine Microsoft over IE ??? seems it doesn't matter anymore, as google is ordered by court to sell chrome or dismantle that part of company Edited December 3, 2024 by vinifera
Tripredacus Posted December 3, 2024 Posted December 3, 2024 It is in their current ad campaign, if you watch anything on TV (or maybe it shows up on streaming or websites) but instead of having ads for Windows now it is for Copilot.
ThatRandomToast Posted December 5, 2024 Posted December 5, 2024 Windows quality seems to have degraded ever since Microsoft fired QA in 2014. Back in 2019, an ex-Microsoft employee even pointed out that they have been using virtual machines rather than physical hardware.
vinifera Posted December 6, 2024 Posted December 6, 2024 (edited) VM's have been used since "development" of win8 as far as i remember they were just using ISO's on their hyper-v servers Edited December 6, 2024 by vinifera
j7n Posted December 8, 2024 Posted December 8, 2024 I stumbled upon a couple posts of people complaining about too much RAM being used on their Windows 11 computer. One says 39 GB was in use and another says 19 GB, with 1.7 GB of driver pool. Feels like Mυsk losing a few million. Then the responses are "ram exists to be used" which was voted up by 1400 people. "It's just smart use of resources to make things work with less but scale with more when available." - No one's talking about disk cache after you've read an ISO or similar, that is never reflected as used RAM. And "it's normal for PCs to use around half of the RAM when in idle mode, even when nothing is currently running. That's because Windows uses Superfetch..." - Imagine sitting and waiting while it loads 15 gigs from the disk.
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