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Avarus_Lux t1_jcz6sbl wrote

Reply to comment by shirk-work in Setting a default browser could get easier in future Windows 11 versions by OutlandishnessOk2452

The OS market as a whole simply IS depressing, just no way around that fact sadly.

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Like in my experience:

Windows is simple, but lies to your face and changes/resets things unnoticed with updates. this OS is just getting worse and has been going downhill for quite a while, with the spied on user data, or "you, the User" being the product for their immeasurable corporate gain first and foremost and they don't actually care about you the user and with many things it's change for change sake.

MacOS is not much better here if not a bit more consistent and is also an expensive proprietary nightmarish hellscape where it's Apple's way, or no way, with little wiggle room nor choice.

Linux could be great and is free and open source, yet comes with "too much" choice in a way. is seemingly more fractured then ever and therefore has support and compatibility issues even among their own derivatives. Meanwhile this OS in general is also quite demanding in its many iterations and issues requiring that the user is quite a bit more advanced then average to keep it or the desired programs working. having done some IT support (for friends/family) many people can't really handle that (without excessive searching, frustration and or fucking things up at least a few times) so in general the public tends to avoid Linux which doesn't help its cause.

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Am currently still using windows 10 and when that is truly at its EOL i'll probably go back to Linux (Mint... Maybe another now?) for better or worse as i do like Linux, but dread facing the hands-on aspects again to just get the various common programs, education required junk apps and my games to just run without having to jump through multiple hoops, VM's and command line interface experiences.

EDIT: typos and such.

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NeutralBias t1_jd1tas2 wrote

No kidding. I use a Mac as my daily driver, but I have to admit I find Apple's design choices for Mac OS frustrating. I really wish they would take the next release and just do some maintenance on the OS's basics, especially the goddamn finder. Also, Apple has totally ignored the gaming community, so if I want to do any kind of serious gaming I need separate hardware. Mac OS used to be a lot better IMO, but the addition of gatekeeper broke a LOT of software from the Unix/Linux world.

Linux would be ideal, but I need something that can run Adobe software and my work's office365 setup doesn't play well with Linux. Plus its hard to ignore the M series processor's Power to Performance ratio.

Windows is a huge mess. I don't understand what Microsoft's end goal for it is. They're actively removing basic functionality like local accounts and the ability to move the taskbar. Whats really egregious is their lack of concern for security issues and bugs. They straight up broke printing for something like a year. A while back, Microsoft canned their internal QA teams and outsourced the whole process to windows insiders.

Linux has a real opportunity here - they just need support from the proprietary world. Start getting native AAA games or productivity software and Linux can really make some headway.

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Avarus_Lux t1_jd28sx4 wrote

Agreed with pretty much everything here. though with linux i think it mostly needs something that pushes and makes one single derivative the leading Linux OS that the vast majority uses so developers and AAA can actually be incentiviced to take "that one" and go from there instead of facing the choice and requests of the plentiful derivatives with no true overarching linux as is.

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