It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.

RSS exists, sadly average people just couldn’t figure out how to use it.

With our HP laptops they would work perfectly so long as you only ever used them with one brand of dock. If you mixed dock brands without doing a full restart (like say having one brand at home, suspending, and then using another brand’s dock at the office) Wi-Fi, suspend, and several other features would no longer work or work intermittently. We had HP and Targus working on it, even their engineers were puzzled.

Problem was non-existent on Linux…

The difference is that if an upgrade breaks a Linux install (which is much rarer in my experience) I can often simply change the setting, revert the update, use a different distro/version, or even undo the change myself. Hell if it’s was kernel deep, nothing stops you from recompiling yourself, if the problem warrants it.

We can more easily run special Linux versions in a virtual machine without having to do a bunch of registry/gp magic and hope it sticks because Microsoft likes to force updates through your settings anyway.

There are more options for dealing with problems and they suck less.

You can’t be serious? People buy other file managers because the Windows one sucks so bad. I would know, I purchase our software.

We are doing a review of all of our software to prep for Windows 11 right now. It’s not going nearly as well as you think because not all software is consumer-grade.

Not too long ago a bunch of our scientific devices got knocked out by Microsoft fixing an old serial bug. Turns out all the software to run these was built to workaround the bug and quite a few of these items are long since unsupported (or the vendor is gone). Some of these are tens of thousands of dollars, we can’t just replace these on a whim.

Windows: “PROGRAM_NAME experienced an error: DEEZ_NUTZ”

Yep that’s what we’re calling a useful error prompt these days. So much better than Linux lol

I’d argue that as Windows continues to abandon its (relatively) sane configuration UI for the newer useless Settings screens, it has reached the point where it really is sometimes easier to just look up what you need to do in Powershell.

This problem is only getting worse over time, so I don’t think it’s fair to hand the win to Windows.

Implying suspend works on Windows either. I’ve got like a 50/50 chance my monitor connected with DisplayPort actually gets signal after waking on Windows. This shit has been a problem for a long time.

Still hate spitters though.

zero-k

Have you tried Beyond All Reason? Personally I liked it more than zero-k.

I’m building an arcade stand I can put in front of my TV so I can play emulated games with my kids. I could not care less about most of the new games coming out these days.

GPU prices priced me out of the top of the PC gaming market, got new hobbies now.

The hardware is 10 years old and it wasn’t even shiny at the time. Shield is a damned joke.

About 10 years old actually. It’s the TI-83 of streaming boxes at this point: an absolute fucking rip-off. Pretty on-brand for Nvidia though.

Don’t give your TV wifi access, use a separate device to watch stuff (Chromecast, FireTV, Android box, etc…)

strap in because there aren’t many decent tutorials

Yeah I’ve noticed. It was rough figuring out how to set up a reverse proxy with SSL too. Self-hosting is a process.

I self-host Collabora (online version of LibreOffice; OnlyOffice is another option), and my data lives on my NAS, but it could just as easily live on S3 or some distributed data store.

Oh this is interesting. Any pitfalls you could talk about before I go popping this up myself?

Business that stole everyone’s information to train a model complains that businesses can steal information to train models.

Yeah I’ll pour one out for folks who promised to open-source their model and then backed out the moment the money appeared… Wankers.

Shouldn’t have to use fucking group policy just to stop your machine updating at inopportune times. Fucking Windows.

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I’m on a 2080 Ti and even I’m having a hard time justifying these upgrades. Upgraded my wife’s 1080 with a used 3070 instead.