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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP! LETS GO!

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

but hereโ€™s a fresh twist in the tech world: Linux

Fresh twist?
Like a multi decade old and proven system is the new kid in the block?

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I am not surprised. Windows 11 is an utter shit. It is much worse than 10.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The start menu is a Web app as I understand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck? How the fuck does that even work? So if you don't have any Internet connection you can't use the goddamn start button what the

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

No, I think it works without a network connection. But it's ~~an Electron~~ a React Native app now, which means it's a glorified webview displaying an HTML document pretending to be an app because apparently even Microsoft don't give a shit about MAUI.

Electron apps (and similar shit like React Native) are notorious for being slow and extremely resource-hungry. You know exactly what you don't want a care part of your OS to be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's worse that that. Only parts of the start menu are in react native (but it still needs to initialized every time you open it)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I don't know that I would say "much worse." But it's more than incrementally worse, which is what most of the updates to Win10 have been over its lifetime. So straw, meet camel's back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Obligatory mention of the Windows 10 Enterprise Edition that goes through 2032 of support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Eh, no. LTSC has an extra 13 months and you can get extended support for W10 enterprise, but MS made the pricing very unattractive (support cost basically doubles each year).

But W10 enterprise is going eol for mainstream support in October just like the home, pro and education editions.

I've been preparing our migration to W11 for 18 months now (we combined that with some other changes, otherwise a simple feature update would have sufficed). And no, linux is not an option.