• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    If they’d just kept the old Windows 10 taskbar/launcher the could’ve pushed it out as a forced update and very few people would’ve complained. Yes there’d be a few tech geeks freaking out, but the majority of users’ main complaint is GUI workflow. Leave that as-is and it’s an easy win.

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      The real trick would have been to make WIndows 11 better than Windows 10. Then people would actually voluntarily upgrade to the better system.

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          You’re not wrong, but this isn’t a problem of some obscure person wanting keyboard heating. Windows 11 is objectively worse than 10 was in nearly every way. It’s why people haven’t adopted it.

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        I honestly think that projects there are so large and disconnected already and now they are shoving AI to solve problems and firing people… It’s a mess … windows is at 77 percent or so useage today. I’m grabbing my popcorn and watching the youth with Bazzite and Steam anything . Think the writing is on the wall.

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      What sold my partner on Mint was the fact that my computer’s UI has basically remained unchanged for 20 years. She was pretty sick of Windows always screwing with workflows.

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        I gave Mint a shot and while its hardware support was the best (least Nvidia pain of any distro) the whole thing just felt so single-threaded. It was just too easy to lock up the UI. Maybe I was playing with bad plug-ins though, but they were official ones.

        Then again, I managed to crash KDE Plasma by installing the vertical clock plugin.

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          I don’t think I use any plugins and I never have the UI lock up, contrary to Windows 11, where it happens all the time.

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            I don’t use anything special, but with 3 monitors I’ve noticed that I can freeze the GUI by opening too many things at once

            Like if I open discord, YouTube, and spin up a hypervisor at the same time it’ll occasionally freeze the screen but audio is still going

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              Are you using NVIDIA or AMD? In the past I had problems with trying to get NVIDIA cards working with Linux and encountered problems like freezing too, but been fine with AMD.

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      The corporate culture at MS right now is beyond my comprehension … I mean they were always straight up predatory and anti competitive but this new face of it is purely evil.