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On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:57:24 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:Well, the mobile hardware I used between 2006 and 2009 definitely ran better with Linux than it did with Windows. I used to use it exclusively at work because the free tools it offered, like Devede, were fabulous for what I was trying to do. I recall that the hardware itself allowed me to install either open or proprietary drivers for the AMD GPU and I couldn't tell the difference between both. I imagine that AMD's drivers weren't open then, but the open ones worked just as well.
On 2024-05-23 11:03 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:Windows 7 was a cleaned-up Vista. (Also see: “Windows Mojave”.)
>On Thu, 23 May 2024 20:06:47 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:>
>By using Linux, they're handing over control. They won't do that.>
They’re losing control over the sheer complexity of Windows as it
stands.
This was the same problem they had in the mid-2000s when they rewrote
the core and implemented it into Vista. Looking back, they actually did
a good job. People forget that the beloved Windows 7 was just an
optimized Vista.
Remember why Vista was late: the big reason was because somebody had the
bright idea to reimplement core parts of Windows in Dotnet. This turned to
be terrible in terms of resource usage (RAM, CPU etc). So they had to rip
all that code out and start again.
Even with that, they still couldn’t do things efficiently in Windows that
Linux can do, and that still applies today.
There is no denying that.Buggy updates, and buggy patches to fix those updates, requiring moreLook at the ongoing quality problems with Windows releases. Delegating>
functions to Linux would actually be a way of regaining that control.
When referring to quality, what exactly are you pointing at? The
security problems? Updates breaking the desktop?
patches to fix the previous patches.
The advertisements are definitely an issue, but not as big as the privacy nightmare they're introducing. The way those advertisements are presented, it feels as though there would be no way of competing with Microsoft in areas such as office software.The desktop experience itself is rather stellar.With new “UI paradigms” introduced in one part but not used in another
part? With the inability to properly support multiple desktops, which *nix
systems have been doing for years, nay, decades? With a UI that is not
adaptable enough to compete with the Linux-based Steam Deck for handheld
gaming? With the advertisements gradually seeping into every part of the
desktop?
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