geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/8371095

Long post and well worth the read, but the interesting part to me is this:

Windows operating system and apps

Customers using Windows have always used a combination of operating system functionality as well as apps, but now Windows will clearly identify operating system functionality in places like Settings, Start, and Search:

  • Settings > System > System Components will show notable operating system components.
  • Start menu’s All Apps list has been renamed to All and operating system components are labeled with “system”.
  • Under Search, search results will show operating system components labeled with “system”.

All apps in Windows can be uninstalled. Of course, apps can always be installed again from the Microsoft Store and internet. Settings > Apps > Installed apps continue to show all the apps installed on the PC and we’ve added the ability to uninstall:

  • Camera
  • Cortana
  • Web Search from Microsoft Bing, in the EEA
  • Microsoft Edge, in the EEA
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    • @zerofk@lemm.ee
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      118 months ago

      How quickly they forget. Canonical added Amazon ads to Ubuntu 10 years ago. They walked it back after huge backlash, but don’t believe that any corporate-backed Linux is immune to “shittifying”.

      • Tywele
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        28 months ago

        There are plenty of community backed distros to install instead.

      • @Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        The good thing about that is that you have the choice to avoid Ubuntu and still retain 100% functionality (at least as a private user), but there’s only a small handful of Windows versions with extremely minor differences.

    • @trollercoaster@feddit.de
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      88 months ago

      Linux distributions and/or components have been, and will be, shittified repeatedly. Not as badly as commercial operating systems, but pretty bad anyway.

    • @Shayeta@feddit.de
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      -158 months ago

      Because it has never been good enough for the average terminal-averse user to begin with.

      • @Sureito@feddit.de
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        258 months ago

        You don’t need that in todays world. Otherwise the Steam Deck would have been dead on arrival

        • @Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world
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          48 months ago

          Counter-point, on the Steam Deck/ SteamOS almost anything involving getting past the one app shell (Steam) or installing from a store (flathub) requires terminal and often does not survive system updates. It honestly sounds like Windows 8 typing it out.

      • ShaunaTheDead
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        148 months ago

        There are plenty of distros which can be operated entirely through graphical user interfaces. Ubuntu, for example.

      • @MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
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        48 months ago

        I love Linux, but I’ll admit what you say has some credence.

        Linux has a lot of polish now. Most big distros are going to have an easy to use GUI installer, and there are several mature very usable desktop environments.

        But, for example, if a new user has an nvidia card it’s probably going to be a poor experience for them and they won’t understand why or how to fix it. So there’s shortcomings there. I blame nvidia for this specific issue, but your average user probably doesn’t care about that. They just want their video card to work well.

        • @Shayeta@feddit.de
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          18 months ago

          It is definitely getting better. I’ve been running the same Arch installation with KDE for the last 5 years at work. Surprisingly stable and had little to no issues.

          Still, the issues I did have required a basic understanding of what a package manager is, what does sudo do, and other general linux knowledge.

          The results difference between a newbie googling “wifi doesnt work” and an experienced user googling “networkmanager service logs showing error XY” is just too great.