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00:00 Intro

00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar

02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now

05:20 What’s the job of an OS?

06:51 Updates break systems. Often.

10:53 You have to adapt to it

15:14 It’s highly intrusive

17:44 Debloating tools don’t make it good

20:19 Windows fails at being an OS

21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect

27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS

  • Kushan@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    It’s a nice circle jerk, but it has way more market share than Linux (at least on desktop, which y’know it’s a desktop OS), so by that measure it is a “success”.

    You have to really stretch to some abstract definition of success to call it a failure.

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        5 hours ago

        Yes, all those XP machines kept upgrading…

        No, the actual market share of Windows 11 specifically, even against other Windows OS’s, far surpasses Linux.

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      8 hours ago

      Kind of a dubious claim, in the context of Windows not having nearly as much market dominance as they used to, and Linux adoption being far higher than it used to. Linux as a platform now has enough of a userbase that even companies like Epic are beginning to take it seriously.

      Meanwhile reviews of Windows these days are so nearly universally poor, they are basically coasting on nothing but the inertia of their own previous success - which is eroding.

    • VAK@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      It’s a market success and a performance failure. Not much of a stretch of any definition.