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Well, 8 was Microsofts attempt to unify its interfaces and try to make Windows Phone a thing. After that, 10 started the trend where Microsoft would force updates, because it found people on 7 tended to delay forever, leaving security holes unpatched that were used in various cyberattacks. So I understand where forced updates came from, especially since Microsoft got a lot of flack for the number of times unpatched holes in 7 were used.
So force updates, I am for that, but when you force updates that crash core functionality of the OS, that is exactly what causes people to stop allowing automatic updates, and it seems like MS is doing well to break something serious every month lately with their updates.
Because now they see that % of people are people who wont allow Copilot to be shoved down their throats and have everything they do tracked by Recall....
But we need to have LinkedIn, Xbox apps installed even on Pro/Enterprise versions out of the box.........
Anything MS does is NOT for the end users benefit, it has not for a decade + now, everything MS does now is to gain more data on its users and pad the bottom line (which any business would do) but their decisions are going to cost them more money in the long run.
When it's a free upgrade, I understand this. But I'd be happy to go back to paying for OS to get back to the basics.
Well, that was graphic. But no, I don't agree there is any chance this is something shareholder sentiment can turn around. The issue of privacy and security is larger than that across the entire industry and across society. We can take a stand and not use products that abuse us, even if it does mean a loss of perceived or real convenience. Or not.
And that's another example of watching what they DO and not what they say. I'd be thrilled with Windows going back to pay once per major version release if the OS would go back to being private and local. But they won't. They can't make the kind of money, or gain the kind of market and personal info they do now by doing that. Even $200 licenses wouldn't tempt them for end users. The information they collect is far more valuable in the long term in profit, controlling markets, controlling users, and other things.
I've noticed this a lot regarding legitimate Windows installs on client PC's, you get the activation watermark on the screen, and often not even the original key resolves the issue. As always, Massgrave usually saves the day.
Just give it time on the activation. It may just activate in the next 24 hours on its own if nothing else changed. Windows has several methods of determining activation these days and all of it is a PITA.
H.264 hardware acceleration works fine here, and I'm running Nvidia hardware. As for networking issues, I've never experienced a problem running Linux across multiple systems.
What distro were you using you had to do those things?
How does Linux networking suck?
Silverblue. It worked fine, then an update broke it. It was a power management issue. Mainline Linux won't include something like wake locks, because the maintainers get paid to produce an always at full power server OS.
I've never used the CLI to set up networking under Linux, and I've certainly never had a problem with too much security regarding networking under Linux - the process is no less intuitive than the same process under MacOS.
Well if you make enough changes under an immutable distro, this will happen. It's the reason you don't use immutable distro's if you plan on making sweeping changes to the underlying OS.
Once again, this sounds like the result of a poor distro choice due to the fact that by default Fedora (with the exception of Bluefin) don't include proprietary codecs, as the Fedora base believe in a FOSS only perspective. I run two Linux based systems here, one based on KDE Neon 6.6.5, the other based on CachyOS with Plasma 6.6.5, not once have I had to install H.265 or resort to launch arguments regarding browsers - at most I had to log into about:config under FF and enable one flag, hardly a complicated process.
Silverblue is not immutable. It's atomic. The issue was in GNOME, so it'd be the same in regular Fedora
I don't use Firefox.
I made zero changes.
Debatable. Silverblue was released in 2018. The bigger issue is poor support for flatpaks. Neon has the same problem with flatpaks afaik.
No, it's a licensing issue. Companies like RedHat can't include codecs by default without a risk of a lawsuit.
Most such Fedora based distro's are both atomic and immutable, and as stated it's a concept that's still very new to the Linux ecosystem. I see zero advantages to running an atomic/immutable type distro over a conventional distro, even for Linux newcomers. As for Gnome...Yeah, Gnome devs suck. Stick with Plasma and all is good in the world.
And yet I still fail to see just what's so hard about copy/pasting a few lines under your launcher, there's cases where I'm forced to do the same process regarding differing scenarios under Windows.
It's not debatable at all, immutable/atomic distro's are in the grand scheme of things still very new to the Linux ecosystem when you consider the many, many years Linux has been released as a distro in it's many flavors, and often involve compromises you don't experience running a conventional non atomic/non immutable distro. As stated, for this reason I don't believe they're well suited to Linux newcomers. An update is effectively reinstalling the whole OS from scratch, making a file system such as btrfs an absolute necessity.
And I've encountered power management issues under Windows in relation to both networking as well as USB devices, this isn't something limited to Linux. In relation to Silverblue being immutable, this is covered above. As for Gnome, it's another hot topic covered above - I haven't used Gnome since the advent of GTK3.
No doubt there are licensing issues regarding H.264, but as stated most distro's based on Fedora don't allow for the installation of even ffmpeg, full stop - there's no option upon OS install to even opt in to the package. In comparison, distro's like anything based on Ubuntu LTS (HWE), or distro's such as CachyOS definitely provide the option on install to install ffmpeg as part of the OOTB installation process - meaning H.264 is supported OOTB.