Cause compability of old stuff is not the most important feature

Yesterday I've seen the Windows 11 leaked build on a colleague's laptop (not in a virtual machine).

Aside from the new icons and other cosmetic upgrades, so far it still looks pretty much like Win10. All drivers installed just fine and it was pretty much usable.

It's however nothing I would suggest replacing over Win10 for now.

Thanks for telling me your opinion but for me it is very important and as you might have guessed, whenever I am posting, I usually express my opinion which obviously does not match yours.

I still can't understand why all these Windows Feature Update or Windows 11 articles circle around the user interface. Why the heck would I care whether the taskbar is centered or on the left, or if the icons are rounded up or not? Why is that so important how it all looks? Some even remember to mention that the Windows start sound is now different! WOW!!! And I thought I can change it to whatever I want myself, even to an extremely funny fart sound.

Maybe I think this way because I am already accustomed to the "Linux way" where you can pretty freely choose almost any kind of desktop environment that can look and even act wildly different from each other. So I don't have to wait for the next release of some Linux distro to get any changes to the GUI, and having to live with the changes too in case I don't like them after all. I can always change to some other desktop environment, or even another distro.

What is worse, many of the new GUI changes that MS introduces just irritate me. Like, I seriously didn't like and still don't like how windows keep "snapping" to edges and such automatically, if I accidentally bring them too close to the edges or something. I still find that snap-in behavior just irritating because it is ASSuming what I want to do, taking control away from me.

And I still don't understand why the Start menu just keep getting worse, flatter. In Windows 7 it is good, later they removed subfolders from the Start Menu, and now Windows 11 seems to change it to even simpler, like a mobile phone interface. To heck with desktop users, right? Clearly geared towards tablet and phone users...

I wonder when Microsoft will present new Windows features which really matter and are genuine improvements, instead of changing where icons are and how they look? Like, say, a new version of NTFS which, while would be still backwards compatible with existing NTFS filesystem, would have some nice new features, like those present in more advanced filesystems like OpenZFS and Btrfs (even in home use)?

Wow, a whole 3 days before someone posted “Linux is just so much better than everything” ;o)

4 more years? we'll all be old by then

But Linux is just so much better than Windows though. Even Wine is a better Windows API than Windows itself. At least most old GOG games work on Wine with no or minimal tweaks, while on Windows it's a compatibility nightmare with very few clues given about what's wrong this time.

That "feature" can be easily disabled.

:P yeah sure
the reality is linux is <2% for a reason

yeah this looks like just a reskin :I

I wonder why they hide it under "multitasking"? What does it have to do with multitasking?

The main problem though is that I constantly do stuff on Windows desktops and servers which are not solely in my use. So I'd have to disable it in all of them, and maybe some other user actually likes that feature (I doubt it though).

*facepalm*

Maybe not exactly a major OS update XD
https://imgur.com/a/3FtqNsP

That's just... wrong. I don't dispute that you can get stuff working on wine really easily, but it's also incredibly easy to get things working on Windows. Even at it's worst, it's the same effort as doing it through wine, it's just different, which might be what's driving your comment.

Basically, 99.9% of Windows problems are fixed by one or more of:

- stripping out securom or other DRM which had support removed due to security concerns (needed for physical media only)
- using dgvoodoo2 or other wrapper to pass Glide or earlier versions of DirectX than 10 through to DX 10-12
- Using a Windows Compatibility mode (most of the time, XP SP3)

16 bit applications are admittedly harder, but Windows tells you what they are. Either way, there's a third party layer for that, or you can VM/emulate a 32-bit Windows.

I'd also say that most GoG games are pre-tweaked out of the box and just... work.