• taiyang@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Keep in mind if you transition to Windows you will need to relearn a few things! Lots of your software might have issues and I sure hope you have Nvidia because AMD is straight to broken with all their open source code. Yuck!

    Windows is just better (I use Windows 11 PRO BTW) because you get lots of background processes and there’s even a copilot that’s right about stuff sometimes. Microsoft even keeps a backup of lots of your data up in something called a Cloud, which I assume is good because clouds are up there in the sky like heaven!

    I sure hope 2026 is the year of the Windows PC!

    (/s cause writing this joke hurt my soul)

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
      01·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been looking at switching to Windows, but it’s always the horrible gaming experience that holds me back.

      For starters, compatibility is complete ass. Windows doesn’t let you choose the compatibility tools and forces you to run every game (every application for that matter) in the systemwide environment. It also only has a single wineprefix-equivalent that just dumps everything in your home directory folder (please don’t crucify me). If a game requires a different Wine version, you can try to set that half-assed compatibility mode thing on the executable, but I’m convinced it’s only there as decoration. If it doesn’t work, you’re kinda fucked.

      Windows also lacks the minimal set of utilities that I expect from a system that can run games. There is no Bubblewrap and you can’t sandbox your games without using a VM. There is no gamescope, nor any way to run an application inside a nested graphical session. If an older game can only do exclusive fullscreen, you can’t switch to a less intrusive (windowed/borderless) mode. If a game does have borderless or windowed mode, but doesn’t support your native resolution, you’re playing in a tiny window or not at all.

      Windows 11 seems really neat, but it’s not ready for general adoption. There are just too many missing features.

      • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
        1·
        2 months ago

        From a programmers and workflow perspective windows is complete garbage. It does not allow me to change my WM. Im stuck with the default behaviour without the ability for full customisation like Hyprland or Sway have. Installing Programms is deeply unintuitive. Have to search for a Programm, download it from a sketchy looking button and run an installer. Software providers often enough don’t even provide sha256 sums. How can I be sure, that I downloaded the correct executable? Even if a hash is provided, most people won’t bother to check it. These are elementary flaws that hinder widespread windows adoption.

      • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        There is literally such a lemmy community, but it is not much of an actual community of people over there. From what I’ve read it is more or less one person who bans anyone who challenge their critique.

  • 87Six@lemmy.zip
    31·
    2 months ago

    It would genuinely cause worldwide panic if the Windows source code leaked, and that brings joy to me

    … until I realize I still have Windows because I still haven’t moved to linux

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 months ago

      Some years ago I think windows source was available to be studied in some universities? No sure how true that is and if any recent version is available. Sure would be fun if the slopmachine just ingested all of it…

      • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
        0·
        2 months ago

        I think it was that the XP source was leaked. There was a huge deal because those who saw it were highly discouraged from contributing to wine.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 months ago

          those who saw it were highly discouraged from contributing to wine.

          Can you expand on that a little?

          • 4am@lemmy.zip
            1·
            2 months ago

            WINE is a compatibility layer (famously, WINE Is Not an Emulator) for Windows APIs on posix OSes; most notably this allows you to run Windows applications on Linux.

            Microsoft would truly love to beat WINE to death with a legal sledgehammer but so far they do not have the legal ground, as WINE is developed based on public knowledge and Microsoft famously keeps their source code closed.

            If you saw the Windows source code, and then you contributed to WINE, it is possible Microsoft could make the legal argument that WINE was using stolen trade secrets, even if the verbatim source code was added to the WINE codebase.

            Whether or not that would have worked for Microsoft is up in the air; but the WINE project didn’t want to find out the hard way.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 months ago

    Wasn’t there a long time ago a genuine bug report in Mozilla’s bug tracker reporting that the source code was publicly available and this was insecure? I can’t quickly find it because I can’t think of good search terms…

  • xthexder@l.sw0.com
    0·
    2 months ago

    A little off on the lines of code… it’s only around 20 million. I’d be a little worried if there was billions of lines of code, it would be unmaintainable slop.