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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago

I hope he wins.

Windows peaked with XP. 7 was alright. 8 was a free fall of a downward slide falloff.

Appified overly complicated slop and bloat filled garbage ever since.

[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago

Win 2k pro was best. Fight me;) I hated the fisher price look of XP.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

the fisher price look of XP.

Thank you for my belly laugh of the day. 😂

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I liked Vista. Aero Glass was cool.

[-] TBi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Nah they peaked at NT4.0! Fight me! I remember using that for my dual core celeron system! Abit BP6 FTW.

(I agree with you about 2k, but I liked XP and loved the look of Vista so what do I know…)

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

DirectX 3.5 only? IIRC.

[-] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.

My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I'm not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It'll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don't have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.

I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.

Why is the 4070 an issue regarding linux? Nvidia drivers have come a long way since the beginning of the year, currently running modded cyberpunk on my 3070 Ti without issues.

[-] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Wayland on Nvidia has a lot of issues was the big one for me. I ended up selling my Nvidia card and bought an AMD card instead.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

What AMD card did you get? I switched to Linux and want to drop Nvidia.

[-] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

9070 XT, similar performance to a 5070 Ti. Needs kernel 6.13.5+ and Mesa 25+ but it's been flawless for me on Arch using the CachyOS kernel.

[-] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

@Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip

Performance is still noticeably worse. Based on some cursory research, the 4070 Super gets like ~20% less FPS on Bazzite compared to Windows on a 4070 Super and I tend to play high fidelity shooters on my desktop so frames per second matters.

[-] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Fair point. Do you know if they where using the open source driver for thr graphics card? Or Nvidia's proprietary one? Because I'm on Fedora using the Nvidia driver and I dont notice that much of a fps drop. It is some, maybe 5-10%

[-] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I did not look that deep. Its not been important enough since again I mostly have been using my Deck more than my Desktop anyway.

@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world

That's also my experience, and with experimental wayland and ntsync support in wine 10 it feels even smoother (but i don't have numbers to back it up - maybe i'll benchmark wine 9 & 10 parallel, if i do i append the info here)

[-] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Why does the 4070 super keep you from switching to Linux? I have a gaming PC with a 4070 and I dont really have issues. No more than I did with windows in general

[-] ronigami@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Win 7 for me. It didn't try to fix what wasn't broken.

Win 11, like so many things today, feels like it's just hostile towards users. They change shit for the sake of it, like where the fuck is My Computer? Why is it so bloody hard to find anything from the start menu, no I don't want to search Bing for a settings menu thats in every other version since I can remember, no I don't want be reminded every 3 days to give you my data for "customization" purposes.

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