Recall is the last straw for me; my next rig will be Linux exclusively. I don’t like it as a feature, don’t understand its usage, and most importantly I hate the way Microsoft tries to force it on my computer. Fuck that, and fuck them too. Next thing, I’m moving off Visual Studio too for Rider. For over a decade now Windows have been a shitshow with every next version being totally crap. Windows 7 was great, 8 was crap. Ten was good after a while, 11 is also crap. Probably they don’t care about Windows that much anymore since they’re making a shitton of money from Azure. But I have work to do and I can’t keep fighting my PC.
I have used and tested several Linux distros, from Debian, Ubuntu and Mint to Fedora and Arch. I personally don't like how much time and energy it takes to configure and maintain them, and how there will always be some hardware incompatibility that we are just supposed to suck up.
But Microsoft has become ridiculous. All they have to do is keep one stable base and only add compatibility and stability updates, but they insist on adding meaningless garbage that slows everything down and makes it difficult to work. I used to think it was common sense that for software as critical as Windows you should add technological improvements without disrupting existing users' workflows. These geniuses do the exact opposite - use the same legacy platform they've been using over decades, but drive random silly design changes that only serve to piss existing users off.
Ah well.. here's to hoping the influx of new users to desktop linux ends up convincing hardware manufacturers to give first-party support. Once W10 ends support it's done for me.
> What's stopping you from installing Linux this weekend? Why are you putting it off until your "next rig"?
For me it's OneDrive. I wouldn't trust it with a grocery list, but I do work for people that use it and there's no way I'd be able to connect to a share with an unofficial OneDrive app.
Microsoft has so many little hooks that's it's really hard to drop Windows if you work for / with anyone that uses anything in the MS365 ecosystem.
You can run Windows in VM, e.g. with virt-manager, which is a nice GNU/Linux GUI for QEMU/KVM. I keep Windows contained like this, would never let it run directly on bare metal these days. I even used to game on this VM (before switching to Proton) with near-native performance after passing through a Radeon GPU to Windows.
I have found them to be an utterly incompetent implementation.
Maybe it's an issue with my set up, but they are shockingly bad in a way that makes them feel like they were hacked together. They lack basic functionality like scroll wheel click on any navigation buttons. They are constantly slow in opening. All while missing basic considerations like "Back" isn't separated by tab, so opening a new tab and navigating to a folder makes my "Home" the previous folder for all tabs on that window.
Again, maybe it's my set up, but going back to dolphin I am shocked they get away with something so half-baked.
Not OP, but a decent RDP alternative is my major blocker. None of the alternatives comes remotely close in terms of performance and features.
I also don't like the backup situation. I really like doing (incremental) full-disk backups due to ease of restore in case of emergencies. But I think ZFS-on-root will scratch that itch.
