Microsoft keeps releasing new versions of Windows.

They say each version is better than the previous one.

Is there some truth to this ? Or is this mostly marketing bullshit to push people to spend money?

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Personal Opinion

    Windows 10 and 11 are the worst so far, though I didn’t fall on the Win 8 dagger.

    Windows 10: Forced OneDrive, always running-but beyond useless Cortana

    Windows 11: See above, plus we did everything we could to hide interface options (right-click copy/paste is now hidden behind another click)

    I switched to Bazzite a few months ago, and so far the only game I’ve had issues with is Fallout 4, single digit frame rate, but ymmv.

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      13 hours ago

      You may need to use mods to fix Fallout 4, but I believe Nexus already ported their vortex modloader over when you’re ready for that.

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        11 hours ago

        Vortex works through wine, but not natively. Nexus Mods made a new mod loader that was Linux native, but they actually just cancelled it to focus on vortex.

        I just learned about Limo which is a Linux native mod loader, and it seems to be a great option.

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      9 hours ago

      For fallout 4 you might need to disable vsync (IPresentFrameInterval) or some similarly named setting in config file. Also you’ll need to cap the frame rate after that

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      10 hours ago

      I’ve never seen OneDrive forced on Win10.

      It’s an option, it’s there by default, but you don’t have to use it. I never have (used the default stuff), and I use OneNote heavily with my PC, iOS, and Android, which requires sync to OneDrive - which I setup later with a user account unrelated to the account on my PC.

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      10 hours ago

      I haven’t had forced OneDrive on Windows 10, or Cortana.

      It comes with shit installed that it shouldn’t, but every thing I have uninstalled, has stayed that way.

      Other than the shitty settings menu, Windows 10 ended up okay. You just had to tweak and work around some things, which you will be doing with Linux too.

      Windows 11, on the other hand, is a complete pile of shit. I dual boot Linux now and use Windows less and less.