That’s cool but I’ll settle for the Windows store not being a flaming pile of garbage instead of being a general graphical package manager
Invariably, if MS gives Windows a built-in package manager, I’ll demand that I can operate it in Powershell/Windows Terminal and that I can update with rebooting short of a kernel upgrade
Oh, I mean, winget is in powertoys and works in powershell but it sucks ass compared to choco and I don’t know why you’d ever use it instead
for Windows, I’m going to be the asshole and say that if something isn’t built-in or easily downloadable from the Windows store, it’s not user friendly
which is fucked when you consider that Terminal and WSL are on the store right now but winget is Insider flight or github only atm
Microsoft is to package managers what google is to messaging apps, I still love the flight simulator “installer”
their work on WSL/WSL2 has been super super cool though and complements the existing msys/mingw tooling really well, especially now that you can actually use the GPU through it (which means you can finally do turnkey CUDA stuff without needing to bootstrap crappy shells). I’m not really sure about the version bump, it looks like KDE (lol) and I think Windows 10 was already doing a decent job of reconciling halfway modern UX with a legacy compatibility mess to the extent that was possible. Now that game pass actually works though and they have an open field to push on in that direction I can see them really wanting to double down on deployment.
it’s me, I’m the idiot stoked for graphical support for WSL to go live
nothing useful on windows has ever been user friendly and many of the platforms that failed to compete with it over the years when Microsoft was in a far worse position than they are now tried to focus on user friendliness as if it made a difference to the classic windows use cases. People use windows because it’s where all the stuff is, whether or not it’s an obtuse mess
Yeah, some of the features in powertoys definitely shouldn’t be behind a first-time github experience, e.g. fancyzones, key remapping, color picker, etc.
gaming on Windows, for all the work Valve has put in on Linux, is still way more turnkey than anything else
oh yeah you shouldn’t game on Linux
there were like 2 years when first class unity support and openGL 4 made it seem like you could but nope, didn’t take
The touch points on current Win10 are absurd - I’m pretty sure they’re addressing that with the negative space. The UI rework was supposed to be for the (bigger of the two) dual-screen ARM Surface devices.
I do remember someone roasting me for using a KDE shell with my WinXP machine and will never entertain such a thing again out of shame.
There’s a market where Google is eating their lunch with cheap Chromebooks they need to address better.
well damn, they got my hundred bucks then
you can’t stop me from trying dammit
that’s true actually, fancyzones is a really good implementation of tiling, weird it never went upstream
then again I’m kind of horrified every time I remember that tabbed file explorer windows also never went upstream and I’ve just been using qttabbar for years
which brings me back to my point about nothing good on Windows being intuitive
Heard the name “growl” re: Apple copying and destroying good OSS features the other day. Felt incredibly, disgustingly nostalgic for Snow Leopard era Mac OS.
Microsoft can’t even Sherlock themselves, it seems
I actually had a whole thing where TVputer was acting up and Windows would freeze after a few minutes but Manjaro was still working and I just gave up and spent a day trying to install a different distro and spend a whole day trying to diagnose why nothing would install or installers would randomly fail and then this
so anyway I have to reconfigure Pop OS to use the amdgpu driver with my 290
do you still do sudo add-apt-repository wine-staging
only if I want to play porn RPG Maker games, otherwise, nah, Lutris
oh ok another one of those, neat
yes, I know, but Lutris is cool, basically any marginally popular game has community-made install configs that are braindead easy and you can still go in and tell it to use custom versions of Wine (like using Proton blobs) or setup command line switches
also, hey, I tracked down that AMD switchable graphics not working in Windows is actually a widespread thing due to the driver and I have to wait for a feature on the insider builds to go live to get it again
whereas in Linux, I just fucking DRI_PRIME=x and go on with my day
