Are you willing to quit games that will be Windows 11 exclusive? Are you willing to pay nearly double for Mac? Are you willing to run woke-first competency-last open source software that puts your machine at security risk?
Eventually new hardware will no longer support whatever version of Windows you're using. Are you not going to upgrade your computer in forever, or will your components not expire?
Windows XP launch: Bloatware! Automatic updates? Microsoft phoning home! Switch away!
Windows Vista: New driver model! Shader video card required? Microsoft broke compatibility with my shitty sound card that needs drivers at ring 0 or whatever. Switch away!
Windows 7: Still bloated! Activate windows or you get nagware? DirectInput going away! Switch away!
Windows 8: It's for tablets! Is anything new? Can't do any real work with this! Switch away!
Windows 10: Privacy nightmare! Forced updates? Windows 7 automatically upgrades to this! Switch away!
If everyone was like you there would be no problem, is my point of bitchery. For every one person who tells Microsoft to eat a dick there are thousands more who just follow and enables a continual downward spiral to no one owning what they bought. Every Windows upgrade there's a ton of angry tech-aware diatribes that change nothing because they're empty words and I'm tired of it. I blame them, not you, for it.
With games it’s going to need a lot of research going forward. See factorio devs telling sjws to shove it.
And at least apples privacy issues is typically them trying to figure out how you use their products to make better products, unlike google who uses your data sell you ads.
My only real complaint with apple’s ecosystem other than their right to repair issues is the issue with their walled garden being they hold the keys. If I can set up a walled garden for my devices but be the one that gets to decide when the draw bridge is let down it would not be such a bad deal
I have a decently sized backlog of old games to play. I abhor keyboard+mouse as a method of input for gaming as well. Homebrew emulation on 3ds and psp is going a long way for me.
New stuff isn't all that good. I'm not hip enough with the trends. I like to strip java off sites I visit and manually clean up some bad site design choices with ublock. I like plain text; give me irc over discord any day.
Eventually new hardware will no longer support whatever version of Windows you're using. Are you not going to upgrade your computer in forever, or will your components not expire?
This is the thing that worries me. Eventually my hardware will die. I'm hoping I can find some replacement hardware at a thrift store. I've gotten so accustomed to laptop typing that I'd really like to build my own laptop, but it seems to not really be a thing. I can barely understand desktop building anyway.
I'm pretty much prepared to just stop, though. There's plenty of books to read. I can get a mechanical typewriter for my filing.
You will, the person reading this.
Are you willing to quit games that will be Windows 11 exclusive? Are you willing to pay nearly double for Mac? Are you willing to run woke-first competency-last open source software that puts your machine at security risk?
Eventually new hardware will no longer support whatever version of Windows you're using. Are you not going to upgrade your computer in forever, or will your components not expire?
Life is terrible.
Hey, that's great. But very few follow.
Windows XP launch: Bloatware! Automatic updates? Microsoft phoning home! Switch away!
Windows Vista: New driver model! Shader video card required? Microsoft broke compatibility with my shitty sound card that needs drivers at ring 0 or whatever. Switch away!
Windows 7: Still bloated! Activate windows or you get nagware? DirectInput going away! Switch away!
Windows 8: It's for tablets! Is anything new? Can't do any real work with this! Switch away!
Windows 10: Privacy nightmare! Forced updates? Windows 7 automatically upgrades to this! Switch away!
If everyone was like you there would be no problem, is my point of bitchery. For every one person who tells Microsoft to eat a dick there are thousands more who just follow and enables a continual downward spiral to no one owning what they bought. Every Windows upgrade there's a ton of angry tech-aware diatribes that change nothing because they're empty words and I'm tired of it. I blame them, not you, for it.
"You will own nothing and be happy."
The only reason an advanced user would own apple hardware at this point would be to use it to develop software for those platforms.
With games it’s going to need a lot of research going forward. See factorio devs telling sjws to shove it.
And at least apples privacy issues is typically them trying to figure out how you use their products to make better products, unlike google who uses your data sell you ads.
My only real complaint with apple’s ecosystem other than their right to repair issues is the issue with their walled garden being they hold the keys. If I can set up a walled garden for my devices but be the one that gets to decide when the draw bridge is let down it would not be such a bad deal
I have a decently sized backlog of old games to play. I abhor keyboard+mouse as a method of input for gaming as well. Homebrew emulation on 3ds and psp is going a long way for me.
New stuff isn't all that good. I'm not hip enough with the trends. I like to strip java off sites I visit and manually clean up some bad site design choices with ublock. I like plain text; give me irc over discord any day.
This is the thing that worries me. Eventually my hardware will die. I'm hoping I can find some replacement hardware at a thrift store. I've gotten so accustomed to laptop typing that I'd really like to build my own laptop, but it seems to not really be a thing. I can barely understand desktop building anyway.
I'm pretty much prepared to just stop, though. There's plenty of books to read. I can get a mechanical typewriter for my filing.