They'll force this shit eventually. Hopefully someone sees this and makes a proper competitor for operating system king sometime soon. I could see Musk doing it if someone pitches the idea to him right.
True, but he also seems like a decently smart business man who is slightly less bad (I know that's bad, but we don't exactly have some paragons of virtue to pick from) who should understand the "privacy respecting" part pretty much IS the selling point. Leave a man to hope.
He's no less bad in his prior tech ventures. He's sold countless products that do anything but protect your privacy. if he made your OS, it would probably respond to a Musk Server every minute via a gps encoder you cant uninstall, or collect every keystroke (similar to MS) or only allow MUSK^TM brand software, or require a very expensive SDK to write for, or something else stupid. musk is based as a tweeter, but the corporations he runs are anything but libre and privacy friendly. Telsa only recently released part of the code of their software that runs on open source. and its old code. Maybe he wont run it like his other companies, but I think its very probable that he would.
I'm using a monthly service called 0patch that provides microcode security patches - it basically patches programs on the fly and/or the OS on the fly when I launch them and the microcode security patches keep up with the current Windows 7 "Extended Support" that organizations are paying thousands of dollars for. There's still security updates for Windows 7 officially from Microsoft but they're hidden behind an enterprise paywall and you have to do some pain in the ass stuff to get them if you try to do workarounds/hacks - 0patch is kind of a bypass for it.
I've learned to live with workarounds for a majority of the stuff I use and play to get it to work.
Win11 requires a gen8 or later intel chip and a similarly modern AMD chip in order to support the level of security (and backdoors) required. There isn't any other reason for this requirement, even chips from twenty years ago can run Win10. Gen7 isn't that old, if you bought a new PC as little as four years ago you could have gen7 and be unable to run Win11.
Thanks to Valve and their work on Proton, you can run almost every modern game on Linux. And you could already run older games on the platform. Standard office software is also no longer tied to Windows, what with everything being web based anymore.
It really might be time to end that thirty-year relationship with Microsoft. I'm certainly not going to spend hundreds on new hardware in order to continue it when that hardware is not dramatically better than what I've already got. My primary gaming pc is gen4 and still hasn't hit the wall yet thanks to video cards being the real bottleneck for gaming and the tech underlying and supporting those hasn't changed dramatically since PCIe was introduced in the mid 2000s.
Things have come a long way but I think you're being too rosy about gaming on Linux. Nvidia still has abysmal driver support. There's a noticeable performance disparity when I move from Linux to Windows partitions on the same hardware, even for games that aren't graphically intensive like XCom 2. I've seen the same limitations across three systems.
Yep, definitely not "upgrading" to 11.
They'll force this shit eventually. Hopefully someone sees this and makes a proper competitor for operating system king sometime soon. I could see Musk doing it if someone pitches the idea to him right.
LOL. Musk will peek into your files just as bad (maybe worse) than windows. Musk hasnt made any 'privacy respecting' products, yet.
True, but he also seems like a decently smart business man who is slightly less bad (I know that's bad, but we don't exactly have some paragons of virtue to pick from) who should understand the "privacy respecting" part pretty much IS the selling point. Leave a man to hope.
He's no less bad in his prior tech ventures. He's sold countless products that do anything but protect your privacy. if he made your OS, it would probably respond to a Musk Server every minute via a gps encoder you cant uninstall, or collect every keystroke (similar to MS) or only allow MUSK^TM brand software, or require a very expensive SDK to write for, or something else stupid. musk is based as a tweeter, but the corporations he runs are anything but libre and privacy friendly. Telsa only recently released part of the code of their software that runs on open source. and its old code. Maybe he wont run it like his other companies, but I think its very probable that he would.
Whatever, give it a try.
This is a pipe dream to be perfectly honest.
I'm still using Windows 7.
I'm using a monthly service called 0patch that provides microcode security patches - it basically patches programs on the fly and/or the OS on the fly when I launch them and the microcode security patches keep up with the current Windows 7 "Extended Support" that organizations are paying thousands of dollars for. There's still security updates for Windows 7 officially from Microsoft but they're hidden behind an enterprise paywall and you have to do some pain in the ass stuff to get them if you try to do workarounds/hacks - 0patch is kind of a bypass for it.
I've learned to live with workarounds for a majority of the stuff I use and play to get it to work.
Linux with Wine for when you need windows comparability.
But really the answer is Android which is just user friendly Linux.
Win11 requires a gen8 or later intel chip and a similarly modern AMD chip in order to support the level of security (and backdoors) required. There isn't any other reason for this requirement, even chips from twenty years ago can run Win10. Gen7 isn't that old, if you bought a new PC as little as four years ago you could have gen7 and be unable to run Win11.
Thanks to Valve and their work on Proton, you can run almost every modern game on Linux. And you could already run older games on the platform. Standard office software is also no longer tied to Windows, what with everything being web based anymore.
It really might be time to end that thirty-year relationship with Microsoft. I'm certainly not going to spend hundreds on new hardware in order to continue it when that hardware is not dramatically better than what I've already got. My primary gaming pc is gen4 and still hasn't hit the wall yet thanks to video cards being the real bottleneck for gaming and the tech underlying and supporting those hasn't changed dramatically since PCIe was introduced in the mid 2000s.
Things have come a long way but I think you're being too rosy about gaming on Linux. Nvidia still has abysmal driver support. There's a noticeable performance disparity when I move from Linux to Windows partitions on the same hardware, even for games that aren't graphically intensive like XCom 2. I've seen the same limitations across three systems.
The sooner devs ditch DX12 for Vulkan the better, I hope W11 and proton will be the thing that kills windows gaming.