https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6zViY3sbo&t=1s
I saw this pop up and I found it pretty interesting, it looks like Microsoft is making more DRM moves on Windows generally and like it or not they're going to force everyone to upgrade to Windows 11. I went through the pain of learning the bypasses early on because I knew this was going to happen but it looks like they really are going out of their way to shut down local account setups.
This is important to bring up, oh I wish, I wish the Linux community would get their thumbs out their arses and make some kind of easy to use normie distro. The microsoft market share is ripe for the taking with every dick move that they attempt.
I would have jumped ship ages ago but the problem is the ease of use when it comes to windows the beauty of the simple double click and GUI is not to be underestimated. It's going to be a lot like anything that big tech does now it seems and people are going to be pushed more and more towards open source options because of big tech stuff simply becoming unusable crap due to the types of people that are being hired en masse at these companies.
I guess I should potentially look into Linux again and at least research my options but I don't know if in 2024 things have gotten any better beyond the god awful endless terminal nonsense that reminds me of a worse version of DOS. Please autists, please make a normie distros for Linux that let's me do gaming easily because I want to do stuff like play Morrowind and other old windows based games.
You've obviously no experience with headless servers then. Networks and the internet live on the Linux terminal, not a GUI. I did some Windows Server work for clients in the past, it's pretty and clickable. It's also a total pain in the ass when they ask for anything beyond the default things Microsoft wants them to do. If you don't want it on a desktop machine, that's fine. A lot of things work okay without it, and the improvement is real. I couldn't bear Linux as a main desktop just a few years ago and it's great and easy now. If you want a "stupid fucking terminal" gone forever, then well, go ahead and hand the entire internet over to Microsoft. What of it still exists I guess, as it will be limited to what MS decides to allow in the "Set Up My Website Now Wizard"
Yes I'm not a web developer or a server admin so none of this applies to me but it also explains why people post these responses because they're looking at it from the perspective of "I'm a server admin, why would you want a GUI?" lol. You can't write responses like this if you expect Linux to gain mass adoption and act like it's the end users fault when you're clearly expecting Linux to only be used in very specific tasks rather than as a general daily driver.
This is admittedly the sort of thing that makes me rip my hair out when it comes to the Linux community as a whole. The terminal example is something I bring up because it's always a massive contradiction between autist Linux users and normie users who want to escape Microsoft. Bearing in mind as well I'm not someone who's afraid of complexity, I just don't want to have to spend several hours trying to install Fallout New Vegas.
I'm not sure I want mass adoption really. Mass adoption of computer things has gotten me required acccounts everywhere, TPM and secure boot requirements, software that runs like shit because it's dragged and dropped by someone who has no idea what even happens inside the computer much less how to optimize for it. I'm to the point I say gatekeep away.
I'd be curious what you've used on Linux that is requiring so many hours to set up though, or a command line at all. Fallout New Vegas is a horrible example, that game is actually broken on Windows now too. I admit, gaming is a disaster and it's going to be something like SteamOS that comes the closest to fixing it. Everything else, that isn't advanced user stuff, you really don't need terminals and hours to do.
I agree Fallout New Vegas is a terrible example but I posted on this thread about my experience with Unity which 'claims' to be Linux compatible or supported but that's the problem when you try to use it nope. I find learning wine to be a bit of pain in the arse as well so I'll need to look it up for specific use cases.
Weirdly and perhaps I need to do deeper research on this, I found it a struggle to find a simple lightweight music player in Linux. Will maybe poke around again but I found it very odd how bloated the music players were. I come from the era of Winamp you see and the closest thing I've found is Foobar2000 but that's really a windows only program from what I understand. I don't want to spend a million years clicking through bloat crap just to play some music in the background while I work but that's the sort of thing I tend to do on my PC because of course writing code and 3D modelling in silence isn't exactly motivating.
Edit: Holy shit this video perfectly explains what I'm talking about, yes incredibly long, but if you glance through the UIs you'll see what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ5wMhRXEOM
Edit: Well I didn't know about that, there was a very helpful comment in the youtube video that suggested Strawberry Music Player. It seems to be open source? Seems to have a straightforward UI so I guess that solves that problem.
If you go into the "app store" there's a category for multimedia and you can try out players pretty easily. It's usually called something like Software Center, Discover, or whatever depending on which Linux you have. Every one of those options is in there on my system except Gnome--but I'm not using Gnome desktop. Click to install, try it out, click to remove.
For me, I just use VLC on Linux and Windows, because it does what I want. I don't really use an old Winamp style music organizer anymore.