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.
Windows 11 may be what finally forces me to switch entirely to Linux, if I can find a distro that isn't run by commies. I was happy the other day when my non-work-PC came up with a warning that it was not eligible for Windows 11, but I'm assuming that it will take some manual prevention efforts to keep it off of my work PC.
I'd have switched to Linux long ago if not for Visual Studio. It's simply leaps and bounds better than every other IDE. Back in the early '00s, Microsoft basically hired all of Borland's IDE talent (Delphi and C# were both designed by the same dude) making Visual Studio the only real IDE left in the world. (Sorry, XCode users. It has some nice features, yes ... when they work ... and it doesn't crash.)
And I'm always amused when I have this discussion with web or Apple developers who respond with, "an IDE is just a text editor that launches your app, XCode/Notepad++/VIM/whatever works fine."
Visual Studio Code has been officially available on Linux for years.
Visual Studio Code is not Visual Studio. It's not bad; I use it almost daily for non-C++ projects, but it's not Visual Studio.
Yep. Visual Studio has way more functionality than VSC can provide. Nearest Visual Studio replacement would be jetbrains Rider
I've honestly most ever only built Windows software from Makefiles and the like. So basically ports of Linux stuff. And then I just edit with vi or whatever.
Some video game mods have come as VS projects, and I open them on Windows, but I ended up editing the xml manually anyways to make the build-test-debug cycle work.