Windows hit its lowest market share in decades, Microsoft lost $400 billion in a week, and now their own president is admitting they need to fix the OS. SteamOS and Linux aren't waiting around.

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[–] 56 points 9 months ago (5 children)

You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.

Hell, they weren't doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy "we know better" vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it's made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.

As the joke goes, "Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later"

(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I have to agree. Vista was a dud, but there were a number of legitimate improvements made over Windows XP. Windows 11 is just a worse Windows 10. Other than maybe tabs in the Explorer, I can't think of anything they've improved and a whole lot they made worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Exactly. Vista was rushed and buggy but that's, y'know, par for the course really. I think there was a time in the 00's where they really wanted to be extremely optimistic about Moore's law-style performance gains, and for some reason they thought they could aim ahead of the curve. Cue Vista actually running like dogshit even aside from outright crashes and such.

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