Technology

Don't understand why it's so hard to create a consistent, clean looking windows UI. I get having to support ancient apps but so much of the experience feels unpolished

I've tried almost a dozen distros in the last couple of days. Only a couple of them see my second monitor, and none of them pick up my WiFi card. Guess what does every time? Windows 11. It's been rock solid, fast and smooth.

Now I could put in a usb adapter for WiFi and fiddle around to get the other monitor to liven up, but I shouldn't have to. I did this for Manjaro, and I was hopeful. On the second day it crapped out.

I didn't want to like Windows. I used to be a die hard Mac boy, my first computer was a Mac portable. Apple polo shirt, tie and lapel pins, wallet, watch with Apple logo. I even printed my own t-shirts. 'The box said Windows 95 or better, so I bought a Mac' etc.

Gave up a few years ago when they became more fashion items than tools.

I've tinkered with Linux since Hardy Heron and Mandriva, and Chromebooks since they first came out. It always needed tinkering, nothing just worked for too long. Mac did. Mind you, Windows was crappy back then though.

Perhaps it's because I'm on the Windows Insider programme but I really have no problem with 11. OK it has some guff that I don't need but I've removed that. And sure it's not as customisable as Linux distros, then again neither is Mac.

For me 11 just works. It syncs to my phone as soon as it's in range. KDE Connect never did. I can run Android apps now (yes I know Chromebooks can) so Samsung Notes is my go to Notes app ever since Evernote went down the pan. OneNote is a pile of old fish parts.

I'll keep trying distros though, I have to as my old HP laptop which dual boots MX Linux (that's been flawless on the laptop) and Peppermint, won't run Windows 11. I have a 'new' older laptop coming soon and that probably won't run 12 ;-)

But for now the daily driver is Windows 11.

Blimus, that was longer than I expected 😮

Holy Shit Windows 11 just got Vista'd

Looks like a UnixPorn user's setup, a messier one at that.

Too late. I switched to MacOS.

I got sick of edge hijacking my chrome tabs, and then opening on bootup (despite being set not to).

Selling my Xbox Series X too and swapped to PS5.. (Remote Play on PS5 actually works on my computer)

Big pass.

Glad I got my steam deck. I’ll continue to use it until deck 2 releases. Maybe I’ll even be as bold to build a pc with linux on it.

"Windows 10 will be the last Windows."

Anyone remember?
I'm glad I did the jump to Linux after 7, after the Windows 10 trial suicided and took my entire C: partition with it without any success of recovery.