To be honest it is not a bad thing. The new features in Windows have been rather user hostile and regressions in term of usability and capabilities. I’d be happy with them maintaining the security and adding features as required by advances in hardware, but not treating the OS as a playground for radical creativity and monetisation.
Agreed completely. There's still a large group of people for which 2000/XP was when the GUI was already nearly perfect, and everything after that was downhill. As an OS I think Windows doesn't need any "new features" in the way of radical GUI changes anymore, just continued bug fixes.
Ditto for a lot of other software; enough with the churn, stability is more important.
Strongly agree. I quickly went from installing software on whatever OS I happened to be using with Windows 7, to actively avoiding booting into Windows with Windows 10. Now, if a binary is available for Linux, I'm using that.
Unfortunately, some areas like embedded development are stuck in the past with support for modern platforms. For example, it is somewhat ironic that I cannot use most tooling for baremetal ARM devices on an ARM platform (tablet, chromebook, raspberry pi) because Eclipse 4+ is a common dependency and is not built for ARM. And before you say it - go try to build Eclipse from source yourself in a reasonable amount of time. Nightmares.
With open toolchains available to serve most of my needs from coding to compilation to EDA to graphic design, it's becoming less of an issue. And on x86/64 platforms, more and more places are starting to provide multiplatform support. But it is so flippin' annoying to have to deal with all the cruft and crap of Win10 when all I want is a clean environment for creating things. Just make the OS easy to use and get it out of the way! It's a product, not a service!
Slowing down is fine, but lowering the amount of development effort overall is not so great. Windows 10, at least outside the kernel, still needs a huge amount of bugfixing and polishing. Mere maintenance is tolerable but not good.
Right. It makes sense because more and more over time, the user's "apps" are in the browser. The OS is arguably more the browser and less the actual OS.
My wife, for example, plays games on Facebook, uses Gmail, and surfs a few websites she likes. That's why Chromebooks are so popular.
Windows is competing perhaps more with the web (and soon, WASM) than say MacOS.
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To be honest it is not a bad thing. The new features in Windows have been rather user hostile and regressions in term of usability and capabilities. I’d be happy with them maintaining the security and adding features as required by advances in hardware, but not treating the OS as a playground for radical creativity and monetisation.
Agreed completely. There's still a large group of people for which 2000/XP was when the GUI was already nearly perfect, and everything after that was downhill. As an OS I think Windows doesn't need any "new features" in the way of radical GUI changes anymore, just continued bug fixes.
Ditto for a lot of other software; enough with the churn, stability is more important.
Strongly agree. I quickly went from installing software on whatever OS I happened to be using with Windows 7, to actively avoiding booting into Windows with Windows 10. Now, if a binary is available for Linux, I'm using that.
Unfortunately, some areas like embedded development are stuck in the past with support for modern platforms. For example, it is somewhat ironic that I cannot use most tooling for baremetal ARM devices on an ARM platform (tablet, chromebook, raspberry pi) because Eclipse 4+ is a common dependency and is not built for ARM. And before you say it - go try to build Eclipse from source yourself in a reasonable amount of time. Nightmares.
With open toolchains available to serve most of my needs from coding to compilation to EDA to graphic design, it's becoming less of an issue. And on x86/64 platforms, more and more places are starting to provide multiplatform support. But it is so flippin' annoying to have to deal with all the cruft and crap of Win10 when all I want is a clean environment for creating things. Just make the OS easy to use and get it out of the way! It's a product, not a service!
Slowing down is fine, but lowering the amount of development effort overall is not so great. Windows 10, at least outside the kernel, still needs a huge amount of bugfixing and polishing. Mere maintenance is tolerable but not good.
Right. It makes sense because more and more over time, the user's "apps" are in the browser. The OS is arguably more the browser and less the actual OS.
My wife, for example, plays games on Facebook, uses Gmail, and surfs a few websites she likes. That's why Chromebooks are so popular.
Windows is competing perhaps more with the web (and soon, WASM) than say MacOS.