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    [–] [email protected] 142 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    I just dont get it, you pay for the OS, they monitor you like a hawk and sell that shit. Now they are like we need to make sure they get all these ads too, also we are going to ruin any app that you use, like search or notepad. We will milk this mother dry then claim users dont understand how much it costs to run the company.

    [–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If you have a monopoly and need to maximize profits then the question becomes: Why not?! You could extract more money this way, and it's not like your users would go anywhere else at this point.

    That is why it's so important to fight and break up monopolies, and to limit what these companies can do. Because they have no reason not to squeeze every penny they can get out of you!

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

    Issue is, I don't think even the current competition is helping them to get better, if they became smaller for some reason they'd just go back to their active sabotage days.

    What I'd think would help to actually wither Microsoft's monopoly in addition of breaking it up is forcing them to open source Windows, thus taking their main leverage on the market. Windows would be a good (not great) OS if it wasn't for MS and its shareholders trying to monetize it as much as possible, and trying to make all computers like what the Junkman had in the Superhero Team vs. Genocidal Purple Guy Part 3.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

    I wish our indolent government would do its job breaking this shit up.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Sad that Windows basically have stronghold in OS market. It's a hurdle for linux to even hit 5%, and there is no alternatives for generic hardware..

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

    This is the norm of what shareholder-driven companies in a situation of monopoly will tend to do. They try to see how much they can abuse their position of dominance on the market to maximize their profits. Microsoft's primary goal isn't to make a good user experience, or even a good OS. Their main goal is to milk as much money as possible from its assets for its shareholders. They've been playing that game for decades, only backtracking when the consumer backlash is strong enough to threaten their sales or when the government threatens to break them up.

    On top of that, Microsoft has a long history of letting arrogant elements of top management take control of projects who will then force their "vision" down the throats of their customers who don't want any of it. They will only backtrack once the sales numbers become disastrous enough. Then usually the control returns to more competent people and a decent product tends to result from it. Think how Windows Vista lead to Windows 7. And how Windows 8 lead to Windows 10. Or even how the XBox One was originally designed and marketed as some sort of stupid way to watch NFL games on your TV with Kinect controls until they realized they were losing the console war and then started treating it like a gaming console again.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    1. Pay for the hardware

    2. Pay for the software

    3. Subscribe to your own machine

    Get your wallet out, serf. The landlords renting your computer to you need another yacht.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

    we making it into techo-feudalism with that pattern 🗣️🗣️🗣️

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Notepad is horrible now, how tf do you mess that up??

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    In Windows 11 it saves every text file you open as a new tab, so every time you open a text file you’ll have tabs upon tabs of every previous text file you’ve ever opened.

    Here’s a Reddit post with some people talking about how to disable it, how frustrating it is, and even how it’s causing problems by straight up opening the wrong file if it’s named the same as a text file you’ve opened in the past.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Wow finally. I remember when I moved to Notepad++ a decade ago when I still used Windows, to get that behaviour. Being able to close it without losing all the open tabs was a game changer.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, I noticed it in the new Notepad. Nifty feature. Notepad++ is still my go to for everything. Especially dumping "temporary code" in unsaved tabs, then like 6 months later trying to figure out if any of its still relevant or safe to finally close.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Textadept is also pretty cool, it's portable and FOSS unlike Notepad++

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Here’s a Reddit post with some people talking about how to disable it, how frustrating it is

    Virgin Windows users on Reddit: *Crying in a corner instead of looking in settings on their own and make 3(!) mouse clicks*

    Chad Linux users on Lemmy: *Editing .conf files in vim*

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    So what's the deal with vim? I spooled up a vps recently and decided to forgo the gui options, like a real Linux server admin. I have been using nano and it seems to do all I need from a basic text editor in the terminal. I get that vim/emacs meme-bantering but actually why. It accepts texts and stores them in files. What is the actual point/difference?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Not only that. Opening the same file again, opens it in a new tab ffs. I noticed this, when my ssh-config file (which has no file extension and is thus not linked to a program) had like 10 tabs open... Why would someone do that?

    I mean tabs are fine, I guess, but this shit?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    This stinks of panic MVP.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Notepad++ was gaining some traction so Microsoft figured they nip that in the bud with a half-hearted attempt?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Notepad++ was gaining some traction so Microsoft figured they nip that in the bud with a half-hearted attempt?

    Microsoft's competitor to Notepad++ is VS Code.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Notepad++ is a text editor while VS Code is an IDE. They are intended for different use cases.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Notepad++ is a text editor while VS Code is an IDE. They are intended for different use cases.

    No, both are source code editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code_editor#Notable_examples

    Visual Studio is the full IDE, VS Code isn't. Visual Studio and VS Code are completely different products, even though both carry Visual Studio branding.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    What would be missing from VS Code or VS Codium that an IDE needs?

    I'm an ex Visual Studio user, now writing all my code in VS Codium. I organize my project tree in VS Codium, I build from it and, like a Visual Studio user, I press F5 to debug, set breakpoints and inspect variables.

    And that's just the default install using the vanilla C/C++ extension it ships with, not some complicated setup that takes any time to get working.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

    VSCode is a telemetry filled delight - easily Microsoft's best product

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    It can be reverted in settings. I just did this it was driving me mad. Why have the option for tabs without a close all option.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Cost to run the company? They will proudly milk as much money as they can to maximize profits. Having a bigger margin is a point of pride for them. Watch any shareholder meeting. They will publicly brag about it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    "Monitor you like a hawk" is a pretty extreme exaggeration of the easily disabled telemetry data. Unless you were referring to Edge browser?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Because you could replace the text of this mene with Nvidia drivers or any number of pain in the ass sub systems. Fuck even anti cheat for many games as well. Windows for the most part just works. Search works just fine and 98% of users couldn't give two fucks about notepad.

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