Miscellaneous Tech News
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As much as I also agree, I can also admit that I am not at all surprised.
Well, really should you be? Probably not as its closed source code, so public peer review isn't possible.
But at the same time, this very well could've been a "no no, leave it there for us" type of thing from the US Government...
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Xbox Has Never Turned a Profit On Any Of Its Devices
Even now, analysis from documents revealed during the trial suggests that both Sony and Xbox are taking a loss on the hardware, while Nintendo doesn't as per its long-running strategy. Meanwhile, Microsoft currently generates over a billion dollars in revenue from software and services, just as Wright testified.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424700/microsoft-windows-10-x-canceled-rumors
I'm just glad they canceled it before they released it, unlike the last two attempts...
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@scottalanmiller They need to focus on the main desktop version of windows 10 and get that bloated bit of crap sorted. not missed it at all since being on Ubuntu. Went to change the adaptor settings on a windows machine the other day...how many clicks now....piece of crap.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They need to focus on the main desktop version of windows 10 and get that bloated bit of crap sorted. not missed it at all since being on Ubuntu. Went to change the adaptor settings on a windows machine the other day...how many clicks now....piece of crap.
Start menu -> ncpa.cpl
They haven’t changed a lot of the shortcuts but I totally agree that they like to make the GUI more tedious -
Windows 10 Update Fail: New AMD Driver Reportedly Causes Boot Issues
Small Computer System "Interference"
An issue with the AMD SCSIAdapter driver appears to be causing Windows 10 boot issues on certain hardware configurations, ComputerBase reports. The problem apparently being most commonly encountered on Gigabyte motherboards. People have complained of these problems on the ComputerBase forums, Microsoft Answers, and the /r/AMD subreddit. The issues seemed to start after the Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - SCSIAdapter - 9.3.0.221 driver was pushed via Windows Update. So far it seems the boot issues are mostly affecting Gigabyte Aorus motherboards that use the X570 chipset. The only way to fix the issue, at least at the moment, is to roll back the driver update and prevent Windows Update from installing it again. -
@nadnerb I know but the *.cpl files are control panel items. you can get to these by control.exe as well...what do you think Microsoft are going to do once they have moved everything from control panel to the updated settings pages? they are doing it in stages and it will then be bye bye control panel including the cpl files. I cant stand MS what they are doing to the OS. Windows reached it's peak at windows 7. Then they killed it with windows 8. Then they turned to windows as a service which they have not got right till this day. The joke is whats going to be broken on the next feature update....Hopefully they will carry on making a mess out of it and turn everyone over to a linux based OS. MS are not really bothered about the desktop anymore, why would they? Azure, 365 And Xbox is where their priorities lay and is their bread and butter. They dumped the idea of a new cut down version to take on chrome books and got rid of windows mobile years ago. I will say Their server editions are still ok...well for now lol.
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@stuartjordan while I generally agree with your sentiments, I don't believe Microsoft has dumped the Desktop. I do believe that it is being used as a lab for their server operating systems on a mass scale.
Not until OEM makers support Linux more commonly (and reasonably priced) will the Linux Desktop become a major player.
Software developers have decades of sunk cost into the Windows platforms and they are hell bent on not having to forklift their applications to the myriad of different Linux OS's
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Software developers have decades of sunk cost into the Windows platforms and they are hell bent on not having to forklift their applications to the myriad of different Linux OS's
This is the root of the issue in my mind. Linux is TOO flexible.
Android only works, in my opinion, because Google limited it in the ways they did. Luckily the craptastic launchers that many vendors put on top of plain android haven't done enough to kill it.
But if different GUIs in Linux caused programmers/devs to have to code to specific ones, that would be yet another nail in the coffin. -
Microsoft are helping a lot adding to the kernel. I'm sure if they really want to help in the future they could help more with wine compatibility. If they could help with running more programs on Linux would be great.
I personally think they should move over to a linux based MS OS with a compatibility layer for windows software. Just imagine how much less work they would have if they started using the Linux kernel. Not that there is anything bad with the NT based kernel. They already reduced their windows based team years ago. Probably the reason why they are doing pieces at the time with Windows 10.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft are helping a lot adding to the kernel. I'm sure if they really want to help in the future they could help more with wine compatibility. If they could help with running more programs on Linux would be great.
I personally think they should move over to a linux based MS OS with a compatibility layer for windows software. Just imagine how much less work they would have if they started using the Linux kernel. Not that there is anything bad with the NT based kernel. They already reduced their windows based team years ago. Probably the reason why they are doing pieces at the time with Windows 10.
I think Microsoft moving to the Linux kernel is a given at this point.
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How much emulation is needed if they tried moving to the Linux kernel?
If they could keep the Windows Explorer GUI on the Linux Kernel... that would be HUGE.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How much emulation is needed if they tried moving to the Linux kernel?
If they could keep the Windows Explorer GUI on the Linux Kernel... that would be HUGE.
Quite a bit, but WINE has already done SO much of that work, and Steam has done most of the rest. So while a lot of work is needed, a lot is potentially already done.
And MS has always done the opposite, I would be surprised if Windows Explorer on Linux doesn't exist somewhere inside MS.
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I wonder why they'd do it, though. The Windows NT kernel isn't bad.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I personally think they should move over to a linux based MS OS with a compatibility layer for windows software. Just imagine how much less work they would have if they started using the Linux kernel. Not that there is anything bad with the NT based kernel.
That's true. But I think that the effort on the kernel isn't all that bad and having their own gives them some notoriety and control.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How much emulation is needed if they tried moving to the Linux kernel?
If they could keep the Windows Explorer GUI on the Linux Kernel... that would be HUGE.
Quite a bit, but WINE has already done SO much of that work, and Steam has done most of the rest. So while a lot of work is needed, a lot is potentially already done.
And MS has always done the opposite, I would be surprised if Windows Explorer on Linux doesn't exist somewhere inside MS.
This is where I have zero knowledge. I didn't know how much was kernel stuff versus how much was DLL emulation?
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
This is where I have zero knowledge. I didn't know how much was kernel stuff versus how much was DLL emulation?
Wine doesn't emulate, it actually makes the DLL's run on the system as designed (granted often with mixed results).
W.I.N.E - Wine is not (an) Emulator
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How much emulation is needed if they tried moving to the Linux kernel?
If they could keep the Windows Explorer GUI on the Linux Kernel... that would be HUGE.
Quite a bit, but WINE has already done SO much of that work, and Steam has done most of the rest. So while a lot of work is needed, a lot is potentially already done.
And MS has always done the opposite, I would be surprised if Windows Explorer on Linux doesn't exist somewhere inside MS.
This is where I have zero knowledge. I didn't know how much was kernel stuff versus how much was DLL emulation?
DLL is definitely the bulk of it. Kernel emulation tends to not be all that bad. "Tends"....
