I’ve just seen someone describe Windows 11 as a “sloperating system”.

@erkhyan No worse than Android or whatever Apple call their OS these days. The important thing is that they make money and steal information, not that they work.

@JohnDal @erkhyan iOS has very minimal advertising *currently* (though rumors are Apple is looking at adding ads to Maps, which is gross).

What's really frustrating in Windows case, is that it is probably the *best engineered* operating system, that then has so much garbage lopped on top it performs close to second-worst.

Windows 10 Mobile ran *smooth as glass* on incredibly modest hardware, the problem is *entirely* garbage on top.

@ocdtrekkie @JohnDal @erkhyan honestly, I disagree about the "best engineered" part, because I have worked on both Linux Network drivers and Windows "NDIS 6.0" drivers, and I can tell you that the "NDIS 6.0" network stack is poorly thought-out over-optimized bullshit.

And that's how the entire OS feels to me.

A bunch of "good Ideas" wrapped in years of structural incompetence, with nobody there to reject some hastily-written deadline-driven bullshit.

@qbe @JohnDal @erkhyan A lot of things in Linux feel downright primitive compared to the options I have on a Windows system. There's totally reasonable reasons for that, mind you.

A finely-tuned Windows 10 install can be *a thing of elegance*, and it can run on a potato from a decade ago. But you had to have an enterprise license agreement to get rid of half the junk. I hope 11 gets back there, but there is some real jank with rough perf costs.

@erkhyan sloptimised

@erkhyan My dream was to run every app inside a VM so I could be safe from my own operating system.

@vyruss So... Qubes?

@erkhyan

@Nerts @erkhyan "A sloperating system sloptimised for hallucin-formance and memory vibe-out."

@erkhyan Give that person a medal or stg xD

@erkhyan i saw that too

@erkhyan Yesterday my day started with my dad asking "What is the best way to wipe out and re-partition for windows 11?" and ended with "Well... looks like we'll all be on linux pretty soon. No choice now."

I thought I was having a stroke

@psilonaut @erkhyan

Zorin Linux, which according to one measure is about the ninth largest distro. Or so. ...ish.

And they report, during the last five weeks, the new release was downloaded a million times.

And 780,000 of that million were to Windows machines. 78%

Head exploded indeed.

#lunux

@erkhyan brilliant phrase. Won't be on my home machine (still 10 at the moment, but will have to make the change to Linux at some point)