>use Linuxno thanks, I want a nonfragmented platform
>>108955915>So is Windows gonna keep getting worse?well yeah Micorslop has no incentive to improve the system>>use Linux>no thanks, I want a nonfragmented platforminstall gentoo
>>108955921>install gentoothey hated him, because he told them the truth
macOS
Buy a Mac thenIt's like linux but for normal people
>>108955981>Use this deadshit OS that's even worse than Windows instead
>>108955915>waaa problem>>solution>I dont want solutionOk
>>108955989in what way is mac worse than windows?
>>108956001In every way there is to be?you're completely under Apple's whims when it comes to backwards compatibility and upgrades but even worse on a hardware level too
>>108955915linux isn’t a “platform” it’s a kernel. if you want a “platform” maybe you would be better suited for mac
>>108955915>use carsno thanks, I'll continue riding the bus, I want a nonfragmented platform. There are too many options
>>108955915linux is for troons and windows is for jeets
>>108955915The era of computing is drawing to a close.
>>108955915enjoy your zero-days baby duck
>>108956093>enjoy your zero-daysYou mean on Linux?
>>108955915Yes. It only makes sense when air gapped. To run non cloud-tied software.>>108955941What technically stops OP from building his own browsers and file explorers and such, for Windows? Seriously, only limitation is the kernel, but vulns don't get there automagically, they first have to slip through apps. If you build your custom hardened apps for windows, how is it worse than gentoo?
>>108955915>wants a nonfragmented platform>uses an OS that is one of many IBM PC clonesWhat did he mean by this?
>>108955921>gentoohe said nonfragmented you idiotI use Linux but it's impossible to deny that it is fragmented, it's literally the only operating system which has more than one display server, can't even decide on basic shit like that.The only viable solution for OP is to use a Windows 7 VM inside Linux if you don't want to be insane enough to run an EOL OS on bare metal
>>108956417>fragmentednonfragmented*
>>108955915Windows 11 got better with the last 2 updates tho.
BSD?
>>108956425No Steam and not as much hardware support as Linux. if they could fix that I'd switch in an instant.
>>108956417>The only viable solution for OP is to use a Windows 7 VM inside LinuxWhat can possibly be so bad about Windows 11 that people would rather jump through insane hoops like that instead of just using it?
>>108956437>What can possibly be so bad about Windows 11Indians
>>108956425>subpar hardware support>OpenBSD still doesn't have a journaling filesystemFreeBSD is the only usable BSD, and it still doesn't support my peripherals, and I remember experiencing a lot of segfaults when I was trying to run an X11 window manager. Though other than that it's a great server OS, just don't use it for desktop.
>>108956442Why would someone care about what kind of person was part of the coding process? I can't even imagine thinking about something like that while I use my computer. I'm sure there are plenty of indians that were part of making Android, iOS and MacOS as well.The only time when the person behind the project is relevant is ironically Linux because you will always have to interact with mentally ill lunatics and beg them on your knees to fix some obvious flaw in their software.
your choice.either keep eating shit served by corpos.or invest time in learning and building your own system.
>>108956491I have two answers for you:1. The companies hire indians for cheaper labour, but it being cheaper makes the employees less invested and qualified, thus on average indians being a part of a projecr is correlated with a project being worse.2. You are on the same website that houses polBonus: India is kind of a shithole
>>108956437Ask OP, not me, he's the one who is dissatisfied with windows, as for me, I have not used windows ever since microsoft added cortana to windows 10 (that was the trigger that made me jump to Linux) so I never had to experience the displeasure of dealing with windows 11.It's very clear that even long-time windows users are dissatisfied with the current state of windows, and I don't have to use it myself to see why.Also btw windows 7 was the last good windows, sorry anon, but nothing, absolutely nothing will change that fact.
>>108955915>I want a nonfragmented platformm8, Linux these days is just systemd, Wayland, gnome/kde. You can't even tell which distribution you're using unless you go out of your way to check or use some meme hobbyist distro
I just don't understand why the FOSS community picked Linux over BSD. BSD is much more stable and less fragmented. is it because of that GPL license?
>>108956584>m8, Linux these days is just systemd, Wayland, gnome/kde.says who? see where the problem is? there is no stable platform.
>>108956593>says who?Most relevant distributions
>>108956602Well it's still made of sand. today it's systemd, tomorrow it's some other subsystem pushed by some tranny or Linux enterprise corpo.
>>108955915What if I told you that Windows XP can do more in 2026 than it could do in 2001?>It cant install Firefox 140!It couldnt install Firefox 140 in 2001 eitherAll the program versions you used back then still work today. Its your expectations that have changed.
>>108956585>is it because of that GPL license?Correct. The """free""" software movement and Linux are deeply tied together and not having a licence that is in conformity to the ideology of """free""" software is seen as a sin. BSD is just objectively better than the complete joke of the Linux ecosystem but people don't care about merit and quality. They just want to follow a ridiculous ideology because people nowadays are empty inside and have nothing better to do.Linux is """free""" software while BSD is truly free and that is why they hate it.
>>108955915buy an ad, jeet
>>108956676>"Here, wear these clothes you wore when you were 6 years old.">But I'm not 6 years old anymore. How am I supposed to fit inside!>"Its your expectations that have changed and not the clothes."Why even stop at Windows XP? Just daily drive Windows 95.
>>108956684Linux flourished precisely because of GPL, dumbass. Why would any company give back what they contribute if they don't have to? Just take the code, do whatever with it and close source it. It's why BSD is an absolute meme while Linux runs basically every server in the world.
>>108956725>Just daily drive Windows 95Too outdated. As for XP, it is kinda sluggish and not very stable, also 32bit only. So win7 is a better option for old hardware, air gapped PC.
>>108956725>Why even stop at Windows XP? Just daily drive Windows 95.Because Windows 95 was unsatisfactory even in 1995. 98SE was the first version I felt was "good enough."And your clothing analogy sucks because your childhood clothes are not digital media, they are probably ripped and torn. But if you could find an exact duplicate of your childhood clothes that pass SHA256 checksum, then yes they would absolutely be viable in 2026 (to be worn by a current child).You can absolutely use XP to write Word documents, make PowerPoints, play AoE2 or UT99, listen to mp3s, whatever. XP did not "get worse," you just want more now.
>>108955915yeah just as linux and mac, they are all managed by pedomasons shilling the "you will own nothing and be happy" thingy
>>108956750We just needed a standard UNIX kernel with hardware support. most contributions are useless.
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>>108955981>currynigger bloatOS
>>108956547Yeah that is about what I expected. Still the issues people cite that are supposedly caused by jeetification are pretty small in the grand scheme of things. Laggy context menu, laggy explorer, having some options missing from the settings, convoluted first install that pushes you to Microsoft services, featured apps in the start menu,...But all those are either minor inconveniences, are only annoying the first time or can be permanently removed (still not excusable). But nothing that would suggest people would want to switch en masse.>>108956559>Also btw windows 7 was the last good windowsTo be honest I never really cared about any Windows version to say which one was best. Windows 10 was the true dogshit OS and for me Windows 11 was at least a little bit better. Windows 10 made me not want to use a computer. Just look at that abomination in picrel.
>>108956959you are on a tinkertranny board, nobody here has windows 10 that looks like your picrel.
>>108956750>Linux flourished precisely because of GPLI actually completly agree with you. The GPL license is basically an anti-competition license in a way. Companies could fork the Linux kernel but it is almost pointless since every other company would just use the mainline kernel and contribute to it and they don't want to spend millions in the development of a fork and then give it away for free. BSD gets used by Sony and Nintendo for their console OSes but that doesn't translate to BSD being a good gaming platform.95+% of Linux kernel development is funded by companies since these companies build their business on it. So it is more like an open standard that companies around the world develop together instead of them all building their own thing that is worse and isn't compatible with each other.This is what the open source movement is about and it removed the whole "free" software ideology while focusing on practicality. But the Linux community mainly consists of free software advocates even though the kernel is on the open source side. Free software is completely irrelevant outside of those niche circles and open source has won.
>>108956959The only reason I swapped to win10 in 2020 was because it was annoying trying to install 7 on an nvme.I already had a hatred for it due to my wife's laptop having 8. First thing I did on win10 was install classic shell.Now I just run cachyos because I'm lazy and a friend started using it about a year ago and we do similar things with our pcs.
use LTSC until ReactOS becomes usable.
>>108957476So LTSC for the rest of your life then. ReactOS will never be usable, because its not intended to be.
Would you rather use Windows on ARM or Linux on x86?
>>108956620No, all the major distributions move in the same direction in unison these days. The only real difference left is the package manager, which doesn't matter, plus everything is moving to flatpak anyway.
>>108956750Sony and Nintendo still use BSD for their core software stack, I wonder why...
>>108956992it literally looks exactly like that on a clean install if you don't debloat it yourself you moron
>>108957922Because they can modify it then don't have to share the code, retard. The anon you're responding to already explained this
>>108955998just becuase it is "a possible solution" doesn't mean it is a good solution, or even a good solution for everyone.
>>108959267Learning Linux is the best long term solution until Microslop or Apple does something worthwhile.>Linux is fragmentedIt might appear that way and there's heated debate around it but most people will probably be fine with Mint o algo.
>>108955915If you don't like linux just fucking say so holy shit.>nonfragmented platformNigger every day I use LTSC10 I see at least four different eras of UI design from the last 30 fucking years all within one workflow.
>>108960411Nobody is thinking of muh UI when people are talking about Linux fragmentation.
>>108960479Oh, are they talking about [software that is available on every distro]? Or [software that is available on every distro]?
>>108955915Use case for nonfragmentation?
>>108955915>I want a nonfragmented platformWindows is and has been getting shitter precisely because its nonfragmented. If derivatives were possible, literally everyone would just use thoseHell, the worst aspects of Linux are the parts of it that are 'nonfragmented'That being said, your only real options are either sticking to windows regardless of how bad it gets, using macos, or trying out any linux distro maintained by corporations eg. fedora, ubuntu eg.
>>108956118How long did it take for Microsoft to patch out RedSun again?
>>108956118on linux they get noticed and patched, on windows they are leveraged by glowniggers or sold to virus developers on darknet forums
>>108955915Being fragmented is a good thing actually. One distro can learn from other ones and better distros will always appear. No need to be the slave of a multi billion dollar company OS. But if you just want to be cattle then apple is for bovines like you.
>>108957876>ReactOS will never be usableNot him but I've genuinely started working on ReactOS because I've grown so tired of this sentiment. It's all bitch bitch bitch and never doing a damn thing to help.
>>108955915Its so shit, every day some new basic thing breaks. my windows install cant even tell me the fucking time right, after having to manually correct it the lock screen is now different from my system time and 1 hour forward. After the last windows update my pc started crashing, games i bought on the MS store dont work and crash my pc when opening, My task bar icons are constantly vanishing, I stupidly have bitlocker enabled for specific reasons and it triggers every time I update linux. I'm an inch away from just deleting my windows partition.
>>108962148You can't help something that refuses to be helped. I believe the reactos project is so fundamentally mismanaged that it cannot be helped. The project is not intended to ever be usable. You would need to hard fork the project and server all ties with the existing group to make actual progress.
