It's the better operating system, but it's intentionally hobbled by proprietary software.
I think that's gonna change soon though. Microsoft sees the writing on the wall and will probably open source Windows sometime in the next decade to keep it relevant. Most computers run some form of GNU + Linux kernel (Android, servers, smart tvs, e-readers, tablets, anything small with an operating system really) and Windows market share has become essentially just the consumer market. The only thing keeping it alive is gaming and Autodesk/Adobe.
They're at a point where Windows has become almost unmaintainable. It's collapsing under its own weight. There are systems in there that haven't changed since 2000. Their development team is just not large enough and never will be. At some point the only profitable thing will be to open source Windows and it's proprietary drivers and focus on userspace apps like office and industrial tech support.
Especially after seeing the leaked Windows 11. Nothing has changed. It's just 10 with a skin. Meanwhile every year GNU/Linux gets massive increases in usability and appearance. It also has the benefit of being able to use way more filesystem types and utilize a more intuitive installation/application layer. Windows tried with the Windows store, but apt/pacman are just amazing tools that can't exist in the same way outside an open source system.
Oh yeah, I've been rebuilding a lot of my models in FreeCAD, it's just not an industry standard so you can't really use it for work.
I think the fact that it's Python based is going to catapult it into relevance soon. Python is replacing lisp as the scripting language of choice for modeling thanks to Blender.
The fact that it's easy to make extensions for it is a huge benefit as well. I think as Autodesk continues to screw people over with license changes we're gonna see huge shifts towards existing open source projects like FreeCAD and Kicad (Kicad already has Cern backing it)
Also, while FreeCAD is a bit clunky and unintuitive for amateurs, it also forces best practices. I can make functional parts in Fusion that are absolutely garbage and unconstrained that break the second I change anything. FreeCAD forces you to constrain your sketches and dimension everything properly before it spits out a body which is annoying, but also good.
They’re at a point where Windows has become almost unmaintainable. It’s collapsing under its own weight. There are systems in there that haven’t changed since 2000. Their development team is just not large enough and never will be. At some point the only profitable thing will be to open source Windows and it’s proprietary drivers and focus on userspace apps like office and industrial tech support.
This right here is the reason why I've always been so disappointed by every new Windows version. It's like, Linux does the most insane shit with the GUI and yet every Windows edition is so clunky in terms of user interface.
The moment the tide turns for vidya, I'm jumping ship.
will probably open source Windows sometime in the next decade to keep it relevant.
?????????? they have like 75% market share and their main competitor is still MacOS. i've noticed among FOSS Freaxx there's this consistent inability to understand why people in general use software and how they decide which software to use verging on willful delusion, as if ext4 support is a killer app.
MacOS is still based on an open source operating system. It's just using the BSD kernel which has a more permissive license. Windows has also been tending more towards open source lately.
Dos/NT is a dying system.
And again, that's just the consumer desktop market which is significantly less lucrative than the industrial/webserver market. I know like 4 people who've ever paid for windows.
Open sourcing it will bring a lot of industrial users back as being able to modify and maintain the system from in house will outweigh the costs and they'll still be able to charge for support and services.
There's the problem with the FOSS "movement"; Megacorps using open source software to develop profitable proprietary software is considered a win. Obvious EEE tactics like WSL which seek to bring previously plural, rhizomatic structures of organization into the fold of Big Tech are hailed as victories. There is no vision of what liberatory computing would look like. The tech hippies want to defeat the evil empire by competing with them on the open market, yet they have no consideration for what would even work as a competitive product.
I support FOSS in the same way I'd support social democrats against a king. It's a step in the right direction. It's the public transportation with fares version of software as opposed to the private vehicles that are closed source software.
The most important part of open source software is accessibility. No one can afford a license for non-free software that costs like $5000/year except schools and companies. I really think that the digital sphere is the same as the real world, but with the contradictions even more heightened because it's a space that's functionally post-scarcity and everyone knows it.
The fact that you can be charged for numbers and people are telling you that they own numbers is an almost impossible contradiction for most people to reconcile. The FOSS "movement" is the first bourgeois revolution, as it reveals its solutions to the contradictions are lacking, that's when the second revolution comes.
I've straight up told people that Linux is a better operating system.
I have also never installed Linux on my main computer and probably never will.
It's the better operating system, but it's intentionally hobbled by proprietary software.
I think that's gonna change soon though. Microsoft sees the writing on the wall and will probably open source Windows sometime in the next decade to keep it relevant. Most computers run some form of GNU + Linux kernel (Android, servers, smart tvs, e-readers, tablets, anything small with an operating system really) and Windows market share has become essentially just the consumer market. The only thing keeping it alive is gaming and Autodesk/Adobe.
They're at a point where Windows has become almost unmaintainable. It's collapsing under its own weight. There are systems in there that haven't changed since 2000. Their development team is just not large enough and never will be. At some point the only profitable thing will be to open source Windows and it's proprietary drivers and focus on userspace apps like office and industrial tech support.
Especially after seeing the leaked Windows 11. Nothing has changed. It's just 10 with a skin. Meanwhile every year GNU/Linux gets massive increases in usability and appearance. It also has the benefit of being able to use way more filesystem types and utilize a more intuitive installation/application layer. Windows tried with the Windows store, but apt/pacman are just amazing tools that can't exist in the same way outside an open source system.
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The only reason I'm still using Windows is fucking Autodesk
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Oh yeah, I've been rebuilding a lot of my models in FreeCAD, it's just not an industry standard so you can't really use it for work.
I think the fact that it's Python based is going to catapult it into relevance soon. Python is replacing lisp as the scripting language of choice for modeling thanks to Blender.
The fact that it's easy to make extensions for it is a huge benefit as well. I think as Autodesk continues to screw people over with license changes we're gonna see huge shifts towards existing open source projects like FreeCAD and Kicad (Kicad already has Cern backing it)
Also, while FreeCAD is a bit clunky and unintuitive for amateurs, it also forces best practices. I can make functional parts in Fusion that are absolutely garbage and unconstrained that break the second I change anything. FreeCAD forces you to constrain your sketches and dimension everything properly before it spits out a body which is annoying, but also good.
This right here is the reason why I've always been so disappointed by every new Windows version. It's like, Linux does the most insane shit with the GUI and yet every Windows edition is so clunky in terms of user interface.
The moment the tide turns for vidya, I'm jumping ship.
arguably, the tide has already turned for vidya. large swathes of the steam store are available for linux, either natively or through wine/proton
check if the games you play are available on linux (protondb, winedb, lutris), if they are, then you no longer have any excuse not to switch
i'm a simp for the penguin, but
?????????? they have like 75% market share and their main competitor is still MacOS. i've noticed among FOSS Freaxx there's this consistent inability to understand why people in general use software and how they decide which software to use verging on willful delusion, as if ext4 support is a killer app.
MacOS is still based on an open source operating system. It's just using the BSD kernel which has a more permissive license. Windows has also been tending more towards open source lately.
Dos/NT is a dying system.
And again, that's just the consumer desktop market which is significantly less lucrative than the industrial/webserver market. I know like 4 people who've ever paid for windows.
Open sourcing it will bring a lot of industrial users back as being able to modify and maintain the system from in house will outweigh the costs and they'll still be able to charge for support and services.
There's the problem with the FOSS "movement"; Megacorps using open source software to develop profitable proprietary software is considered a win. Obvious EEE tactics like WSL which seek to bring previously plural, rhizomatic structures of organization into the fold of Big Tech are hailed as victories. There is no vision of what liberatory computing would look like. The tech hippies want to defeat the evil empire by competing with them on the open market, yet they have no consideration for what would even work as a competitive product.
Jesus I sound like an ML.
I support FOSS in the same way I'd support social democrats against a king. It's a step in the right direction. It's the public transportation with fares version of software as opposed to the private vehicles that are closed source software.
The most important part of open source software is accessibility. No one can afford a license for non-free software that costs like $5000/year except schools and companies. I really think that the digital sphere is the same as the real world, but with the contradictions even more heightened because it's a space that's functionally post-scarcity and everyone knows it.
The fact that you can be charged for numbers and people are telling you that they own numbers is an almost impossible contradiction for most people to reconcile. The FOSS "movement" is the first bourgeois revolution, as it reveals its solutions to the contradictions are lacking, that's when the second revolution comes.
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you really should install it, ubuntu and popos are both pretty easy to get started with