Posted by rbanffy 5 days ago
Old machines from the last 10 years are still capable of all normal daily tasks, even development tasks. This has the 95% covered through existing or cheap second hand machines.
The only new use-case is local AI, which for most people is simply out of price range right now with the current GPU and RAM prices. There’s some people who’ll want this, but they are a minority. Not enough to drive sales at scale.
So whatever remains as a segment is business - which in these cost-aware times are mostly doing like the other 95% and only buy new machines if needed to cover new hires.
Apple stuck at 10 for a long time. solution: drop the major
Linux stuck at 2. solution: randomly change major
Users do not want forced cloud integration and forced “features” added that are clearly designed to maximize connection to Microsoft cloud services.
They may be able to allow more customizations of the UI and back off to some degree but as far as their business model I don’t think they can provide an OS like many users want.
At this rate (I know I keep beating that drum), I think we cannot have AI: it is too self-defeating from a business pov.
- make money from ad views
- make people place ads on many websites, so a lot of ads can be shown
- use made money to build AI summary
- AI summary prevents people from visiting many websites
ETERNALLY, you read that right. Because thanks to that, I finally dared to try Linux, openSUSE, Doom Emacs and KDE, and I'm IN LOVE with my PC all over again.
Thank you so much, Microsoft!!!
Not that Microsoft isn't a terrible company IMO but they also finally see the need to optimise due to the ram crisis.
Try an OS that's designed for people rather than for tracking, and you'll be amazed at how fast an OS can be.
And yes I use FOSS privately. I just have one big gaming PC with windows because I love VR and VR on Linux is not ready for primetime.
For me it's not worth the trouble. My game PC is for 2 things only: Gaming and 3D design and for those I am ok with just using windows.
I'm not a big fan of Steam anyway, I'm more of a GOG user. I will just buy on Steam if I can't find something on GOG.
- Cleaning my drive from unwanted files → One app
- Organizing files based on type → another app
- A good voice-to-text → another app
- A better launcher → another app
- An incredible terminal → another app
I mean is this the way it's supposed to be? Wasn't the whole point - unwrap the macbook, load up Mac OS and LFG?
At this point both Windows and OSX are rent seeking, squeezing as much money as they can out of their users.
They have some AI stuff that they try to push on you during the install, but it can all be disabled so day to day it doesn’t bother you.