Windows 11 often requires new hardware. But that will be extremely pricey or have very little RAM for a while.

I dont believe that a single competent person works at Micro$oft anymore, but maybe maybe this could lead them to make a less shitty OS?

And garbage software like Adobe Creative Cloud too?

They obviously dont care about users, but the pain could become too big.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Interesting take…

    Another relevant twist of the knife on the Linux side is thunderbird not having a tray icon

    What would you need one for?

    What is the purpose of an email client that doesn’t stay running 24/7?

    Genuinely confused here. To receive email? What’s the purpose of leaving it running all the time? The only difference in the setup I have and what you seem to want is that instead of clicking an email icon on the dock and waiting ~1second, you want to see a notification in the tray? Given that email is 90% noise no matter how many things I unsubscribe from, the last thing I want is a constant stream of notifications on yet another device.

    I feel like specifically because I run Linux all my apps launch faster so yes I prefer to close them when not in use. Feels a lot cleaner for my mental model. Don’t get me wrong, I often run 6-8 apps at a time if I need to. But even then I don’t think I go much beyond 8 GB of ram used, unless I’m gaming.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I’m not contradicting myself and I understood all that. You didn’t get what I was saying.

        I was simply saying that you want something I’d never want. Has nothing to do with a distaste for email. Has to do with adding stress to my life while also using my system resources. And I was pointing out the only non-stress difference is I have to click once to open my email and it loads very fast. I wouldn’t see any value in what you see as a minimum requirement. I’d actually go to a lot of trouble to disable that if it were on by default lol

        It sounds like you’re a person who not only uses chrome but also dozens or hundreds of tabs. I’m opposite to all that. I stand by my claim that Linux performs far better and I suspect I’d think so even if I wanted to run a lot of ram hungry apps at the same time tbh, because I just haven’t experienced literally anything you’re saying.