FirehawkV21

Summary As Microsoft is doing some cleaning house, they have decided to stop producing PC hardware under their name. Going forward, Surface will be the brand that will be on Microsoft's hardware portfolio (at least in the PC accessories). You can still purchase Microsoft accessories in stores, but don't expect new re-issues. Quotes My thoughts Well... That's an end of an era. I'm probably one of the few that would consider Microsoft hardware, but most of their portfolio has been pretty solid. I have been very happy with both the Microsoft Internet Keyboard and (very recently) the MS Bluetooth Mouse. The Mouse and Keyboard Center (formely IntelliType and IntelliMouse) is great as well (although, a nice UI refresh would be neat). I'm rather suprised that compared to Logi Options, it was a better package. I could adjust my current mouse's DPI, whereas my old Logitech m185 didn't allow that. Hopefully, we'll see some pretty neat accessories from the Surface team (preferably sans "Surface tax" but if it has a reasonable price, I would buy one). Sources https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23700998/microsoft-keyboard-mouse-webcam-discontinued-surface-brand

It will certainly be interesting. Especially for people that use Hybrid Graphics. I kind of doubt that Intel will enable it for all GPUs that they maintain (the HD Graphics 520 is stuck on WDDM 2.1 while the R5 M430 is using WDDM 2.7) but it would be cool to see all of them support it. And I wonder how well it will work when two GPUs do different stuff.

Do you happen to use a proxy or a VPN? I think I saw a report where the https:// version of the msftconnect.com may confuse the connection check due to this.

That, I can agree. Especially since Windows has a lot of components and they have to maintain it for both consumer and business customers. Looking at the 20H2 and the return on the optional updates, they have done some changes there as well. Mainy, 20H2 features will be available for testing to all (no A/B testing) and the optional updates will have a preview attached (I think insiders with receive an early preview first before making it a public preview). I guess they are are improving how they test updates slowly.

Minor correction: Windows 10 does have a WebView (which uses EdgeHTML). Microsoft even had tools to convert HTML5 apps to UWP apps. Visual Studio even had templates for these (up until 2019, but the PWA Builder could prepare you an MSIX package). I kind of disagree with this. If the app wants to access sensitive stuff, then they should require signing (in my opinion). Maybe with something like a GPG key, but the signing should be laser focused on "this app is from this dev and not a thief that uses the name". Last time I checked, you can timestamp the package during signing so it can still be used.

They own Xamarin. They are merging all of their frameworks into one, so...

This sounds too good to be true. 200 FPS boost on Destiny 2? In which hardware and how? And it's pretty secretive to boot. My gut says that it's a scam. You can't really get that high of boost unless you do some serious optimizations to the OS (mainly, compiling it with a compiler that will utilize newer processor instructions) and tweak the game to the lowest possible quality settings (which, looking at the screenshots for both is absurd).

Had to do this for the AMD driver as well. It seems to work? I don't know, to be honest. GPU-Z shows me code 8 for this. EDIT: Updated GPU-Z and now it shows me that it's not supported. Maybe it's either due to me having Hybrid Graphics or AMD hasn't implemented this yet.

It could possibly be a prototype. Windows Terminal was barebones for a while until the later betas. It could give them feeback to see how well winget works. Stuff like: Does the flow go well? Can users install easilly any package they want? Does it work well? Can the tool read the manifests? So on and so forth.

In all honesty, I wouldn't mind bringing some of the Linux features to Windows. winget would make it pretty easy to reinstall some of the apps I use (Visual Studio, .NET Core SDK, etc.). Maybe, at some point, we could see some stuff offloaded from Windows Update to winget (if the package manager matures enough. There are some features I'd like to see from Linux added as well (for example, faster updates. Possibly with a compression like Brotli or Zstandard. Maybe when they start poring bits from 10X, we may see that), but as long as they don't go overboard, I wouldn't mind that.

The issue with bringing their apps to Linux would be supporting a lot of distros. Picking a UI framework that works with a lot of them is already a pain (asssuming that you don't use something like Electron). Even if they decide to build their own UI framework so they can port them to Linux, is there a quarantee that the distro can handle the calls necessary? And assuming that all of the technical details are ironed out, would it make sense to make versions for it? Especially since Linux is way too small in install base (and who knows how each distro's install base is split).

Wish it was also available on the 6th Gen Core i3 chips as well. Only WDDM 2.1 on the HD Graphics 520. *sigh* Hopefully, I can turn this on once AMD releases their driver. I wonder if it's supported on Hybrid Graphics... Wait. 2.9 is already en route? Not even 2.8? That's uh... quite the move there...

Boy, That's one manager I've never heard of in years. Did they ever use it all? Or even provide documentation?

Chocolatey, sure. But NuGet is for delivering libraries to projects. Plus, winget supports EXEs, MSIs and MSIXs as the installation file. Choco really intimidates me with how I need to set up a NuGet to upload. It's a lot easier to make an MSIX package in my experience (you can simply set up a Windows Package project on the solution and write a script to automate the packaging).

WSL2 has far better IO performance, since it uses a full kernel (rather than translation). Unless you are doing a lot of stuff on network drives, it's an upgrade over WSL1. The only slowdown I've noticed is when I ran a tool I made (which compiles JS files to binaries), it was slightly slower than the Windows build. Now... seeing GUI apps coming to WSL is a nice addition. Granted, I have all of my GUI tools already on Windows, but it could help with debugging Linux GUI apps on Windows (when I can't spin up a VM or have some issues with a real distro. Some of the devices don't work right on Linux).