Why does Windows Suck?

[BigAl Tech]

     I was watching some LTT content youtube and he was covering the Nvidia event, between that and the AMD event in Hawaii there has been a lot of talk about 'GPU wars' that Nvidia and AMD are in. Things from months and years ago are coming up, like when you get into a fight with your wife and she brings up stuff from years ago that you had no idea were on tape. 

 

     Part of this battle is revealing thing about Nvidia; rumors about GK110 not being meant for a 680 like card, and that they have been holding out on gamers for so long because AMD has nothing to push them harder until recently. This level of competition is finally bring some legit innovation to the table.

 

     Windows currently has no one pushing them to give the best experience possible. Just look at the crap that they have been dishing out; Vista?! Windows 8. Really not giving anyone what they want and they have no one to challenge them. Linux is picking some steam, pun intended, but is still no where near as big. And with no Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple its awesome growth cannot be sustained.

 

     Windows 8.1 is making me flash back to the XBox One. They release this awesome new product and then tell us that everything is going to be worse than the PS4. And then come out a week later to say 'just kidding' it actually won't suck. The big problem though is that Sony doesn't make an OS to push Microsoft to make a real OS that actually works.

 

What do you all think? Make OSX more open? Or get Linux to go mainstream? 

     These may not be good solutions but they may get Microsoft to think before the release yet another useless version of the Windows.

[Arshdeep]

Intel and Windows seem to move to the mobile devices than the powerful desktop cpus. Both hardware and software. Seems like a slow transaction due to Morse Law, and silicon limitations.

[delet my acc pls]

OSX more open: hell no! (i have used OSX for multiple months i know what is`s like, and apple charges like hell)

 

Get linux mainstream: Hell yeah!

 

The big problem though is that Sony doesn't make an OS to push Microsoft to make a real OS that actually works.

 

Do you mean a PC OS? In that case sony does not even have a chance against microsoft.

[qwertywarrior]

the second half of your post makes no sense

[xRAGExSounDxRIOTX]

 

I seriously don't understand this.

[Guest]

OSX more open: hell no! (i have used OSX for multiple months i know what is`s like, and apple charges like hell)

 

Last time I checked OSX only cost around £20? And that's pretty darn good compared to Windows costing around £70 for 7 and around £90 for 8.

[delet my acc pls]

Last time I checked OSX only cost around £20? And that's pretty darn good compared to Windows costing around £70 for 7 and around £90 for 8.

what! really? in sweden it costs like 2 times windows.

[Guest]

Calm down, we all know a good linux based system is coming out: SteamOS It will be more optimized for games and will juice every  tiny amount of horsepower from your GPU, just wait for it, and best... IT IS FREE!

[SirReallySam]

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I seriously don't understand this.

agreed

[juretrn]

Intel and Windows seem to move to the mobile devices than the powerful desktop cpus. Both hardware and software. Seems like a slow transaction due to Morse Law, and silicon limitations.

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[Arshdeep]

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[Chivpcgamer]

I have windows 7 and have had no issues with it at all, i would always recommend windows

[zip2k4]

...?

 

that's morse code, just a hint that what you were talking previously is most likely murphy's - not morse.

[Guest]

what! really? in sweden it costs like 2 times windows.

 

Yup, really, is that from the app store?

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512?ls=1&mt=12

 

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512?ls=1&mt=12

[juretrn]

...?

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

[Arshdeep]

that's morse code, just a hint that what you were talking previously is most likely murphy's - not morse.

I see.

[Arshdeep]

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

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[Arshdeep]

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My Bad.

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[GoodBytes]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say. But this is what the situation is.

 -> Microsoft wants a computer in every living room. They tried for years with partnership with cable box and with media center, media center with cable companies deal, all of which failed. So they are going with Gaming, and they are doing well. XBox is a gaming machine + Media Center device into one. XBox One really portrays (well, based on what is shown so far, we have to see how complete each feature is, and if it works everywhere or not, and so on) the image of Media Center goals.

 

 -> While Microsoft focus on the XBox was on gaming, it made them left gaming on PC a lot. But is it bad? No not really, Microsoft advancement was ahead, after ~6 years, nothing is really catching up. Sure Steam is pushing Linux, but the percentage of users that uses a PC exclusively for gaming, is tiny. People still do productivity tasks on PC's, and Windows has a huge collection of not only much needed software which doesn't exists in Linux, and those that have an alternative in Linux based OS's to Windows, are FAR from being polished, or even complete, let alone have a focus. But Microsoft isn't stupid. They recently hired the guy that made Steam what it is, on the PC section of Microsoft, not XBox division. And the restructure that Microsoft is happening, Microsoft has eyes on SteamOS and Linux gaming.

Also, there is no denying that what Microsoft learned and developer on the XBox is being transferred in DirectX in Windows. DirectX 11.x is a showcase of that.

 

Does Microsoft needs to do more for gaming on Windows? For sure, with some seriousness too. And I think they will. Tablet gaming is big, and we are moving into a world of convertiable tablet/laptops. Desktop are reducing to gaming, workstations, mini server purposes. No longer needed or even cared about for surfing the web. While laptops/ultrabooks are always years behind desktop performance, it's way more than enough for general and office purposes.

 

So the direction of what Microsoft is taking with Windows 8 is 100% correct for their own survivals. Like it or not, this is the future. And touch and digitize pen input device will compliment the desktop keyboard and mouse, much like the mouse. People used to HATE the mouse, HATE graphical user interfaces. It was command line all the way. Now, people don't want anything else. Heck, that's part of many reasons why Linux is not getting attraction... you have to use it's Terminal to do something. The Linux community doesn't like it one bit... They hate Ubuntu as they highly modify Linux kernel for a more "Windows-feel", in the sense, where you rarely use the command line. But, Ubuntu made Linux based OS more popular then ever before.

 

I think digitize pen will be awesome in gaming. Imagine, a monitor that looks like a high end monitor with full adjustability, which you can, with great ease, slide toward you and in an angle, floating right above your keyboard, and on a multi-player match you have a period of "planning" , you start doing plan and strategy with your friends to attack the enemy. Of course the game has a time out, kinda like TFT2 timer wait period. Then you slide the monitor like normal, and play your match. That's just 1 idea that I came out with. I am sure they are better more creative ideas that game devs can come out with.

If you don't understand the monitor type I am talking about, look at the Wacom Cintiq Touch for some kinda of similar design/concept of monitor.

[Giddyguy]

I don't have much to say about Vista because I was young.

 

For windows 8 and Xbox One i think you need to look at it from a bigger picture.

• The decline of Desktop PC sales is a thing. Are they dead/will they die? Probably not. But people are buying and preferring mobile devices not because of their convenience. Desktops are without doubt more powerful, but most of the population don't need that kind of power in their computers (for web browsing, word processing, youtube, and online/website games).
• Mobile devices are also reasonably powerful (tegra in the shield, etc) and even Linus believes that these devices can take over designated console devices for gaming. If Assasin's Creed 4 were to come out on the play store for some Android device that costs $200 and runs as well as the Xbox but has additional capabilities, why need an Xbox?

Microsoft realized that Android and IOS have become increasingly popular because of their ease of use with touch as well as openness (android, somewhat ios with apps) and ability to replace a laptop (for web browsing, word processing, youtube, and online/website games). So what did MS do? They released an OS that is touch friendly to bridge the gap between tablets and laptops. Now with hybrid pc's like the lenovo yoga and even the Surface pro you have both the convenience of a tablet/touch device and the windows desktop which is ultimately more capable than android and ios.

 

For the Xbox, MS realized that having a strictly gaming-only console wouldn't keep up with android devices so they added a whole lot of other features to make it somewhat appealing.

 

Some aspects of each are questionable but you have to understand the bigger picture.

[IdeaStormer]

Well the OS is like a toolbox, some OS's contain the tools you need some contain tools you could use but maybe not perfect but still does the job. That being said if you want to run a pure gaming machine Windows, Linux, Mac OS X are not the OS's for you. Why? Because they are multitasking OS's and when you are playing a high intensity game the last thing you want is an OS that's checking for some nonsense task you are not going to use. Back in the DOS and Windows 95 days your games would take over and have all the resources/tasks/clock-cycles dedicated to the game (or what ever app) you ran. Modern OS's want to do it all and can but sometimes it loses its concentration due to some buggy driver/hardware taking up too much of its cpu cycles fixing/deciphering that buggy driver/hardware so your game lags or crashes. People blame the game, the video card, yet its really the OS going off on a tangent.

 

Till there's a real time OS for gaming all the same issues will still rear their ugly head no matter how fast a cpu or how killer a GPU you run.

 

Microsoft, Apple, Linux, aim at working for the widest market share with their one OS for everything so in reality neither is the solution to gaming's woe's. Till a rightful pure gaming OS rises, its S.O.S.

[mc141]

Windows in general in my opinion doesnt suck. i only have a complaint is the removal of the start menu and how they are merging tablet, phone, and pc into one interface. If I pick up my phone I want it to act like a phone not like my pc. And my pc to act like a pc not a tablet.

[solomongrundy]

     I was watching some LTT content youtube and he was covering the Nvidia event, between that and the AMD event in Hawaii there has been a lot of talk about 'GPU wars' that Nvidia and AMD are in. Things from months and years ago are coming up, like when you get into a fight with your wife and she brings up stuff from years ago that you had no idea were on tape. 

 

     Part of this battle is revealing thing about Nvidia; rumors about GK110 not being meant for a 680 like card, and that they have been holding out on gamers for so long because AMD has nothing to push them harder until recently. This level of competition is finally bring some legit innovation to the table.

 

     Windows currently has no one pushing them to give the best experience possible. Just look at the crap that they have been dishing out; Vista?! Windows 8. Really not giving anyone what they want and they have no one to challenge them. Linux is picking some steam, pun intended, but is still no where near as big. And with no Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple its awesome growth cannot be sustained.

 

     Windows 8.1 is making me flash back to the XBox One. They release this awesome new product and then tell us that everything is going to be worse than the PS4. And then come out a week later to say 'just kidding' it actually won't suck. The big problem though is that Sony doesn't make an OS to push Microsoft to make a real OS that actually works.

 

What do you all think? Make OSX more open? Or get Linux to go mainstream? 

     These may not be good solutions but they may get Microsoft to think before the release yet another useless version of the Windows.

I'm sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.  

[mc141]

bring back os2 warp 

[BigAl Tech]

I'm sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.  

Maybe, and I couldn't do any better than they are doing, but wouldn't you love to see not just Windows Home premium, and Windows Ultimate but also a Windows 8.1 Gamer Mode/Edition?