• XLE@piefed.socialBanned from community
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    26 days ago

    I love how Microsoft promised to cut down on mandatory updates with K2, and then decided to push several more months’ worth of mandatory, massive, device-breaking updates before K2 even starts. They shouldn’t have made the announcement until they were ready to commit.


    Edit: the K2 promise was March 20.

    The K2 results are “any day now.” Allegedly some people can already permanently disable keep re-pausing Windows updates. So little so late.

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      26 days ago

      They shouldn’t have made the announcement until they were ready to commit.

      They should print this in bronze and mount it in their boardroom because the present day reputation of Microsoft is that releasing half baked shit that they need to abandon or rebrand later is all that they do.

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    26 days ago

    The first half of the article is just going in circles. Like a llm repeating it self.

    The second half could be written in a sentence.

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    26 days ago

    Windows is bloated, always has been. Everytime you install an application you are installing another copy of all the libraries that program uses.

    I think now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular, they will also start to suffer from bloat as well. While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.

    Of course the big difference between the two update systems currently is most Linux systems can update all their programs together. I have always found using repositories way better than hunting down updated packages in Windows or having to let each program individually update itself.

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      25 days ago

      now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular,

      Uh, what do you think was in the repositories all these decades? They can contain just the source, but that’s not what most people use.

      While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.

      Ah, so you’re talking about those… Yeah, but for those types of packages, including all the dependencies is kind of the point, they’re meant to run on whatever distro where the packager has no influence in what libraries and other dependencies of their software is or.isn’t present. They also bolt on things like sandboxing, so it’s not entirely the same as the distro packages you get through your apt/dnf/zypper/etc.

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      26 days ago

      Windows is not bloated! I’m sure windows XP is smaller than debian!

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      25 days ago

      There’s no need to lie to make Windows look bad. You are definitely not installing another copy of all the libraries the program uses. What do you think DLLs are? Why are there so many of them in system directories?

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        25 days ago

        Found the Windows defender!

        If you are going to deny that typically Windows uses static linking and bundled dependencies I am not sure we can find common ground to have a discussion.