let's add an Office ribbon UI to File Explorer
Not my problem, Total Commander is the superior file manager.
Seriously, learn how to use an OFM and forget about all those faggot GUI file managers you've been conditioned to use because that's what Microsoft came up with for normies and that's what every other Linux distro copies.
fuck you I'm installing Tiktok whether you want it or not.
Show me one valid example where Windows Update actually installed the TikTok UWP without the user's consent. If you install Windows 11 and you see the icons for Spotify, TikTok and other shit like this, go to the Settings and look if it's actually installed. It won't be, because those icons are Microsoft Store ads, those apps aren't installed.
That's your actual complaint right there, non-descriptive ads in the Start menu. Run WinUtil, do some extra debloating, and you're left with a clean OS. Do it in a VM just to get the idea, that's how I got the taste of how shit Win11 is and how you can un-shit it without actually switching to it. If your opinion on Win11 is still based on "he said she said", just get VMware Player, the ISO from MS' site and do just that.
Yes that's how it should've been from the start, but it's Microsoft, they're always gonna fuck something up, so either learn how to tardwrangle it or move to Linux and suffer all of it's issues instead if you prefer that. Every modern OS is shit and it's up to you which one you want to put up with.
Yeah they rewrote the whole kernal for Windows Enterprise/Server (IIRC hard to remember the versions) and Windows Longhorn was released on the old fork.. I watched a whole interview about it. MS went back, refactored, rewrote the code, brought everything up to snuff, made it all maintainable... That's what they were doing all those years.
lol, Longhorn, what a development hell that was. Only took them a demoralizing botched launch of whatever they managed to finally whip together that was Vista and then learning from that to release a patched version, and release it as Windows 7.
There is nothing wrong with old code, some of the Doom code was revolutionary it's efficiency, the core rendering methods are going to be clean (or at least I would hope so) it's just when old code isn't maintained/refactored it can be hell. Management always holds ultimate responsibility regardless, they decide what to prioritize and at the end of the day it is 100% Bethesdas fault. It just has that smell to it, I would bet cold cash that they mismanaged their technical debt in favor of making release deadlines over and over again. I have worked in shitty codebases and when proper encapsulation isn't done and testing is not in place and there is no will to fix anything. It's an absolute nightmare rife with bugs and massive productivity sinks around every corner.
That's the entire crux of the argument. Creation Engine is shit because Bethesda never properly maintained the code, nor did they ever pay any attention to it's quality. The laziness and half-assedness is everywhere in Bethesda, and their engine wasn't saved from it either.
It would seem so. And yeah, if you had just posted a "we're all tired" I would've probably already known enough.
And here I thought I remembered Microsoft and GoG both basically bonding in taking potshots at Epic's exclusivity deals at one point. Who of course helped get Alan Wake 2 made (Just for a full circle of the thread.)
It would be good to properly explain from the perspective of a Pole how the whole "based Poland" meme resulted in this perfect juxtaposition of The Witcher 3 being a success, Virtus.pro with it's all-Polish CS:GO team getting worldwide recognition, the populist party Law and Justice doing some homophobic stunts to appease to the lowest common denominal, and the 2016 US election happening with 4chan buzzing hard.
This created this hyperinflated image of Poland in the West being this amazing and based country that's super great even though it was nothing like that. PiS was shit, caused a lot of issues for the country because they always were just a bunch of populists with zero care about the country or any idea how to run it well, insert an even longer tirade on how shit Polish politics are in reality, CDPR would fire/lay off all the employees that worked on Witcher 3 by the time they were done with the expansions, Virtus.pro would change up their CS:GO squad so the legendary Polish dream team would break up, but the Western image of Poland being based remained.
Case in point: just because a company is Polish doesn't mean it's based. If it's public, it sold it's soul like every other publicly traded company you can point to. Witcher 3 was a one time success that was never repeated, and GOG is an LLC subsidiary of a publicly traded company, CD Projekt S.A. So be very careful about GOG because of this.
