6mo ago

future windows experience

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This is less intrusive than current web ads. The entire center of the screen is ad-free, no pop-ups, no banners that grey out the rest of the screen, no paywall...
- In this image you could just put cardboard over all the ads to have an ad-free experience.

Quite optimistic view. Do you think they will be so nice and give you a completely unobstructed working area? I am pretty sure that contradicts every sane ad strategy. Where is the "Watch one minute of ads before we can start your application" window in the center? Where are the 5 identical buttons of which only one will get you to file explorer, the other ones lead to File Explorer Plus only for 5,99$ per week?
- People who can build up advanced logic systems can make or adapt their own Unix-like operating system on any computer. It happened before and it'll happen again, even if the computer uses confusing Orb stuff instead of modern bits and bytes.
  https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html

Current and future Linux experience: A functional and well engineered system, built by its users, for its users, and constantly improved based on feedback from the community. Oh and if you don’t like
<insert Linux distro>
you can just try a different one for free and see if you like that one better.

I still use my bought in 2012 Photoshop CS 6, almost daily, no plans to upgrade. If i need to keep one of my PCs with windows, i won't mind sticking to a old version for the long run
- Cs6 was peak PS!
- GIMPs biggest upgrade in like a decade should be coming out this year, you'll have to check it out and see if it meets your needs when it does.

Was this meme created in MSPaint on Wine?
- Would you rather they had used AI?
  
  No, MSPaint on Wine is perfectly capable of this quality, and even meme fitting for this post. Using AI is overkill.

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- Don't give them ideas!

That's any future app. And the kick in the nards is that the developer who allow it earn like $2 a day if lucky. So we all get burned on the ad hellscape having hours of time wasted for $2
- Not open source apps, glad I've pivoted to almost entirely open source software. SaaS is cancer.

The mouse has a slight bias that it moves just a little faster towards the edges.
- That you pay for just 5 dollars per month.

Can we somehow integrate ads into the display frame? Looks like dead and unused area to me.
- And the decades long trend of minimizing screen bezel size suddenly reverses course.