Thatâs the Microsoft difference!â˘
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Our Lord and Savior is RMS, who invented the concept of software freedom that Linus helps deliver.
Youâll laugh but FreeCAD did this exact thing to me on Arch and even worse it did not only associate itself with 3D files, it associated itself with everything that did not have a default set.
Weird Video format? FreeCAD.
Text file with weird file extension? FreeCAD.
Binary File? FreeCAD!
That is true, but sadly the only CAD (besides the very limited Tinkercad) that works under Linux without costing a Kidney
Microsoft had relatively interesting ideas concerning 3D and VR content, then proceeded to do an extremely mediocre execution, simultaneously dumbing everything down while also making it hard to use, and then proceeded to discontinue their software after almost never touching it again for seven years
I have a Reverb G2 (windows mixed reality headset), it is really a good headset and is still competitive with the Quest 3 in several areas for use on PC. The WMR software itself isnât that bad and I think if it had more care and attention put into it it could genuinely have been great. If they had better home options, user created homes, more customization and the ability to fix things in place so you donât accidentally move them, the ability to add (even just user created) minigames and dynamic objects that stay in the world, and (most importantly) the ability to actually invite other people into the space to play with you and launch into other games. Theyâre Microsoft, they were large enough and early enough that Iâm sure they could even have gotten game developers on board with some protocol that automatically brings people youâre playing with into a multiplayer session of whatever game you start. I think they were onto something with their home system and could have fleshed the software out into something much better than even the modern competition. Of course itâs all discontinued now, the latest version of Windows doesnât even support it, I plan to continue to use the old version until it stops getting security patches in 2026 and then switch to Linux where hopefully the open source people will finally fully support using controllers.
Iâm in the same boat, assholes trying to brick a $500 headset that is only 3 years old.
here are some pages I found from the last time I looked into this
https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2023.11.30_VR_ON_LINUX/VR_ON_LINUX.html
I was gifted a reverb g2 some years ago. It was ok, had some problems getting custom bindings to work in Skyrim VR that killed the game for me. I want the index next since it will have linux support and hopefully wonât die like WMR did but I also want to wait for the next index, whatever upgraded headset they make next.
If you think that is pointless, remember that whenever a program closed unexpectedly, Windows would offer to âfind a solution onlineâ. I have never seen that shit work in my life
It can reset a network adapter but that the only time Iâve seen it do anything useful
Yeah but its usually faster just to reboot the machine instead of letting it dick around with itself.
Yeah in XP that troubleshooter actually helped me with figuring out things like âdude you did not connect the device youâre trying to findâ or âyes there is no internet connecting due to this setting being wrongâ.
And then in some OS Version it suddenly completely useless.
Itâs been surprisingly decent for audio issues for me. Often the scan for audio devices kickstarts some devices back into the land of the living.
yeah, it seems to only work for those https://old.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/comments/hakc3t/in_25_years_of_life_this_is_the_first_time_i_have/ it wont let me post a screenshot.
I recently discovered windows actually has a set of far more specific troubleshooters which actually provide useful information about a problem but you have to dig around in legacy settings to find them.
you have to dig around in legacy settings
Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the âmodernâ control panels that barely work at all.
I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.
Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.
Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didnât use office, I didnât have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didnât want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.
âeDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Osâ y tho
Anyways, thatâs why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Anyways, thatâs why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Most of my Windows troubles went away with that.
(My work laptop runs Win11, no choice there unfortunately)
Companies will get there eventually. Everyone thought IBM machines were irreplaceable until they werenât.
