Technology

While very true for me, the bastards of Xubuntu and Kubuntu got me hooked and over time I learned why what you said is true. The journey is worth enjoying, however one wishes to experience it

I think that distrohopping is part of the experience for power users.

Bloodline Distro I love that I'm going to start using that from now on for Debian.

Yep, it's LLM-generated.

So what you're saying is... AI is part of the problem, like the headline says 😂

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.

You've got to load up on all your favorite foods the day before starting your diet.

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?

No you don't.
At least not always.
Example: Visual Studio 2xxx Redistributables

Besides that, the duplication of some parts is higher.
But it can also mitigate dependency hell.

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.

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

Yes, good thing we can all simply switch to Linux!

Haha! Yay! Good thing jobs aren't a thing!

Kind of seems like it'd work better if your PC contained a numeric code. That code would contain everything the update service needs for your specific computer.

For example. If your computer has a display out, it might add 855. And if your display has a touch screen it might add a 99. So now you have 85599. And when your PC sends 85599 to the update service it knows to include all updates with 85599.

But if my pc has a display out, but NOT a touch screen I would only have 855. I would not have 99. So I wouldn't get the touchscreen updates.

Now do this for every single piece of tech a computer might have an update for. If you have usb 2.0, you might get 122. But if you have usb 3.0 you might get 133. And if you have usb type c, you might have 177. Or maybe you have usb 2.0, 3.0 and type c. So you'd have 122133177.

Yes, the number would be quite long, but you'd never need to see or interact with it. It's just a small txt file that windows would send to its server to prepare the relevant updates.

I imagine that cutting down useless bloat would be beneficial for everyone. For example, if I've never used Turkish language, then I could skip 1.2GB of download for downloading the Turkish dictionary.

Why don't they do it like that?