I tend to be OS agnostic, but I hate the way that Microsoft treats yesterday’s hardware like garbage. I was an unfortunate owner of a surface rt. I also currently own 3 machines with older i7 processors that are not supported by Windows 11.

So you actually want Windows 11?

@Demolishun Hey, don't be a sore winner! ;)

Cool, I don’t know how that got misconstrued. But yeah I want my hardware supported by windows insofar as there is software that I need that is exclusive to windows.

@tedge So your actual problem is vendor lockin?

Windows 10 is the last version of Windows.

@Oktokolo yeah maybe to some extent, but I mostly just think it’s wasteful.

@tosensei if that's it, why not try wine? Or, failing that, a VM

@Oktokolo I hate the way that Windows puts a backslash at the end of URIs (made by the Java URI library) that otherwise have no slash at the end of them. Fucks up the unit tests that work fine on everyone's Macs and the gitlab runners using a linux distro.

Corporate won't enable WSL for Windows users. POSIX compliance or bust on the workstation and the server, I say!

Microsoft has their fingers in the pie in weird ways

@electrineer That's a fun way to mispell 7 :^)

@tosensei you obviously don’t know OSX

@homomorphicanus amen to that last part

@dontbeevil windows used to cut off laptops every new version by making gpu drivers etc. not work unless you did some minor modding. Also, they killed massive amounts of peripherals with the move to 64bit since there were no compatible drivers. Admittedly, they kept releasing 32bit versions for a very long time. Devices that worked with win8 have been working with all versions since, so they had to come up with a way to make people buy more stuff.

@tosensei What about RawTherapee combined with GIMP or Krita?