I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

I had this on bluesky first but then I realized it was probably political in unpleasant ways I didn't want to associate with so I took it down but the sentiment remains

for the record, this is just grumbling about work and nothing else

"I can't be blamed for---" you can be blamed for anything. whether it's correct or not is an entirely separate thing and largely irrelevant

this is how I find out linux mint also uses snaps

they should go back to this for splatoon 4. then we might finally have a good splatoon game

if your computer hasn't decided to forcibly lock you out of your user folder for no reason are you really alive tbh

I think I'm finally in every blaseball fan continuation project now

this robin/lucina fanfic writer has consistently been writing every year for a week since 2014

I hate pulling keycaps *so much* because it's usually the flat laptop keyboards I need to pull

monster hunter has a daily event all week and I haven't been able to do any of them 😔

can you balance on a tv wall mount

got a wild spam email about my email server rejecting messages. but that reminded me I should probably mention: I run my own email server so if I didn't get an email from you it's probably something screwy in the stack

just remembered blossomdance in monster hunter wilds starts today. well I guess I didn't need to do anything this week (lie)

@leo gdpr more like Get Da Picture Reallybig

@alterae @mynotaurus wait I messed that up, I meant

@alterae @mynotaurus [incredibly loud foghorn noise]

bring back web 1.0, cowards

much like the book in yellow, cohost truly did make people go mad from merely experiencing it

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