Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "TechAltar" channel.

It always amused me that people would complain that the command line is too complicated yet as soon as anything gets tricky with Windows, it's off to regedit.
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I've been waiting for Ubuntu phone but no one is providing the hardware. I'm fairly OS agnostic using Windows, Linux and others where appropriate but I don't like where Google and Apple (and to a lesser extent, Microsoft) are leading us.
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Wine is an admirable attempt but it will never be finished. Pretty much, if it works for you, great but it will never work for everyone.
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@Joseph, you're not wrong, sadly. Though I think some of that was the push to convergence with mobile. A model windows also fell for.
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Yeah, the Windows internal separation is probably nice from an engineering standpoint but for the purpose of this discussion, it is not really relevant. Most of the interesting stuff is happening above that division.and that is where Windows lacks the separation that makes the difference. This is how come we have the amazingly successful Android which rapidly took over a market Microsoft chased for decades and how come people are working on alternatives to X11 (though I confess I'm an X11 fan) without any major issues. I think the biggest elephant in the room is that Microsoft wants the mobile market but has no idea how to reconcile that with their desktop offering. Thus Windows 10 is a horrible hodge-podge of both ideas, satisfying neither. They failed in the mobile market because their OS offering was not mobile-centric enough. Now they've shuffled in a bunch of stuff and it's still not mobile centric enough but now it's also not desktop-centric enough on the desktop. It needs a whole separate interface for both but the architecture and the culture at Microsoft doesn't really allow that.
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No windows 11? Never believe anything Microsoft promises about their roadmaps. Remember when were were supposed to get a SQL filesystem? No more service packs?
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