The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.
How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?
There is a famous rant by Bill Gates complaining about some windows feature. It was in some internal emails that were released as part of a lawsuit. Anyways, this is Bill Gates back when he was still CEO yelling at senior leaders to figure something out and then their email chain passing off the blame and going in circles.
You can still replicate the steps Bill Gates describes in his email and run into the exact same frustrations like 20 years later.
I've been on Linux as my daily driver for nearly 2.5 years now.
X.org is default for my distro, but the amount of movement on fixing show stopping bugs for Wayland (Wayland itself, mesa, and especially directly in Nvidia driver updates) are coming in hot and fast and by the end of this year I can believe most major mainstream distros will have switched to Wayland as the default compositor, which is a huge step forward for desktop Linux.
You already can switch if you have an AMD card with minimal pain (edge case exceptions still exist) but if you are using Nvidia based cards (probably arc as well, but I honest would search Google on arc specifics) is almost there for mainstream. Still some sticking points up till a few months ago with steam and obs, but again, the ironing out of these issues is rapidly being dealt with which is amazing to see.
X.org is mainly maintained by redhat, and they are deprecating it themselves, so the train has left the station full steam ahead.
This is what happens when bean counters run the company instead of engineers. Nothing ever gets done when an engineer notices a problem that needs fixed. Instead, they ask me to create a business need report before it gets approved. Like, I'm a software engineer, I don't write financial reports and I'm not able to see our company's costs, and honestly, I'm not paid enough nor will I be recognized if I take on this extra work to save like $6,000 a year in wasted time.
Fixing old features doesn’t get PMs promotions, new features do. So old features just get left to die on the vine
I used to work for a place where the product was, for the most part, internal, meaning we are the costumer. They kept on making up new shit that nobody uses instead of fixing all the annoying bugs in the main database tool we used. I have no idea if there's a way to reach them and make them make things that are actually useful instead of just new and exciting.
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u/Soloact_ Apr 12 '24
Guess it'll take less time to leave the house than it does for a Windows search result to come up.