Microsoft is all about this. You know how they also force stuff you don't want on the OS? Somewhere within Microsoft there might be a dashboard where they show their investors people are using Bing and Copilot. Borderline financial scam if you think about it.
Copy and paste is not working reliably in in windows anymore; coincidentally it's breaking at the same time Msoft is moving to replace all copy/paste with OCR only. It's garbage
I haven't used windows for years but the shear amount of commentary on recent changes and the claims are so beyond beliefs...
It reads like a company that is only there to squeeze money out of existing customers and hell bent on revenues above growth. Like one of those portfolio acquisitions.
I just built a gaming PC after 10+ years without touching Windows, and I gotta say the experience is truly awful.
Small stuff such as: the keyboard shortcut that is setup for switching keyboards is wrong, the one displayed to me in the UI is the wrong one, I discovered it because the shortcut for the Discord overlay (Shift + `) was making me switch keyboard layouts, couldn't comprehend why until I noticed that shorcut consistently switched them while the one displayed in the UI did not. There's no way to change the shortcut, whatever I set up in the UI does not work but Shift + ` always works, no idea why.
Copy and paste has definitely surprised me sometimes, I was designing a custom livery for a sim racing game, copying images to use as stickers, the clipboard would paste very different images from many "copies" ago out of nowhere, I couldn't create a reproducible way to file a bug report, it works sometimes, it doesn't at all at other times.
I setup for updates to happen in the night, between 03.00-07.00, it doesn't matter, the computer rebooted a few times out of nowhere to apply updates, I didn't even get a notification about it, simply got the "Restarting" screen.
It's absolutely shoddy, as much as I have many complaints with macOS the past 8+ years it's nowhere as shitty of as an experience, I'm only a couple of months into Windows again, and it's way worse than I remember it from the days of Win2k/Windows XP/Windows 7.
I haven't noticed this, also how exactly would OCR copy paste work? In order to copy text I would need to select text, which would mean it's already encoded as text.
OCR is regularly the easiest way to copy web page text on an iPhone by taking a screenshot first, and copying text from the photo. iPhone browser text selection is often broken.
Then again, a friend sent a screenshot of a contact and I asked AI to convert that to a vCard I could import (impressively saved time and was less error-prone).
That's why this was the year I finally dropped Windows and VSCode forever. Not that hard for me because all the games I play work flawlessly in Proton, and I already used Linux at work.
You can drop Windows and keep VSCode. I'm running it on this laptop (Kubuntu 25.04).
To install it, browse to here: https://code.visualstudio.com/ (search: "vscode"). Click on "Download for Linux (.deb)" and then use Discover to install and open it - that's all GUI based and rather obvious. You are actually installing the repository and using that which means that updates will be done along with the rest of the system. There is also a .rpm option for RedHat and the like. Arch and Gentoo have it all packaged up already.
On Windows you get the usual hit and miss packaging affair.
Laughably, the Linux version of VSCode still bleats about updates being available, despite the fact that they are using the central package manager, that Windows sort of has but still "lacks" - MSI. Mind you who knows what is going on - PShell apps have another package manager or two and its all a bit confusing.
Its odd that Windows apps, eg any not Edge browser, Libre Office, .pdf wranglers, ... anything not MS and even then, there are things like their power toy sort of apps, still need their own update agents and services or manual installs.
Yes but winget is not the Windows central package manager. Actually, Windows does not have one but for some reason you have enforced updates from a central source.
Why does Windows not have a formal source for safe software? One that the owner (MS) endorses?
One might conclude that MS won't endorse a source of safe software and hence take responsibility is because they are not confident in the quality of their own software, let alone someoneelses.
I believe that MS wants that to be their own MS Store, though I don't know of a single person who actually uses it as their preferred way to manage software. For what it's worth, VS Code is available there: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xp9khm4bk9fz7q
Not who you responded to, but for a GUI editor I tend to like Zed, and for terminal I like Helix. Yes, Neovim is probably better to learn because Vim motions are everywhere, but I like Helix's more "batteries included" approach.
I decided to finally learn a modal editor and installed Helix. Ideal for me since it's very hackable if you're already familiar with Rust. Very easy to build from source. Plus all I need is LSP support and I'm good at work, clangd is all I need for an IDE.
Yeah everyone I've tried to introduce helix to who was already a vim master hated it. It's great for people who don't already have that muscle memory, I found the reversed selection->action model a lot more intuitive personally.
