FreedomAdvocate

Being “locked down” is irrelevant for a device used to read and write on. All those devices are also significantly more powerful than this thing.

They all also have keyboard attachments readily available across all sizes and prices.

Linux isn’t at all necessary for the use cases the author talks about. Windows would be massively overkill.

You have COMPLETELY misread my comments and missed the point.

My point was that there are plenty of other better devices suited to these tasks than a little obscure laptop with a crappy keyboard, such as an iPad or Android tablet or eink tablet, or even a phone. My argument wasn’t “hurr durr doing nothing would be better”.

My opinion is “valid in this context” because I’ve spent countless hours RDPd in to various machines and servers in trains, buses , passenger seats of cars, on the side of the road,etc fixing issues and making changes that saved literal millions of dollars at a time, and the last thing I’ve wanted in those situations was a worse device to do it on simply because it’s “different”.

now it’s going to cause people to trash their working device because it’s only 7th gen and doesn’t have TPM 2.0

No one is going to do this lol.

The problem is you've got shit on your own glasses so you're seeing everything as shit.

Not really applicable here though. Can you use a terrible keyboard on an 8" screen? Absolutely. Can you use a much better keyboard on a much better screen the same size or smaller/bigger on preference by using a more common device? Also yes.

It sounds like the idea is to bring in your ready to print files and load them up and just use the Surface to review and send it to the printer via the slicer? A surface would be fine for that, especially since they support keyboards and mice.

You didn't buy it intending to run VMs on it without checking that it could actually run VMs did you? haha

I get your point though - iPad Pros have absolutely killer hardware that is let down by iPadOS. I would own one of the latest ones if it ran MacOS.

Samsung screwed it up with Dex

What do you mean by this? Dex is pretty awesome.

I don't really see the point in low powered small devices like this, when something like an iPad/Galaxy Tab/eInk tablet is far better suited to the typical tasks you'd use them for.

The fact that they’re moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once.

I've already been over this, as have MS many times.

There’s no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering “Settings” isn’t even an improvement.

Making any change to legacy systems in Windows is a massive risk and requires a lot of work. Win32 for example isn't good and should have been removed a loooooong time ago, but here we are still with it.

Literally everything? You don’t have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you’re looking for.

Got any examples of this? Settings are generally at most 3 levels deep from the main settings screen.

Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings

What am I looking at? The "Bluetooth & Devices" settings page is good. What's wrong with it?

It runs like ass.

It's not even debatable though - it's the most performant windows ever lol. It doesn't "run like ass" unless you're using "ass" hardware and/or software, at which point any prior windows would be running even worse.

For now

Yes, for now. I even said as much, because Microsoft have made their plans on getting rid of it very clear and open. It's slowly being replaced by moving everything to the settings app.

The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

You could say that it's slowly getting all the features added to it, couldn't you? What is "half baked dog shit" about it?

It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app

You think that the AI would not have access and knowledge of the settings app? They made no mention of the AI Agents only being able to make changes in the control panel.

and it’s not running in the background bogging down your system all the time

You've never actually used windows 11, have you?

If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.

Oh you've tried this new AI Agent that can change the settings for you, have you?

Bullshit to all those points.

Which points are "bullshit"? That they're slowly moving everything out of the control panel to the settings app? This is literally what they've been telling us they're doing, and what we've seen them do.

That they still have the control panel? Nope, not bullshit, it's still there.

That being able to ask Copilot to change a setting would be helpful? How is that bullshit?

I do NOT need voice activation

Good thing it's not MANDATORY then. You can keep using your mouse and keyboard. Also you don't have to use your VOICE for copilot - it's much easier to use the mouse and keyboard. That's how most people use it.

Also, they’ve been “slowly” transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?

This stuff takes time unfortunately. If they change everything at once they get even more anger and pushback. This way it's just a slow and easy move away from the control panel - 1 thing here, 2 things there, and before you know it hey look! Everything is in the settings app now!

Oh good mum joke big fella! So clever and badarse.