Gosh, 7.2 literally just dropped with a bunch of awesome of performance/gaming related improvements (large folios, cache-aware scheduling, improved MGLRU reclaiming, Fair GPU Scheduler etc)... and I already can't wait for 7.3 to come out.

Meanwhile in the Windows world, users hate updates... Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday!".

▲ zekrioca 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

[1] Linux 7.2 Reverts DRM Scheduler Change After Serious GPU Regressions: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-72-reverts-drm-sc...

	▲	d3Xt3r 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, didn't know that was reverted. Cheers for the link.

▲ timpera 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I might be in the minority here, but some of the latest Windows updates that dropped in the Insider channel are really cool, and I'm excited to see those coming to main.

▲ dainank 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

Do you have a link for a list of these changes. I am curious.

▲ timpera 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

Sure. The Insider blog tends to be pretty up-to-date: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/

They seem to be focused on performance improvements because of the MacBook Neo pressure and RAM crisis, but right now, I'm mostly excited for the right-click menu and taskbar improvements. You can already do this with third-party software, but it's not the best experience unfortunately.

▲ chongli 12 minutes ago | parent [-]

Are they finally going to fix the issue of having introduced a second right click menu that forces me to click “show more options” literally every single time I want to do anything?

	▲	noir_lord 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Run (as Administrator) in a terminal `reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve` Should restore the old right click menu (it did last time I used it at any rate). So much of windows 11 configuration is removing things you never asked for and putting things back. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/...

▲ toredash an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Didn't we eagerly await on updates in the good old days of Windows?

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d3Xt3r an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Fair point, the old school service packs and hotfix rollups were cool. But I think that sort of enthusiasm towards updates ended with XP, at least it did for me, because I switched to Linux permanently after Windows 7 came out.

	▲	noir_lord 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		XP was indeed when I stopped caring about Windows updates, SP2 was a huge deal - after that they where either "eh" or actively things I didn't want. To be honest I think the reason I stopped care was more that I started using Linux as an OS in the 90's and over time more and more of my computing life was on Linux (except gaming) so by 2004 (or a little earlier) Windows was just for games.

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a012 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The only Windows update that made me “eagerly await” is the Windows XP SP2.

	▲	toredash an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And what an update it was. I still remember how Windows ME looked at first, the feeling of something better. That didn't last long
	▲	patrickmcnamara 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Windows 7 was pretty neat.

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PunchyHamster 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

....No. And those were not good days, unless your definition is fun is reinstalling OS