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The amount of mental gymnastics to come up with (and justify) this is insane (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Note: the MacOS part is false

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[–] passepartout@feddit.org 95 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Funny that this comes from a Windows dev.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Well, yeah, he's a dev and an end user, and not the one calling the shots.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Dave's trying to justify their work.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is Dave Dangerous?

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean I wouldn't trust him he did popups saying you have a virus install my software. So not exactly a standup person.

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Dastardly Dave

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 2 days ago

I can assure you his intent was not to justify but rather to clear up a myth and help people

He has never outright said “modern Windows sucks” but he has indirectly alluded to that being his opinion many times, e.g. in one livestream where he was setting up Windows 11, he opened up Task Manager and said “wow, there’s thousands of open handles when Windows is just idling and the user isn’t running anything… huh…”

He is of the opinion that Windows 11 is trying to force people to throw away perfectly good machines because of the stupid TPM requirement, as you can tell by his videos from a few months ago

He has also revealed multiple times that he daily drives macOS and only uses Windows (in a VM) when absolutely necessary