Microsoft Releases Windows 11, Mac Virtualization Support Still Seems Unlikely

[Ethosik]

Has anyone experienced poor gaming performance with the new VBS security features?

 

[-BigMac-]

you can see the link (

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/i8a2st

). But, I think this performance is totally subjective and depends on the hardware specs and individual experience (Personally, I have 3 Win7 games that have performance issues on Win10. But, it works flawlessly on Linux). By the way, since Windows bootcamp/virtualisation is dead, we can enjoy proton on m1 based macs soon thanks to Asahi Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/asahi_linux_m1_progress_report/).

First sentence "So the general consesus is that in most cases, Proton has about a 5-15% performance hit in most games"

" DXVK usually uses more VRAM than DX11 on Windows"

"you're just less likely to equal or beat Windows performance"

.. So the consensus is Windows runs games better?

 

[cardfan]

Such a useless upgrade. I’m good with windows 10.

 

[cardfan]

I'm a huge microsoft fanboy, but I really disliked Win 11. They copied MacOS and iOS way too much exacerbating my ongoing complaint with Apple's dumbification of all things. I really dislike MacOS' dockbar, for my own workflow it's just really inefficient, thank god for Ubar otherwise I'd be unable to function well when I am forced to use MacOS. Win 11 also dumbified a lot of other things, which they really didn't need to. Overall it just seems like a needless step backwards to "look" more modern.

Yep. It is a step backwards. I prefer windows 10. This I won’t bother with until I’m forced to.

 

[dtantono]

First sentence "So the general consesus is that in most cases, Proton has about a 5-15% performance hit in most games"

" DXVK usually uses more VRAM than DX11 on Windows"

"you're just less likely to equal or beat Windows performance"

.. So the consensus is Windows runs games better?

I am not saying proton has performance hit in most games because there are many games that run on same performance and even better than Windows. (you can check here https://www.protondb.com/ to see if the games does not work or not)

 

[boosti]

Well... to be honest... it's also "up to Apple", because if Apple decides to stop supporting users of professional applications such as Revit, Ansys, Robot Structural Analysis, CYPECAD, Catia, SolidWorks, Tekla Structures, and an endless list of professional engineering applications... then, well, you can say it's "up to Microsoft", but the thing is that Microsoft is not losing these customers. It's Apple who loses them.

Forget seeing the Mac in engineering universities. You'll see iPads, but no Macs anymore.

Actually when it comes to those programs, it’s the developers. They look at it from a enterprise standpoint. Most companies use windows because it’s cheap, there’s not reason to devote resources to 10% of your users who use apple (throwing a random number). I studied MechE, I used Ansys, solidworks, autocad(it’s better on a windows), Creo Parametric all on my Mac running parallels. Apple can only do so much for enterprise solutions but windows will always beat apple when it comes to enterprise

 

[maxoakland]

Centering icons in the task bar is just better design for the eyes vs. looking left/right all the time. You could really argue that the Mac Dock was just a centered version of the Windows Task bar (because it was/is).

The Mac Dock was an evolution of the NeXT dock which was around before the Windows taskbar and probably inspired the Windows taskbar.

If you look at Windows 95 you can see a ton of influence from Next on the 3D shading they did