It just seems so beyond-belief that Microsoft keeps having such depraved anti-consumer behavior. Maybe perhaps this was just a not-ready-yet feature folks had enabled being moved around or shuffled. But it seems just as likely Microsoft intends to keep consumers using a decade and a half years old shitty NVMe-downcast-to-SCSI layer indefinitely, to upsell folks to fancier Windows versions or gaming systems. Microsoft intends to keep Windows consumer disk access slow and bad.
As a seasoned Linux veteran & believer, it's somewhat against my interest to share this view, to try to arouse the slumbering behemoth to action. Microsoft not getting the message and doing great misservice to their users is somewhat in my interest. The status quo of Linux being far better at everything is great: gaming is already much faster on Linux, & that should be no surprise, and disk io too. Just holding my tongue and letting Microsoft make a fool for themselves with absymal performance would be ideal. But I also believe in competition, and Linux is going to start slacking off if Microsoft can't be arsed to update a disk io subsystem that was a filthy pitiful hack when they slammed it into service a dozen years ago. We all need some pressure sometimes to get off our hinds, wake the frak up, and pay some attention.
And perhaps, maybe: even Windows users don't deserve this malpractice.
Linux might finally take off on the desktop if the normies that get Windows laptops and gaming rigs at Media Market and similar chains, finally get to them with Linux pre-installed.
Otherwise there will be a few HN folks getting them from System 76 and Tuxedo, Dell online store, and that is about it.
Sadly, people getting notebooks in the first place become much rarer. I have seen gen alpha developers that want to start with tablet and smartphone. They don't even know that they are prisoners, just like us and our economic system.
Its inane that they still rely on scsi downcast, however.
Or they believe that it has serious issues in a consumer SKU or consumer application.
What? What are Microsoft doing for a decade after NVMe available to consumer grade motherboard?
Windows really is a toy of an OS. It continues to blow my mind that people want to use it as a server OS.
Although I do conceed UNIX has won the server room and Windows Servers are mostly about AD, SMB, IIS, Sharepoint, Dynamics, SQL Server.
Naturally some of those can be outsourced into Azure services that Microsoft will gladly provide.
And billions spent and earned clearly shows where the moniker 'toy' doesn't apply.
BTW year of Linux Desktop when?
What are Microsoft doing for a decade after NVMe available to consumer grade motherboard?
But they weren't ignoring NVMe entirely, they've got Rohan the intern working on it, and as soon as someone replies to his StackExchange questions he can start coding up the driver.
Microsoft did the same thing with notepad.exe. At some point it apparently got so intense that they added code to make it possible to prevent association of certain executables with certain extensions (i.e., if you got cheeky and copied the old version over and tried to use it). I know Microsoft deals in a lot of unusual business, but I'd bet my life there is no rationale for deeply restricting the use case here, other than to be an antagonizing prick to the other team/tribe who simply seeks to use their computer freely.
The article says its enabled in Windows Server so the driver must be reliable.
It sounds more like they want to get people to pay for Windows Server to get high NVMe performance.
I also wonder whether this feature will be locked to server and the little-known "pro for workstations" variants.
well that makes perfect sense, if its a consumer or prosumer grade raid controller, to be honest.
It’s the Task Bar!
For goodness sake can’t you see Windows users have lost faith because they can’t move the task bar!”
(Heard in meetings all over Microsoft campus recently).
If you reaaaly dont liiike it, dun dudun dun!
Lock the taskbar. lock the taskbar! (ref: z0r . de / 2090)