Microsoft Just Killed Your DAW by Glenn.

[Shane_B.]

He uses the F word a lot, but it's kind of funny to watch. He goes on a rant about the forced upgrade to Windows 11 and DAW's.

The problems he goes into detail about I have not experienced, but he does this for a living and spends far more time in front of his PC than I do.

He also talks about Cakewalk a little back in the day. I can say from experience ... what he was saying about the problems he had, they weren't caused by Windows ... lol.

The second half of video is an ad for the company he bought a PC from. He says he loves his Mac until he gets to his sponsor segment.

Fwiw, you can keep Windows 10 going with security updates for a yearly fee for a few years. He doesn't mention that.

https://youtu.be/CsymyR9GgpM?si=LVooicBEeITBzH9o

Edited Saturday at 06:12 PM by Shane_B.

[craigb]

Rumor has it that Bill named the company after his...  well, you know! 😜

Proper Endowment?  Nothing Is Shown!  😁

Edited Saturday at 09:53 PM by craigb

[Rain]

Funny, I just watched it before dropping by the CH. 

Can't talk about audio, but I use 11 for work and other than some minor things, I can't really complain about it.  On the other hand, I have a long, long list of gripes about Mac OS Sequoia, the worst OS I've worked with on a Mac. 

That being said, I find it a little ridiculous that he would compare a brand spankin' new customer built PC to a budget friendly (for a Mac) M1 equipped machine. The M1 chip dates from 2020, and is 3 generations behind. 

Talk about comparing old apples to fresh oranges.

Edited yesterday at 12:52 AM by Rain

[Shane_B.]

1 hour ago, Rain said:

Talk about comparing old apples to fresh oranges.

Yeah, I'm not really sure where he was going with this video to be honest after I watched it a couple of times. Some of the things he was saying weren't great, were things I've been able to do for many years. For example 16ms latency. I can't ever remember a time when that was an issue with live heavily compressed and reverbed mic track and guitar track with amp sims and lots of other effects. It was only when I started to get a handful of tracks and didn't freeze them that it became an issue.

I agree that it's crappy that they will no longer support W10 at all, unless you pay a fee. But I definitely know that some of the problems he was going on about are not true. And it's not as complicated to tweak a PC setup for DAW usage as he makes it out to be.

My only experience with Mac was trying to set it up for network printing, scanning, email when I worked on office equipment. I went to a training class one time and the instructor was our in-house Mac guru. He spent all day trying to set up the classroom to show us how easy it was and he never could get a single piece of hardware connected. He handed us a troubleshooting manual and said good luck. If you run into any problems out in the field, call me. They sent us out to connect machines at schools,  which is very complicated because we had to track what every teacher was printing, setup access codes, secured folders and more, with zero hands on.

So I have very limited experience with Mac, but that did scare me away from them.

I'm probably going to cave in and just pay the yearly fee for a while to keep W10 safe. I don't have the time or energy to complete the build I was planning. I got an incredible deal on the CPU and jumped on it, but prices since then have skyrocketed and it's a very bad time to build or buy a PC right now. I know some blame it on other things ... ... but I belive the rising cost is mainly due to the increase in need for people to upgrade because of w11.

And don't get me started on Nvidia. Grrrr.