Windows OS Is Losing Customers To Linux. Claude Opus 4.6 Is Cool.
Windows OS for Consumers is awful.
Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 11 - so much AI bloatware, so many software updates and security patches. When we completed our 16-week CEORater product enhancement road map last week, I migrated from Windows OS to Linux (Linux Mint specifically). I simply got tired of apps running slow in the Windows ecosystem, not to mention the constant security updates, software updates, and lack of privacy due to Office Telemetry.
Since I switched to Linux my apps run significantly faster (I still count MSFT apps among the apps I use), and I am more productive as I am not regularly running updates and security patches (I don’t miss having to deal with the patches and updates that break performance).
Check out any of a number of YouTube videos people have published in the past month about Microsoft wreaking havoc with non-enterprise customers as it forces CoPilot and AI hardware on people that have zero use for Microsoft’s failed AI products.
In other news, I’ve used Claude Opus 4.6 for several hours today.
My sense is that Opus 4.6 uses its context window more efficiently than Opus 4.5. Specifically, when in extended reasoning mode, every response does not necessarily require extended “thinking”. If my prompt requires legwork, Opus 4.6 will do the legwork. If not, Opus 4.6 will respond quickly, whereas with Opus 4.5 most every prompt triggered extended thinking.
I will say that Opus 4.6 still makes the same lazy errors that 4.5 and other models make in that they fail to ingest complete information when files are uploaded and as a result, given erroneous responses. Opus models have been swimming in CEORater code for months and still don’t know it as well as me. That’s saying something.
