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Time for Nadella to take responsibility for these fuck ups and resign already.
CEOs taking responsibility for their actions? In the Usa?!?!
I know that linux is the popular answer to this problem.
I use a Mac and it's a pretty good machine. I know it isn't for everyone, but it works well enough for me and has enough mainstream support. As well the hardware has gotten ' good enough'
MacOS is not hostile to me when I want to run and install programs. There is some opensource support on the platform and the a good amount of closed source programs.
I do miss the wide ranging PnP hardware support for things like SAS/LTO
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for Windows fans
LOL what? windows "fans"?
apple fans, i get. but who tf is cheerleading for fucking windows, and NOT getting paid to do so?
Nobody anymore, but even as of a few short years ago the Windows fanboys would crusade and do battle specifically against the Mac fanboys, for some reason.
I'm not exactly a fan of Apple, but I'm not going to go around automatically championing Microsoft because of it...
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Some of the issues described in the article must be driving corporate IT departments insane. They thrive on consistent installations across machines. Having each one offering different features (even temporarily) is the opposite of that.
Just imagine how many tutorials, documentations, videos and so on Microsoft has made obsolete by just moving the start menu from the lower left side to the middle. And yes, you totally can't expect users to find the new position on their own, some people are interesting
Any IT department worth their salt will have solved this problem years ago. It's hard to explain if you've never managed Windows in an enterprise setting but there's a reason that profit-hungry corporations all use Windows. Here's the full process for getting any Windows laptop to work perfectly:
- unbox the laptop and turn it on
- insert the USB key with the provisioning package
- wait about two seconds for Windows to tell you to remove the USB key.
- go to lunch
If they have a channel supplier that offers 'white glove' service they don't even need to do that and they can even have brand new laptops drop-shipped to a user at home without ever needing to touch it. And if that laptop fucks up down the line it can just be wiped and as soon as Windows connects to the Internet it can automatically re-enrol itself into the organisation's management system.
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Two possible ways to fix them permanently: Linux or Mac.
7 was good. 10 was ok-ish.
11 and its forced online-account? No, thanks.
It's 10 LTSC for now. Laptop runs KDE just fine, it's the lesser pain right now.
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And looking like they are impossible to solve. It seems that the OS is more and more a black box of vibe coding and marketing wank as time passes.
Windows recently "hung up" when opening "network and internet settings", just a blank square.
Also, blank square when opening "file explorer".
Both are working now; my point is I couldn't accomplish basic tasks in the usual way, fundamentally basic settings. First time this has happened to me. I am old and have been using Windows since there were screensavers. That you would buy. For money. On a floppy disk.
Luckily i keep not running into the issues, Its mostly the unwanted windows features that seem to irritate me (f off onedrive and copilot) I keep trying to swap but I found what im good at finally and it is bricking linux installs.
Switch to Windows LTSC. Doesn't have copilot, no store, no onedrive, no candy crush and tiktok on a fresh install, and no need to figure out an account bypass.
Its the closest thing to what Windows was up to Windows 7 of a boring OS that you use to launch programs without it trying to be helpful or encourage you to login to an account.
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I am not Linux savvy at all but I was ready to switch for me gaming pc.
Well I actually did for a month with nobara, which was great. What shocked me was it seemed much more modern than windows ! It took me some time to get how things worked and I could do everything I wanted with no command line. I still think it can be hard to get started at first to install some windows games/programs not on steam(everything is fantastic on that part), it could use a tutorial for newcomers... But overall, fantastic experience.
Until I tried to use my thrustmaster wheel and I had problems (and I am not the only one it seems). Apart from that (didn't try to use my flight stick or VR headset yet but maybe it could have been problematic too) it was absolutely great. I went back to win11 for now but with a very barebone ltsc version (no win store, no game bar, no ai, and no online account). It's far from perfect and I'd rather be on Linux as I think it will be better in the long term.
Windows is getting so bad, people are finally looking more to Linux
Lol
Lmao even