windows has always been garbage.
Microsoft is driving users away
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#72Microsoft...screwed up my relationship with my HP printer. Two of them.
And don't get me started on that malware Onedrive or the constantly shitified Teams.
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#73This is basically an article by a guy angry that the UI for printers changed and predicting the end of the Windows empire based on that.
Every Windows user I know hates the new control panels. (I use plural because they've been trying to replace the actual good control panel basically every version of Windows since 7 and it's an incredible mess). Enterprise users put up with Windows because it's better to administrate than anything else, so taking away that stuff really is murdering windows.
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#74As much as I like Linux, tides won’t be shifting for desktop to Linux. It will be Microsoft Windows for years to come
I've converted a handful of some of the least computer tech heavy people to Linux. This was years ago. The final few nails of Microsoft's coffin are being nailed as we speak. Not only because they are just fundamentally bad at innovation, but because they also sold out the United States to China. Billy boy is scared, and he should be.
While I do agree that nowadays users with a basic computer usage would be much better served by a modern Linux distribution compared to Windows, it won't happen due to the power of defaults. Windows is preinstalled and that will be enough, no matter how badly it degrades.
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#75DHH today on how windows is just as good as Apple now. https://world.hey.com/dhh/vscode-wsl-makes-windows-awesome-f... (OK he hates Apple so is pushing an alternative but a good POV)
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#76I knew Windows was fucked when pressing WIN and searching for something brought up random crap from the internet instead of what I actually wanted. Do people at Microsoft use Windows or mac?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> CONSTANTLY resetting my user preferences every update (like shoving new buttons [see: ads] onto my taskbar) ultimately lead me to buying the first m1 mbp as my new personal machine. Boy are you going to be disappointed when you discover that settings reset quite aggressively, especially in cases where Apple really thinks it knows better. Want to keep bluetooth off? Both iPhone and macs will not abide. Want to keep…
I’m guessing you must be referring to something niche? [parent post kindly edited to add examples] I’ve been using macs since 2012 and never had any setting change on me.
I do not know what is niche here, but I added couple examples from latest upgrade.
Are they just not testing what some options do? If so, we might be better off just not giving those options.
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#78I am not too bothered about changes, just need Windows to run my PC without crashing/weird stuff or corrupting my files.
All I use it for is to launch 8 programs that is pinned to my taskbar that is opened as soon as my PC boots.
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#79As much as I like Linux, tides won’t be shifting for desktop to Linux. It will be Microsoft Windows for years to come
I installed Linux for my parents and they use their laptop a lot more. I did no proselitizing.
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#80This is basically an article by a guy angry that the UI for printers changed and predicting the end of the Windows empire based on that.
Accurate as every other week's predicting of Microsoft's impeding doom from users who don't like Windows in the past 30 years. - 1995. wah, wah! Windows 95 sucks, it's so bloated, MS-DOS was so much lighter, this will be the end of Microsoft. - 2001. wah, wah! Windows XP sucks, it's just a bloated Windows 2000 with Fisher Price coloring, this will be the end of Microsoft. .... - 2021. wah, wah! Windows 11 sucks, it's…
Where's the lie though