I don't see an issue with this, provided that this is disabled on home PCs by default.
For work devices for office work you want this.
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#182Once in a while I’m happily reminded that I haven’t had to worry about this circus any more since I switched to Linux some 5 years ago.
You can get the same effect by uninstalling Office on Windows. In that you don't have a bloated start time anymore, but also can't use Office.
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#183I think Microsoft may doing that with Microsoft Edge as well. My Windows 11 Registry has an HKCU key called MicrosoftEdgeAutoLaunch_[...] "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --no-startup-window --win-session-start
I haven’t used a windows machine for like 15 years, but back when I was a teenager I could swear computer magazines included all kinds of tips about unchecking things from the auto startup menu, some modifying the registry.
Did this pattern stop being a thing and we’re back to it now? Or was it just “forgotten”?
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use LibreOffice for 99% of documents completely fine, and generate my own documents via Pandoc. The setup has served me really well so far.
I do this too, however there is considerable formatting issues when you're working collaboratively on documents with other people who use MS Office.
There are considerable formatting issues when you're working collaboratively on documents with other people who use MS office when you are using MS office too.
We gave up for large documents, assigned an editor and just send them chunks of text.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Desktop linux has all standard software. It's just incompetent IT teams trying to sugarcoat the fact they keep throwing money down the Microsoft drain.
Desktop linux doesn't even have anything close to things like group policies. And if by magic that function would appear tomorrow, it would disappear again the day after tomorrow. Sure active directory and group policies have their flaws but its ease of use and tight integration blows everything else out of the water.
Silicon valley is able to shoehorn their Macbooks into "compliance" but somehow it'd be a problem to do the same with linux desktops?
> And if by magic that function would appear tomorrow, it would disappear again the day after tomorrow.
That's incorrect.
> ease of use and tight integration blows everything else out of the water.
Agree to disagree.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#186This from the team that brought a tool to recover files corrupted by Office, rather than fix the causes of file corruption. Then it becomes a "feature" you can trumpet, rather than a bug you squashed.
I wonder if other industries could get away with this. Imagine a drug company that pedalled both a highly addictive toxin and the antidote.
A casual googling tells me Amphastar produces both morphine and naloxone. Presumably they aren't the only pharma company that produces both a drug and its antidote, they were just my first hit.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#187At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS, all the news about Windows is how they are making it worse for everyone.
And using it now and then it feels like that too. Windows 10 Mail app had integration with system calendar, you would get itsycal built into the OS. Windows 11 removed that and made the OS Mail app spam infested shit, and they expect me to pay a subscription for something that comes bundled with the OS I paid for.
Linux desktop is getting better but I still wouldn't daily drive it, so MacOS it is until Linux desktop gets to a more reliable state. I wouldn't be shocked it gets there - I believe Valve made relatively low investments and got a lot out of it, GPU vendors have an incentive to support it - for compute workloads and the gaming on Linux is becoming a thing. Also for office stuff the EU-US hostility could force EU to look for alternative software providers and move away from Microsoft.
Actually thinking about this just made me donate some $ to Gnome project.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#188and you got no say in it. this is why u need an option like gnu/linux.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#189At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS, all the news about Windows is how they are making it worse for everyone. And using it now and then it feels like that too. Windows 10 Mail app had integration with system calendar, you would get itsycal built into the OS. Windows 11 removed that and made the OS Mail app spam infested shit, and they expect me to pay a subscription for something that comes bund…
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Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#190Abandoning Windows after 25 years for Fedora gets validated with every "Windows Innovation"