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Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by direwolf20 »

happymellon wrote: post #194
pluralmonad wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am willing to concede this might be true, but I personally have never checked Linux support before through 3 generations of desktops. Intel/Nvidia twice and then AMD/AMD.

Because support is generally great. Until you get some Windows apologist who points out that their proprietary touchscreen that has multiple layers of DRM doesn't have Linux drivers and therefore Linux doesn't have good hardware support. You have to be careful in the same way that you can't expect to wipe an M series Mac and stick Windows on it.

Apple devices have multiple layers of touchscreen DRM, but most other devices are just lacking drivers, because there are far too many devices for five unpaid interns to write drivers for all of them.

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Post by direwolf20 »

pxc wrote: post #99
blibble wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Linux desktop environments are developed by its users wanting the best experience possible. have you used GNOME?

I'm a lifelong KDE person but it's still clear to me that GNOME is crafted with care, and I find it pretty usable.

GNOME is crafted in exactly the same committee style as Windows and MacOS. It's crafted by the same people who brought you systemd, if that means anything to you.

If you're a lifelong KDE user you might not have used GNOME in a while and seen how it's gotten.

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Post by direwolf20 »

smackeyacky wrote: post #53

There are two technologies propped up by having to earn a living: windows and the iPhone. No matter the android phone, trying to get your MFA experience working with the umpteen stupid MFA apps is painful because all the dev work went into the iPhone versions. I hate it but yep I ended up buying an iPhone although I never buy them new. Windows is the other one and again it’s security related. More and more places sim…

Every MFA I know is TOTP now and it's interoperable with everything, even the Linux command line with oathtool

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by direwolf20 »

trinix912 wrote: post #41
lousken wrote: post #12

Switch to linux, don't look back

Unless you work a job where you're not in control of the OS you're using, which just happens to be most of the non-dev office jobs out there. Dismissing Windows problems with "just switch to Linux bro" doesn't really help.

When it's not your problem, it's not your problem. If you're forced to use Windows in a corporate environment, your IT admin is in charge of you having an account.

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Post by direwolf20 »

jasoneckert wrote: post #44

Imagine if Fedora locked you out of vi because your Red Hat account had an issue. The unsettling part of stories like this isn’t “Microsoft bad,” it’s the growing assumption that local tools should be downstream of remote identity systems. A text editor is about as offline and fundamental as software gets, yet it’s now possible for account state, sync bugs, or policy enforcement to make it inaccessible on your own ma…

Business users want everything online, so anything can be accessed from anywhere. They want central identity, so when someone is hired or fired they only need to look in one place.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by direwolf20 »

sandworm101 wrote: post #6

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

Note this can only work because they logged everyone's searches and saw people searching for notepad

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Post by eviks »

> I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to

If you don't live in a mythical past, there was nothing "premier", so no categorical change in treatment, so Notepad has always been a bad primitive app you should've replaced years ago and also avoid any along l account bugs in the present (though it's also possible to use the old "premier" notepad instead of upgrading to the account linked one)

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Post by iefbr14 »

userbinator wrote: post #9

To be clear, this is the horrible "new" Notepad "app" that I absolutely hated and instantly removed when it was forced upon everyone. I doubt the old "edit field in a wrapper" one which has been nearly the same since Win95 has this problem. (My newest machine is now running Linux.)

FWIW, when I used windows (up to 7), I always used Notetab.

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Post by subscribed »

Terr_ wrote: post #179
meandmycode wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will say, for anybody reading and finds it in any way uplifting, I have been a Windows user for 30 years, been a .net developer for 5 years at one point, groaned at how bad the 'Linux desktop' always was, but this year I finally switched to using Linux instead of Windows and I think it's because the inflexion point is starting to hit more of the masses.

Gamer for a few decades, this year home desktop is finally Linux. (Though my work laptops were already that way.)

I just need a better Nvidia support for something outside Arch niche (cachyos) in this space.

I'm already packed and ready to migrate. Can't wait.

Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

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Post by Telaneo »

trinix912 wrote: post #38
sandworm101 wrote: post #6

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

> Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website. So it was with Windows Vista, Windows 7, even Windows 8. It's not an impossible ask for Windows either.

Yet Micoslop chose not to make that happen, presumably because they get a kick out of seeing people not find what they need.
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