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IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Re: IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Post by consp »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

The amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop. I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat prob…

Went with windows 10 for a VM, less cow manure to deal with (still bloated and useless without debloating). After booting nearly all of the calls home got rejected anyway because they were marked as spyware related. I would imagine they got that close to 100% on windows 11.

Gaming on linux is fine, framerates and cpu usage are higher and less despite the wine/proton wrappers.

Re: IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

sys_64738 wrote: post #5

IT admins don't make technology decisions. They're there to do work, no think.

The good ones probably can't help but do some amount of thinking.

I'd probably consider thata good thing, almost to the extent that I would hire a thinker over the alternative.

Re: IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Post by lousken »

I am hoping to see KDE adopting more enterprise friendly approach to things so I can start switching people over to linux. Now that they got funding for it maybe possible in a year or two?

So far only Ubuntu with Gnome is friendly with entra

Re: IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Post by alienbaby »

0x1d7 wrote: post #4

Why is an article that consists of a reddit user as a source being upvoted on HN? Stop posting such drivel. Do better than make HN into reddit. You can find people to complain on any topic. That doesn’t make it interesting enough to post here.

Right, I came here wondering if others saw the same. What is this doing on hn!??

Re: IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Post by sixtyj »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

The amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop. I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat prob…

Is there a checklist of things that would be better to uninstall or switch off?

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Post by 0x1d7 »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

The amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop. I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat prob…

And then you get responses like this. It's like they can't be arsed to post about the article, they go on some completely different topic, i.e. gaming. At least make the anecdote no one really cares about related to this piss poor excuse of an article.

Like, seriously?

Re: IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

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Post by knighthack »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #6

The amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop. I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat prob…

I leaped to Linux a few years back. One of the best moves in my life. The speed, the reaction time, the lack of bloat.

I side-car'ed a Mac for some apps that could not go through (e.g. for audio work, which Linux has some difficulties with, and lacks a lot of good apps for), but even that went smoothly because it had far less bloat and was already very UNIX-y.

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