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

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Post by userbinator »

guidedlight wrote: post #73
wlesieutre wrote: post #2

> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be. And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system. They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.

I’m my experience, unwavering Windows folk are simply power users who find *nix shells burdensome.

I've been mostly using Windows for the past few decades, but that's mainly because of the GUI; I think *nix shells are awesome compared to COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE.

(As for PowersHell... yuck. It's like MS decided to reinvent bash but in the most bureaucratic and obfuscated way they could.)

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Post by subscribed »

x______________ wrote: post #200
digiown wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This actually. AI is dramatically better at helping users deal with perennial issues that Linux gets, and using the command line to fix them, compared to Microsoft's fresh new bug introduced last Tuesday or navigating anti-user GUI.

>AI is dramatically better at helping users deal with perennial issues that Linux gets This was my first thought. All Linux troubleshooting with AI resulted in hallucinatory commands that don't exist or work on this version of the OS, and managed to help me trash one system installation. Has anything changed?

A lot has changed since ChatGPT 2.0. You could give it a go again :)

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Post by stonogo »

Gud wrote: post #211

Windows started sucking with XP. I know I know, a lot of people think XP rocked, but it was really just 2000 with a fugly skin and more crap. Windows 2000 was peak desktop OS, and no one can convince me otherwise. Arch Linux + XFCE, a distant second.

XP brought real bluetooth support, WPA wifi, and built-in unzip and image viewing support. The default interface theme was terrible, but it's the oldest Windows that could be considered "modern."

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Post by Gud »

stonogo wrote: post #233
Gud wrote: post #211

Windows started sucking with XP. I know I know, a lot of people think XP rocked, but it was really just 2000 with a fugly skin and more crap. Windows 2000 was peak desktop OS, and no one can convince me otherwise. Arch Linux + XFCE, a distant second.

XP brought real bluetooth support, WPA wifi, and built-in unzip and image viewing support. The default interface theme was terrible, but it's the oldest Windows that could be considered "modern."

I mean, these were new technologies at the time and should have been a service pack..

When XP came out I migrated to *nix and I’m forever happy I did.

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

II2II wrote: post #114
arcologies1985 wrote: post #105

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What about "I'm a Linux guy?" I don't pay any company for my Linux OSes. My favorites are nonprofits and mostly interchangeable.

> My favorites are [...] mostly interchangeable. Those are the key words. You have the option to walk away from one distribution to use another if things start getting bad. Such has happened in the past, either because of distribution maintainers making decisions that certain users don't like (think Ubuntu from Unity onward) or because of distribution makers maintainers making decisions that put them ahead of the pac…

I like to think of Microsoft software (also applies to other companies) as painting a room, but starting at the doorway as it's easier. Eventually you find yourself stuck in the corner with the rest of the room painted and that's all well and good until you decide you want to leave (assuming the paint is still wet etc).

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Post by monooso »

Aloha wrote: post #192
monooso wrote: post #77

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I think you're missing the point. If a friend stated that they will stay with their partner regardless of how deceptive or abusive said partner's behaviour becomes, you would rightly question the wisdom of that choice. Stating that you will remain loyal to a company come what may is even worse. It's an entity with no interest in your wellbeing. It exists to extract as much money or information from you as possible. Q…

Its not though - I dont want to write my own operating system, build an ecosystem of apps, write hardware drivers, etc. Win11 has massive downsides, so does macOS, so does desktop Linux, so do all the other options - I have to choose between one of those options to get things done, going my own isnt an option.

At no point did I suggest that you build your own OS. To extend my tortured analogy, that would be like suggesting you grow your own spouse.

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Post by hulitu »

lconnell962 wrote: post #91

Comment threads on the Closed Source OS topics like this regularly remind me about the large disconnect between skilled technical users and the "average" user. That average probably isn't your (great) grandparent who never learned how to type suddenly needing to learn the rapidly evolving early-days internet, but it's still just as dangerous to suggest "Use Linux" as the solution for everyone when plenty of "Average"…

> The "sudo rm -rf" and equivilant horror stories get told all too often as mistakes even made by "skilled users" who were in a hurry

There are ways to mess any system, when you are in a hurry. Think before you type/click.

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Post by unparagoned »

Quothling wrote: post #86
john01dav wrote: post #36

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Apple has an even bigger loyalty problem. For them and Microsoft it's arguably good, but it's bad for users, even the loyal ones. It might even be bad for Apple and Microsoft long term.

I'm not saying Apple can't go the way of Microsoft, but if you've used macOS and Windows through the previous 5 years there isn't much of a comparison. Windows has gone from something I tolerated to something I absolutely dislike using. It's so bad that if it wasn't for WSL then I would consider finding a place to work where they didn't force me to use Windows. MacOS on the other hand hasn't really changed. The momen…

A big issue with Linux has always been the poor battery life management on laptops. So even if a device has a good battery, Linux might not be able to exploit it.

Also the drivers for devices has always been an issue for me. Like there are multiple drivers for the track point, with a million customisation options but no way to get it to work well.

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Post by eipi10_hn »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #196
Suppafly wrote: post #188

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>At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter. That's your personal decision though, you don't need a flagship android phone to have the latest versions of android. I pretty much never spend more than $100-150 for android phones and they always support all the normal MFA apps.

Fair, I could just buy a new Android phone, but at the time every non-flagship appeared to stop updates every two years, and being on an upgrade treadmill on that time scale did not seem like a fair use of my money. I have no idea if this continues to be the situation or if Android manufacturers have gotten better with their update cycles.

Pixel A series (from Pixel 8A) is a non-flagship that will receive 7 years of updates. I bought 1 last year around less than $300.

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Post by subscribed »

blibble wrote: post #90
wolvoleo wrote: post #80

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Linux desktop environments are developed by its users wanting the best experience possible. Windows is designed by a committee that tries to do as little as possible and has ulterior motives higher on the priority scale than UX. Like marketing copilot and other Microsoft subscription services. Microsoft software is always aimed to be just good enough for the users to not choose something better. They love just coasti…

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

Yeah; currently I'm on F43, wayland+KDE.

Death by thousand cuts. I'm moving back to Gnome and ideally away from wayland too. The thing as simple as secret management (for git and keys) is just one of these things....

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