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I just want them to let me pick my own god damned name for the home folder. I hate the weird shit they pick for me.
why do people still use windows? It's stupid and naive to ask that, but I keep wondering why devs aren't successful in getting changes made at their companies.
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The reason why I feel like I’m stuck is based on my personal use case. Basically I need two things: A. Being able to use some proprietary software not available on Linux B. Being able to self build so I can select the HW that works for me With Linux I lose A and with Mac I would lose B. I’m thinking that a combo Mac Mini + Tower PC with Linux could work, but using two OSes at the same time, even with shared NAS, KVM…
If you have enough RAM you can run VirtualBox alongside your other programs on Linux. I used to run Android Studio in a Windows VirtualBox and it worked perfectly. Never had an issue.
Some might say that whining about these things is counterproductive. I disagree. I don't want Microsoft to fail. I don't want people to hate Microsoft. I want every company to make good products and expend its employees' efforts in a productive way. I believe filling out feedback forms is not the best way to go about trying to change the curremt state. I think that once enough people in our field know about those issues and voice their concerns, we can somehow push Microsoft back in the right direction. And even if that's a pipedream, our comments might help people forced to use Windows at work to go about it somewhat more securely and conveniently.
When it comes to my personal experience, I've recently had Windows: force me to update (gave me 20 minutes to save my work); install some software I don't need during the update and then prompt me to log in (namely, MS Teams); break bluetooth drivers (they work now but not as well as they used to); make the machine get stuck in the boot process (I had to reset it and pray no data was lost); change the wallpaper.
I just want to do my job. I don't need updates for that. I might need the security ones, but trying to install Teams on my machine and breaking other stuff in the process while all I need is Visual Studio and a working OS really grinds my gears.
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What about C: use Linux for the main desktop, use Wine for things that require Windows, use a VM with windows exclusively to launch that one annoying app which won't work under wine?
I'm thinking of going down that route, but for various reasons I NEED Outlook and Office a lot, although my main work is development and could work on another platform. If you do this (as I did in the past) you're now juggling N Windows VMs to avoid ONE Windows host system..
I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.
> With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform What do you use instead of Google Backup and Sync client? I haven't found something that works like that. The "best" thing I've found is the FUSE Ocaml filesystem ( https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse ) but still it is a "mounted" over network filesystem and not a sync-on-change solution. I tried InSync but could not make it work and it is not…
Relatedly, when I wanted to enable full disk encryption on Windows 10 Home, it insisted that I switch to online account (as in, it was impossible to enable FDE until I did). WTF?
There definitely should be an option to encrypt it like the in the pro version, but then you could also just buy the pro version (then you can also disable auto-updates...). It's not really expensive in the EU.
This is incredibly bad. In general I have a positive opinion about what MS is doing lately, but Windows is a glaring exception, it’s getting worse and worse at an alarming rate. In the last two months we had two consecutive updates that broke basic functionality for users who disabled web results in Windows Search (which is a very common setting among those who care about privacy) https://www.zdnet.com/article/window…
>> getting worse and worse at an alarming rate That's because Windows Division does not exist anymore as a separate business unit within MS. It's now a part of Azure. And Azure doesn't really care all that much about making desktop excellent. It'll just keep it good enough for you to buy more Azure, but not more than that.
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That's a pretty clear dark pattern, no? At the very least, it signals that Microsoft really doesn't want users creating offline accounts. Which is troubling, because their TOS for online accounts is quite onerous, and includes a couple of problematic restrictions, including a mandatory arbitration agreement. If I was a Windows user who relied on local accounts this would be very worrying to me.
It's most definitely a dark pattern. Just how reddit now prompts you to enter an email when you register but it's not marked as required and it doesn't say optional either.
Evil pattern.