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Notepad++ is always a default install on any new Windows PC. Who on earth uses Notepad?
If it's a windows-based server, there's probably little need to do much text editing, so installing Notepad++ wouldn't be needed or desired. Then, you suddenly need to copy/paste/amend some text, so you end up opening Notepad. My use of it is typically if I'm connecting remotely to the Windows desktop and am not sure if the keymap is correct when typing in a password, so I type it into Notepad to make sure I'm puttin…
Thanks Microsoft for making everything worse
I feel sorry for the younger generations, they’ll never know what it was like to use computers that weren’t actively trying to shaft you all the time
I don't want this feature. I have LaTeX documents on my computer containing my personal thoughts. Some of them I want to keep to myself. And some of them contain my own ideas that I find embarrassing. I don't want to hand those documents over to Microsoft servers, nor do I want them used for AI training. I want them to know that these deeply personal thoughts are mine.
Why would you ever keep private thoughts on your PC? That's asking for trouble
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There are plenty of employers who will make you use Linux for work. ...and probably fewer who want to stay on Windows, given how tight they usually are about leaking IP or PII, although some may still have some unusual trust of M$.
For software engineering jobs, Linux is often available as a VM or a server, but the actual laptop issued to you is likely Windows or Mac. Mac is probably the standard for startups but not necessarily the case elsewhere. Where I work, the default is Windows, and you need special requests to get a MacBook.
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> shown they don't respect the user when they force shutdown for system updates Are you familiar with the prior state of things that explicitly motivated this change?
Yes. Since 199x. macOS does the same thing. When I actually sleep, when my laptop's lid is closed. I wake up. My Mac wants a password instead of a fingerprint. It says it has updated the OS when I was snoring. What's the difference? Every app, every window, everything is the way I left before closing the lid. My computer is updated, rebooted and ready for the day. Like nothing happened. Linux is the same deal. If the…
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Most apps on Windows can already access those folders though, except for UWP/AppContainer apps (which require particular capabilities to access them). I think the same is generally still true of the equivalents on most Linux distributions despite that things like SELinux exist.
That, and how many commenters in this thread are using something like Claude Code with their src directory as context? This is no different. It’s [claude code/gemini CLI/codex] but for non-devs and with a GUI instead of a TUI. I feel like everyone here is overly dismissive of this because it’s cool to hate Windows in these parts, but this could be genuinely useful for your average office drone. Much like we love to s…
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Interesting that you see the sheer amount of criticism, week after week, and assume it must be bad faith by microsoft critics rather than bad faith by microsoft.
the critics always complain about what bad thing Microsoft will do in the future, rarely about what they are actually doing secureboot was supposedly an evil conspiracy to block running linux on computers. secureboot is everywhere now, and Linux still runs on personal computers
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On Ubuntu, when this message is shown, most of the updates except the kernel are already applied so you are mostly pretty secure. And you can choose when that will happen. And it’s just a normal reboot. On Windows, IIRC, you are blocked during the whole update process which can take several minutes.
Ubuntu's stable builds do not upgrade kernel and its close vicinity every week, AFAIK. I have a couple of servers with unattended updates enabled, and they do not greet me with "System Reboot Required" banner every week, and if that's required, the server is back with all services running OTOH, I upgraded my parents' PC yesterday, after three months of downtime. It really took at least two hours and four reboots. The…
A lot of that is still true but the usability improvements combined with downright hostile behavior exhibited by Windows makes me say to Windows users that are tired of this nonsense: if you can and are not tied to Windows-only proprietary software, making an effort to switch would be a _very_ good investment of your time.
You don't need to do big-bang, you can dual-boot and progressively migrate. One of the best decisions I did was move to my data to a separate drive/partition (NTFS filesystem) on Windows - that allowed me to have access to all my data (documents/music/videos et all) from both Windows and Linux and made the migration that much more easy.