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Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows.
Libre Office (and a couple others) is pretty close to MsOffice. Not exact, but close.
just wanted to say that windows is a brilliant piece of software, and i look forward to the efficiency improvements. as to the naysayers, they were clueless back then, they're clueless today, and they will continue to be clueless as windows gets better and better.
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On Windows 11, when you reconnect to a monitor or set of monitors that you've connected to before, it will automatically return your open windows to the layout across those monitors that you had when you last disconnected (assuming those windows are still open). This is extremely nice and saves me time on a literally (not figuratively) daily basis, to the point that I generally forget that it hasn't always worked tha…
"Well, they turned the entire OS into a tracking, sales and ad/propaganda delivery service, but they managed to make a single feature non-dumb, so guess we're even." (propaganda - Windows 11 default widgets are "offering" a lot of russian-biased media, because Microsoft is too dumb to recognize that and they take any news source - and russian connected outlets are happy to use this delivery vector that most gullible…
> My ask of you: try the experiences, pressure test them, and let’s keep building a product we are proud of. Translated: We fired our Quality Assurance. You are the QA now.
Windows can ensure its quality quite easily: restore support for Windows 7.
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> What sort of metric would I have registered as? Monthly average user. Uptime for Win 11. Uptime not counting screensaver. Uptime for non-enterprise consumer. If you were a Win 11 enterprise user, then Uptime for enterprise users. Unique hardware indicators - number of distinct PCs in Win 11 ecosystem, separated from new activations. And I'm sure a few others that I haven't thought of. Declining stats on these measu…
Yes for sure. My point is they won't know if I moved to Mac, Linux or just a Chromebook, or just decided to stop using a desktop PC.
Not a Windows user, have never been (since Windows 3.11). But if I were, I would think this is just PR unless they changed some fundamentals, like bringing back local user support without jumping through five hoops.
Careful, it's over 1k comments there
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They are caused by moral busy bodies who think they know better. To quote CS Lewis: >Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torme…
CS Lewis: a prolific author of fantasy, science fiction, and Christian apologetics
I can also now run and install over cmd powershlle with choco, scoop and winget.
Get Firefox, VLC, MPV and all that.
Get Powertoys.
Run Christitustech utlity for tweaks.
So even less usage for Linux imo.