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Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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That sounds like an issue that could be solved by forcing icons and sizes for the tray.
Just give users the ability to pin the icons they care about and hide the others in a pop-out panel like Windows does.
That too, very basic feature that should be in every DE.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#563At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS, all the news about Windows is how they are making it worse for everyone. And using it now and then it feels like that too. Windows 10 Mail app had integration with system calendar, you would get itsycal built into the OS. Windows 11 removed that and made the OS Mail app spam infested shit, and they expect me to pay a subscription for something that comes bund…
The toolkit inconsistency between apps drives me crazy more than it should. Loading up a GTK app and switching to a Qt app is jarring, especially with basic things like a file picker. Daily driving desktop Linux feels like you are living in a lower-middle income family. Yes, you have some nice things, but you can usually tell they are cost-cut versions that have filler plates or missing features present on higher-end…
Assuming your apps are using the XDG desktop portal, they all use the same file picker.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#564At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS, all the news about Windows is how they are making it worse for everyone. And using it now and then it feels like that too. Windows 10 Mail app had integration with system calendar, you would get itsycal built into the OS. Windows 11 removed that and made the OS Mail app spam infested shit, and they expect me to pay a subscription for something that comes bund…
What Linux distribution can be recommended to someone who wants to try out a desktop OS with experience as close to Windows as possible?
A distribution that uses the Cinnamon desktop by default can be a good starting point. Linux Mint, Fedora Cinnamon Spin, etc.
Actually, a KDE Plasma desktop would also work well. I recommend the Fedora KDE Edition.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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I am genuinely confused why search is so bad in the major email webapps/clients. Search is a well studied feature, and it seems like it's something that should just work but I can never find the thing I'm searching for in my email (especially O365). Knowing the date and then scrolling often seems to be the most accurate way of finding things...
I think search has been deprecated in general because it gives the user too much control over the output. Through search, people can quickly find what they are looking for, which is bad. The goal has instead become to feed people tiny scraps and hints of what they're looking for, while leading them on a long trip past any number of sponsors to where the thing they're looking for might be . I have to assume that Outlo…
> The goal has instead become to feed people tiny scraps and hints of what they're looking for, while leading them on a long trip past any number of sponsors to where the thing they're looking for might be
The airport approach to computing!
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#566Between Office's increasingly bloated size, slow booting and super annoying CoPilot icon right where I'm working (which still can't be turned off in OneNote) - I'm on the edge of dumping Office. I pretty much only use OneNote and a little OneDrive (3% of the included storage plan) to sync files between machines and I run Word and Powerpoint less than a dozen times a year combined. Even as a paying customer, all the O…
This is one of those times when I wish HN still displayed comment karma publicly, not only to the author of the comment. Because I'm sure various Microsoft employees read HN, and they should see what I assume will be a large number of upvotes on that comment, especially for this: > «Even as a paying customer, all the Office apps and services are now so aggressively pushy it's gone beyond "Rude", is now passing "Annoy…
The windows experience is trash for regular users, it looks like a casino now unless you are aggressive about turning _everything_ off.
However: raising concerns is a bad career move apparently. These ideas... aren't proposed by devs; if that makes sense.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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That is what happens when your dev learnt it from an online course instead of going to college or through proper education. "Anyone can code!"
And I thought we were past this sort of gatekeeping and elitism. I've worked with people who had a master's degree in CS who couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. In my experience there's very little correlation between how someone learned programming and how deep their understanding of the entire stack is.
Yeah, deep understanding I think is a matter of how much time you spend investigating the craft and improving. Maybe the real question is: what motivates that to happen? Maybe it's school type, but maybe it's not.
My personal anecdotes, which are music centric but all apply to my software career:
1. I've studied music my whole life, and baked into music is the idea of continual practice & improvement. Because of this experiential input, I believe that I can always improve at things if I actively put a bit of energy into it and show up. I believe it because I've put in so many hours to it and have seen the results. This is deeply ingrained.
2. When I picked up bass in high school, I spent the first year learning tabs in my bedroom. It was ok, but my ability accelerated when I started a band with my friends and had to keep up. I really think the people you surround yourself with can: push you more, teach you things you didn't know, and make the process way more of a fun hang than doing it by yourself.
3. Another outcome from music education was learning that I really love how mastery feels. There's a lot of positive feeling from achieving and growing. As a result, I try to seek it out in other places as well. I imagine sports/etc are the same?
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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I came here looking for this. It's an old idea, from the days when spinning rust was the limiting factor - precache the binaries. If you ever tried Office 97 on a PC of 10+ years later, it's amazing how fast and lightweight it was. Instant startup, super snappy. And those apps were not lacking in features. 95% of what you need out of a desktop word processor was in Word 97.
> from the days when spinning rust was the limiting factor How did we get back to this though? We have gigabytes/sec with NVMe and stupid fast CPU's with at least 4 cores in even low end models. Yet a text editor takes so long to load we need to load it up on boot... Such a frustrating field to work in.
Telemetry, syncing to the cloud by default…
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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Office is like Jira: taken on its own, it sucks, but there are no real alternatives to it.
Interesting, our company migrated from Jira to Youtrack (by JetBrains) and never went back.
I migrated to a team where you just tell your manager what you're doing and they remember it.