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

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

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

expedition32 wrote: post #33
embedding-shape wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, not sure how people form almost "relationships" with their tools and refuse sometimes to even explore options. I'm always open to switching almost anything. I never end up doing, because things are usually not better, but maybe 1/100 times something is better, and then I switch. Initially did that around Ubuntu 9.10 before, and I'll switch away from Arch in a heartbeat if anything better comes around. Edit: I r…

Honestly as a deeply antisocial person the Linux cult has always rubbed me the wrong way. Same reason why I don't have an iPhone.

What do you use then?

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

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Post by Archelaos »

wrs wrote: post #15
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 still a _______ guy, and I always will be." No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.

What about "Linux"? It is also a registered trademark.

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

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Post by guidedlight »

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.

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

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Post by hluska »

xigoi wrote: post #61
trinix912 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you work a job where you're not in control of the OS you're using, which just happens to be most of the non-dev office jobs out there. Dismissing Windows problems with "just switch to Linux bro" doesn't really help.

If you’re not in control of the OS, then you’re not responsible for problems caused by the choice of OS. Tell your boss that Windows is not allowing you to use basic features and let them choke on it.

You don’t sound very mature.

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

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

dist-epoch wrote: post #45
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.

Goes the other way around too: Linux will only have a good desktop environment when it's users will be willing to leave it.

Linux has had several good desktop environments for well over 20 years.

When is Windows going to get a good desktop environment?

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

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Post by charlesabarnes »

Archelaos wrote: post #72
wrs wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I'm still a _______ guy, and I always will be." No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.

What about "Linux"? It is also a registered trademark.

For Linux as well. In my opinion you shouldn't remain blind to the benefits of other operating systems

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Post by monooso »

Aloha wrote: post #60
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.

Who is better?

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.

Quite apart from everything else, such a statement eliminates the prospect of ever finding something better.

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

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Post by wesammikhail »

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 deploy all my code on linux and have been thinking about switching from windows to linux for my daily driver. But even I dread that. It´s as if linux has tried as hard as possible to make every single little thing as complicated as possible.

imho, user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape. There is very little focus on that. People will tell you try this or that distro. But once you run into a simple problem, it´s often a rabbit hole of a gazilling cli commands to fix it. In the mean time you´re praying to god to not brick something that used to work before.

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

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Post by pavel_lishin »

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 still a Windows guy, and I always will be.

There's a semi-common saying that it takes seven attempts for someone to successfully leave an abusive partner. Give him time, I guess.

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

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Post by wolvoleo »

dist-epoch wrote: post #45
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.

Goes the other way around too: Linux will only have a good desktop environment when it's users will be willing to leave it.

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 coasting on their marketshare without doing much to improve. Like they did with internet explorer and now do with office.

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