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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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wesammikhail wrote: post #78
guidedlight wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

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

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Post by AlienRobot »

Barrin92 wrote: post #19

>I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to.[...] and Windows 12 is ultimately an agentic AI OS, I wouldn't be surprised if more people stick with a debloated Windows 11, just as others did with Windows 10 Is there any justification for the first part other than that the authors job at windowscentral.com depends on it? Because I'm not seeing…

If Microsoft wanted, it could make Windows good.

On the other hand, no matter how much time or money the Linux community gets, the desktop experience will never be good.

This means that our only hope at having a good desktop OS is Microsoft changing course.

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

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Post by conception »

wesammikhail wrote: post #78
guidedlight wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

Lucky now you can just ask an LLM to diagnose and offer ways to fix it. Takes 99% of the trouble away.

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

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.

More like people who won’t bite the hand the feeds them.

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

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Post by wolvoleo »

trinix912 wrote: post #38
sandworm101 wrote: post #6

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux. Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

> Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website. So it was with Windows Vista, Windows 7, even Windows 8. It's not an impossible ask for Windows either.

It's not but when you're asking Microsoft you're not asking developers. You're asking marketers who are trying to pimp stuff like bing and Copilot. What you're getting is exactly what they want you to get.

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Post by Quothling »

john01dav wrote: post #36
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.

Apple has an even bigger loyalty problem. For them and Microsoft it's arguably good, but it's bad for users, even the loyal ones. It might even be bad for Apple and Microsoft long term.

I'm not saying Apple can't go the way of Microsoft, but if you've used macOS and Windows through the previous 5 years there isn't much of a comparison. Windows has gone from something I tolerated to something I absolutely dislike using. It's so bad that if it wasn't for WSL then I would consider finding a place to work where they didn't force me to use Windows. MacOS on the other hand hasn't really changed.

The moment someone makes a non macbook air, that does the same as a macbook air in terms of being cold to touch, battery life and no-noise I'm leaving for Linux though.

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

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Post by xeromal »

xigoi wrote: post #58
billy99k wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could also say the Linux desktop creators are the problem as well. It's so buggy, it makes it impossible for me to switch.

Which “the” Linux desktop? GNOME? KDE? xfce? Cinnamon? COSMIC?

This question reinforces the point IMO

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

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Post by Quothling »

smackeyacky wrote: post #53

There are two technologies propped up by having to earn a living: windows and the iPhone. No matter the android phone, trying to get your MFA experience working with the umpteen stupid MFA apps is painful because all the dev work went into the iPhone versions. I hate it but yep I ended up buying an iPhone although I never buy them new. Windows is the other one and again it’s security related. More and more places sim…

> Entra and try telling the bank you’re working for that you have to have a Linux notebook. You’ll get laughed right out of a job.

Entra id private access will cover that (and it frankly can't become the norm soon enough). For an extra $5 per license. I wouldn't worry too much about that part of Microsoft though. They always knew how to sell stuff to enterprise. You gotta wonder what their Windows division is doing though, but maybe they just don't want private customers.

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

billy99k wrote: post #27
lousken wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

exactly, he's part of a problem

I could also say the Linux desktop creators are the problem as well. It's so buggy, it makes it impossible for me to switch.

Honestly, that’s a 2016 argument. I flipped a few contact centers over to Linux desktops and had very few issues. If anything we probably spent 5x the resources getting Windows 11 certified internally.

Microsoft knows it, but they don’t care about windows. When IBM started offering Macs to employees, they figured out that the support burden was very low, significantly lower than windows, even with users having years of windows experience.

Intune was supposed to be the answer to that, making Windows management MDM like. But for their most entrenched enterprise customers, they can’t really switch without co-managing with Configuration Manager. Most of the people behind that product are laid off or otherwise attrited, as there’s no path to a subscription service.

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Post by blibble »

wolvoleo wrote: post #80
dist-epoch wrote: post #45

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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 coasti…

> Linux desktop environments are developed by its users wanting the best experience possible.

have you used GNOME?

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