• Dragaliona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    4 hours ago

    An unpopular opinion (and a bit of a rant), but honestly I actually like Win11’s design, it is to me better than Win10, and I would actually enjoy using Windows. Too bad it’s a slow and unstable piece of garabage even on my
    M I C R O S O F T S U R F A C E.

    I have Garuda Linux on my main laptop which works completely fine, and the whole point of the Surface was to be able to use Windows at university while avoiding fragmenting my setup with dualboot (because surely Windows will Just Work™ on Microsoft’s own hardware, right? /s), but Micro$oft is tempting me so hard to install Linux to the damm thing. Another point of the Surface was to actually have a full fledged computer instead of an overpriced digital notebook like the iPad is.

    I also enjoy OneNote (my uni gives me acces to Office 365), which I genuenly prefer over Xournal++, but Office 365 is a completely stupid piece of unstable garbage which keeps randomly stopping working in the middle of the lecture, right when I should be annotating what the teacher is saying.

  • SilverShark@lemmy.world
    32·
    20 hours ago

    I one time left a job where everyone had Linux workstations and went into a finance job where developers were using windows. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.

    To begin with, the PCs were highly restrictive. You either had to rely on a shitty service to request software to be installed, or had to beg for an admin account to install anything. This took days if not weeks already on onboard.

    One works with interfaces that hide the actual process. No one actually understood git. They just know a few sequences of buttons. They ask me all the time when they want to do something other then add,commit,push and have no idea about even the status command. They pull up some shitty cli tool, usually within an IDE, and they act as if I’m some sort of genni or know some black magic when I type “git status”, or do things like stash, or solve a conflict.

    The lack of automation possibilities, or scripting, or the fact that so many things have to be done by clicking around interfaces means that everything is super slow. There is friction everywhere! On top of this you get apps freezing or crashing randomly with no information of what happened. Somehow the PCs are so incredibly bloated with company spywares that despite the fact that they are suppose to be Lenovo Ultrabooks with a lot of RAM, SSDs, and a good CPU, they run like a 15 years old laptop with a half broken hard drive.

    Horrible, just horrible.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    161·
    20 hours ago

    My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop… With W11

    Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn’t check in for years.

    So guess who’s about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU

  • frozen_flaps@lemmy.world
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Winderp has unskippable ads and begging for paid subscriptions even in their card games now. Can’t even play Solitaire in peace. It’s just a deeply enshittified OS.

  • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    211·
    1 day ago

    I have had to use windows for like the last two weeks and the taskbar crashes and freezes constantly so I put a bat file on my desktop that kills and reopens explorer.exe also if my bluetooth headphones disconnect while my mic is muted it refuses to unmute… I have to reboot. This is what people say is a “it just works” experience.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      5·
      20 hours ago

      It’s so funny how you can crash the whole Windows desktop by mounting a network share, disconnecting from the network and trying to access it.

      Found that at a previous job where technicians would frequently connect and disconnect from networks. Also, it’s impossible to unmount such a share from explorer or PowerShell. Only the old CMD tool works

    • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
      92·
      1 day ago

      No one has more problems on windows than a linux-first user.

      Every thread like this has people that can’t seem to get windows to do the bare minimum, but I have yet to have a single hiccup in months. I don’t get it. This isn’t even a “linux bad” comment, I dual boot and enjoy my linux install as well, the only “problems” I have on there are from being new to linux.

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        18 hours ago

        I’m wondering if some of those issues are just simple annoyances that Windows users are used to putting up with. Because I had lots of those before switching to Linux that I didn’t think were fixable.

        The only time I had my windows install be completely unbootable was when dual booting. The rest was always an issue.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        16 hours ago

        My work laptop with Windows 11 works OK for what I need it for, but I do have to fight it all of the time to get it to do shit. And it is also incredibly slow for no real reason.

      • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        That’s because all the people who don’t have issues, aren’t going to make comments about not having issues in a community that is basically dedicated to shitting on it(seriously, check top posts. It’s not “haha linux funny meme”, it’s “windows bad” over and over again).

        Even if they do make a commen,like you, they get downvoted by people who like to wallow in misery.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      20 hours ago

      Other day I tried opening the command prompt on a windows server 2019 by hitting the start button and typing cmd. Waited for 20s before hitting win+r and running cmd.exe from there.

      Ws2k19 maybe dated, but wtf is up with that level of performance in searching? I mean if you can’t do it in a way approaching satisfactory, then why roll it out at all?

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      NO BECAUSE I’VE LITERALLY DONE THE SAME THING! For me it was on my desktop instead. But yeah. I don’t remember exactly why but it happened enough that I definitely had a bat file that just killed explorer.exe. iIf I’m remembering right it auto restarts.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      OP
      57·
      1 day ago

      I mean, it kinda is to me, the base meme image isn’t of them being in space or doing any of the “tourism” parts, but of them being “so grateful to be on the ground” because they couldn’t “handle it”

      • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
        72·
        1 day ago

        Looks to me like the reader (the Linux user) is identifying with the subject of the image, which would appear to put them in a sympathetic light.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          10·
          1 day ago

          This is attention whore activity. There were people stuck on the ISS for what like nine months, did they kiss the earth when they returned? These people willingly go to barely the edge of the atmosphere for like two minutes and this is their response when they returned?

          OTOH Windows does suck. Though again I’m guessing no one is switch back for ten minutes by choice.

          • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            23 hours ago

            tbh 9 months on iss isn’t too long, they’re experienced astronauts and they had their ride back docked to the iss for a long while anyway. it’s probably way more miserable having to hang out with dumbass celebrities for the rest of your life

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
      14·
      1 day ago

      They were not space tourists.

      They were cargo. Marketing material for Jeff’s rocket-powered overcompensation that just happened to need oxygen to stay fresh.

      • percent@infosec.pub
        11·
        1 day ago

        Passengers*, I think. I’m pretty sure passenger vehicles are subject to higher quality standards than vehicles meant only for cargo (ISS supplies, for example).

        (I could be wrong. I’m an internet comment, not a rocket surgeon 🤷🏻‍♂️)

    • katze@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      Really? I find these two so similar. On desktop, however, the difference between the three major operating systems is quite big. Especially between Linux/Windows and macOS with its weird shortcuts.

  • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    37·
    1 day ago

    Was helping a friend install Windows on his new PC this week and my god it was such an awful experience. Just looking at the start menu had me in tears.

  • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    19 hours ago

    I can’t watch Disney plus in the browser on Linux, which kinda sucks. Fuck Disney, but also, anybody knows how to fix it? I tried changing the user agent override, but that didn’t work.