• Dragaliona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 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.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I can feel this image as I’ve been working on macos due to regulations for years and then going back to linux full time was orgasmic. Its crazy how much better dev experience on Linux is.

  • frozen_flaps@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

  • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day 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.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day 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

  • SilverShark@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

    • katze@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      1 day 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.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it’s almost like Windows, but it’s incredibly frustrating when it’s not. I’m not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I’m looking for. It shouldn’t take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn’t need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 day ago

      An hour to find a notepad? Most desktop environments come with some simple text editor. And if you’re running something minimal, there’s always nano or vim.
      If some software is not found by apt search, I usually start to wonder, is it not free software? In that case I’d rather find an alternative. Some times I have to go to the softwares web site, where they have install instructions, but that’s the exception.

    • sandflavoured@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Totally get it! It’s somewhat jarring moving from the Windows world of software to the world that are available in apt (or other), or otherwise running essential software through wine/proton.