• 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    Even after years of being used as a meme template, this stock photo is still as aesthetically pleasing as a Renaissance painting.

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    25 days ago

    I dunno… This picture… Um… Doesn’t look very convincing. Looks more like a leadup to… Something different. XD

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    25 days ago

    I agree with all the things they are doing recently are making it way worse as a product, but I never really agreed on the whole “broken updates” thing. As someone who has used Windows forever and also an administrator at work, I can only recall 1 time where updates caused an issue when they were pushed through WSUS, and we quickly stopped the update. Personal use i have never had an issue.

    If anything, I’ve experienced way more issues whenever updating a Mac. They break stuff all the time, especially when its a newer OS update.

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      Super anecdotal, but I’ve seen a few instances of those in my time as sysadmin.

      Whether it was just failed or malfunctioning updates, I can’t tell, but I’ve had to deal with Windows not starting correctly after automatic updates multiple times.

      Then there was the whole bricked HP laptop story recently, where automatic updates just randomly killed a lot of systems. We have multiple HP laptops in the company, though none were affected, but I can’t say I wasn’t sweating a little bit those days.

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      25 days ago

      i’ve had more issues with forced updates from pc manufacturers–whether via their own update mechanism or through windows update, including bad bios updates that literally bricks a pc to the point a board swap is needed.

      windows ones almost always ‘install’ correctly… it’s often more a question ‘why tf do i want this shit?’

      the ‘automatic’ updates should strictly be security patches and critical non-security bug fixes. new and substantially-changed features should be optional or deferred to… ya know… the big updates each year called ‘feature updates’, and not rammed down users’ throats every month.

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      Updates have broken far more things for me than anything else.

      Every update cycle I cringe to see what we have to mitigate.

      I thank Microsoft from my job security, I’d have far less to do without their updates regularly breaking stuff.

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    25 days ago

    An when you dare to mention Linux because you think they’d have a better experience and you want to share your love of free software they act like you’re attacking them personally.

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    25 days ago

    Windows is what came to mind first? Really?
    I guess I’ve been on the Internet too long. Stay pure, OP.

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    25 days ago

    If this is what you thought of when seeing this picture, it’s a sign that it is time to reevaluate your priorities.

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    Here is the problem, I work in a Windows machine. The effort to spend 40 hours a week in a windows and then change to a linux in the weekends in to great. I already have little to none leasure time, don’t want to spend it using the wrong shortcuts. But I do use a less than official windows version, so there is that

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      My big ones are: Autodesk/CAD. Nothing in the Linux world comes close to the professional CAD stuff today.

      Excel. No open source spreadsheet app does tables. That’s a no-sale.

      System controllers - stuff that uses a licensing dingle, dongle or has to control specific hardware - all of that is built for Windows.

      Most end users can barely use Windows after growing up with it, using it in school and college. They don’t want to understand systems, just what to click on.

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    the sad thing with Windows apps is for example my sister does want to switch to Linux as Win10 is gonna die and Win11 isnt supported. But she cant because she needs MS Teams and Office for school :/

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    if that is what first came to your mind, you are either a gay male or a straight woman.

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      It’s really funny that someone would look at that meme and think “yea, I am being bullied”.

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      Windows 11 the plumber:

      I come round, and I’ve brought a few friends who start rifling through your photos and desk; I state I can fix your toilet, but only if you agree to always use me to fix your toilet, and pay £120 a year even if your toilet never needs fixing.

      Meanwhile, I change your aircon settings, sign you up to a new expensive energy supplier, cancel your streaming subscriptions and sign you up to mine. Oh, and I give my weird mate a copy of your house key so he can photograph you and your loved ones daily.

      But don’t worry, the toilet is fixed. Every 6 months or so I’ll come back to your house and break a random appliance, just so you feel I’m value for money.