• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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.

    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

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

  • MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

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

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    8 months 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.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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.

    • relativestranger@feddit.nlEnglish
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      8 months 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.

    • Fuckwit McBumCrumble@midwest.socialEnglish
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      8 months ago

      24H2 was pretty bad at launch, but the rollout was very slow so very few people ran into issues. But if they did, you’ll be damn sure they’re gonna yell about it .

    • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.orgOP
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      8 months ago

      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.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

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

  • blinfabian@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    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 :/

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

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

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Wasn’t this a stock photo first posted like a week ago? As part of a sequence of stock photos featuring more of these same bullying girls?

      • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yeah it’s from a series of stock photos but it’s been going around the internet for years. I was just wondering if it had a specific name so I could search for it more easily.