• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I do feel a bit like a Hank Hill when I rant about this or any other newer, unwelcome features. No, Outlook, I don’t want you to finish my sentences, you are wrong 100% of the time and I’d rather do it myself gosh dang it.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      But Linux is easier!!!

      “You still have to config stuff.”

      NOOO! EASIER!!!

      Use a standard ISO instead of the crap that comes from the manufacturer, SO much better.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    “Let’s finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don’t need!)”

      • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        It was for a client at work, so I couldn’t. I don’t know how to install Linux, either. I’m going to try once I get a charger for my old laptop. It isn’t a big priority though. I’ve been playing around with my Steamdeck in desktop mode to try to learn some Linux stuff and it’s been going okay.

        • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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          10 days ago

          I use ubuntu btw for many years now and it’s not as scary as it might sound. Quite user friendly at this point and you can just download the .iso and install it.

        • bishbosh@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Really it’s restraint to only offer it as a solution to tech problems, because install more linux is my solution to all problems.

          • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Wife left you? Should have installed Linux on her devices. Then again I know a guy who did that and still has SSH access.

        • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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          9 days ago

          These aren’t “tech related” problems, they are “windows is shit and abusive to the user” problems.

  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    You know whats cool? Office programs like excel and word have an ‘autosave toggle’, and you know what it does? “Please log into one drive to enable autosave”.
    Thats right, you cant have a local autosave, you MUST be saving to one drive.
    Cool, thanks, no.

    …

    Ctrl+S

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Some of us have to use Windows at work. It’s awful.

        I know a few people were given Macs on request, I wonder if I could get a Linux machine… Everything we do is web based or on a remote desktop.

        • ThePrimitive@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          All of my personal machines are Linux. I’m forced to use Windows for work, like nearly all knowledge workers. You’ll find out about it when you grow up.

          • django@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            10 days ago

            I just made linux on the company laptop a requirement for me working at the current company. They told me, that I would have to install and maintain it myself, so I have Arch Linux on my company laptop. I like it a lot more than Debian, which I had to use at the previous company.

            I have never used windows in a work environment so far.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            You’ll find out about it when you grow up.

            I’m pretty sure, when I grew up, my aspirations were a bit higher than bragging about being a corporate drone.

            When your value comes from the experience on your resume and not the stack of CompTIA certifications that you purchased while attending college, you get job offers that don’t come with a cubicle.

            • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
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              10 days ago

              Yeah, they come with a spatula and a mop.

              Tell me you’re divorced from the reality of a late-stage capitalist society without telling me, bro.

              • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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                10 days ago

                You’re right, there’s nothing that you can do but give in to the ghouls and take our allotted job, then spend our free time bitterly slinging shit at people who don’t follow in our rut.

                There’s no change possible and anyone who pretends otherwise should be boo’d out of the conversation so we can all return to our miserable lives supporting the corporate boot with our collective necks.

                How silly of me for aspiring to more. Thank you, wise young adult, for sharing the wisdom of your many hours looking at an-cap memes. I shall return to my spatula and mop, lest I upset the rest of the cattle.

                • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  8 days ago

                  Aspiring to more? Motherfucker, how do expect to do that waxing poetic about ruts and calling everyone who doesn’t buy your im14andthisisdeep rhetoric cattle? Young adult, indeed.

                  Here’s a hint: a stack of certifications is going is going to do you more good than some ego-trip pipe dream about single-handedly bucking the system. Save that Crimethinc reality-dodging bullshit for the rest of the trustsfarian lifestylists.

                  BTW, I’m a libertarian socialist and a member of the DSA and IWW. Ancaps can kiss my dick.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Shit doesn’t happen to me on Windows. Killed One Drive, done.

      Been wondering if the hassle is from pre-installed versions vs. the “got my own ISO” version straight from M$. I get very few of the Windows complaints I see when I wipe it to factory and install vanilla Windows. Which anyone using Windows should do on a new machine.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        10 days ago

        I was moderately annoyed at the amount of stuff I had to either disable or uninstall when I got my Win 11 laptop, including One Drive, and getting rid of the news recommendations etc, but it’s definitely less hassle than installing a new OS.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          Installing a new OS is not a hassle at all on this day and age. If you can click buttons with a mouse and read at least at a 6th grade level to follow instructions, you can install an OS.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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            10 days ago

            And can you guarantee all the software and hardware I use for my job will work? Everything runs on Windows, it’s guaranteed to work. I wasn’t happy about all the crap I had to get rid of, but once it’s done it’s done.

            • dustyData@lemmy.world
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              9 days ago

              No I can’t guarantee it, and neither does Microsoft, Windows, nor any of the software you have ever used, for work or not. Read the TOS. You are given nothing, and all software, no matter how much you pay is “provided as is”. Which means they deny responsibility for bugs or misbehavior of their code. MS corporate contracts don’t sell guarantees, they sell support when something eventually goes wrong. They never promise the software will always 100% work because it opens them to legal liability. OneDrive, to keep the discussion on topic, doesn’t guarantee availability of your files, or their integrity, and even makes you agree to not sue them even if you lose all your data.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Recently had to deal with creating a Windows 11 installation for someone else. I used a self-downloaded ISO and Rufus, and it still tried to pull that crap. OneDrive will create a system notification offering to enable it, and it’s similar enough to the various annoying Windows onboarding notifications that some people will accidentally click the confirmation thinking it’s the dismiss button.

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    11 days ago

    Onedrive is the love baby of Webdav and ftps , born with dysentery because of life in a piss poor country. The humane thing to do… well, you know.