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    [–] Dragaliona@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 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 Workβ„’ 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.

    [–] pubquiz@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    If she's an astronaut then I'm a gynecologist.

    And a plumber.

    [–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

    Those titles are interchangeable.

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago

    Why can’t Windows just work? It’s such a frustrating experience

    [–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

    Can confirm. I am on this image

    [–] SilverShark@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] danzabia@infosec.pub 2 points 12 hours ago

    Ah you must be the new hire at my firm, welcome!

    [–] drmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours 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.

    [–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 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

    [–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

    hahaha!

    Everytime

    [–] frozen_flaps@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

    Install Win7 version of solitaire

    [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

    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.com 5 points 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.social 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    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@lemmy.world 5 points 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 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 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.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 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.

    It's even a work pc, there's a thread on the microsoft forums detailing how common the problem is.

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    [–] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Fuck my work computer

    [–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 72 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Can we avoid using the space tourists for memes?

    Unless we're ridiculing them, obvs.

    [–] jadedwench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

    Agreed, this was my first thought. We do not need to make these monsters into a meme. Let them go back into non-existence.

    If anyone wants to listen to a 40 minute rant about it, always recommend Angela Collier.

    https://youtu.be/0WtyGK7TdCs

    [–] cm0002@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    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"

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    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    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.

    Must not be a good friend if you installed windows on his PC.

    A decent prank though.

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    [–] albert180@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Same with Android after having to endure iOS for a few minutes

    [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 16 hours ago

    WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BACK BUTTON??

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    [–] Drigo@sopuli.xyz 4 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

    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.

    [–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

    I can watch all the stream services from Linux you should enable DRM.

    [–] iopq@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (4 children)
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    [–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

    VM Windows. Downsides: obvious. Upsides: you can give it a funny name, like, Mousesoft Cheesedoughs Disney-bution.

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

    Does it work in (proprietary) chrome?
    iirc it also works in ms-edge for linux.

    You could check !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    You have to enable DRM in Firefox, then it will work. But Disney only allows low resolution streams over browsers.

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    [–] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Literally me after using my moms Windows 11 Laptop for 10 Minutes.

    [–] Trihilis@ani.social 3 points 18 hours ago

    How can you not love W11? It has more telemetry, AI, privacy violating features, garbage uit (not to mention double ui for the same thing) than ever.

    Perfect right?

    [–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Are you still Katy Perry or was it a temporary affliction?

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    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

    Fr tho, I had to use my brother computer for printing and it's such a god awful os

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