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  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I can't even express how much I hate Visual Studio

    Fuck you Microsoft

  • NoEyed [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    My favorite part of Windows 10 is spending about an hour on every new install turning off as much of the baked-in spyware as I can find. Also how if you put off updates for long enough it will just shut your computer off while you're using it and update itself. It knows better than I do, after all.

      • Torenico [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        What is this? I'm a complete boomer when it comes to PCs and shit. I still have the "ACTIVATE WINDOWS" watermark after months and I haven't been able to find an activator of some sort that isn't a spyware.

          • throwawaylemmy [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Thing is, even if you force it via Powershell, shit like Cortana and the Chromnium Edge (which is now a default Explorer plugin) can't be uninstalled.

            The bloatware is the fucking worst, not because of the "bloat," but because you can't GET FUCKING RID OF IT the majority of the time.

          • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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            4 years ago

            remove-appxpackage : The request is not supported. error 0x80070032: AppX Deployment Remove operation on package Microsoft.BioEnrollment_10.0.19041.423_neutral__cw5n1h2txyewy from: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.BioEnrollment_cw5n1h2txyewy failed. This app is part of Windows and cannot be uninstalled on a per-user basis. An administrator can attempt to remove the app from the computer using Turn Windows Features on or off. However, it may not be possible to uninstall the app. At line:1 char:19

            • Get-appxpackage | remove-appxpackage -allusers
            •               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
              • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Remove-AppxPackage], COMException
              • FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Comman ds.RemoveAppxPackageCommand
  • kilternkafuffle [any]
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    4 years ago

    Microsoft is Democrats, Apple is Republicans, Linux is having to wage a guerrilla revolution and live in the woods.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Shout out to the built-in image viewer that freezes on startup 60% of the time.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    If you’re an IT person, make it your mission to get your ORG off Microshit.

    lol I wish. I'm a software engineer for a Fortune 100 company; the amount of leverage I have is effectively nil. (Just getting downstream teams to be willing to take our code in Java instead of a godawful proprietary language is a giant fight.) Plus I think the company has some kind of deal with Microsoft, so even the actual IT people probably have no leverage. I make a point of ragging on Microsoft products as much as possible during team meetings though, for what it's worth.

      • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I had to look up what an Open Architecture standard was lol. No, we don't have anything like that. It is indeed internal to the company, but the resistance to moving off of it is due to downstream teams having tens of thousands of lines of it in production that they don't want to re-do. If it's anyone's baby, it'd be a guy who left the company years ago now, so I've instead made it my mission to destroy the last remnants of the language itself from the code we maintain--and luckily for me, so has the boss of our department, so we're making halting steps towards that goal. Unfortunately that means I have to rewrite one of our team's legacy projects, which we know virtually nothing about, in Java in the next 18 months, but it'll ultimately put our team in a much better situation, so it's worth it.

  • Bonescape [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    As an IT person the mere suggestion that microsoft might be bad will cause your opinion to be discarded. They simply have the monopoly. There's no way around them and an outcome of this is that theres an actual policy aimed at extinction of linux machines at where i work.

      • Bonescape [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Might be diffrent for serious industrial companies, but i work in eduction, where for most users access to office and outlook will suffice.

  • Irockasingranite [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Just the other day I spent over an hour trying to fix the formatting on a 10 page Word document (someone else originally made it, don't ask me why anyone would typeset a research paper in Word but here we are).

    It's a fucking nightmare, like the software is actively getting in your way, and some of the most important features straight up don't work. What I did would have been a 2 minute job in latex, and most of the issues would have been impossible to create in the first place.

    Never again.

  • Randomdog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    platter type HDs

    ballooned to 36MB

    I'm really curious as to just how old your hardware is?

  • culpritus [any]
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    4 years ago

    been an IT nerd the majority of my life, leaving the MS fiefdom has been wonderful

    Linux has come a long way in the last few years - especially now that you can use WINE to run the majority of MS software if you still require that

    MS are infamous for their Embrace - Extend - Extinguish strategy - it works very similarly to US imperialism

    • throwawaylemmy [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Linux has come a long way in the last few years - especially now that you can use WINE to run the majority of MS software if you still require that

      Sadly, if you do video games, you can't just leave like that. Anti-cheat in multiplayer is the last big stumbling block (beyond doing work arounds for Photoshop/Adobe CC stuff) of Linux.

    • skeletorsass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      It just has this feeling of jank to it. Also they keep replacing settings panels with worse versions designed to run on a tablet. Also, I wanted to change the language to English at one point to make a video demonstrating some software for a foreign partner vendor, and apparently I would have to buy a new copy and reinstall.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I got an SSD and it made loading the start menu faster 😭

      WHY DOES THE START MENU HAVE TO LOAD DATA FROM THE HDD EVERY TIME YOU OPEN IT? AND WHY CAN'T IT DO THAT IN PARALLEL?

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    SSMS and Visual Studio are nice for now.

    Also MS SQL has less evil contracts than Oracle or IBM DB2.

    MS makes acceptable software when they're trying to kill competition, but the moment they've got their audience locked in it becomes absolute trash.