Complain, as I usually do at work where we are forced to use windows and WSL crashes are frequent.
Argue with IT that it takes 4 minutes for their new machine to confirm I typed the password correctly.
I do this every day. They are telling me it is a security measure. I hate our IT dept.
cry
lose 85% of my cpu and ram resources
Friends don’t let their friends use a Microsoft products
LibreOffice
Gimp
SumatraPDF
ImageGlass
VLC
I have to for work and I’m genuinely considering putting together a presentation about how big of a HIPAA problem it is for us to have ai integration everywhere.
I’m pretty sure that can be disabled with Active Directory shenanigans and whatnot. I have to use Windows for work as well, in a HIPAA-esque-compliant manner, and I never see the constant AI integrations that people often complain about in Windows. I know our IT team heavily modifies and manages our Windows environments for us.
Ours does too, but only to disable your ability to do so yourself, so both the Dell ai and the teams ai periodically kill the machine’s limited memory to ask if I want them to harvest patient data.
I would use it to download Linux.
Same but I will use it to download freebsd
EDIT: because I misspelled freebsd as ferbsd so I use EDIT to fix my spellings
fair enough
I have to for work, most of my job is in the cloud but I still find myself going “fucking windows goddamn shitty operating system” every once in a while. And man when I do have to use powershell damn is that shit ass
A coworker put it better than I ever could:
“Microsoft is the only company which has ever managed to make a shell that takes 10 seconds to autocomplete”
And I think that’s poetry.
(Yes, I know there are many more reasons why pwsh sucks, but there’s beauty in the simplicity of this one)
Cry inside
Imagining if trusted computing became legally enshrined and windows was the gateway to the internet. Would keep my use of it to a minimum, perhaps to fulfill work obligations, do taxes, pay bills, etc. and save anything that didn’t need the internet for another machine running Linux. I’d also consequently make much greater use of my hoarded media and ebooks.
In that case wouldn’t we just make local networks with our family, and then maybe neighbors. Just have a network that’s not connected to the Internet but still connected to each other. I think we’d just have couple of programming tools, make things, and still use computers, but just the way it was in the beginning, and with everyone making their own things.
Maybe there’d be people using long distance communication protocols to make something that is not the current Internet. Unless that becomes illegal. But can radio waves be illegal? We just need to transmit data somehow
I can’t imagine why I would.
Probably be mildly grumpy about it 😆
The first thing I did when I had to move to it at work was install ExplorerPatcher.
It’s amazing.
It makes the experience much more like win10. I couldn’t cope without it.
