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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.

Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.

Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.

“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os” y tho

Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.

Most of my Windows troubles went away with that.

(My work laptop runs Win11, no choice there unfortunately)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Companies will get there eventually. Everyone thought IBM machines were irreplaceable until they weren’t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I wish I could share your optimism, but we're so deep in the M$ ecosystem they've got us by the balls. Given how conservative our industry is and that we've got about 80k people, I think our chances are slim.