• herrvogel@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Last week I almost missed my train because of windows update.

      Every day my hatred for Windows, well Microsoft as a whole really, grows. Every time I launch the almost incomprehensibly bad piece of shit that is Outlook, every time I have to restart explorer.exe because of some dumb bug that I remember from Windows 7, every time I try to mount a network share that has the same hostname as an already mounted one, every time the start bar launches Edge (not my default browser) to look something up on Bing (not my default search engine) despite my having turned that feature off, every time I have to dive into some settings to disable yet another copilot button, my desire to break into Satya Nutella’s home when he’s on vacation and spill old milk all over his furniture increases by a noticeable degree.

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 days ago

      This is me. I got a new work laptop last November with a good spec and loads of ram, because I’m a “power user” … and it absolutely drags on every little thing.

      Windows Explorer falls over sometimes. Click on the start menu and wait for it to catch up. Lots if waiting for updates to complete. Don’t get me started on actually running MS programs on it.

      And this is the Enterprise version with the worst shit already switched off.

      Meanwhile, at home I have a 12 year old Thinkpad that was decidedly mid-spec when new, with completely stock Linux Mint, which flies along (the only change from stock being an SSD, and lots of stickers). I don’t even need to switch to a lighter window manager :-)