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What a big pile of shit software, I swear I'm just gonna quit because of this ass smelling garbage.
Today I discovered that C:/Users/MyUser was silently an alias of C:/Users/OneDriveBullshit/MyUser only in the explorer. So I just figured out why some documents were often disappearing for months, I'm just working on a multiverse were depending on the application the same path don't lead to the same folder.
Earlier this week I unzipped a file and couldn't remove resulting files without administrator privileges.
I've never lost so much time for any fucking software, let alone a paid one. And don't even get me starting on the fucking ads they put everywhere even if you unchecked the 154 options in 42 different menus.
Also, I don't get how people just accept that any input they perform will require an average of 1s for feedback.
But at least now I understand why macs are so popular...
This is the thing I hate most about windows. Did it register the thing I clicked? Is something happening? If I click again will it do the task twice? Complete opposite of how my Mac works.
I also experienced less "hiccups" since switching to Linux with KDE but I'd like to know on what combination of hardware and Windows you experienced anywhere close to an average of 1s response time to "any input".
It's a ~5 years old thinkpad. It may be due to it not being well managed but it really disn't up to the task. Being in a Teams call while using an external displays makes the framerate drop to ~10fps for example 🤷
That's mostly down to Teams though (being the bloated web app that it is), and not the underlying operating system.
I think, it's both.
My current company just got bought out earlier this year, we are in the process of rolling all our stuff into their IT infrastructure.
I was lucky enough to get to use Debian as my OS on my old company laptop because I was the only IT at this company. Last week they finally issued me my new corporate laptop, which of course is Windows because the company that bought us out is a 100% Microsoft house.
One of their sys admins was on a call with me to get the laptop set up and working on their VPN, MFA enrollment, it was supposed to be a "quick 15 minute call."
I watched him as he fought remotely with my machine for almost an hour. The VPN wouldn't work no matter what he tried, then the GUI started acting up, then RDP wasn't working right, then MFA wasn't working. This was a brand new installation from their golden image too on a brand new high end laptop.
After about 20 minutes, I told him I was gunna stay on the call muted and to just let me know when everything was working properly. Then I hopped back onto my Linux laptop and spent the rest of the call getting actual work done while their new Windows machine was pooping the bed.
He didn't actually even get it working at the end of the hour lol. He had to remote in later that evening to finish doing a bunch of registry fixes and file purges to finally get the VPN to connect.
To be fair, this kind of stuff happened to me when I first switched to Linux, before I got a better grasp on file permissions.
Yeah I can totally see that happening 🫣
Here it was especially infuriating because it's mixed with all the company policies, like the 1 month process it took me to have administrator privilege in the first place.
These process also make some sense as I'm in a company of several hundred thousand employees, but all of this mixed together is exhaustingly anoying.
I just dealt with my directories secretly being in one drive. It actually was only found because the system was buggy and I couldn’t find the desktop directory in Explorer.
I had to edit the registry to fully resolve the issue.
At least now I know that I'm not crazy. Also that this issue is on Microsoft and not on my company's IT department.
Yeah, Microsoft is super buggy. It’s a wonder that people think that Linux is unreliable.
Wow thank you I needed that.