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We should keep in mind that thousands of people work at large corporations like Microsoft and many of them do not agree with company policy and positions, including people in senior roles.
Scott Hanselman is a VP at Microsoft who has given some of the best presentations on AI from a social, ethical, and technical demonstration standpoint that I have seen. I have been spreading his NDC London talk around to everyone I can: https://youtu.be/kYUicaho5k8
It is worth the watch.
And that's why, as Windows 10 is about to expire, I am switching to Linux
I'm gonna do the same in october. Though I'm really dreading it, even though I know it will be fine and already use Mint on two other computers.
I switched to Linux Mint (Cinamon) two weeks ago and I'm surprised how easy it was, and now wonder why I didn't do it earlier. So far I have been super satisfied!
Linux Mint Cinnamon is awesome. I'm a developer for embedded linux systems and I run the current version of Mint on all my machines, even at work. Having a user friendly experience out of the box doesn't make it not Linux/FOSS.
And if the ease of installation surprised you, just wait until you see what system updates are like compared with windows!
I updated two of my systems to Linux Mint 22.2 yesterday and the entire install process runs in the background in about 90 seconds without disrupting what you're doing (I was in a meeting while I let it install). Then you reboot whenever convenient and that's less than another minute.
Reads like an ad, but I support this motion
I think it's more that I'm a person trying to give an honest recommendation to help a fellow human being, and it is the ADS that try to be like ME! :D
But you're right. My strategic placement of exclamation points make it read like an infomercial script. Remember the meme about using occasional exclamation point in work emails to seem not insane!
I'm also on Mint, and love it.
-Actual client testimonial
I'm using Cinnamon and so's my wife!
My son is too, he just doesn't know it yet. ;)
The PC is in another room but the desk for it isn't in place yet. And he knows it exists. He's just in third grade and is not quite an Operating System Snob just yet.
Gotta indoctrinate them early
A fellow Linux mint guy! Also got into cinnamon!
Not even surprised
I switched to Linux Mint saldy I need Windows for some things so I dual booted. Got sick of that, so now I have a VM with Tiny11.
Obligatory "windows updates can break Linux on dual boot" comment
Never tried it myself, but looks promising, you should try it on your dual boot. https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat
Can I run mameui64 with that?
No idea, but it runs the programs in a windows vm, the only way to find out is to just try it.
Outlook has spent the last 2 weeks freezing on me constantly, and Excel freezes with it. Absolutely painful, seriously thinking of jumping to Linux this year, with MSoft ending support for W10.
I mean, you can't really blame this one on AI outlook has been crap for decades.
But it has been miles better than gmail for decades.
We're talking about the client.
I am as well
My wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!
🥂
I obviously don't know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn't have issues working with MS-using clients.
As somebody who works as an accountant: The web version of Excel is shit and the desktop version is far superior.
Things like extensions, power query among other things just exist in the desktop app and not in the web app.
Fair, my own needs on spreadsheets were are formulas and enumerations, I can't comment on more advanced uses.
Neither web versions nor LibreOffice can satisfy the needs of a true Excel power user. Also, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and multi-account Outlook access are all problematic unless you are using the native clients. Now she runs Windows VMs for that stuff.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I'm stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I've crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
She has almost a dozen active clients at the moment. Browser tabs for Outlook doesn't help her organize them.
You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.
One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it's OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it's OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.
Trust but verify.
Applies to so, so many scenarios these days.
"Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off... some day... we guess..."
This is a smart move by Microsoft, as a struggling small company they can use VC money to keep them afloat until they come out on top of the AI game once the technology reaches fruition, This wouldn't work for some big monolithic company like linux.
My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won't boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft's bullshit, I'm tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good
Oof. I only upgraded my last Windows 10 install to Linux Mint a week ago. It feels like I may have dodged a bullet, this time.
As you said, I just don't have the time or energy for this particular bit of computing excitement.
It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad
Yeah—misfortunate, but that's expected; I'm happy it's pushing people towards FOSS OS like Linux. The more people get ahead and switch over the better. Implementation of FOSS from corporate is a hurdle, always favoring myopic efficiency 🫤
I wish Linux had better tools to manage desktops at scale. You can make it work but it isn't quite as smooth.
I would love if we had something like zero touch enrollment.
It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.
I'd like to agree. But I'm stuck with Windows at work. At the moment, our IT guys upgrade a couple of PCs a day from Win10 to Win11. The GUI sucks, and the complete network is getting slower and slower. I crave the good old DOS times, when the system used to be faster than me.
I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I'd put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).
