• Solrac@lemmy.world
    33·
    3 天前

    I cannot. for the life of me, fathom, how regluar people, actually tolerate Windows anymore.

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      4 天前

      Technically you could just netboot a kernel and initrd, then mount a root filesystem via the network

      So you don’t even need a drive in your computer

      Not sure why you’d do this outside of very specific appliances but it’s an option

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    27·
    4 天前

    Every time I touch a Windows computer, after 5 minutes, me hacking on the keyboard: “Why 🔨 Can’t 🔨 I 🔨 Just 🔨 Do 🔨 This 🔨!!!”

    Then I have to explain to my coworkers (where else would I touch a Windows computer) that I’m actually a very leet hacker, just on a different OS 😳

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      3 天前

      I’ve pretty much stopped using windows 20 years ago - besides needing to boot it up to have some weird configuration program (looking at you Datalogic!)
      I’m still “the computer guy” in my family and everyone comes to me with their Windows boxes or iOS phones/tablets, but I have absolutely no clue what I’m doing there…
      I’m always astonished how much more shit Windows got in those years.
      Even assigning a drive letter (which is already a stupid way to extend storage, compared with just mount points) isn’t that easily set anymore.
      At least it took me 20-30mins to find the option.
      Changing IP addresses also seems to be highly technical and must be hidden.

      Don’t know what they are going for. You can make stuff easily useable, but still give options to change the defaults.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        Don’t know what they are going for.

        A historical mix of conflicting paradigms all bundled in one huge software?
        Slightly panicky catching up with competitors of a market they are slowly losing, thus making the above even worse?

        I don’t know either.

        It all gets worse with a certain type of stack used in corporate environments, consisting of Google accounts, MS accounts, some sort of invisible 2FA (the 2nd factor is tied to a device)…

    • PangurBan@lemmy.world
      14·
      4 天前

      I switched to Fedora KDE. Literally looks better than windows and doesn’t have all the BS. Lightweight and it honestly works well. Aint ever going back.

      • HorikBrun@kbin.earth
        4·
        3 天前

        That’s exactly what I use on my own computer. But work owns the other computer and gets to dictate the OS and ll that…

      • Aneb@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 天前

        Well its KDE, that is why it looks good. Gnome in comparison is better than windows ui but KDE is one of the better Desktop managers. DMs are usually separate than the OS but do come preinstalled in a lot of distro flavors

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          9·
          4 天前

          Gnome in comparison is better than windows ui

          I haven’t tried 11, but IDK, for me Gnome feels like it’s trying to be futuristic while being a deranged cross between an Ipad and a fisher price toy.

          But then again, macos or whatever the fuck they are calling it looks like that, but less futuristic

  • belunos@lemmus.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 天前

    I save everything to OneDrive, I don’t even have local copies. Come at me, linux nerds

  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
    9·
    4 天前

    You can hit F12 to save documents locally in Office applications, it bypasses all the Onedrive trash

  • Bloefz@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 天前

    Microsoft are now automatically syncing the documents folder to OneDrive too, that’s how they get you.

    It also hides local folders in explorer now if your have OneDrive (which my employer turns on).

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
      1·
      3 天前

      Honestly for work having that one drive turned on means that when people inevitably break the laptop, we can recover the files. Otherwise we have to explain that if they don’t save stuff to a shared location it’s not important enough for us to backup.

      Hiding c: is a bit excessive.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    4 天前

    This is funny, after X years of working professionally as an IT guy in a Microsoft 365 environment, I have started to rely heavily on OneDrive and I feel worried if I save work stuff outside of it.

    At home I don’t use it, but I am working on building a NAS to have better storage.