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Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I dual boot at work, which in practice means I have a Linux laptop with a Windows partition for occasional use.

It’s windows 10, not 11, and the machine has decent specs: 6c/12t, 32 GB ram, and an SSD. Windows feels legitimately clunky and slow to me when I use it, and I am not using some lightweight Linux distro meant to be blazing fast. I run Mint Cinnamon which is as mainstream and all-in-one as it gets. But it still feels like it was created to serve the user rather than third party business interests.

I have some desktop machines at home that run windows 10 as well, which I use pretty infrequently. One of my winter projects is going to be fixing that. The OS part anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly the same setup and experience here. Work forces me to use an inferior application in windows instead of a more powerful option in Linux and it boils my blood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Any chance you could use that Windows app in a VM, or is Windows itself a mandate too?

Before we got the green light to dual boot, I spent 90% of my time using Linux in a VM while windows basically handled my M365 applications. These days I much prefer having Teams and Outlook being tabs in Firefox!