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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers (philipbohun.com)
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Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.

Without Builders, you don't have software, and without software, you don't have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.

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[–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

fuck, they need that to retain business customers.

It's becoming ridiculous how much lost time there is at work because of Microsoft bullshit. Teams doesn't work, OneDrive doesn't sync, Outlook won't find anything for you, all of the office programs are becoming more difficult to use and slower...

I've got a team of about a dozen people and we probably lose an entire person's work day every single week just to Microsoft bullshit. not even regular issues, just straight up bullshit that shouldn't happen.

if I weren't so busy, I'd be looking into switching my team to Linux. but at some point it's going to get bad enough and I'm going to be low enough on work (lol okay not likely) that I'll be able to properly investigate a transition. Microsoft is the weak point of pretty much every process at our company.

except for excel. that's still doing okay. not great, but okay.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you think its bullshit that shouldnt be happening open a bug report. Its more than likely a skill issue because office is pretty simple to manage

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I fill out a good number of reports. I can't always be bothered to do it, and they probably don't read them anyways because of the swearing

    it's not my job to do QA on their shitty products

    and our IT support doesn't know what causes some issues or how to resolve them either, so it's not likely a user skill issue.

    if you're not coming across issues with Microsoft products, it's more than likely that you're simply not actually using them

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The only real issues I come across are issues with their new features like intune stuff on mac. The core stuff all work pretty reliably with little to no maintenance and have great documentation. The only complaints I ever see/hear for teams, onedrive and 365 apps are users being dumb or caused by device issues. There are of course microsoft outages (often) but they fix themselves most of the time.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I will never forget the bewilderment I felt the first time the File Explorer crashed -- and that hasn't been the only time. Forget Office, they can't even get the start menu to work properly. Call it feature rich if you like, but of any modern OS they are the furthest away from the core stuff working reliably in my experience.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    explorer crashes all the time. I would never act like windows isnt a piece of shit. But we're not talking about windows here we're talking about the 365 suite and enterprise suite of services which are pretty easy to say they're stable and easy to manage.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well, the original comment was about Microsoft products, which includes the OS. I understand if you say you meant to only refer to the Office software as "core services", but "we" are talking about Microsoft products and I would argue their flagship OS is the corest of them all, and as you said it's garbo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The original comment was making out like its hard to maintain MS core services like teams, onedrive and outlook. I'm sorry but thats just a skill issue. These run fine in environments with tens of thousands of users.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hm, sounds shilly.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Shilly because im not jumping on the baseless criticism train? Seeing linux users act this way makes me embarrassed to be one. To talk so much shit about teams and office being full of issues and hard to maintain is just delusion. If that standard was ever applied to us we'd be cooked.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nah, Windows is getting terrible. I had to delete AI.exe and aimgr.DLL to get performance back in the office suite. Updates try to out it back, and I know as soon as its deployed because everything runs like crap. And there's Onedrive that locks up the system while it syncs a newly written local PC file to the cloud. Like it should immediately write local, and sync in the background but it waits for the commit back from one drive

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My armchair diag is that you're causing your own issues by doing things the wrong way. Disable it via policy not by deleting random files. How could onedrive lock a computer up syncing a file that doesnt even make any sense since it does write it local and sync in the background. It sounds like you were trying to save to a network folder or sharepoint maybe.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I couldn't find a policy for the ai. Exe, but when it's deleted the PC runs fine.

    No on the network, we don't have typical network shares.

    It's my C drive, and file explorer locks up until sync has happened. Because I see the spinning sync icons, as soon as sync has happened to one drive the file is accessible and apo saving it gets a commit back that it happened and is functional again. These are some of the problems, but there are tons more.

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