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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be ‘junk’ - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you’re still using Windows 10 and don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

  • @TheBananaKingEnglish
    24•1 year ago

    I work in a linux shop.

    You couldn’t pay me to use Windows for development, sysadmin, backend services, etc.

    But on the desktop? Hell no. We maintain a modern debian desktop environment for our users, and it’s a pain in the ass. Mediocre UX, mediocre integration of mixed-bag third-party apps, and too many workarounds and gotchas you need to Just Know About. I just don’t have the energy.

    I use windows at home, and for my underlying work environment - and I just SSH into linux boxes for the actual tappy-tappy stuff.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      Mediocre UX, mediocre integration of mixed-bag third-party apps, and too many workarounds and gotchas you need to Just Know About.

      You’re talking about my Windows 10 experience? The european, less spying/advertising version, mind you.

    • @[email protected]English
      -3•1 year ago

      If only there was an OS with an excellent graphical user interface and a direct UNIX pedigree, where you can drop into a full zsh and POSIX user land directly after install at the touch of a button.

      • @TheBananaKingEnglish
        34•1 year ago

        If there’s one thing that both windows and Linux users agree on, it’s how weird and annoying macs are.

        • ladEnglish
          14•1 year ago

          I’d wager that’s because “we know better what you want” in mac is even stronger than in windows. It’s all good while you are an average Joe, but other than that you either pay, or get a lot of issues setting things up.

          • @TheBananaKingEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            As a linux user, I SSH to a Linux box when I want to do things that aren’t file/print/email/media/games - though honestly, Powershell is pretty fucking awesome as a scripting language.

            Imagine if every command used JSON when piping to/from another command, so you aren’t fucking around with cut and awk and sed all the time just to pull values out. It’s nice. I don’t have much application for it personally, but it honestly is pretty grown-up.