Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

[madbigote@lemmy.world]

Have you tried running Office in a bottle?

[sleepmode@lemmy.world]

Going to dump it when the wife's done with school. I was only keeping it for that and one game. So sick of subscriptions and the product isn't even good except for Excel.

[sleepmode@lemmy.world]

Same for me.

[mindwolf@lemm.ee]

I was thinking to myself that I need to cancel mine. Then yesterday I got charged yesterday $127 for the yearly renewal.

I thought I was SOL but you can cancel and get most of the money back. So it's not too late to cancel and rid yourself of it.

[shortrounddev@lemmy.world]

I recently moved my digital life away from google and microsoft. I previously had the following subscriptions:

• ExpressVPN
• Onedrive
• Bitwarden
• Office 365

And I had a gmail account, which I often used for SSO. I realized that, the total monthly cost of these subscriptions together was more expensive than a single Protonmail *family * subscription, so I cancelled them all, got the family subscription, and now my wife and her sister all have protonmail accounts as well as storage, a password manager, and VPN access. In the process of moving my logins to my protonmail account, so that I don't have to keep my ancient Facebook account around for signing into things like spotify anymore. Coupled this with moving to the federated internet from reddit and instagram

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Unless you're specifically referring to games with kernal-level anti-cheat, I'm curious as to what games you need Windows for.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

I mean, you have to use the heck out Excel to get into features that aren't in free projects like Libreoffice or OnlyOffice as well.

[festus@lemmy.ca]

Just going to mention that if you're okay with non-FOSS office software, I really like Softmaker's suite (their buy-once non-subscription version).

[corgana@startrek.website]

Bitwarden

Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.

Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.

[shortrounddev@lemmy.world]

I had a bitwarden premium family plan

[sleepmode@lemmy.world]

True. They’ve come a long way.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

Fedora KDE is easy to use with good KDE defaults, and its up to date without being unstable.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

And once you are using those you are probably better off using sqlite or even running a full SQL server.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

Personally only use Windows on my work laptop and even that I am questioning it, might start using my Linux VM for day to day work

[mwa@lemm.ee]

This is a while ago btw when I wanted KDE but I also heard OpenSUSE KDE is good aswell

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

It is, but I found openSUSE a weird distro to install and maintain, and it used a bare Plasma install with all the off putting defaults KDE has. Maybe it's better these days.

[reddfugee42@lemmy.world]

They dgaf about us. Their Enterprise clients are their cash cows. But we are rid of their fleas nonetheless

[broken@lemmy.ml]

I have a hard time making the connection that DMS is making.

OnlyOffice is a Russian company, so it naturally has "ties" to Russia.

They have not condemned their government for invading Ukraine, which can be for many reasons. Maybe they approve of it as DMS concludes. But maybe they don't want to get political at all (hell, look at what a single comment from Andy Yen has done to views of Proton). Maybe they don't want their government making life difficult for them. There could be a multitude of reasons they didn't say anything.

The way the statement is written is condemning for lack of evidence. Which is fine as an opinion. But that's all it is.

Don't get me wrong, I followed your link because I wanted to know and appreciate the heads up. If there's shady stuff then I'll avoid them. I have no ties to OnlyOffice for anything.

But being honest with the info doesn't support the DMS claim. I'm happy to be wrong if there's other information out there, but their biased statement makes me distrust DMS more than OnlyOffice.

[mwa@lemm.ee]

Agree, it was confusing getting the Nvidia drivers

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Yeah I know that is how they see it but the generational wave they have been coasting on was the fact that computer nerdy kids would learn the ins and outs of windows software long before even entering the workplace.

Microsoft has been taking advantage of the fact that kids like me would be so excited to learn computers that they would learn the basics of just poking around the desktop before they could read.

Nowadays that is gone, there is no playful connection and the sea of change that butterfly effect propagates consequences will cause a million symptoms of an issue we all know microsoft will never actually value or address.

Microsoft has been functioning this entire time with a special unspoken in with nerdy kids who grow up to build important and valuable computer tools. Microsot has steamrolled that, and on the scale of 10+ years I am not sure there will be anything Microsoft can actually do to mitigate the strategic defeat that is going to cause.

More and more computer nerdy kids are going to learn the shit out of linux because it is where they game and it feels welcoming to them (it doesn't feel like sneaking into a suffocatingly boring office full of identical cubicles).

I can't understate how much this will lead to microsoft completely losing the plot, because no one could ever suggest this in a Microsoft boardroom and be taken as seriously as they should.

gets popcorn I for one and going to enjoy the show