Windows doesn't "just work"
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I'm no great fan of windows, but I have no issues reconnecting to bluetooth things. Kinda the opposite really, my phone and windows keep wanting to compete for who gets to be connected to my headset as soon as I turn it on, I have to make sure to turn off bluetooth when I'm done with it. I think the problem may be on your end in this case.
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Windows is fine for me. I work with it all day long too. But yeah Windows is just another enshitification product.
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It sounds like you might have some network places set up for windows to use but that are no longer reachable (or something along those lines) because that shouldn't be taking so long so you might have things timing out in the background.
Or your internet is slow and it's taking a long time to communicate with one drive or send its screenshots of your document to their creep department.
Or maybe a print driver that no longer exists still has an orphaned entry in the registry and it spends some time trying to locate it.
Or malware has set up hooks for any new window that pops up but the print to pdf dialog is set up in such a way that it churns very inefficiently on that window specifically.
I joke but any one of those might actually be what's going on.
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Are you perchance US american? Because you sound like one. This is lemmy, we're trying to eschew a significant portion of the bad habits on reddit, be better. Also, I did your work for you, y'er welcome.
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You really believe a single Google search is work? Have you ever had to do real work?
I have no problem providing a source for esoteric, difficult to find information, but when someone is literally too lazy to type into Google the precise same thing they're typing into a comment field they can whine until they're blue in the face before I'll do it for them. If you don't like that you should complain to the manager.
I'm sad for you that you waste your time and energy hating Americans. Maybe you need a hobby,.
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Yeah when I see people say that gaming on Linux "isn't there yet" I have to wonder how long it's been since they've tried. And people who install Windows on their Steam Deck? Don't get it.
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You can also use it for everything else. It can be as easy to use as a PlayStation if that's what you want it for.
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I just recently learned this when I tried to take a Teams call (ugh) with my Bluetooth earbuds, only to find that the microphone worked, but I couldn't hear anything.
Turned out, by default, it had set the input as headset mode, but the output as stereo headphone mode, so I couldn't hear anything.
Because that makes sense.
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I had to transfer files over Bluetooth to a Windows PC. Fuck that is terrible compared to doing it on my Linux PC.
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Exactly. It took me 4 hours a couple months ago to get a scanner to work on our Windows 11 PC. It turns out there was some Windows Image Acquisition service built in that had to be disabled because it was conflicting with the driver of the scanner. Absolute insanity lmao
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I don't hate US americans but I'll gladly make an exception for you, a well deserved one I must say.
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I really can't answer that either I'm afraid, as I'm using one of the "gaming distros" (Garuda Linux) and just haven't had anything but good luck with it really. I tried Bazzite on my laptop, but was having some nvidia driver issues and decided to try Garuda before diving into trying to fix it and, well, Garuda "just worked". The last general use distro I used was Manjaro probably 5ish years ago and I hated it, had nothing but troubles (and have since learned that Manjaro is kind of notorious for falling apart).
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Heh thanks, but it’s just that I’m printing 2000+sqft of high res pdfs from hundreds of gigs of files at a time.
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As somebody who works in IT at a Windows-only environment, I know exactly what you mean.
I have to fight with Windows on a weekly basis. Driver issues, firmware issues, software crashes/lockups, performance issues, etc etc.
Just this week, I have two users experiencing issues with their monitors. Identical enterprise grade laptops, identical drivers, identical docking stations, all totally up to date on Windows 11. Their old Windows 10 computers worked fine. Still trying to figure out what's wrong.
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Windows is so annoying like why does it always display word, excel etc when I don't own it. These are paid programs that I do not own they should not be coming up in search results when I'm looking for a word processor.
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Oh yeah I just use magic wormhole now for file transfer it's much more reliable
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I used to work for a Fortune 500 tech company that dealt with thousands of other businesses. Someone on the executive team decided that everyone in the company should be actively pushing our products every time they had customer contact. Customer calls about a bill? Sell them something. They have a major problem and are angry about it? Sell them something. Need to use their bathroom? Sell them something.
It just irritated our customers and didn't result in any more sales. It seems that executive got a job at Microsoft.
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oh the times ive seen people at my work try an sell soemthing to an angry customer. It always fails and results in the customer being pissed off and insulted. It should be obvious that if someone is paying you to solve a problem and your software is not working and causing them to complain they are not in the mood to buy another thing to solve the problem they are already paying you to solve.
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Windows Bluetooth paired my Google Pixel Buds Pro once and refused to unpair or delete them no matter what I tried, but would happily connect to them every time I booted the system. I had to literally wipe the install clean and start fresh before it was ever fixed. And those same earbuds worked everywhere else, even my fucking gaming laptop with a MediaTek wireless card running Arch. genuinely the worst experience I've had with Bluetooth so far.
