I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.
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Then come up with a better alternative to office 365.
Windows isn't keeping Microsoft around. Its their office software.
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luckily i can wipe my work laptop and install linux (for now, there are discussions about not letting unmanaged devices on the network at some point...), but what annoys me is seeing how much tax money we send straight to microsoft. i work in the education sector in europe and the majority of the company's funds comes from the government, to send millions of that straight to the US, especially with the politics going on right now, seems like a horrible idea. and SO many others are doing the same thing, i swear if we invested just 10% of it into FOSS the world would be a better place already and we'd all save money.
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And there is probably no simple way to set up a system that would function in a way that Linux needs I guess?
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They have the management aspect of large environments down to a tee. Apart from costs it does not really matter if your domain consists of ten, thousand or more systems. The tools to manage those systems centralized by core systems is the same set for all sizes so to speak.
That can be on one campus, across multiple cities and locations. It’s quite frankly IMO the foundation on which the success of Windows in the corporate world is built. Standardized deployment of settings across all company systems saves administrators time which can be used for other tasks instead of micromanaging clients.
I have yet to see a similar solution for Linux clients that works the same way.
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I've been pretty lucky that I've been able to use Linux on my work laptop the past 3 jobs in a row. It really helps that we use Linux production in and when I tell them that I haven't used Windows in nearly a decade, they're usually willing to let me work with Linux.
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Wow, that is some nightmare fuel type shit. That's actually crazy.
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I was going to say file indexing, but surely that runs in the background.
Assuming indexing is enables, yes.
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why even work from home.
The freedom of not wearing pants at your desk
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This. If updates are SO important, then Windows can do it while it's shutting down.
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Nextcloud and LibreOffice: allow us to introduce ourselves
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If getting rid of Microsoft entirely is the goal, Samba does AD with GPOs just fine.
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I call BS on OP, just another ragebait made-up story.
Forced restarts haven't been a thing for years, unless the OP somehow badly setup their machine.
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Actually staff and commercial vendors are keeping Windows. Plus no one gets fired for choosing MS products. That IT staff are all Windows certified means Windows will always be the answer. That users are similarly trained and need certain Windows software will mean they demand it too.
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The update thing started maybe 10 years ago or was it 15. Company I worked for went from terrible patching to this BS. Why something in between was not sufficient I will never know or why it cannot hot patch.
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I've been on Linux for a year but maintain computers for my whole family, and my kids are still on Windows for roblox. In that year I've needed to use the command line on their Windows desktops more than on my Linux desktop, because I haven't needed the terminal at all but for some fucking reason their computers won't let you just change the time zone you're in so I have to tzutil it manually
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If you’re stuck with Windows for corporate-issued computers, the next time this happens you can abort shutdowns in Windows.
Command Prompt:
shutdown /aSaved me several times over the years.
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my boss told me today if we moved to literally any non-microsoft platform or software, i'd be out of a job.
and he's right. most of us only have careers because microsoft can't push out a software that's more than barebone functional - and everyone use them even if there are far superior alternatives out there literally only because of familiarity.
i'm not planning to stop giving microsoft shit of course. they should be criminally prosecuted over their exchange service even and how it's blacklisting competitors to force businesses onto the platform a la microsoft classic tactics. but eh.
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Yeah have a great time supporting libreoffice across an org of 200/2000/20000 end users. Not happening. Not without a dedicated helpdesk team that ONLY supports users office troubles. The cost of that would be way more than their monthly 365 subscription.
Also theres the infinite number of comparability issues youlll run into if you need to do business with another company that only uses Microsoft.
Also nextcloud is great but it absolutely is not competition to one drive or SharePoint in the enterprise.
