I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.
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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.
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I'd be so bold as to say about 90% of windows business users are only using it for office/excel/outlook
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Too many times I've been at the very limit of failing to deliver an assignment. I used to have classes from morning to night (used to get home at 23:00) and sometimes I did homework at uni and scan/upload in my computer since camera-scanned documents don't look as good, so I had to deliver them ASAP, but Windows would take a LOT of time to load Teams and sometimes it started applying updates at startup, so it would be SLOW AS HELL.
Just some days ago it happened again (the homework was assigned a day before) so I booted up windows and what a surprise (/s) it started applying updates, so Teams wouldn't even open. I had to send the files from there to my linux computer (I love you, KDE connect!) because I still had to add some things to the document and Teams for Linux loaded in a second lol
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My company has multiple options for computers. You can choose the windows laptop. The bigger windows laptop. The other windows laptop. Or if you are a graphic designer, that one MacBook option.
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because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot
What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?
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What is AOVPN?
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Token Linux hater of the thread. Have a cookie for fulfilling this important role of reminding us that Linux is the only OS family that ever needs troubleshooting
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What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?
If it’s anything like my company a “New” desktop is the managers old desktop.
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I unplugged my company issued Windows 11 Dell laptop from its charger yesterday so that I could go ask a manager a question in their office, and the entire computer just shut the fuck off despite having full charge. I'm so glad I moved all my personal stuff to Linux.
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Also Windows has a button similar to “don’t update this week” or similar.
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I'm not a "Linux hater". I love Linux. I'm just being honest. Normies aren't going to be able to use Linux until Linux developers and community decide it shouldn't only be usable by developers.
reminding us that Linux is the only OS family that ever needs troubleshooting
No one said that, you literally just made it up.
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what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don't work an office job, and haven't had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don't have?
