Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

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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).

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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.

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I had a bitwarden premium family plan

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True. They’ve come a long way.

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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Agree, it was confusing getting the Nvidia drivers

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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

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Really looking forward to see steamos on a workstation ️

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I mean at this point the backline damage the flank of WINE and proton alone have done to the categories of "infeasible" and "impractical" in terms of when you have to throw your hands up and pick another battle and just accept a defacto hegemony of Microsoft in this space is immense and so far reaching Microsoft has likely lost the ability to perceive and evaluate the full extent of things.

A whole generation of computer weirdo kids (can I call them an army?) are looking at Windows and thinking "I mean, fuck that shit why even bother?".

For those of us too old to understand the ease in which kids will do this compared to how excruciatingly long this kind of thing felt impossible in the past... just imagine how you see a fax machine, sure you might have to learn to use one at work but you wouldn't look at one like a creative engine of possibility even if you sat there all day making important business happen with a fax machine at your day job. It is a fax machine to send faxes according to the rules dictated by some organization, that is it.

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Do you know if this is all windows or specific versions/on specific hardware? That's such a weird thing to have effecting potentially all windows versions. Very interesting though, thanks for clarifying.

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I had this issue on NFSU2 (yes I still play it) and after changing the widescreen fix it seems to be resolved at the moment. But sucks that Windows provides breaking changes with updates.

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Thank you Microsoft, for the final push