18 comments

  • BLKNSLVR an hour ago

    The amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop.

    I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat problem.

      consp 42 minutes ago

      Went with windows 10 for a VM, less cow manure to deal with (still bloated and useless without debloating). After booting nearly all of the calls home got rejected anyway because they were marked as spyware related. I would imagine they got that close to 100% on windows 11.

      Gaming on linux is fine, framerates and cpu usage are higher and less despite the wine/proton wrappers.

      sixtyj 30 minutes ago

      Is there a checklist of things that would be better to uninstall or switch off?

      0x1d7 27 minutes ago

      And then you get responses like this. It's like they can't be arsed to post about the article, they go on some completely different topic, i.e. gaming. At least make the anecdote no one really cares about related to this piss poor excuse of an article.

      Like, seriously?

  • verytrivial 43 minutes ago

    This may or may not be true, but that article is indistinguishable from a pretty low-effort Ai summary of three Reddit threads.

  • assimpleaspossi 43 minutes ago

    Referencing "multiple admins" and anonymous Reddit posters gives no credence to the value of this article.

      lousken 32 minutes ago

      What about company marketing slides? Do they give more credence?

  • lousken 36 minutes ago

    I am hoping to see KDE adopting more enterprise friendly approach to things so I can start switching people over to linux. Now that they got funding for it maybe possible in a year or two?

    So far only Ubuntu with Gnome is friendly with entra

  • omh an hour ago

    It's mind boggling how bad Microsoft have made this.

    I just want to install a few apps and manage their settings. But the combination of Windows, Intune, modern Store apps, multiple similar settings, and licensing, make it a full time job full of footguns.

    If they just had one team with responsibility for end user experience they could bring this tech together in amazing ways.

    But instead there's probably at least one FTE is every IT department in the world just managing Microsoft's bullshit

  • edwinjm 43 minutes ago

    The sites breaks scrolling on the iPad. Their engineers are probably busy fixing Windows issues.

  • sys_64738 an hour ago

    IT admins don't make technology decisions. They're there to do work, no think.

      BLKNSLVR 40 minutes ago

      The good ones probably can't help but do some amount of thinking.

      I'd probably consider thata good thing, almost to the extent that I would hire a thinker over the alternative.

      lousken 34 minutes ago

      We do push back on bad decisions and decide on new technologies so we do have a say in this (unless shadow IT works around us).

  • 0x1d7 an hour ago

    Why is an article that consists of a reddit user as a source being upvoted on HN?

    Stop posting such drivel. Do better than make HN into reddit. You can find people to complain on any topic. That doesn’t make it interesting enough to post here.

      alienbaby 35 minutes ago

      Right, I came here wondering if others saw the same. What is this doing on hn!??

  • sghiassy 41 minutes ago

    I use Arch btw

  • reactordev an hour ago

    Aww so sad! Too bad they are locked into the ecosystem and Microsoft isn’t listening.

      netsharc 43 minutes ago

      There must be a term for entrapping people in their ecosystem and then delivering a shittier and shittier product... Doing an Adobe?

      Something like Toxic Partner Syndrome, or "John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane behavior".