it will take years to fix their broken products, if they ever focus on that

They don't have to, because dispite how incredibly bad they are, people have shown that they don't care. According to the average user, Windows isn't bad, that's just how computers are. They don't care that there's any other way of doing things; the cheapest computer at Best Buy runs windows so that's what every computer must be.

Piggies love to eat slop.

No, the spec is for companies that need to enforce higher levels of security so that you can e.g. only enable Yubikeys in your env. I hate big tech just like anybody else but this is just spreading FUD right now.

Also execs can already enforce their apps only - banking apps for approving transactions are already a thing at least in europe, no fido passkey needed.

> the people in charge think they can replace people with LLMs

I am not even sure if they even think that. It can be a placeholder for any other reason

I find big differences among tablets, so I'd say it depends. However powder is so much cheaper than it's just a no brainer if you don't have really dirty dishes. For dirty dishes I still prefer a good tablet though.

Good, if you don't release open weights, someone else does.

exactly, he's part of a problem

This doesn't make any sense as there is not a linux desktop but multiples and the major ones have been less buggy than windows for the most part of the last 20 years.

Hardware support is where Linux used to struggle. Nowadays things aren't perfect but much better. Basically it means you need to figure out which hardware to buy based on available support, before making the purchase.

I am willing to concede this might be true, but I personally have never checked Linux support before through 3 generations of desktops. Intel/Nvidia twice and then AMD/AMD.

Because support is generally great.

Until you get some Windows apologist who points out that their proprietary touchscreen that has multiple layers of DRM doesn't have Linux drivers and therefore Linux doesn't have good hardware support.

You have to be careful in the same way that you can't expect to wipe an M series Mac and stick Windows on it.

Apple devices have multiple layers of touchscreen DRM, but most other devices are just lacking drivers, because there are far too many devices for five unpaid interns to write drivers for all of them.

All of them will work. What "support". What is this nonsense. Seriously.

What desktop and which distro? In the past, there have been times where a bug showed up for me over the years, especially before 2018. Currently tho, Debian 13 + KDE - zero issues.

> I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas

Yes, but what is the cost or perceived cost to the user to try? This “clever” response proves nothing, sadly

Well we know the actual cost of doing nothing.

Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora have had a bug free desktop experience for years. If you stick to the default repositories and use last year's hardware everything just works.

Honestly, that’s a 2016 argument. I flipped a few contact centers over to Linux desktops and had very few issues. If anything we probably spent 5x the resources getting Windows 11 certified internally.

Microsoft knows it, but they don’t care about windows. When IBM started offering Macs to employees, they figured out that the support burden was very low, significantly lower than windows, even with users having years of windows experience.

Intune was supposed to be the answer to that, making Windows management MDM like. But for their most entrenched enterprise customers, they can’t really switch without co-managing with Configuration Manager. Most of the people behind that product are laid off or otherwise attrited, as there’s no path to a subscription service.

Who are these “creators”? Can you point to them? Is there a legal entity?

Which “the” Linux desktop? GNOME? KDE? xfce? Cinnamon? COSMIC?

I'd stupidly assume that having a choice and control over the experience is empowering, and watching a couple of YouTube videos titled "which Linux distribution is best for me" isn't too hard?

Or is it in your opinion?

If it is maybe they better stay on the "shut up and do how I say, puppet" OS.

That linux has an awesome rich and diverse range of desktop experiences?

Switch to linux, don't look back

Unless you work a job where you're not in control of the OS you're using, which just happens to be most of the non-dev office jobs out there. Dismissing Windows problems with "just switch to Linux bro" doesn't really help.

I have to use Windows at work and I will never have weird cloud authentication issues because I'm required to use a work-provided MS account on the computer. The author says he's a Windows guy, and always will be. This article, and these types of complaints, are really only relevant if you're using it on your personal PC.

I did think about personal devices, but it is a valid point, though many companies I know do support at least windows+mac if not linux. Supporting Linux desktop for a company is more difficult due to lack of anything resembling GPOs (and no ansible-pull isn't that). It is definitely a thing systemd should implement.

If you're in a Windows-only job and you've got proof that Windows is getting in the way of doing your job you might just be able to convince those who decided to make it a Windows-only workplace to change their stance.

When it's not your problem, it's not your problem. If you're forced to use Windows in a corporate environment, your IT admin is in charge of you having an account.

If you’re not in control of the OS, then you’re not responsible for problems caused by the choice of OS. Tell your boss that Windows is not allowing you to use basic features and let them choke on it.

You don’t sound very mature.

Why is it immature to hold decision makers responsible for their decisions?

How do you answer questions like "how are other people getting their work done on Windows?" How much leverage do you expect the average white collar worker to have?

Is a cashier, for example, not supposed to tell their boss when the cash register jams?

I don't get your reasoning. It's in fact very mature, everyone got their job to do and you don't mess with someone else job.

If you have to make spreadsheet on a windows computer, it's not up to you to check why excel won't open. You're not trained to do IT. You might do more harm than good.

That's how it works in mature work environment.

"choke on it, boss" when they're expected to use the approved OS and software doesn't sound very mature to me.

The wording is bad, agree. But the reasoning is mature, everyone their own job.

Came here to say this.

Yea I am also surprised, tho I stopped using pagefile in 2011. I always told people to buy as much RAM as possible, so nowadays everybody I know has 64GBs and I have 96. Windows and Linux can use it as cache and it works amazing.

Use the opportunity to remove adobe from your life so that you can kill two birds with one stone.

I have no plans to. I like Lightroom and Photoshop and am willing to keep paying for it.

I will note that I have used Darktable extensively. But there isn't a good Photoshop alternative.

isn't affinity free these days when you don't pay for their AI?

There's free and there's free.

Affinity is a risk. Undocumented file formats (unlike PSD + LR database), no XMP support and vendor relying on AI to keep it free.

Nope!

also this comment did not age very well considering what adobe did to Animate today..

So you are mitigating the risk by staying on undocumented file formats? I see

Microsoft management should be held accountable for this sh.. and laid off. It is obvious these people do not understand software development on such scale.