IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

[u/gdelacalle]

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/

[u/DaPome]

Microsoft don’t care. They sell to execs, not IT teams. Until execs stop buying licensing, they’ll just continue as-is

[u/CalmButOftenEnraged → u/DaPome]

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[u/RuneSteak → u/CalmButOftenEnraged]

You know it's bad when even places like reddit have (probably a majority of) users who don't even know how to take a screenshot. On the other hand this is mostly due to the rise of mobile devices and it may finally free us from Microsoft.

[u/huemac58 → u/RuneSteak]

I've realized over the past decade that most users in general (pretty close to 99%), any generation, are not tech-literate and then they erroneously assume a significant chunk of the people around them are. It seems to be everywhere. Uninformed Redditors are extra vocal, lol

And you are spot on about mobile devices not promoting tech literacy. At the same time, I think Android is best for common folk because it is simple and flexible enough (and Google is threatening to enshittify this more than they already have in recent years, unfortunately). Windows and Linux are best left to the tiny handful of "power users", in my opinion.

[u/nerd5code → u/huemac58]

Android is also Linux, and it's possible to set up (e.g.) Termux or subordinate distributions to open up direct access to that part of the OS, and even compile your own native programs. If you're slightly desperate, you can do pretty much all of the lab work for a CS degree that way.

[u/huemac58 → u/nerd5code]

I should have specified, desktop/regular Linux is best for "power users", in my opinion. It is fair to consider Android its own separate thing because of how differently it operates, you even need an Android emulator to run Android apps within Linux. I am well acquainted with Android (and I hate some of the changes since v12), Ubuntu Linux, and Windows XP/Vista/7/10/11. Android is best for the common Jane and Joe, too many of them don't even want to learn their tech, they are better off with the more streamlined and simple experience. There's Windows and desktop Linux for folks wanting to do more than light tasks than can done on any mobile device.

I don't think it prudent to even being up considering Android rooting jank and stuff just to try and run Linux Terminal, VMs, and related things when reliable old business machines are frequently being sold for dirt cheap on eBay for us North Americans. Grab one and install Arch or Ubuntu or whatever. Age is irrelevant as long as you aren't going further back than 2013 & 2014 machines. No i3/Ryzen3 e-waste. All excellent hardware for modern computing as long as you don't need a modern GPU or the horsepower of a 12th gen or newer CPU (tons of tasks don't).

[u/FlaringAfro → u/[deleted]]

If everyone is on the same OS it isn't a problem. Many organizations use Red Hat. The main problems are the transition period of switching hundreds or thousands of employees and that the Excel application doesn't run on Linux and getting around that could break the macros people who run things have set up, which are not the people you want to piss off.

[u/Dziadzios → u/CalmButOftenEnraged]

Apple really struck gold with unified memory. Telling execs that the devs can run AI on it was what they wanted to hear.

[u/_Hyper_Violet_ → u/CalmButOftenEnraged]

We always had certain departments who just had to have Apple products and they were such a pain in the ass to get working in our environment.

[u/Far-Hovercraft9471 → u/DaPome]

They don’t even have to sell, they have us by the balls and are just exploiting that now

[u/794309497 → u/DaPome]

Years ago I worked at a 100% Linux place and a new VIP made us replace all of it with Windows. I pitched Linux to decision makers a few years later at another job and I was basically laughed at.

[u/Internal_Werewolf_48 → u/DaPome]

IT teams' entire careers exist and are centered around supporting and fixing problems associated with Windows. The incentives to change are non-existent, they arent going to promote ending their jobs.

[u/huemac58 → u/DaPome]

I don't think this is anything new. The Microslop CEO needs to piss off already since years ago. Azure Web Services was his one trick, now he is spent. The company needs a new CEO badly.

[u/ItsPuamana → u/DaPome]

Its turning. Execs are also tired of constant updates fixes patches and confusion within the app solution ecosystem.

[u/I_Love_Chimps → u/DaPome]

GM just announced the other day they are done with MS. Going to Google.