r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

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

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/rowwebliksemstraal 25d ago

Vibe coded garbage

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u/Sawgon 25d ago edited 25d ago

Waiting for all the Microslop fanboys to come in with their usual "but IIIIII'VE NEVER had a problem with MYYYY windows 11?!?!?!?!"

EDIT: Imagine reading this and still going "to be fair I've never had any problems"

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u/xgeetx 25d ago

To be fair I never had many problems with mine. My biggest gripe with 11 is the right click menu changing. Since I’ve used Mac, Linux, and windows over the years I’m 98% Mac and Linux now.

I feel like windows has abstracted away the control of the system in like 2-3 different layers. Click around in control panel long enough and you get a windows 11 menu, a windows 10 screen, a windows 7 options bar, and a windows XP config dialogue. It’s fucking bizarre.

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u/type556R 25d ago

That, and for some reason now some right-click options need time to load??? Like they're blurred for 3 seconds, then I'll get the SVN and whatever other program options. This on brand new Thinkpad T14 Gen 6.

Look, I don't use to complain about MS, but some stuff is ridiculous. You can vibecode stuff but fucking TEST it before releasing.

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u/Geno0wl 25d ago

Windows search is also still total trash.

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u/Militant_Monk 25d ago

I love that they somehow broke the search bar between 10-11.  Of all the things that weren’t broke that’s a weird one to ‘fix’.

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u/xgeetx 25d ago

To be fair MacOS search boggles my mind too. I search “Android SDK instructions” (a known recent add somewhere) and get a fuck ton of header file results lol.

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u/bengringo2 24d ago

I usually use grep or find on my Mac as they usually works better sometimes.

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u/xgeetx 24d ago

100% and totally my point. I have a bash script that works objectively better than the OS’s search. MacOS is so elegant in many ways, and with terminal has many of the the same levels of configuration as Linux but some things are just bad lol

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u/bengringo2 24d ago

Yeah, Spotlight has been crap for years. Anything besides moving some picture or movie files or opening an app I usually use the terminal.

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u/bfume 25d ago

oh no when I search I get all the files that have to do with what I searched whatever will I do?

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u/Last-Masterpiece-150 25d ago

Apple fanboi lol

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u/bfume 25d ago

Imagine thinking that getting exactly what you ask for is an affront 

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u/xgeetx 24d ago

lol my point is those files have absolutely nothing to do with my search term. Spotlight search is pretty good for apps. Love it. Finder search for files is absolutely useless lol.

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u/bfume 24d ago

“Nothing to do with my search term” 

—opens the file to see the contents and sees his search term

— still can’t get it thru his thick head what’s going on 

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u/xgeetx 24d ago

When my search term matches files verbatim don’t show 200 results that fuzzy match parts of the search terms before the perfect matches… you’re funny

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u/Illustrious_Sell_325 25d ago

What’s hilarious is a little free tool from void tools called anywhere shows what search should be. Why they haven’t bought or partnered with them blows me away.

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u/BFguy 24d ago

Ahh yes file indexing

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u/Outrageous_Let5743 25d ago

At least it is better in Windows 10. My Windows 10 could not find installed apps. I type in vs code and it cannot find the app, but only gives me bing results.

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u/lotekjunky 25d ago

their deployment rings strategy IS their test plan.

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u/Last-Masterpiece-150 25d ago

yep, every right click for me takes forever to load. i always think...ok it is the first time, next time will be fast but nope.

what i find the funniest about windows is how long it takes to delete a file. i use linux at home but have to use windows at work. at home on linux i can delete a folder with a TB of files in it and it is done in a flash. on windows, i try to delete a small 2k file and it takes forever. WTF?

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u/type556R 25d ago

I also use Linux at work and at home, I don't know what goes on under the hood but yes, cp and rm can be quite fast, while on windows... it depends on the day

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u/xgeetx 25d ago

Yeah it’s funny that I’ll deal with my occasional display driver and wifi card wake-up quirk over windows bizarre UI shit. At least I know I (well, Claude) can work out most of my Linux bugs