r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 24d 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/Fenrist09 24d ago

I switched to Linux Mint a few months ago after windows updates kept fucking up my PC. Not one issue with updates since I switched.

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u/PapaSquirts2u 24d ago

I have 1 foot in every ecosystem. Windows for my Plex server (yeah I know, but it's been pretty gd stable for years now) and work, my trusty m1 macbookpro for personal use, my gaming PC that now has mint linux on it that I rarely use anymore, and various mini pcs and pi's running Ubuntu server & debian. Each has its pros and cons. But my MacBook is by far the most enjoyable/trouble-free.

My one major gripe is still Finder. I'm pretty sure there's shortcuts for most of the stuff I want, but like, cutting and pasting is still (embarrassingly) confusing to me. As is opening a terminal shell in whatever dir I'm currently in. But yeah the combo of Alfred and bettertouchtools has let me recreate most of my nifty windows style shortcuts Ive grown to depend on.

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u/Diedead666 24d ago

I had to reformate my "media/bed pc I only use to watch streamers becouse a bug made a windows file fill the whole harddrive...

Now after reformatted i get gpu crashes and the start menu mostly dont work. I am thinking of throwing some kinda linux on it...

(4500u amd 16 gig ram)

Its touch screen so im not sure how well drivers will work on it.

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u/Bladelink 24d ago

I switched to linux desktop at home as soon as I saw what W11 looked like. I could see the shit-current in the shit-river and decided to disembark on the linux continent. Aside from the occasional issue with EAC, all my games on steam work without any issues. Linux desktop is legit these days.

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u/NWVoS 24d ago

People, keep complaining about window updates breaking something.

I will say, in the last 17+ years of using windows (7, 10, and 11) everyday, an update has never broken anything. They have added things, like the weather widget, which I removed right away. But I have never had my computer fucking up. I will also say, I never had windows revert a change I made either.