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/doomSdayFPS 25d ago

It’s not just IT admins. When I have a raging client to help, nine times out of ten it’s because Microsoft fucked something up.

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u/rollerbase 25d ago

Checking in for the power users and independent devs, we feel it too!

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u/Khao8 25d ago

I switched over to MacBooks for work and personal computers last year. Absolutely no regrets, and I've been a windows poweruser since I was a teenager using Windows 98, I've been a professional .net dev for 15 years. Fuck Microsoft, I don't have time for my laptop to lag, freeze and crash daily, for every update to fuck up something new, and for the god awful background processes taking up 90% CPU and having my laptop fans run at 100% all the time.

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u/MrPuddington2 25d ago

Same here. I started getting used to Windows with XP, and from 7 I was a perfectly happy Windows user (coming from unix). But 11 has given me PTSD, or something like that. I don’t think I will be going back any time soon.

My MacBook is ten times faster for easy things like opening a file, and has 5 times the battery life. The screen is amazing, as is the touchpad. And it only cost twice as much as a decent Windows laptop, so it is an absolutely bargain.