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Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.

by hughrr 5y ago

spicybright 5y ago
Most marketing is.
- hughrr 5y ago
  Actually I don’t think it is. Microsoft promise way ahead of time, fail to deliver, reduce scope, kick out a broken half finished product, get the customers to beta test it, change their mind on the direction of the entire organisation in that space and generally leave everyone confused and a bit burned out. This happens every time and has done for the last 20 years. Even the latest reinvention has just increased the frequency of this incompetence. Most marketing at least delivers an 80% product.
  - GiorgioG 5y ago
    You've basically described every software company in history.
    - hughrr 5y ago
      That’s a fair point actually
  - Growling_owl 5y ago
    Microsoft lets you pirate their OS for free, you ungrateful punk. Enjoy dropping 3000$ for an equivalent Apple system. I'm sure you'll find the marketing from Cupertino to be more accurate. Wait, they are the quintessential company built on marketing..
    - hughrr 5y ago
      I use both platforms (and Linux). What’s your point?
      - Growling_owl 5y ago
        You can't criticize something that is availible to you for free. It's like stealing a car and complaining that has black interiors vs. white pearl
  - binbag 5y ago
    The windows hating is so boring and childish. Windows, and particularly Windows 10, is a very good OS. It's not even open source advocates that dislike it so much. I think most Linux users would admit Windows is a solid option, if just not for them. It's usually just Mac fans.
    - hughrr 5y ago
      It’s really not. So far this week for me Windows Hello has just totally broken, my thunderbolt dock has decided to no longer recognise the keyboard, I’ve had a problem where the graphics driver just shats itself every hour, the taskbar disappeared and wouldn’t come back and during last weeks update cycle it got stuck and had to roll back to a restore point. Oh and docker for windows completely broke and I still can’t get it to work again with WSL2 I am literally burning hours dealing with this shit on a weekly basis. It’s a flaming shit show and to call this mire childish complaining is nothing short of insulting. ”sorry I’m late for the meeting my laptop is hosed/rebooting/fucked” is a daily occurrence. It’s not good. They need to do a better job considering I pay them money. That’s all I’m asking.
      - chomp 5y ago
        Yes and Docker for Mac is terrible, I'm sitting with a quarter of my RAM in kernel_task with no idea what it's doing and my system stutters every few minutes while who knows what pages off of the SSD, I've had MacOS releases get stuck in a half-upgraded state which required a reinstall, I have monitor connectivity problems, and I've had MacOS get stuck at the login prompt. And don't get me started on the issues with Linux desktops, which can hardly even get screensharing to work. My and others' point is that there is no perfect OS. Windows is good, MacOS is good, Linux is "okay", and if you're determining good by the critera "is there zero issues" then you're going to be very sad for the rest of your life.
        hughrr 5y ago
        I use all three platforms on a daily basis and windows is 10x worse than the next contender. As for Docker on the Mac I agree. I don’t use it. I use a Linux VM which is where I’m currently heading on windows at the moment, unpicking all the garbage. The least troubled combination I can suggest is: use macOS on an M1 machine and keep it close to default as possible and do all your dev on a Ubuntu LTS box via SSH. And just avoid windows entirely. Mac makes a good cloud terminal. Linux makes a good cloud server. Windows makes…err no idea.

Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.

by hughrr 5y ago

Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.

spicybright 5y ago

Most marketing is.

hughrr 5y ago
Actually I don’t think it is. Microsoft promise way ahead of time, fail to deliver, reduce scope, kick out a broken half finished product, get the customers to beta test it, change their mind on the direction of the entire organisation in that space and generally leave everyone confused and a bit burned out. This happens every time and has done for the last 20 years. Even the latest reinvention has just increased the frequency of this incompetence. Most marketing at least delivers an 80% product.
- GiorgioG 5y ago
  You've basically described every software company in history.
  - hughrr 5y ago
    That’s a fair point actually
- Growling_owl 5y ago
  Microsoft lets you pirate their OS for free, you ungrateful punk. Enjoy dropping 3000$ for an equivalent Apple system. I'm sure you'll find the marketing from Cupertino to be more accurate. Wait, they are the quintessential company built on marketing..
  - hughrr 5y ago
    I use both platforms (and Linux). What’s your point?
    - Growling_owl 5y ago
      You can't criticize something that is availible to you for free. It's like stealing a car and complaining that has black interiors vs. white pearl
- binbag 5y ago
  The windows hating is so boring and childish. Windows, and particularly Windows 10, is a very good OS. It's not even open source advocates that dislike it so much. I think most Linux users would admit Windows is a solid option, if just not for them. It's usually just Mac fans.
  - hughrr 5y ago
    It’s really not. So far this week for me Windows Hello has just totally broken, my thunderbolt dock has decided to no longer recognise the keyboard, I’ve had a problem where the graphics driver just shats itself every hour, the taskbar disappeared and wouldn’t come back and during last weeks update cycle it got stuck and had to roll back to a restore point. Oh and docker for windows completely broke and I still can’t get it to work again with WSL2 I am literally burning hours dealing with this shit on a weekly basis. It’s a flaming shit show and to call this mire childish complaining is nothing short of insulting. ”sorry I’m late for the meeting my laptop is hosed/rebooting/fucked” is a daily occurrence. It’s not good. They need to do a better job considering I pay them money. That’s all I’m asking.
    - chomp 5y ago
      Yes and Docker for Mac is terrible, I'm sitting with a quarter of my RAM in kernel_task with no idea what it's doing and my system stutters every few minutes while who knows what pages off of the SSD, I've had MacOS releases get stuck in a half-upgraded state which required a reinstall, I have monitor connectivity problems, and I've had MacOS get stuck at the login prompt. And don't get me started on the issues with Linux desktops, which can hardly even get screensharing to work. My and others' point is that there is no perfect OS. Windows is good, MacOS is good, Linux is "okay", and if you're determining good by the critera "is there zero issues" then you're going to be very sad for the rest of your life.
      - hughrr 5y ago
        I use all three platforms on a daily basis and windows is 10x worse than the next contender. As for Docker on the Mac I agree. I don’t use it. I use a Linux VM which is where I’m currently heading on windows at the moment, unpicking all the garbage. The least troubled combination I can suggest is: use macOS on an M1 machine and keep it close to default as possible and do all your dev on a Ubuntu LTS box via SSH. And just avoid windows entirely. Mac makes a good cloud terminal. Linux makes a good cloud server. Windows makes…err no idea.