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> Microsoft’s shift to Teams as its de facto OS Ugh, I think we all want less MS Teams in our life, not more :-/
by smcl 4y ago
> Microsoft’s shift to Teams as its de facto OS
Ugh, I think we all want less MS Teams in our life, not more :-/
- rbanffy 4y agoI've been using a Windows laptop as my work computer for about a year now and I'd love to have less MS in my life.
- gofreddygo 4y ago6 months for me also for work. Just naturally started using my personal 2012 macbook for everything non work.
- rbanffy 4y agoOh yes. I never even take that hateful computer out of the backpack if it’s not for work. I much prefer my Mac and my Linux laptops to it, even though it’s allegedly faster.
- smcl 4y agoHonestly I really don't mind parts of the Microsoft experience. Visual Studio is a pretty good IDE, and VS Code a lighter, more extensible alternative for some specific cases (I use it to fiddle with our Angular frontend apps). The .NET ecosystem is pretty good, and the Windows UI on its own would be pretty good even if I prefer a tiling window manager like xmonad. I can use cygwin and get a decent enough set of Unix-y tools that feel more "right" to me than Powershell (which I don't think I'll ever enjoy). So that sort of stuff allows a decent enough, but not perfect, developer experience. But there's enough other fucking irritating bullshit that drives me up the wall - like Outlook is cluttered and annoying, and yeah Teams can fuck right off.