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While with proprietary software, someone, somewhere, did a thing and now you need to change your whole workflow because it is the new "only way to do it". But y
by ploum 3y ago
While with proprietary software, someone, somewhere, did a thing and now you need to change your whole workflow because it is the new "only way to do it". But you will like it because marketing said so.
- ketralnis 3y agoAbsolutely. I may not be happy about the people that do the free work for me doing work I wish they didn't do. But at least I'm sufficiently in control that I can roll back, or that if literally the whole world hates the change that it can be forked. Whereas Excel had the bug with date format detection that the entire world had to work around with no chance of getting it fixed. The genomics field had to change the name of a gene because even though they all knew it and must have had some population of people that had the skills to fix it, just couldn't until Microsoft got sufficiently embarassed by it after decades (https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-fixes-excel-feature-that-forced-scientists-to-1850949443 https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-fixes-excel-feature-that-force...)
- numpad0 3y agoEveryone frantically rushes to archived versions of Wacom drivers and starts installing random .reg files from the Internet when Microsoft do this(they did couple times).
- pjmlp 3y agoStill less painfull than spending hours researching to find something that works, only to break at any kernel update. Got my first GNU/Linux in 1995 with Slackware 2.0, kernel 1.0.9, got fed up by the time Windows 7 got released, still own a Asus 1215B Netbook with Ubuntu, with its own share of kernel updates breaking graphics and wlan. Anything else, happy with Samsung, LG, Nokia, Apple, Google and Microsoft overlords.
- ArneBab 3y agoSo avoid that for giving lectures, I bought a refurbished laptop with Linux (Trisquel) pre-installed. In the past 5 years it did not give me trouble yet.
- d3w4s9 3y agoI'll take that any day.