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I quit Outlook and went to Thunderbird when I upgraded my CPU and Microsoft told me I had to re-purchase Outlook when I had paid for a "lifetime license". That
by leptons 7mo ago
I quit Outlook and went to Thunderbird when I upgraded my CPU and Microsoft told me I had to re-purchase Outlook when I had paid for a "lifetime license". That was the last straw for me. I installed Linux and Thunderbird and have not looked back at Windows.
- aucisson_masque 7mo agoObligatory Linux comment when speaking about Microsoft, windows or anything related. I don't have Linux but you guys make it hard to like it.
- bombcar 7mo agoI run Outlook in Wine or on the Web on Linux in a VM on Mac and make everyone mad.
- aucisson_masque 6mo agoAaaaarrrrrrhhhhh ! You crazy mad man, are you trying to start a world war ??
- leptons 7mo agoI was on Windows for 30 years. I advocated for it and even got a few CTOs to switch from MacOS to Windows because they saw Windows was actually more capable than Apple propaganda would have you believe. I'm not really sure how you figure that my comment makes Linux hard to like. I simply don't like the direction Microsoft is headed in, and haven't for some time. Many people don't like it. Microsoft recently may have had a realization as a company and they might change their current direction, but I still doubt I'll go back. They expected me to pay twice for software that I paid a "lifetime license" for, only because I upgraded the CPU in my computer. If you think that somehow makes Linux look bad, then I don't know man... I run my email inside a virtual machine, so it was easy for me to switch over from Windows/Outlook to Linux/Thunderbird. I certainly don't expect everyone to switch.
- papichulo2023 7mo agoDude you are on HN no Reddit, most people around here use Linux
- esseph 7mo agoI wished I believed this, but it feels closer to 50% Apple, 35% Windows, 15% Linux.
- lostlogin 7mo agoWe could do with a poll.
- nottorp 7mo agoYou also need to define "use". No one or almost no one specifies whether they use $OS at work or for their own stuff, or whether the work $OS is mandatory for the organization. And at home... the IT HNer probably has everything. I'd bet everyone who says they use Mac OS on the desktop also has Linux boxes.
- theshackleford 7mo ago> I'd bet everyone who says they use Mac OS on the desktop also has Linux boxes. Guilty.
- sph 7mo agoIt's probably more like 85% Apple, 10% Linux, 5% Windows.
- leptons 7mo agoConsidering Apple's always-low market share worldwide on desktop and mobile, I find those ratios hard to believe, even on a niche website like HN.
- subscribed 7mo agoIt started literally with Outlook (implied Windows), and Microsoft.