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IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11
- reactordev 3mo agoAww so sad! Too bad they are locked into the ecosystem and Microsoft isn’t listening.
- netsharc 3mo agoThere must be a term for entrapping people in their ecosystem and then delivering a shittier and shittier product... Doing an Adobe? Something like Toxic Partner Syndrome, or "John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane behavior".
- Hizonner 3mo agoAnybody in business who uses the word "partner" in its current sense plots at heart to add the "toxic".
- omh 3mo agoIt's mind boggling how bad Microsoft have made this. I just want to install a few apps and manage their settings. But the combination of Windows, Intune, modern Store apps, multiple similar settings, and licensing, make it a full time job full of footguns. If they just had one team with responsibility for end user experience they could bring this tech together in amazing ways. But instead there's probably at least one FTE is every IT department in the world just managing Microsoft's bullshit
- 0x1d7 3mo agoWhy is an article that consists of a reddit user as a source being upvoted on HN? Stop posting such drivel. Do better than make HN into reddit. You can find people to complain on any topic. That doesn’t make it interesting enough to post here.
- alienbaby 3mo agoRight, I came here wondering if others saw the same. What is this doing on hn!??
- sys_64738 3mo agoIT admins don't make technology decisions. They're there to do work, no think.
- BLKNSLVR 3mo agoThe good ones probably can't help but do some amount of thinking. I'd probably consider thata good thing, almost to the extent that I would hire a thinker over the alternative.
- lousken 3mo agoWe do push back on bad decisions and decide on new technologies so we do have a say in this (unless shadow IT works around us).
- BLKNSLVR 3mo agoThe amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop. I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat problem.
- consp 3mo agoWent with windows 10 for a VM, less cow manure to deal with (still bloated and useless without debloating). After booting nearly all of the calls home got rejected anyway because they were marked as spyware related. I would imagine they got that close to 100% on windows 11. Gaming on linux is fine, framerates and cpu usage are higher and less despite the wine/proton wrappers.
- tim-tday 3mo agoWindows 10 install still has like six traps in the setup wizard. If that’s the better option I shudder to think what 11 looks like. I call it adversarial computing where your OS is explicitly at cross purposes to what is best for you.
- sixtyj 3mo agoIs there a checklist of things that would be better to uninstall or switch off?
- verytrivial 3mo agoThis may or may not be true, but that article is indistinguishable from a pretty low-effort Ai summary of three Reddit threads.
- edwinjm 3mo agoThe sites breaks scrolling on the iPad. Their engineers are probably busy fixing Windows issues.
- assimpleaspossi 3mo agoReferencing "multiple admins" and anonymous Reddit posters gives no credence to the value of this article.
- lousken 3mo agoWhat about company marketing slides? Do they give more credence?
- sghiassy 3mo agoI use Arch btw
- throw_a_grenade 3mo agoGood point. If I were facing the problems they have, I'd surely would change the distribution.
- lousken 3mo agoI am hoping to see KDE adopting more enterprise friendly approach to things so I can start switching people over to linux. Now that they got funding for it maybe possible in a year or two? So far only Ubuntu with Gnome is friendly with entra
- OutOfHere 3mo agoI have always hated working wherever they use Windows. The management at such places doesn't mind if the workers suffocate. It is a filter for where not to work, although not the only one.