Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System"
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Bitch I can’t even find basic settings cuz they are so hidden in sub menus
I’m no programmer or UX designer but I can imagine what a mess things are on the dev side
superkret@feddit.org 20 hours ago
As an admin it gets so much worse. Twice a year your admin portal gets renamed, redesigned, merged with and/or split from another one, and all those changes are done halfway.
Which means some settings are only on the old version and others only on the new. Then the old one is discontinued even though the new one doesn’t have all its functions, yet.
So you completely rely on Powershell. But wait, there’s 2 incompatible versions of it now.
I’m currently thinking about a career change, after reading in Microsoft’s official documentation that you need to install the new version of Powershell, import the beta version of several commandlets and then run a long script provided by them, only to keep every user on your org from creating their own Teams teams.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products without running it by IT. It’s enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Jesus Christ.
I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.
superkret@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I also remember the update that sent domain controllers into a bootloop.
And the one that bluescreened all Windows servers.
No, the other one.
Oh, and the one that did an in-place-upgrade by itself, then locked your server cause it wasn’t licensed for the new OS version.
TheBat@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
If we can generate energy from outrage, /r/sysadmin could’ve powered the whole planet multiple times in the last 6-8 years.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I love how this doesn’t even begin to cover bad kbs ms pushed out. The fact that windows admins think testing updates before deploying them is a routine operation that should always be done boggles my mind.
lud@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Wasn’t that primarily an issue with a third party software? And the server shouldn’t be locked by now since I believe you get a trial period of a few months. Our servers didn’t upgrade to 2025 but we use WSUS.
Or are you talking about something older?
nicky7@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I’m shopping for an MSP that is Linux-centric. 70 workstations and a handful of servers but I will drop MS in a heartbeat if I had the right support to fall back on.
Laser@feddit.org 18 hours ago
LMAO that is a special kind of pathetic
superkret@feddit.org 18 hours ago
It’s maddening, cause it’s so blindingly obvious what went on in their minds when they implemented it that way.
“If just 0.1% of the users do that, it’ll make us $XX million. Can you design a popup for it that we can show all users when they open Teams?”
It tells me as an admin that the software I manage as my career isn’t designed to be useful anymore. It’s only designed to extract the maximum amount of money.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
What the hell‽ Also who would buy Microsoft products for work with their own card‽
superkret@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Middle management building a shadow IT. They’ll have their own company credit card for their department.