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  • foggianism@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Replacing software engineers with AI is really gonna pay off… some day… we guess…”

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is a smart move by Microsoft, as a struggling small company they can use VC money to keep them afloat until they come out on top of the AI game.

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      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        and especially FreeBSD

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s paying off for the shareholders RIGHT NOW. In the future it’s provably gonna bite them in the but, but who cares? Profits now > profits later.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My wife continued to use Windows for her work because many of her clients are locked into the MS ecosystem. A few weeks ago a Windows update decided to corrupt her SSD and now she has finally joined me in Linux land. Good job Microsoft!

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Even though I’m a Pop user, I put her on Mint Cinnamon because the interface is very Windows like.

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    • e_eeeee_@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🥂

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    • s12@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Such a wholesome story!
      Thanks for sharing.

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    • hayvan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I obviously don’t know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn’t have issues working with MS-using clients.

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Neither web versions nor LibreOffice can satisfy the needs of a true Excel power user. Also, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and multi-account Outlook access are all problematic unless you are using the native clients.

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      • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        As somebody who works as an accountant: The web version of Excel is shit and the desktop version is far superior.

        Things like extensions, power query among other things just exist in the desktop app and not in the web app.

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    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s why I finally made the switch!

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  • jjpamsterdam@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    One thing junior devs at my company are taught early and often is that it’s OK to look at a potential solution that an AI could come up with, just like it’s OK to use stack overflow, but to never ever trust that solution without fully understanding it and usually simplifying it quite a bit.

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    • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Trust but verify.

      Works for so, so many scenarios these days.

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And that’s why, as Windows 10 is about to expire, I am switching to Linux

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    • Nickelalloy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I switched to Linux Mint (Cinamon) two weeks ago and I’m surprised how easy it was, and now wonder why I didn’t do it earlier. So far I have been super satisfied!

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Linux Mint Cinnamon is awesome. I’m a developer for embedded linux systems and I run the current version of Mint on all my machines, even at work. Having a user friendly experience out of the box doesn’t make it not Linux/FOSS.

        And if the ease of installation surprised you, just wait until you see what system updates are like compared with windows!

        I updated two of my systems to Linux Mint 22.2 yesterday and the entire install process runs in the background in about 90 seconds without disrupting what you’re doing (I was in a meeting while I let it install). Then you reboot whenever convenient and that’s less than another minute.

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      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        A fellow Linux mint guy! Also got into cinnamon!

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m gonna do the same in october. Though I’m really dreading it, even though I know it will be fine and already use Mint on two other computers.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It sucks that Windows has gotten so bad

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    • e_eeeee_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah—misfortunate, but that’s expected; I’m happy it’s pushing people towards FOSS OS like Linux. The more people get ahead and switch over the better. Implementation of FOSS from corporate is a hurdle, always favoring myopic efficiency 🫤

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I wish Linux had better tools to manage desktops at scale. You can make it work but it isn’t quite as smooth.

        I would love if we had something like zero touch enrollment.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.

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      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d like to agree. But I’m stuck with Windows at work. At the moment, our IT guys upgrade a couple of PCs a day from Win10 to Win11. The GUI sucks, and the complete network is getting slower and slower. I crave the good old DOS times, when the system used to be faster than me.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Except for people who are less tech savvy and don’t have a desire to tinker. Windows has been the standard for so long that many people don’t have knowledge outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. Linux is best for those who want to dig into computers but for those who don’t care to dig into tech is mediocre.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The problem is that the Windows monopoly isn’t worth having any more and Microsoft is flailing in trying to make it worth it.

      Microsoft can’t force an app store like Apple and Google can for iOS and Android. No one is going to buy an OS subscription like they do for Office 365. And, I’m sure that Microsoft earns almost nothing on new installs because of how cheap hardware has gotten.

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      • fu@libranet.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
        @HobbitFoot @possiblylinux127 year of the GNU/Linux desktop is near 😀
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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fuck windows. I got fed up of their constant monitoring. I am glad to be rid of it. They still have a lot of my data, sadly, but nothing spicy, and given their incompetence they will probably lose it all by the time any buyer wants it.

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    • andyburke@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      .... always was.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not really

        It got a lot of people excited about computers back when the customer was the user

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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I literally fixed a laptop for a family member, and thought I’d put Windows 11 on it because they may like the shiny new thing.
    Articles like this are making me revert them to Windows 10 (IoT LTSC).

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    • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The articles for windows 10 aren’t going to be great either once the security updates stop

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      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Windows 10 IoT LTSC has security updates until 2032.

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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But at least you’ll only have to worry about external threats, not direct delivery via windows updates.

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  • Clanket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Outlook has spent the last 2 weeks freezing on me, and Excel freezes with it. Absolutely painful, seriously thinking of jumping to Linux this year, with MSoft ending support for W10.

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    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, you can’t really blame this one on AI outlook has been crap for decades.

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      • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But it has been miles better than gmail for decades.

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Join us! I switched to Mint about 8 months back and I have noticeably fewer regular issues than when I was on Windows.

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  • crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won’t boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft’s bullshit, I’m tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good

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    • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do it. Enjoy the new freedom.

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oof. I only upgraded my last Windows 10 install to Linux Mint a week ago. It feels like I may have dodged a bullet, this time.

      As you said, I just don’t have the time or energy for this particular but of computing excitement.

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  • p3n@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We should keep in mind that thousands of people work at large corporations like Microsoft and many of them do not agree with company policy and positions, including people in senior roles.

    Scott Hanselman is a VP at Microsoft who has given some of the best presentations on AI from a social, ethical, and technical demonstration standpoint that I have seen. I have been spreading his NDC London talk around to everyone I can: youtu.be/kYUicaho5k8

    It is worth the watch.

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    AI bad true, but there's no evidence this update did anything bad and ssd/hdd manufacturers and Microsoft have all come out after testing and said as much.

    Negative placebo and gossip. Drives fail all the time, people (and media/youtubers for clickbait) see the headlines and blame the update.

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    • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures was everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.

      Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.

      (To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)

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      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Lemmy loves Linux and rightly so, but it hates Windows even more.

        Example, this is a no-subject memes community, and you’ll find plenty of anti-Windows stuff here. And the actual linuxmemes community sometimes feels like it could be renamed to hatewindowsmemes.

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      • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        JayzTwoCents:

        youtu.be/TbFIUu_7LIc

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      • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        which journalism outlets though? if there are vested interests I don’t trust like that. Obviously microsoft and phison are going to deny responsibility. so did intel when their 13th and 14th gen CPUs were suiciding.

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    • s12@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I heard too many stories about people’s hard drives failing after the update for the news to be false. As far as I know, the issue isn’t easily reproducible though.

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      • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Stories without data are what.

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    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I didn’t think a lot of drives were actually permanently borked, were they?

      I’ll pitch in my anecdote: I updated to Windows 11 3878, everything was fine. Downloaded Helldivers onto my gaming drive overnight, and woke up in the morning seeing that the SSD was not being detected (WD Black NVME, no heatsink). Pulled it out, put it in another PC, saw that it was being detected, so I rolled back the Windows update because that’s the only other thing that had changed. Drive works fine again.

      SOMETHING definitely happened, but I think it’s waaaaaaay over-reported tbh.

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  • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I switched to Linux Mint saldy I need Windows for some things so I dual booted. Got sick of that, so now I have a VM with Tiny11.

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    • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Obligatory “windows updates can break Linux on dual boot” comment

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    • slowcakes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Never tried it myself, but looks promising, you should try it on your dual boot. github.com/TibixDev/winboat

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      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Can I run mameui64 with that?

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  • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I fully switched to Linux this year: it’s nice not having to worry about what Microsoft is up to.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m so glad I get to enjoy Linux every single day.

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I went into linux mint. I am certain, CERTAIN, that a windows 10 update probably caused a fundamental HD failure on my old computer. I have hard drives much older and more used than the one I had, yet that HD, which was the main HD I had started to fail. It gave enough life for me to back it up into a massive 14TB backup drive (I keep that one unplugged when not in use) so I didn’t lose any data.

    But HD failures are rare for me. I am fucking glad I was able to save the data. I need to put that drive to some old fashion electronic recycling.

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    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How were you certain? Drives fail all the time.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not even surprised

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  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I tried to rollback this update and either somehow did something incredibly wrong, or windows decided to bug out. It slowed the PC horribly, and I had to reinstall windows 11. Such a pain

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I first used an early gen/model ssd on linux, it promptly died due to constant log writes. oops.

    then I used platter until nvme came out.

    then I ‘needed’ (forced to use specific config) windows for work so I set up a second computer.

    from then to now I’ve had 4 ssd and 1 platter death under windows and nothing with linux even constantly distrohopping on the linux drive. not including the shared usb drives at least.

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  • yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    FUCK that better not be what happened to my computer.

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you have that update, it 100% will 🙃

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  • TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh the irony of sitting back on Win 10 being what saves people from the issue.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is about to go EOL

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