• FabledTurtle@feddit.nl
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    4 hours ago

    All they had to do is built an actually good search into explorer, they didn’t do that for 20 years and now they force this trash on us… Good thing I ditched Windows last year and soon will sell all my Microsoft shares, that company has no future or vision it’s disgusting

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      3 hours ago

      MS is likely spent all thier R&D on AI, and building datacenters, they want to somehow justfiy recoup the losses from the “profitless LLM”

    • gndagreborn@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Looks cool. But holy crap. Windows search is so bad that you need everything.exe. now it’s gotten to the point where we need a third party explorer to do the most basic tasks without being bombarded with ads or AI crap.

      I just really… REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux. I would switch in a heart beat if this gets pushed into the wild.

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    1 day ago

    The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

    Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

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      3 hours ago

      The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It’s completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.

      For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.

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        3 hours ago

        Well, the only piece of Apple tech I currently own is an iPad. I bought the thing through a pretty nice offer from my telco, and for a pretty specific use case, running the Affinity suite on the move without lugging my beefy laptop around.

        When I saw how they went full idiot with their glass shit for the UI (hellooo, Windows Aero), I stopped allowing updates. The fact that to reduce transparency and effects to make the thing half usable you have to go into accessibility settings says it all.

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      10 hours ago

      it really is wild that they’re pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase

      like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that’s literally all they have to do. and they can’t do it.

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        3 hours ago

        Most public companies and governments focus entirely on short term wins with zero consideration for the future.
        Microslop is no different.

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      1 day ago

      I’m surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn’t be able to get such ludicrous ideas

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      18 hours ago

      I’ve been on Directory Opus for many years, it’s absolutely excellent and I struggle when on Linux without the same toolbox.