I have learned that I hate Microsoft

[berettafan]

MS is the devil. Garbage products and an anti consumer business model. ****ing miserable little ****ers.

[Alan A]

Originally Posted by id10t

Linux Mint (with the default MATE desktop) is unimpressively dull for me in that it just works. Sure, I can and do go off the deep end with virtualization of small networks, RAID arrays for my /home partition, etc but at the same time it can be incredibly simplified as far as desktop use/interface goes.

Edit the Favorites on the menu to take off the stuff you don't use/care about, add the stuff you do, and rock on.

I had a Linux box. Debian. Bought into the reliability spiel.
I found I needed a windows laptop to google how to fix things when it went wrong. And it did. A lot. I’m not alone at least two of my peers - who use Linux machines for production software - had the same issue.

I’ve used a Mac for 15 years. I’m never going back to windows.
Unless you have windows software - which even then you could emulate - I’d say bite the bullet.

[jyl]

I have my own fresh peeve with MS. A month ago I spent half a day writing a macro in Excel to do something that made 6 hours of monthly work into 20 minutes. So this month I go to use my macro, and it’s gone. The button is there, but the macro it calls is gone. I have no idea what happened. So I have to do that work again. Irritated, very irritated.

[GH85Carrera]

I started with DOS 1.1 and I still have a copy on 5.25 inch floppies of Windows 386 (Win 2.0) that came with a Microsoft mouse with a steel roller ball and patent pending.

I am running Win 11 Pro now, and I do any update ASAP. No doubt Windows is annoying on many features. I am the only person to use my computer, so I do NOT want to have to use a password just to use my computer. I also have an older laptop and a really old computer I built for the new Win7. Both are on Win 10 now as they can't run Win 11.

I have software on the old tower that is useful on occasion, and an upgrade would be many thousands of dollars. My main machine has mapping software that requires Win 11 Pro. It uses all 32 processors, and has used up to 220 GIG of the 256 gig RAM memory and both high end video cards.

I will admit I have to search the web for solutions to some Windows issues. The answers are out there. One of the most annoying is keeping the three computers talking and sharing to each other. By default Microsoft seems to think I play games at public places on a laptop where others can us it. I never play video games, and killing them off is a pain. And to keep the three machines sharing drives and files with each other is really very annoying.

I have used a Mac to deal with customer files in the past. It was just a velvet collar and I hated the inability to customize the computer.

I tried Linux Mint for a while, and without a mentor to tell me how to do some tasks, I was lost. It was too frustrating.

[stealthn]

My Mac is definitely my preferred PC, and I can run windows in Virtual Box if I need to. Yes Microsoft is a terrible OS, just wait until Copilot invades everything in it then all your use/data will be theirs…

I still have an SE/30 from the 80’s that still works

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I started with DOS 1.1 and I still have a copy on 5.25 inch floppies of Windows 386 (Win 2.0) that came with a Microsoft mouse with a steel roller ball and patent pending.

I am running Win 11 Pro now, and I do any update ASAP. No doubt Windows is annoying on many features. I am the only person to use my computer, so I do NOT want to have to use a password just to use my computer. I also have an older laptop and a really old computer I built for the new Win7. Both are on Win 10 now as they can't run Win 11.

I have software on the old tower that is useful on occasion, and an upgrade would be many thousands of dollars. My main machine has mapping software that requires Win 11 Pro. It uses all 32 processors, and has used up to 220 GIG of the 256 gig RAM memory and both high end video cards.

I will admit I have to search the web for solutions to some Windows issues. The answers are out there. One of the most annoying is keeping the three computers talking and sharing to each other. By default Microsoft seems to think I play games at public places on a laptop where others can us it. I never play video games, and killing them off is a pain. And to keep the three machines sharing drives and files with each other is really very annoying.

I have used a Mac to deal with customer files in the past. It was just a velvet collar and I hated the inability to customize the computer.

I tried Linux Mint for a while, and without a mentor to tell me how to do some tasks, I was lost. It was too frustrating.

I opened my old 20 YO Dell LT a week or so ago and all my bookmarks and tool bar had migrated from my desktop in another building. I do not have a home network set up but they obviously determined my router and did this. The thing is, I use the old Dell for different reasons and I had another set of bookmarks on the address bar.

That's just too invasive. Got to let this siht go.