I hate Windows. I hate Microslop. I’ve hated them forever. Not using Windows helps, but I still have to deal with the consequences of everyone else using it!

What I hate most is people absolutely terrified of a *nix terminal, while willing to work around Windows problems via command prompt or messing with the goddamn fucking registry, which is just bloody ridiculous, why not just use fucking config files… but that’s a rant for another time - and people looking at this kind of chatbot interface like cutting edge modern technology when it’s actually just a CLI that doesn’t fucking work. We had these at the dawn of personal computing, except that those ones worked and gave the same response to the same command every time! Look, I don’t like using a terminal either, but at least be honest and consistent about it, people.

    • SwagliacciTheBadClown [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I know my brother had at least bought into the prestige at one point when he joined as an engineer team there; and believe it or not that all evaporated fairly quickly after starting lol. And that was before they started forcing engineers to use “AI” for coding - can’t imagine that’s made things better

    • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Probably just middle managers of large companies that are entirely dependent on Microsoft products, I can’t imagine any end user being at all enthusiastic about a Microsoft product.

      • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        I think you should meet my dad. At least, he used to be really enthusiastic about most stuff Microslop made. I think he’s less extreme about it now, but he definitely doesn’t hate them with a burning passion or have the other typical end user attitude of apathy.

        • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 days ago

          TBF The Zunes were pretty cool and I liked the form factor of Surface devices.

          I just hate how their flagship product is a slow pos that Uninstalls Calc and of course if forced on every budget machine. So I have people coming in with machines wheezing over basic tasks because they can barely handle the bloat and manufacturers keep duping people into having too little ram…