Man, imagine being in a financial situation where you could afford to turn down a job just because of if the OS you'd be using
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Imagine applying for a job as a backend engineer and not knowing, based on the job posting/qualifications needed that they were a Windows shop.
Or just imagine generating this fake Gmail in Gemini or ChatGPT and posting it to farm the rage.
In a Gmail client 🤮
Fucking based.
While it takes about 8-16 hours of concerted effort, there are ways to castrate Windows into a mild approximation of what it was before.
The big question mark is Windows 12… and whether AI and spyware/malware features such as Recall will be baked into core functionality such that it will be impossible to remove or reliably deactivate.
I’m still with Windows for now, owing to requirements that have no non-Windows alternative (which include supporting and actually opening client data files for the desktop version of Quicken, for example), but I do foresee a time when I would reliably extract my last foot out of the Windows ecosystem.
Thankfully, their server products still appear to be enshittification-free. For now.
What it was before was still not good. Although tools like git-bash alleviated the pain a bit.
git bash makes it worse..it blows my mind that people wont use git in powershell
Apparently the win 12 rumours were just a hoax. Even Microslop isn't that out of touch (at this point in time).
While I prefer Linux and use it wherever I can, I use about every major OS on a regular basis. I have a machine that dual boots Windows due to some expensive specialized software I own that doesn’t work on Linux yet, I have an iPhone because Linux phones aren’t good enough to be a daily driver and Graphene doesn’t work with certain apps I need, I have an Android tablet / Android TVs because they have a usable UX while allowing sideloading of OSS apps that respect my privacy, and I use macOS on my work machine because company IT doesn’t support Linux. Yes, I’d prefer to run Linux on every device, but there are practical reasons for using other OSes, and it’s not like a competent techie can’t learn to use whatever. I assume Linux will continue to gain market share across form factors, but we are not there yet. I’ve actually never worked anywhere where Linux was supported, and while I’ll refuse to work somewhere with unethical business practices, I probably won’t choose to be unemployed to avoid using Windows. Google, for example, does support Linux devices for employees, but I’d rather use a Windows laptop somewhere else than actively build tools for surveillance capitalism.
TL;DR - Pick your battles.
I've worked professionally on Windows and Mac; using Visual Basic, C#, Java, Objective-C and Qt Creator (which is C++ and Javascript); for web apps, desktop applications, and mobile apps (iOS, Blackberry and Android). I have my personal preferences but they're all viable platforms/languages/frameworks/devices and anything that needs doing can be done on them one way or another. The idea that one of these is vastly and objectively superior to all others is just pseudo-religious nonsense.
Windows with WSL is honestly a pretty decent Linux.
That said, the aggressive AI, advertising, and telemetry baked into the OS over the last few years is awful. Hopefully it's possible for IT teams to mass-opt-out from those "features" via corporate fleet management; if not, that may genuinely be a good reason for companies to migrate off of Windows.
There are ways for normal home users to bodily rip this shit out, but it takes some work and technical knowledge to effectively rip-and-tear in ways that work for you.
Some of the tools are also not the most user-friendly, expect the user to be a power user with deep familiarity with Windows, and have non-obvious workflows that may confuse a majority of average users.
You're doing the lord's work.
Same here, except Mac is no better. I was forced to use one at my last job, I'd sooner code on Windows
Nah, macOS isn't great, but it's nowhere near as bad as Windows. You can at least use Homebrew etc without needing to get permissions to install WSL2 and such.
Just wondering... Is there anyone on Earth using Windows Server?
At school we were tought how to work with it (my teacher was so outdated, he barely knew what Linux was) but I can't find any good reason to use it instead of Linux
IIS. So so so much IIS.
Yes, we basically only use Windows servers at our company (except some people in our team)
Is this a real question? It's very obvious you don't work in IT.
Every single business running Windows computers (which is about all of them) will have an Active Directory running on Windows.
Every company I worked for only ever had a handful of Linux servers and the majority of Windows servers.
Microsoft revenue generated $26.7 billion in one quarter from its Licensing, and even though a lot of it was through cloud, a lot of it also came through self hosted Windows servers.
You live in a bubble if you think nobody is using Windows server.
Agreed. Most orgs don't have a serious demand for their computers anyway just web clients to SaaS products. So Chromebooks and Google suite. Windows and cloud AD and Office 365. All Mac. Honestly work find with the biggest goal being lowest hurdle for support.
Windows had that locked down especially with vendors support zero config support where they will ship a laptop ready to go.
It's always super painful where those orgs then want to do anything serious on a server, cause yeah none of what I said is optimized for a decent server experience.
Yeah my company only has Windows servers, I'm sure other small and mid sized businesses are the same
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Guy just sounds entitled and precious they wouldn't stump for a Macbook.
Employment is a negotiation, sounds like the employer lost out on a hire they wanted because of technical incompetence and will now have to resume a costly talent search that will cost much more than a MacBook.
Workers should be entitled, and demand better conditions when we have the leverage
While I agree with the sentiment…there are workers who are fighting for things like safe working conditions, access to clean water, above poverty wages, etc. ..and then there’s Billy Bob here drafting (and subsequently screenshotting and posting for all to see) a temper tantrum because his potential employer uses an operating system he doesn’t like. They’re welcome to turn down an offer for whatever reason (assuming this is even real in the first place), but I’m sorry, this is entitled as fuck.
Why not turn down an offer because a company is supporting the military industrial complex? Or has ties with black market business? Where are those screenshots? Those would be much more apt reasons for turning down an offer, rather than this shit 😂.
Demanding a Macbook when the place doesn't use Macbooks is entitlement, not demanding better conditions.
He didn't need the job, they needed him.
Hey can I have that job instead? I'm happy to use any version of Windows if it means I actually get paid fairly
Honestly, yeah, I'd do the same. After several past jobs required Linux, even downgrading to a Mac feels pretty bad. Can't imagine Macroslop Wangblows.
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