I need a practice laptop to learn Linux with…
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
As always, fuck Microsoft. Literally been saying this over 30 years already.
Don’t use windows, switch to Linux. It’s free, actually reasonably secure, actually works, won’t spy on you, won’t force shit on you just to make you pay more.
Don’t use Microsoft azure. It’s overpriced and runs in Linux anyway.
Don’t use Microsoft 365 online shit. Outlook functions horrendously bad, teams is a sad joke. I unfortunately have to deal with teams every day because government customers thought it was a good idea and EVERY call there is some shit. People can’t get in, people don’t have audio, people ALWAYS have the wrong audio device selected no matter what and need to spend the first 5 minutes to get their audio and video working. It’s shit quality compared to zoom or Google meet or open source alternatieves…
Stop giving this piece of shit your money
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or a flash drive. You can just boot it from a flash drive to see if you enjoy it. Set your motherboard BIOS to boot from USB before booting from an internal drive. When the flash drive with Linux is plugged in, it’ll boot from that instead of booting Windows.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh nice. See, this is the kind of stuff I’ll have to look up lol
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, booting from USB is something you see a lot in the data security and/or privacy-oriented circles. Because many USB boot drives are designed to be volatile, meaning nothing about the OS is actually stored on the drive. So you can nuke the whole OS just by unplugging the drive.
Basically every (smart) drug dealer who orders their supplies on Tor uses a USB drive OS, so if the cops ever bust down their door they can just yank the USB and destroy all evidence of their online orders.
But it can also be useful for test-driving a particular repo. If you ever manage to fuck things up royally, you’re just one reboot away from a fresh start.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Are there some open source Teams alternatives you’d recommend?
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Mattermost
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thanks, I’ll check that out!
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You can use teams in a browser, that’s really all it is on dekstop anyway.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I wasn’t asking about a Linux client for Teams, I was asking about an open source alternative to Teams
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh OK lol
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hold up. Asure runs on Linux? Lol could have guessed that, but still is funny.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Azure runs on windows. Hosts run a modified version of Hyper-V.
At least, they did last I checked.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I work at a place that uses Azure to run everything (not my choice…).
Everything we have runs on Linux containers, Linux Azure functions, and a VM that runs Ubuntu.
You can run Windows on Azure but you certainly don’t have to.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
We have a similar mix, though I was referring to the underlying virtualisation providing their cloud hosting.