Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore

cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t used Windows for more than 10 years and I’m happy too.

  I think it’s worth repeating that Ubuntu has been available since 2005 (20 years now) and from the start it filled the needs of most users at home (i.e. watching crap on YouTube and using LibreOffice). Most users I have seen around me only have basic requirements and should have switched decades ago.

  TL;DR: if you complain about your computer nowadays and don’t play games, install Ubuntu or Mint or anything else, I don’t care anymore.

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  • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even playing games on Linux is much better now thanks to Steam. Never a better time to change. I want my next phone to have Ubuntu Touch as well. Fuck the horrible Google/Apple ecosystem.

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    • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      • eddyizm@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        damn that looks great. I can’t wait to get a decent linux phone!

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  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Since the rise of proton gaming is now absolutely viable on Linux as well. The exclusives use cases for Windows are disappearing fast.

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    • TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shoutout to the crew at Lutris for their gaming platform as well. I play Guild Wars 2 and Elder Scrolls Online with it, and couldn’t be more pleased with the performance.

      https://lutris.net/

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  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is only a subset of Windows games left that does not run on Linux. Mostly games with kernelbased Anti-Cheat and a few other outliers. I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for years now. Have a look at the ProtonDB website to see if your favourite games are running on Linux

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been playing games on [K]Ubuntu just for almost a decade now. There are no excuses, and haven’t been for a long time.

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• eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never used Windows - apart from new workplace requiring it. I largely not see it, unless corporate IT screws up.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even corporate IT suffers. At my job, we have to apply updates pretty quickly. If Microsoft pushes a bad update, it’ll probably affect a lot of us. Or when they add a new feature like Copilot, they ship it without any administrative controls to turn it off.

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I won’t deny it’s godawful to have shit split across AD, Group Policy, Regedit, and Azure/Entra/Intune.

      But they very much still have controls for all this shit, almost always available before the feature rolls out. I’ve literally never seen this shit make it through to our end user devices in an un-intended fashion.

      Hell, just hold non-security updates for a period of time for review before pushing it to your entire environment if this (not actually happening) issue is a concern. That’s like basic table stakes for Windows Environment administration: update cadence management.

      Please don’t claim to speak from a place of authority on this and then spread falsehoods. There’s plenty of shit to hate without making things up.

      Like the third party app approvals in Azure and Teams defaulting to allow any non-admin user to be able to approve any azure app access to all of their data with no oversight. You can (and should) lock that the fuck down. It’s a batshit default, not a lack of controls.

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      • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s what I heard from the guys managing group policy in my org. It’s been several years since I did any group policy admin.

        I also remember something about Teams pushing features without control. Maybe it was when they started letting users create teams groups.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they ship it without any administrative controls to turn it off.

      I thought one of the saving grace of windows corporate was having finer control?

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The problem is Microsoft is trying to push the corporate environment away from on-prem infrastructure and into the cloud. There is less and less you can do from Active Directory and Group Policy, more and more of it gets moved to InTune everyday.

        Microsoft is pushing Azure Arc as well, which is intended to let you manage your on-prem resources using your cloud management interfaces.

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t know what this guy is smoking. Copilot had administrative controls before it rolled out, through Intune and Group Policy.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can ignore it because I don’t have any of these issues. Haven’t read a single article in the last year or two that bitched about Windows problems I’ve seen IRL.

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