Nobody ever cheered for Windows. I was there at the Windows 95 launch and everybody hated it and its problems were "impossible to ignore" and it was an embarrassing failure in tech circles and the BSOD was a meme.
Remind me again how that went.
Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
for Windows fans
LOL what? windows “fans”?
apple fans, i get. but who tf is cheerleading for fucking windows, and NOT getting paid to do so?
MudMan@fedia.io 10 hours ago
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
it’s funny how big tech basically determines how things are going to go, regardless of what anyone thinks. i remember the “uproar” when whoever tf it was decided to release a phone without a headphone jack. everyone said “i don’t like that” and the response was “yes. you fucking do like that. you like it right up the ass.” and now literally no one complains about the lack of headphone jack on any phone that exists now.
i was also there when win 95 came out, and remember thinking “are people this fucking stupid, that they can’t get along on a computer without some fancy newfangled ‘graphical’ user interface?”
yep.
Remind me again how that went.
investigate how many businesses are planning to ditch windows for something else, regardless of how shitty windows is. i would actually be interested in those numbers
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m convinced Windows is only still used because of the elderly and the technologically incompetent.
As a software engineer, I am forced to use Windows 11 on my provided laptop, but literally all of my work is done on my Linux VM. I don’t understand why tech companies don’t fully transition to Linux for development in cases like mine, but then I remember the 800 year old managers and directors we have who barely know how to use a stapler, let alone a computer.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Lol, this is why we don’t tend to give software engineers local admin, and why most places hire separate UX designers.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Nobody anymore, but even as of a few short years ago the Windows fanboys would crusade and do battle specifically against the Mac fanboys, for some reason.
I’m not exactly a fan of Apple, but I’m not going to go around automatically championing Microsoft because of it…