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Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore
Submitted 11 hours ago by handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Windows seems to be transitioning from being software you run to being an experience that Microsoft provides to you. The pattern of pushing new features to users unpredictably and without the option to refuse is clearly inappropriate in the first model but natural in the second. As a power user I strongly prefer the first model, but I recognize that most people these days might be ok with having their computer work like a website they access or an app they run on their phone - something they have no control over the state of.
LostWanderer@fedia.io 10 hours ago
I've been reading about the problems that Windows 11 has had for years, from the safety of being on Linux for good after Recall was announced (and floundered like a fish out of water). I missed how just about any Linux Distro got out of my way and let me work in general peace. It let me know when updates were needed and waited until I decided to install them. Occasional donation asks (probably once or twice a year) to KDE, which I do not mind because they are open source and awesome, I donate due to their work in the Linux space! Sure, I've had occasional problems, but, there's been a solution for every issue I faced!
Windows 11 problems are directed caused by Microsoft, until they shift their OS in the right direction, those fundamental issues will never be solved (not that I would ever willingly use anything Microsoft made again after this fiasco).
sirico@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
I’ve been doing it since about 2009
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I switched to Manjaro and it’s like nothing has changed for the work I do now.
At work we use windows and I don’t imagine that will ever go away. I don’t know enough about this stuff anyway, but I think there is to much work and risk involved to change.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The biggest problem is training all the employees to use the new system. Even if they’re still using the same programs, 80% will complain just because the Start Menu logo is different and the other 20% will complain about something only slightly less irrelevant. Then there’s the IT department having to change their workflows (their complaints are actually valid). Then there’s the downtime during the transition and the sunken costs of whatever support packages the company had hired previously… Yeah, transitioning a company to a new OS is hard.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I work a a software company that mainly develops one online software and people are used to work with computers. But even here I feel like there is some strange invisible barrier.
IT was trained to work on windows. What we do - everything works. The cost is there, calculated, it’s actually pretty small compared to everything else.
Changing is just unimaginable for a company like that - to take this risk, and for so little upside.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 3 hours ago
Proper accounting would consider the costs of retraining against the existing vendor. After all, that’s vendor lock-in, which your vendor will use to raise prices…