jesterraiin
@jesterraiin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok. 1 year ago:
And they were right.
wildly gesturing at everything around
- Comment on Starfield has gone gold. Preload tomorrow on Xbox/Microsoft Store, and on the 30th on Steam (Bethesda on Twitter) 1 year ago:
You’re good people, man.
- Comment on Starfield has gone gold. Preload tomorrow on Xbox/Microsoft Store, and on the 30th on Steam (Bethesda on Twitter) 1 year ago:
I’m a dad of a young lady.
- Comment on Starfield has gone gold. Preload tomorrow on Xbox/Microsoft Store, and on the 30th on Steam (Bethesda on Twitter) 1 year ago:
YES.
Can’t wait to play this game, even if it means mere 20 minutes before going to sleep…
- Comment on Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking? 1 year ago:
Can’t tell precisely since there are conditions, that might conserve a piece of technology to the point that it’s still going to be recovered and recognized as OOPART.
I guess that a million years or further is relatively safe bet, but even that isn’t granted.
- Comment on "Housework Counts As Exercise!" 1 year ago:
I find this train of thoughts void of a very important variable: there’s no single type of homework and whaile some might be definitely positive for health, both mental and physical, others are the opposite of that.
For example, gardening vs painting walls with a toxic fungicidal paint. Housework? Housework!
- Comment on "...is not supported in this browser", fuck you Discord 1 year ago:
“Press THIS button if you want to enter anyway”.
I think I need to fill a patent for this idea, since it’s brand new, fresh and nobody has ever heard about it…
- Comment on What would be some of the issues with drinking your coffee on the toilet while you’re taking a dump, if your coffee cup has a lid? 1 year ago:
It’s one of those occurrences, where merging two pleasant things does not result in a synergy but in antagonism.
You neither can totally relax and empty your bowels like the Lord ordered, nor enjoy a cup of coffee like a civilized human.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
Hiring Linux professionals would require competent IT management. Most corporations don’t have that.
And again: you’re allowing for your emotions to dictate your opinion. This is wrong approach and indeed one of main reasons Linux/FOSS is hard to sell on. After all, would you really want to work with, and give your money to people who think yourself to be incompetent in spite of knowing you? 😉
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
Same.
FOSS is crucial to the survival of freedom in IT (broad sense) - whoever claims otherwise, doesn’t understand what is going on all around him.
But it doesn’t mean that Linux/FOSS is allowed to stay blind and deaf and resist evolution, especially if it wants to become something more than a set of tools for network administrators…
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
I worked in environments where MS Office and Star/Open/Apache/Libre Office was used, and Tbird was installed in addition to whatever Windows email client. I’m not even discussing other pieces of software, these are enough to make a point, I think. There was hardly a person who prefered the alternatives. These tools were perceived as slow, unreliable, uncooperative and the lack of compatibility, document-wise, only strengthened these opinions.
As for “posts scaring people away…” Do you seriously think that whatever people write in the Internet is enough to convince big corps, governments and other massive groups of recipients? Come on…
I disagree with your take on corpo environment. If what you’re saying would be true, then it’d be far more profitable for corpo to hire a bunch of Linux-oriented technicians and thus save costs of IT layer. But corpos don’t do that. You’re suggesting a paradox - a body that relies on cost-cutting and making everything as profitable as possible, that also is ok with wasting money on something that’s allegedly easy to replace.
Again: you’re doing what Linux/FOSS community usualy does. Instead of acknowledging the points and asking “what can be done to make this work”, you’re saying that your choice is better, good enough to work no matter what environment, what userbase is there, all conseuences and the contradictory evidence be damned.
This might work as Apple’s strategy, but it won’t as hell work in case of Linux/FOSS.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
I’m sorry, dude, but now these are emotions talking through you, not actual valid points., especially since it’s obvious that your knowledge about MS dates back to 2010, I assume? It had evolved. Massively. So much it became hard to compete with, even if you take the money into accoutn.
You didn’t like it, but the fact is that I am now sitting in a corpo office, part of a body spanning across countries and continents, where what you don’t like and think bad, works well enough that nobody complains. It’s very rich corpo. It can afford a legion of experienced Linux technicians and sysadmins, and yet it prefers to pay money, serious money for licences in subscription mode. Think about it for a moment - corpos squeeze money of everything. They are greedy, to the point they wouldn’t spare a cent to save a dying man. And yet they prefer to pay for MS.
Once again: Linux/FOSS needs to start to listen to what users actually want. Scornful “this is better, use this” won’t do.
Until it changes, “20xx - the year of Linux”. 😉
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
Literally the only thing MS Office has that LibreOffice does not, is MS Access
Not quite. 😉
www.microsoft.com/…/office365-plans-and-pricing
E3 plan is the norm in more complicated workspaces now. Exchange, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Sharepoint are commonly used in such an environment, followed by Forms (HR department loves these and rightly so), Onedrive and PowerBI. Viva (formerly Yammer) makes waves now. Teams entered the market aggressively during Pandemics and it had evolved almost as fast, as Android. It can now connect to great many deal of applications thus expanding the possible workflow and collaboration.
The ribbon being the productivity killer you’re talking about is a non-existent issue, since typical office workers rarely venture further than the main set of icons + they have the most useful icons pinned to the quick access toolbar.
In every environment where people have been using both pieces of software (MS Office and Star/Open/Apache/Libre), the former was preferred for its ease of use.
Again: Linux/FOSS movements tends to produce the mindset that is hard to convince that there’s something wrong about anything it does, while listening to people’s - common people, instead of experienced power users - complains, and following tested and appreciated standards should be preferred.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
I haven’t seen an enterprise, where Excel wasn’t present.
…and I am in IT since late 90s.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
I agree, but there’s one thing, that needs to be perceived from different perspective: Linux Office suites > ARE < awful.
They look ugly. They overcomplicate certain, simple tasks. They aren’t as compatible with MS’ documents as they need to be. The only exceptions to it are WPS Office, but since it joined the dark side (ads(, it can no longer be suggested, and OnlyOffice - possibly one of the most recent entries to the list of possible MS’ Office alternatives.
Yes, yes, I know “I can do in Libre everything MS packet can do, and more”.
…but the problem is that it’s not you who will need to work with it. People in business need a tool that gets the job done, is well supported and doesn’t get in the way. Libre, unfortunately does - everyone who tried to apply an unorthodox page numbering to a document knows that it’s too complicated for non tech-savvy user.
- Comment on You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2. 1 year ago:
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
There’s only one brithday song and it goes like this: Awkwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard
- Comment on You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2. 1 year ago:
Yes.
- Comment on You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2. 1 year ago:
Wtf are you talking about? There’s only one birthday song.
- Comment on People would use "Hide all political posts and comments" more often than any other filter 1 year ago:
Not really.
Sports is the thing that would be blocked the most, since it’s b&w - either you’re into it, or not at all, and there are great many deal of branches of it.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
Noprob.
From what I gather, there were similar projects in the past attempted by great many deal of bodies and organizations. Some were quite successful. For example,CERN used and supported CENTOS-based computers and allowed Windows machines but on the “you care of this crap on your own” basis.
As far as I can tell, the most important challenges were:
- hardware compatibility (it’s easy to bypass, but it isn’t cheap)
- support (you can’t rely on “Google it” approach when serious business is involved, there absolutely has to be experienced technician team available on-site)
- Linux/FOSS office applications are shit and pain in the ass to work with (unless the movement at large won’t acknowledge this problem, nothing will change - Linux won’t enter mainstream)
- government and other official organizations force document filetypes and build official apps that won’t run good in Linux - funnily enough they won’t even work well on Windows machines all the time (this is really hard to bypass)
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
What is “Debian, instead of Ubuntu” supposed to imply?
That we’re discussing the topic older than a decade ago, when things were wildly different to how they are now.
source
I don’t store bookmarks for that old events. Feel free to consult Google for that…
- Comment on My own mail server 1 year ago:
Buy yourself a cookie!
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
Spot on.
Windows cut off plenty of actually solid devices and forced users to buy newer, but definitely worse equipment. At least that’s how it was when printers, scanners and multi-function devices are discussed. Especially INK printers.
Damn, that was, like, an extortion…
- Comment on Why would someone choose ubuntu server over a headless debian installation? 1 year ago:
I agree, but the question wasn’t about the percentage of cases, but about the possible reason to choice Ubuntu over Debian…
- Comment on What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven? 1 year ago:
It won’t be well roasted.
Depending on the type of food, certain parts of it might still be raw.
- Comment on Why would someone choose ubuntu server over a headless debian installation? 1 year ago:
Ubuntu is what grew out of Debian.
But it’s radically different ENVIRONMENT these days.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
But that should be a lesson to people as to why going Linux is foolhardy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux
And blaming it on the distro is ridiculous.
The choice of a distro makes huge - crucial - difference. It dictates the possibilities, limitations and future evolution of every ecosystem it’s supposed to support.
Wrong choice = a disaster.
- Comment on Why would someone choose ubuntu server over a headless debian installation? 1 year ago:
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
I’m not sure about this article.
Back in the day it was hardware incompatibility that was cited as the prime reason to backtrack to Windows.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
This was proposed once before with Germany going open source. They eventually went back.
Germany’s attempt at switching to Linux is a prime example of bad management, wrong decisions and, well, idiocy.
If memory serves: they chose Debian, instead of Ubuntu and didn’t do enough research concerning hardware compatibility. When they were already in progress it turned out they had craploads of office hardware like scanners, printers and such, that weren’t working under Debian.
