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    [–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I swear at this point Windows users are collectively victims of Stockholm syndrome.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, someone please come free us! I am being held hostage by Windows and Autodesk Inventor.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's the usual problem: if your employer IT refuses to budge, you get locked into a Windows (or Apple) ecosystem. I had the same. My solution was to remove myself from corporate IT, and use my own device.

    I use workarounds for the interfaces with corporate:

    • MS Teams Linux client (sadly discontinued as of 2022) still works out of a jail, but the browser solution is also tested and ready as backup should I be forced
    • Webmail instead of a proper mail proram - that's a big trade-off, but I can work with it, as much as it sucks
    • Webex for conferencing (as it works properly with Firefox, contrary to many other solutions)
    • Web portals continue to work - even though sometimes I need a user agent switcher to pretend I am using chrome (fuck you @MS Teams)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    There's mail apps for Linux. I think thunderbird is most popular.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    My point was about corporate IT refusing to provide a mail server to the outside world.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    So no IMAP/POP3 server or what do you mean? If so how does the web app work?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Webapp probably uses Exchange services internally and exposes only a web interface to the internet

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    Ah, I suppose that makes sense.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    In the end, web front-ends always allow to expose selected parts of any kind of internal (potentially insecure) protocols to the internet through a demilitarized zone that only allows https protocol.

    It's like being allowed to watch the data you are interested in through a glass window, but no touching :)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I take it webmail is due to Exchange-based mail?

    The €10 I pay a year for Exquilla is worth its weight in gold. It's about the only thing on my system that's not FOSS, but I'm not even mad because it works. 9.5/10 would recommend.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Yes that's due to Exchange. Thank you for the pointer to Exquilla - I'd gladly be willing to pay for that out of my own pocket, but there's three problems:

    • closed source plugin, which I don't want on my machine if I can avoid it
    • convincing my company to expose EWS (unless OWA uses the same interface, which I doubt?)
    • Microsoft seems to plan decommissioning of EWS:

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/retirement-of-exchange-web-services-in-exchange-online/ba-p/3924440

    Quote:

    Today, we are announcing that on October 1, 2026, we will start blocking EWS requests from non-Microsoft apps to Exchange Online.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Or Nvidia GPU owners because Nvidia is fine on Windows but sucks on Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm using kde5 on X. To my knowledge, the only issues you might have with Nvidia on Linux is if you want to use Wayland instead of X. Unless you are someone who refuses to use non-free drivers for philosophical reasons, but then you wouldn't be using Windows.

    I've been running an Nvidia GPU for over 6 years now on Linux without issues.

    I even am using a fairly recent 4070ti and was able to use it with proprietary drivers soon after launch and was running cyberpunk 2077 at 4k with high settings and ray tracing with an average 60fps with dsr.

    I also use the cuda cores for running open source llms locally and have no issues there either.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    using XWayland loads games fine for me in Wayland :)

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    the only issues you might have with Nvidia on Linux is if you want to use Wayland instead of X

    So present-day technology instead of legacy crap.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Nothing wrong with using present-day technology as software if you want to use present-day graphics cards, is there?

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

    Ummm...you think windows isn't legacy?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    On windows they make you install their annoying software to do driver updates and it sends random notifications and has a bunch of ads and other things I don't want when installing software.

    [–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Hot take, windows isn't that bad (privacy issues aside).

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

    It actually is worse than "that bad". Windows 2000 wasn't "that bad" - everything after that has gone downhill.

    Objective reasons why Windows is extremely shitty:

    1. with every new Windows version, the same settings are shuffled around and users have to re-learn the interfaces to find stuff they had been able to easily find before
    2. bloatware
    3. tons of software is shoved down your throat with opt-out options either not available, or you have to jump through literal hoops to get there
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    It's always funny to me when people defend something by saying that it's "not that bad", because that still acknowledges that it is bad.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I mean I can take up issues with Linux as well. The driver support can be iffy at times, especially with Nvidia, gaming can be a challenge, depending on what game you're playing.

    "Not that bad" is a phrase, which acknowledges issues but still contests something to be bad beyond acceptance.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    Oh please, half the time on most computers after installing stock Windows you'll need to install the NIC drivers from a USB stick because you can't download drivers locally without a NIC. With Linux, it pretty works out the gate. Significant driver issues haven't been a real issue with Linux in about a decade.

    Nvidia drivers are especially weird to use as an example. Since the advent of AI, Nvidia Linux support has vastly improved since most AI use cases require Linux. It's enterprise-ready at this point.

    As for the games that don't work well - the binaries were only built for Windows, so Linux has to jump through hoops to run them. That's not Linux's fault, it's the fault of the game developers. Thanks to the FOSS community those hoops are only getting easier to jump through. Most of the games that don't work at all depend on some sort of horrific anti-cheat rootkit that any tech literate person should consider a dealbreaker even if they use Windows as a daily driver.

    And the games that do work, which is most of the games on Steam at this point, perform better on Linux than Windows on the same hardware because they don't have to deal with the bloat of a Windows OS.

    I guess if you can accept ads crammed into every nook and cranny of the OS, constantly fighting with Edge over your choice of browser, reduced battery life and system performace due to OS bloat, having every single aspect of your computing experience built around corporate profits rather than user experience, and buying a computer every few years because of planned obsolescence you could settle with a bad OS like Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    I always say, an OS is a tool, not a religion. I use Linux at home 98% of the time because it fits what I need to do and it's snappier than Windows on my hardware and gives me more control, or maybe I know better how to do certain things in Linux nowadays that I've left Windows mostly behind. I use Windows at work because that's what dictated, and also because MS Visio is only on Windows (I could use MacOS with Omnigraffle, but Macs are not available at my pay grade. Whatever). They pay me to work and be productive, and this means using Outlook/Teams, AD SSO integration with Edge, all the VPNs/network control/DLP agents. And luckily now I can use Linux subsystem in Windows, so I can work on the cli when I need to do something fancy. They don't pay me to spend hours trying to find a way to work with their systems other than what's supported.

    On the topic at hand (bootloader issues). Never had a problem personally, but Iast time I did proper dual booting (on the same drive) was with Windows8.1. Now I have different drives, with the bios configured to boot from the drive with Linux. If I want to boot on Windows 10 I actually have to change the boot sequence. And even then there is grub (from an old dual boot setup).