Please MS just go to hell...

[bd139]

Nathan Barley gets it right

[mnementh]

Yup. They are using 1984 and Idiocracy as the blueprint for modern society. errr, anti-society. Antisocialism...? 

mnem
Yes, Windoze is shit. But it is also the great equalizer.

[mansaxel]

"...if you took all the girls I knew when I was single,
and brought them all together for one night;
you know they'd never match my sweet imagination...
and everything looks worse in black and white."

Actually, I did a "senior high" (Gymnasium in German, Lycee in French, IIRC) reunion 2 years ago. Me and 10 girls. All were as nice as when we parted ways 32 years earlier. That was an exceptional class.

[MrMobodies]

Hello all: My IEEE Spectrum article about a 1963 cipher machine and a huge espionage case Rubicon just went online

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-scandalous-history-of-the-last-rotor-cipher-machine

Nowadays, it's not just intelligence agencies that are exploiting backdoors and eavesdropping on “secure" messages and transactions. Windows 10's “telemetry" function continuously monitors a user's activity and data.

The urge to spy more and more on the users in all sorts of ways... No wonder why I had a difficult time trying to turn it off (about 10 - 30 firewall connections all to Microsoft and Azure in 2019 constantly) and even in Windows 10 Enterprise but ended up tracing and manually removing the telemetry and other similar modules and setting permissions on the empty folders and registry keys just incase it comes bundled again in some service pack/update sometime in the future.

[vk6zgo]

And then there is Windows 10"S", which seems to be Microsoft's version of a dumbed down iPad!

But wait! all is not lost!

It is "a piece of piss" to upgrade it to W10 Home, so you can actually use it for something other than "surfing the 'Net", or playing Windows Store approved games, so all is butterflies & unicorns!

Except it's not!!!
The method touted far & wide, not least by "the big M" themselves, doesn't work, as dozens of people (sampled from many,many more) will attest on MS's own reporting page.
I tried all the smart tricks, to no avail, so I now have a nice browsing machine, but no third party software will pass its virginal lips.

The silly old iPad will do that job just as well!!!

[Zucca]

In the future only linux / freeBSD for me. Windows 10 only in a VM if needed.

Windows 10S?  Some companies are incredibly astute to lose many customers for some blind illusions.

I am also very sorry for the big company I am working for now, there is no hope for my company to leave the MS boat.
MS is everywhere from development tools to the stupid secretary outlook.

And yes, starting with Office 365, Teams and all the MS cloud shit they are having currently huge security pain everywhere for everybody.
For example, IT forced everybody to use a double identification with a phone to use teams and office...

I mean I need to get my self approved with my phone just to use Excel?

It's an orrific shit show, and IT has no other option than to roll down in the shit with MS.

[bd139]

Yeah Azure SSO shit the bed today while we were in the middle of a critical migration. Fuck Microsoft

[james_s]

The whole Windows 10S thing has never made any sense at all to me. People choose Windows precisely because of the massive library of "legacy" software it supports. 10S is Windows in name only, it doesn't support any of the software so what is the compelling reason to use it? May as well just use an ipad or android tablet, at least then you get most of the popular mobile apps.

[bson]

To tie the above to this particular thread, just the other day I stumbled into another serious WSL2 issue wrt. Microsoft's current "Linux" support: DNS issues.  In short, the WSL2 DNS component completely fucks up some name lookups.  In the case of "baidu.com", it inserts the results for "nsX.baidu.com", causing e.g. getnameinfo() C library function call to provide those too as the results for "baidu.com".

More annoyingly, WSL 2 doesn't support mDNSResolver which after like forever MS has finally decided to support.
And most annoyingly of all, WSL 2 can't use USB devices.  Otherwise it would be useful with openocd.  Thankfully Linux in a VM works spectacularly well.
WSL 2 also makes running various python utilities a breeze - like InteractiveHtmlBom or KiPart.  Installing python eggs or running setup scripts just never seems to work natively on Windows. 

The new terminal is usable.  Not great compared to say iterm2 on Mac - but usable.

PowerToys will swap caps lock and ctrl.  Who uses caps lock anyway?  The only reason I found to have it mapped to a key in the first place is so I can actually disable it after some asinine installer has turned caps lock on - and left it on.

I miss MenuMeters.  The real thing.  MeterX... meh.

TaskBarX with translucent task bar... works well and looks nice.

Installers LOVE to drop shortcuts on my desktop.  Why would I want application shortcuts on my desktop when I can pin them to the task bar, or add them to the launcher/tiles shown by the windows key?

Windows' automatic GPU switching often doesn't work.

The exact same python programs start up and run significantly faster in WSL 2 than natively on the host.  Operating on data hosted by Windows no less. That says just about all I need to know about Windows' page caching, VM system, shared library mechanics, and scheduling.

[bd139]

WSL is entirely garbage. The file system abstraction is unusably slow and the permissions translation between the host and the guest is a fucked up nightmare. On top of all of that it has all the usual HyperV issues like clock skew and network failures. The new Windows terminal is pretty but has key mapping problems which make tmux a pain to use.

Professionally I’m using Virtualbox and PuTTY and stock Debian 11.

Don’t cross the beams!