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    • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Excel is the one I don’t hate, all alternatives suck way more. Active Directory is also ok, but you have to click more than in a moba game, it can become annoying.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Eh, I legitimately like Google Sheets more than Excel. Yeah, it doesn’t have all the features, but it has a lot of features, way more than I actually need. My main issue is that it’s run by Google, so I’m looking for alternatives (trying to switch to LibreOffice Calc, which is painful).

        • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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          11 days ago

          I haven’t used any google services for ages (except yt and search occasionally), so I don’t follow it’s development

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    They’re pretty good at monopolizing markets and releasing rehashed garbage once they’ve done so.

  • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been extremely happy with my windows surface book, which I got over a decade ago, still use regularly, and I can even still develop on it without a huge headache. I think visual studio is the best ide I’ve used. Vscode has replaced pretty much every other basic text editing tool I use (windows based, at least). I’m not a big fan of windows adding more and and tracking shit to the os, but I can’t remember the last time ive had a bsod, and even then I was fighting with hardware problems.

    They definitely have their crap and shit that drives me nuts, and like all the big companies they are trying to slurp up as much data as they can get, which is enough reason for many people to move away, but this idea that they “suck at everything” is just circle jerking.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I’m seriously shocked your surface is still running. I’ve never seen one last more than a year, and they usually required a lot of troubleshooting to keep them going that long.

      • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Funny. I have a buddy who bought his around the same time as I did. I remember talking about it. I saw him a month or so ago and he was still using his. He’s got a ton of money (well paid, no kids) and in tech so I figured he would have at least upgraded, but he said there was no need.

        Although I just looked it up and they have bad reliability ratings, which is surprising to me based on how good mine has been with decent usage.

    • Broken@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 days ago

      The original zune. The one that could compress all the music of the universe to fit on it’s 30GB drive.

      I still have mine in a drawer. I replaced the battery (which is probably dead again) and it lived through my entire family using it.

  • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I had to reboot my Windows 10 desktop because the software I have to manage my wallpaper wasn’t working (and still isn’t), and had to unplug my second monitor during reboot otherwise the Steam overlay won’t work. After rebooting, I had a different software prompt me to update and the save file location window froze the browser for 3-4 minutes, while discord was freezing in the foreground. The taskbar disappeared until I restarted Explorer.exe, some telemetry process I had never heard of before was eating up 92-100% of the CPU and I had to go into the scheduler to disable it.

    This is an average day with Windows nowadays. I didn’t even mention the myriad of perpetual issues I’ve been having.

    Of course on my Linux laptop Chrome wouldn’t update automatically either through the browser or from the command line (and I have to use Chrome because Google Drive doesn’t work right on Firefox on Linux).

    • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Your Linux distribution (which?) does not package Chrome properly. What about Chromium or any other Chrome forks? I notice your beef is about a proprietary product not working properly which you need for a proprietary service. Perhaps ChromeOS would support it better.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I had a Microsoft Tivo competitor that worked with DirecTV in the early 2000s that I really liked. Visual Studio and VS Code aren’t bad for what they are. The Zune was pretty awesome. I have had some good times on all generations of XBOX.

    I guess what I am saying is that despite my hatred for MS, they haven’t been completely awful. Definitely not in the Comcast and various phone companies (I would like to single out Verizon for being particularly scummy) tier of hatred.

    • Traister101@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Visual Studio is pretty miserable lol. If I had to chose between VS and using a terminal editor like Vim I’d choose Vim in a heartbeat and I’m a JetBrains (of Intellij fame) guy.

      VS Code is ight.

      • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I use VsVim when I use VS, but I do most of my code development in Vim. I use VS for a particular product that I support. It works well enough that I can’t complain to much, but someone else much more knowledgeable about the tool set it up for me.

        My primary development environment is a centos7.3 virtual box with various options (Eclipse). I mostly just use raw gdb because I have been using it long enough that I don’t have to think about it too much and it’s pretty portable knowledge.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I didn’t watch the video but who is this stuff for?

    If I was a Microsoft fan, why click?

    If I was a Linux fan, the thumbnail is all I need.