IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11(www.neowin.net)
35 pointsby 01-_-4 hours ago11 comments
  • BLKNSLVR3 hours ago
    The amount of work required, post installation, to make Windows usable, is one of the things that pushed me towards Linux on the desktop.

    I used to do a few of the regular tweaks decades ago to squeeze out the maximum frame rate of Quake, etc. but getting rid of the basic shit that I don't want modern Windows to be doing was a bigger job than tweaking old Windows for gaming. That, to me, indicates a severe bloat problem.

    • consp3 hours ago
      Went with windows 10 for a VM, less cow manure to deal with (still bloated and useless without debloating). After booting nearly all of the calls home got rejected anyway because they were marked as spyware related. I would imagine they got that close to 100% on windows 11.

      Gaming on linux is fine, framerates and cpu usage are higher and less despite the wine/proton wrappers.

    • sixtyj3 hours ago
      Is there a checklist of things that would be better to uninstall or switch off?
    • knighthack2 hours ago
      I leaped to Linux a few years back. One of the best moves in my life. The speed, the reaction time, the lack of bloat.

      I side-car'ed a Mac for some apps that could not go through (e.g. for audio work, which Linux has some difficulties with, and lacks a lot of good apps for), but even that went smoothly because it had far less bloat and was already very UNIX-y.

    • 0x1d73 hours ago
      And then you get responses like this. It's like they can't be arsed to post about the article, they go on some completely different topic, i.e. gaming. At least make the anecdote no one really cares about related to this piss poor excuse of an article.

      Like, seriously?

  • verytrivial3 hours ago
    This may or may not be true, but that article is indistinguishable from a pretty low-effort Ai summary of three Reddit threads.
  • assimpleaspossi3 hours ago
    Referencing "multiple admins" and anonymous Reddit posters gives no credence to the value of this article.
    • lousken3 hours ago
      What about company marketing slides? Do they give more credence?
  • lousken3 hours ago
    I am hoping to see KDE adopting more enterprise friendly approach to things so I can start switching people over to linux. Now that they got funding for it maybe possible in a year or two?

    So far only Ubuntu with Gnome is friendly with entra

  • omh3 hours ago
    It's mind boggling how bad Microsoft have made this.

    I just want to install a few apps and manage their settings. But the combination of Windows, Intune, modern Store apps, multiple similar settings, and licensing, make it a full time job full of footguns.

    If they just had one team with responsibility for end user experience they could bring this tech together in amazing ways.

    But instead there's probably at least one FTE is every IT department in the world just managing Microsoft's bullshit

  • 0x1d73 hours ago
    Why is an article that consists of a reddit user as a source being upvoted on HN?

    Stop posting such drivel. Do better than make HN into reddit. You can find people to complain on any topic. That doesn’t make it interesting enough to post here.

    • alienbaby3 hours ago
      Right, I came here wondering if others saw the same. What is this doing on hn!??
  • edwinjm3 hours ago
    The sites breaks scrolling on the iPad. Their engineers are probably busy fixing Windows issues.
  • sys_647383 hours ago
    IT admins don't make technology decisions. They're there to do work, no think.
    • BLKNSLVR3 hours ago
      The good ones probably can't help but do some amount of thinking.

      I'd probably consider thata good thing, almost to the extent that I would hire a thinker over the alternative.

    • lousken3 hours ago
      We do push back on bad decisions and decide on new technologies so we do have a say in this (unless shadow IT works around us).
  • OutOfHerean hour ago
    I have always hated working wherever they use Windows. The management at such places doesn't mind if the workers suffocate. It is a filter for where not to work, although not the only one.
  • sghiassy3 hours ago
    I use Arch btw
    • throw_a_grenade2 hours ago
      Good point. If I were facing the problems they have, I'd surely would change the distribution.
  • reactordev4 hours ago
    Aww so sad! Too bad they are locked into the ecosystem and Microsoft isn’t listening.
    • netsharc3 hours ago
      There must be a term for entrapping people in their ecosystem and then delivering a shittier and shittier product... Doing an Adobe?

      Something like Toxic Partner Syndrome, or "John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane behavior".

      • Hizonneran hour ago
        Anybody in business who uses the word "partner" in its current sense plots at heart to add the "toxic".