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    Hi. Microsoft employee here. That’s happening because we don’t give a shit and we are being replaced by folks from India

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      I hope you’re having an amazing day! I am a windows fan and user, just like YOU! I will do my very best to help you solve your issue. I know you have had a bad experience and it must have been very hard for you. But rest assured, i will help you to the BEST of my ability!

      Please try running the troubleshooter.

      (troubleshooter doesn’t fix anything)

      Try reinstalling windows. Goodbye!

      And then they fuck off and stop reponding.

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        This is every forum response on MS forums, it’s infuriating.

        “I have super specific error code with super specific driver that was changed with super specific windows update.”

        “Me too!”

        “Same, here’s some more info from event viewer”

        “Maybe try uninstalling the device”

        “Uninstall my WiFi card?”

        “Hi I’m bob from Microsoft you should run sfc scan now and that will fix it”

        “That didn’t fix it”

        “Ok here’s how to reinstall windows”

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        It’s better than the Linux Mint support forums that blocks VPN users and the power users just deny that they’re blocking VPN users.

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        And then try DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth and DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth that’ll get rid of the 9GB file for sure. If not, reinstall everything again and again and again.

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        Does it fix anything btw? I’m just wondering how it does work after all

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          If I remember correctly, it scans system files and replaces broken/corrupted ones. It can work on some issues, but it’s not a fix all thing.

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          It should fix system files that are not in expected state (I assume corruption, missing, wrong permissions etc.). Maybe it was more useful in the past, but after trying it couple times around 8 years ago and never seeing any benefit, I have never thought of using it since.

          My colleague said it fixed some random issue once or twice after he was out of ideas.

          If system is truly messed up, it’s often faster and more reliable to just reinstall it, especially if you do not have much custom config.

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      As former MSFT employee who just got replaced by India… I’m kind of relieved I’m gone. Working for them felt like working for the bad guys

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        What did you expect? That corps would solve climate change or what?

        The pigs on the very top are secured and that’s enough

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      As someone working in the Microsoft ecosystem at an MSP, we seriously wonder what the fuck goes on over there. We’re supposed to defend everything y’all do which is getting really hard to justify without sounding like idiots.

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        Hey there. Learn how to stop carrying. A job doesn’t define who you are and you’re at least free to be anyone outside the working hours.

        I learned to be a cog in this inhumane machine in exchange for a paycheck

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            Access Restricted

            Thanks mate, I’m not American and although I have money, I can’t get to a psychiatrist.

            Don’t worry, it’s not emotional.

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            JFC… “Leadership” should do it for the team but leave this wagie alone, yall are disgusting

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            What is wrong with you that makes you think this is an appropriate response to “I am planning a suicide”? As somebody who has stared down the business end of a 12 gauge solution, you’re frankly despicable.

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                This makes no logical sense lol. OP says he’s going to commit suicide, his comment gets upvotes, therefore his comment is sarcasm?? Right or wrong this is just an awful way to decide. How others react to something isn’t indicative of that thing’s original intent… That should be pretty obvious.

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        Not everyone has the luxury of choosing where they work. People need to eat. Are some people complacent? Sure. But that doesnt mean every person working at Microsoft is a horrible person.

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      For personal computing, sure. For enterprise environment, eh not really.

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        With the amount of money corporations and governments have spent on Microsoft — the last decade alone — they could have filled the gaps in linux and the annual cost for ITSM would be significantly cheaper. Instead they’ve spent more and have grown far more dependent on proprietary software, they don’t own or control, to manage their core business ops and data; the longer their dependence on SaaS, the more they’ll pay.

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          Yep, Imagine how good the software would be oif we had all the governments and enterprise paying into open source instead of Microsofts pocket.

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            there’s

            1. US government, with a mandate to use Windows for the same reason that Boeing CEOs of the past decade aren’t in jail for hundredfold manslaughter
            2. other governments, where again, “shitty corporate IT” applies, but with s/corporate/administrative

            Even worse: governments using Windows are absolutely giving the US services direct access to all their confidential files & communication.

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        Yes corpo IT doesn’t have the skills other than buy the easiest options and raise tickets to vendors.

        Those people choose to live the techno-dystopia for the sheer convenience of it.

        They will just copy whatever the rest of the industry does.

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        Or if you’re into online gaming.

        I have to fend off linux nerds with a bat. The bottom line is “that’s cool and all but there are a lot of things that I can’t do with linux and I’m not willing to make that big of a change”

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              I heard there were issues with those, but not sure on the specifics

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                Most games with anti-cheat refuse to run on Linux even if the anti-cheat itself supports it. And some anti-cheats just don’t work on Linux anyway, I believe the ones that do only support it by just not running when they detect they’re on Linux. If you’re interested you can check which games are supported here: https://areweanticheatyet.com/ but bear in mind it could change at any time (for example Rockstar broke GTAV a few weeks ago)

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            Pretty much every multiplayer online game will at best lose its shit and not run, and at worst, ban you instantaneously if you try to access it with Linux

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          And the main issue there tends to be anti-cheat, and that’s a chicken-and-egg problem:

          • game devs won’t support Linux/macOS because players don’t use Linux/macOS
          • players won’t use Linux/macOS because game devs don’t support it

          The more people we can convince to use Linux as a daily driver, the more game devs will notice and the more likely they are to support Linux. We’ve seen a lot of game devs make an effort since the Steam Deck became a thing, and it’s always getting better.

          It’s totally fine to dual boot, but spending some amount of time gaming on Linux (where possible) helps send the message that Linux support is wanted and is profitable.

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      Man, I’ve been trying to migrate to Linux as my daily driver desktop over the last week. I love Linux passionately. But multi-monitor and 2.5Gb/s NIC support is just a disaster, basically to the point of completely unusable. It’s so frustrating. It keeps pushing me back to Windows, because Windows just works when it comes to hardware.

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        For multi-monitor: use Wayland. For 2.5Gbps Ethernet NICs, they never work properly on any system in regard to performance, but I presume you are referencing the subpar Realtek NICs not connecting? Depending on the distro, you likely won’t have the driver and/or firmware package preinstalled to make it work.

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          Yup, and installing the proper driver is usually pretty simple. If you post the hardware (or just the output of lspci) and your distro, we can probably find the package for you.

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        I run two multimonitor systems with different DPIs and 2.5gbe and they both run great. What issues are you hitting?

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        Multi monitor issues are purely on your distro - and are pretty easy to fix. At least for me on arch and bspwm (I haven’t touched a Debian based install or full DE in years), setup was as easy as making my randr script run when my WM starts up, I imagine it’s even easier with a full DE.

        For 2.5 gb/s internet… I’ve never run into any problems or even had to configure anything. Fresh barebones arch install with lan, 2.5 gb/s out of the box. If you’re getting less (my guess is 1 gb/s?) it’s almost certainly a hardware issue (motherboard/network card is only 1 gb/s, port on router and/or switch is 1 gb/s, etc)

        If you’re having trouble with something, I highly recommend searching for the problem after checking a relevant wiki (archwiki is an awesome resource if you’re on arch). If you’re having issues you can’t find problems to, feel free to shoot me a message and I’ll try to help you out. I’m no expert, but I’ve been exclusively on Linux for 3 years (since I graduated and no longer was required to be on windows at all) and haven’t run into any issues that I didn’t find a relatively easy fix for)

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      This is very true. I remember back in the day I tossed my old drive full of viruses and windows and I started using Linux. That was 1998? No, it was definitely 2000 already. That was a really easy erase. I guess you could also just reuse the same drive. But that one has the click of death, so no.

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      There was a former employee that talked about it, they moved from actually testing on real hardware to automated VM testing and started missing a lot more

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    You could fit an entire modern OS in that space, together with all the drivers, a web browser, an office suite, graphics editor, an IDE and a compatibility layer for running Windows applications.

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      Yup, my Linux install is a bit over 10GB, which honestly surprises me and means I probably should clean stuff up, because usually my Linux base install is around 8GB. After a quick look, I have several old versions of compilers and runtimes that can be cleaned up w/o breaking anything.

      I can’t imagine thinking that an 8GB cache is fine, and that’s nothing compared to the size of the rest of the OS…

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      Yeah, but don’t get in the way of the Windows evil, Linux savior movement here on lemmy or you’ll get downvoted to oblivion. Pointing out simple facts apparently means you’re a shill.

      At least that’s what I’ve seen in all the Windows posts over the last couple months. Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

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        Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

        People got fed up with Microsoft putting undeletable 9-gigabyte cache files on their systems? And AI junk that screenshots everything you do? And surveillance? And making the OS more hostile and worse in general with every release?

        Lemmy exists because people got fed up with the corporate analogue. You’ll see a lot of the same sentiment in other matters too.

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          I’m just pointing out that it’s a sudden and extreme change in commentary with no ramp up. The kind of thing that in other contexts, like politics, often comes from something like a coordinated attack or disinformation scheme.

          Real world testing of a new propaganda campaign system on a topic most users don’t give a shit about (Windows vs Linux), in a niche corner of the internet (Lemmy), isn’t exactly an unlikely scenario.

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            Nah, this is just what it’s been like from the moment Lemmy got momentum. The fediverse is pretty fundamentally aligned with the goals and interests of the same people who are part of the FOSS and Linux philosophy. From where I joined more than a year ago, it’s been more or less the same.

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              If that’s the case and I’ve somehow managed to just never see any of those threads until recently…

              They might want to know that constantly saying “Windows bad, Linux good” in every thread doesn’t convert people, it just gets annoying. That in turn makes people dislike the group and dismiss what they say without a second thought, even if they’re right.

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                You seem to misunderstand. Here on the Fediverse, Linux users are NOT such a minority as on the rest of the Internet. Most people here do not need “converting”. They already have. Again, you’re not on Reddit or Twitter. You are literally surrounded by open source enthusiasts.

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                  Oh I don’t misunderstand at all. They’re preaching to the choir and thinking they’re doing something. Like idiots.

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                  Posting as if your choice of OS is inherently superior to other choices is just pathetic.

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                Actually, I saw enough comments about people switching to Linux that I finally said “what the hell” and took the plunge! Very glad I did, as I read more and more crap Microsoft is doing.

                And if you don’t like comments that won’t change anything and just annoy people…maybe you should reevaluate your bellyaching 😄

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            You’re in a thread about MS fucking up and you’re annoyed that people are… [Checks notes]… complaining about MS fucking up? What exactly did you come here expecting?

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            Hahahaha this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Lemmy being extremely pro-Linux is not new. Hell, you admitted it, this is a niche corner of the internet that’s based around an open source alternative to a popular platform

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            I remember the browser wars, that’s when microsoft exposed themselves how shitty they were to the world IMO.

            That’s a long time ago. Years and years.

            The ramp up started then, IMO.

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        Yeah, but

        Actually no, but don’t let either of you failing to read the article get in the way of making your smug little screed.

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      After trying Zorin and having a host of issues, I’m slowly replacing that dual boot option with Mint. Excited to give it a shot.

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      i installed a dual boot for mint a little bit bac and just recently wiped out my windows boot partition. could not be happier. nobody try to sell me on any other distros I’m still figuring out what a wayland is

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      How is fractional scaling on Mint? On Ubuntu 24.04 it’s really crap (slow, blurry, flickering cursor, weird artifacts etc)

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          Okay so how is it with Cinammon, mate xfce? I know it’s crap with Wayland and Xorg especially with nvidia drivers.

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            Wayland KDE plasma scales great! Currently running unstable on NIXOS flawlessly on two different hardware platforms.

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              Good to hear! I surely will give it a try, I’ve used nixos as my work distro for a little bit last year but they forced us to switch to Ubuntu.

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              I had some wonkiness on KDE 6 on Wayland a bit ago, but I think it’s resolved now (I ended up disabling scaling at the time). Basically, my problem was that I had two monitors, and dragging an application from one monitor to the other resulted in really weird scaling, though launching it on that same monitor was totally fine (specific application was LibreOffice, but I’m sure there are others).

              I think it’s working better now, but it’s certainly new-ish to Linux, so there could still be hiccups.

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            I have had no issues with desktop apps with AMD integrated graphics. Tried 150%, 175%, and 200% scaling. Running Mint with Cinnamon.

            Games will sometimes run at 100%, though. Making their text tiny.

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    Reading all this makes me sad; and I’m relieved to have switched to Mac years ago…

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      Yeah, I’ve been avoiding this stuff the past few months by only letting my laptop online for quick essentials things. It’s windows, I can’t replace it with a mac so it’s gotta be linux. Most online stuff I can do on my phone. But I can’t put it off forever; I’m going to have to try the linux dual boot thing sooner or later. I’ve been putting it off because I’ve not used linux since the 90s and I really don’t have time to re-learn. Gotta be done tho.

      Edit - your semicolon inspired me to try one of my own!

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          I’ve been daily driving it for quite a while now and have had zero issues even with constant updates.

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        I never used linux and was surprised how easy and almost seamless the transiton was.

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        Just a warning, Windows doesn’t always play nice when installed on the same drive as Linux. If you have two drives, try installing them on different ones. If not, there’s a risk that a Windows update can mess some things up. Usually it’s fine, just I’ve had issues with it and so have others.

        Anyway, Linux is really easy now. I would recommend something with KDE, like the Fedora KDE spin as an example. KDE is very familiar to Windows users, though very customizable if you want too. It should be a very easy transition, as long as you go in not expecting it to be identical to Windows. You have to meet it where it is, which does require relearning a few things.

        If you have questions feel free to ask. There’s also plenty of other users on Lemmy who would be happy to help.

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        dual boot is very simple and stable, I’ve been using Ubuntu / windows 10 for years after following a 10-minute YouTube video and basically only switch over to windows for games.

        It’s a great setup overall If there are some windows applications you prefer or are more convenient.

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        I have nothing to add to this conversation, but properly used semicolons always make me smile.