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submitted 1 day ago by ranovich@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Fuck Windows and Microsoft really. Today I had a meeting call through Teams first thing in the morning so I start my computer 10 minutes earlier than the call because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot and for Windows to be responsive. Windows decides to apply some past update so it takes 2 or 3 additional minutes which is fine, I am just in time for the meeting call. Well, 10 minutes into the call a notification in windows appears that the computer will restart in 5 minutes and with no option to postpone WTF. Imagine this was an important sales call, an emergency or something else critical, I might be fucked. The computer restarted I started my linux personal computer and I connect my bluetooth headphones to the it but no, they were connected to the Windows computer while it was restarting so I could not just call from it as the microphone started failing a few weeks ago. (I will just replace it, thanks Framework). So fuck my company for using Windows. Fuck Windows for developing such a nightmare OS with so shitty code. This was for sure a patch for a critical vulnerability, like always. And WTF this is Windows for a business, have a fucking super stable branch that does not need patches every other day. I don't care about your updates to the shitty weather widget, just have a fucking working operating system that let's me do my work. Fuck Microsoft monopolistic practices that keeps people and businesses from switching to Linux. There is no better publicity for Linux that Windows itself. Most Linux/GNU distros just let you choose when to update.

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[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot

What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 9 points 23 hours ago

My one year old Dell Latitude with a fast SSD needs about 8 minutes every morning to boot windows and start all that security crap that company IT has put on there.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

Haha that's on your shitty IT dept. I'm sure the OS has very little to do with it

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

If windows didn't have such horrible security and a kernel shoddily stacked on top of an MS-DOS base, IT depts wouldn't need to install very invasive software like crowdstrike. Windows 11 also only boots up quick if it's your daily driver and you have fast boot enabled (which isn't always desirable).

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago

Windows hasn't been based on DOS for almost 30 years.

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This. I have a mobile workstation with a 12th gen i7, 32gb RAM, and NVME SSD but it's not uncommon to be waiting multiple minutes for boot due to all the pre-installed spyware from IT. It takes up half the RAM at all times and severely limits the performance for many non-whitelisted apps to the point I can't even run Firefox smoothly on it anymore.

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?

If it’s anything like my company a “New” desktop is the managers old desktop.

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