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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Windows Phone as a product wasn't that bad. Even it had some good features which were way ahead of its time. They took some bad decisions and pulled the plug too early.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

The video is right for all the wrong reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

May Linux overthrow Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Imma disagree since they’re part of that top 3 shuffle for most valuable companies on the planet BUT I still don’t like them lol I did try the windows phone though when those were a thing. It was solid but lacked app support so I caved before the 30 day period and returned it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Well, aside from keyboards and mice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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 5 points 5 hours 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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Allegedly another company has licensed the designs forom Microsoft and we're supposed to start offering them later this year... Although there isn't exactly much runway left this year and the only articles talk about the announcement so in January so who knows.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/discontinued-and-unreleased-microsoft-peripherals-revived-by-licensing-deal/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago