Microsoft ♥️ Linux

Who is making these decisions and what is their come to blood ratio, because I'm reckoning it's fairly high.

I think Firefox does that just as well, and also allows you to edit them.

I see they are doing this and I can't help but wonder, to what end? I dont know if its just the current internet echo chamber I occupy but it seems to me that its a fairly universally disliked proposition/concept to continue heaping LLMs into everything.

"People hate it when we force copilot and AI stuff on them, what should we do? Folks hate it so much they're actively leaving our OS!"

"Okay, hear me out: Add more."

I used Edge for business tasks. Not like work task, or normal browsing, etc. But figured if someone was going to send me an excel document, if I say “well I opened it in edge" when it breaks, it avoids some problems.

But with the latest updates they've really been "Microsofting" it hardcore. Chrome dialogs with broken buttons, impossible to use combined tabs behaviour, dead end settings pages with no controls, crashes, slower and slower browsing...

It's becoming such a disaster I can't even use it for that anymore. Now this? Thank god Firefox is still around. Legit hearing people talking about it again...

We wouldn‘t even need it for that if their Windows store versions of browsers weren‘t so terrible.

Companies that use Outlook use Microslop Teams for communication anyway. I work for one of those and honestly? Not my problem. I can‘t make them use open source software and I‘m not paid enough to convince them.

Why? Some people like living on the edge.

To be clear, Microsoft ♥️ Money. Azure would be dead in the water if they didn't support Linux. Web development is Linux development, so their platform would be dead for web development if they didn't do WSL. They do only the Linux they have to.

It is sadly becoming the standard in business settings. If your IT department is setting Edge as standard, there is not a lot that you can do

The company I work for makes us. We have chrome but they're constantly threatening to remove it and if you have a technical issue with something web based and you're not using edge IT won't help you.

Meh, Edge is no worse than Chrome at this point (because it's chromium now)... Which is still mediocre, but it's not horrible

No amount of processing power can beat bad code.

I see more and more open office style docs, and also pdfs.

My company laptop had both Edge and Chrome installed the first time I started it. Edge is the default and the one with an icon on the taskbar. I'm convinced that most people, at least outside engineering, will use Edge as their main browser.

Luckily for me I have the "Local admin" access so the first thing I do is to download Firefox and set it up as my default browser. On the time reporting site I get warnings that my browser is not Chrome, but it still works without any problems.

It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I'm interviewing for tells me I'd have to use Windows, but clearly that's not a privilege all professions have

My place of work didn't block Chrome or Firefox but they are making it difficult to use.

They literally just wiped the Saved Passwords and Bookmarks off our PCs because...???

Didn't touch Edge, the "supported" browser.

How is it not twice as bad?

You get all the telemetry of Google and then Microsoft shenanigans.

All they had to do was make a copilot app that you install from the Windows store. Nobody would have disliked them for that. They probably could have even pre-installed it and people would have only groaned.

But, no, they have to just keep pushing and pushing, regardless of how many times you say no. As Rossmann says: A rapist mentality.

Ugh I never looked in the top right corner of outlook till today.....there it is, that piece of shit. Why would I need a goddamn summary of an email I'm already reading

You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis

That's a depressingly probable reason even though you meant it as techno-babble. It is actually possible that the machine doesn't have enough NPU power!

isn’t it time to get off Windows?

I'm already using Linux everywhere I can both personally and at work, heck even my work laptop is running Linux. The blocker on my work desktop is that the remote access tool I use multiple times a day doesn't have a functional Linux version.

I could switch my work desktop over to Apple but I've never liked MacOS.