I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux But it seems like a lot of companies still choose to use Windows over anything else. It runs like crap, and the latest version, Windows 11, is shockingly bad. There are so many frustrating things that come standard with Windows 11 that have no place in a business context. For example, Microsoft shopping. This comes loaded on your Windows 11 browser, edge. I couldn’t find a way to turn it off, so it’s just there. Why in the world would I need that on my work computer? Also, Microsoft start news or MSN is heavily embedded into the edge browser. Lots of trackers and personalization features which again, should not be included in a business computer. It tracks every website I go to, recommends ads and personalizations to me, I can’t download any other browser because this is the standard one that comes on the computer
The operating system itself is also incredibly frustrating. There’s a context menu when you right click things that you cannot get rid of because your company sets policy, and now you have to have a stupid show more options menu every time you click something, so try and imagine a few hundred to a few thousand clicks a day having to navigate with that, very frustrating. Also, Windows start menu search. You can disable it on a personal PC but on a business computer without admin rights, You can’t disable the start menu web search. So it searches the web anytime you type anything in and makes it extremely difficult to find your files… Everything requires a workaround. Turning off copilot, turning off context menu, turning off web search, turning off user account control which is not possible on business PC but on personal PC it is, still really frustrating though. Turning off copilot, turning off Cortana, getting rid of the search box on your taskbar.
Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind
Hahahahahaha
Clearly you haven’t worked in a business with more than a few users, with the simplest of requirements.
Come manage a 20-user environment where you need business-standard apps to interoperate seamlessly with every client you have.
Now expand that to 10,000 users.
Let’s see you run CAD on a Linux box.
Let’s see you open/edit/return an excel file without fucking it up. Especially because most of such files will have tables, and Libre/Open office doesn’t support tables.
Which Linux distro you going to use on laptops, that has power management that isn’t painful to configure? Or that even works?
Which distro supports all the hardware you already own, out of the box? Manpower to setup systems, and figure out new ways to do things, isn’t free.
Then you’re talking about re-training staff to use a completely different OS and tools, when they have approaches that have been used for decades, across generations of users.
On and on it goes.
One should understand why a fence exists, before thinking of removing it. You clearly don’t understand business if you think it’s that simple.
Most of those business tools can be run in a web browser. CAD not so much. But so help me if you make me download Microsoft office to modify a spreadsheet!