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Microsoft's new Outlook takes more than 10 seconds to open an email, while Outlook Classic opens instantly on Windows (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 60 points 3 months ago (24 children)

Microsoft is such garbage these days. My coworkers and I are constantly complaining about all of our Office software that doesn’t function the way it used to and instead only makes our jobs more difficult.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago* (22 children)

    If only managers/IT could see how amazing Linux is.

    The productivity gains I'd have from the speed of Linux on my work machine would be noticeable. Plus my mood would greatly improve.

    Windows (especially slop 11) cannot handle how much I do at once. My brain is faster than the computer now 😅

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    The average office worker cannot differentiate between a file explorer and a web browser. I wish corporate jobs could switch to Linux over Microsoft.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    You are correct. Explaining our server vs onedrive/teams/SharePoint is a losing battle with most of their eyes glazing over if you try to explain.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Oh that's alright, everyone in my office just sticks everything in SharePoint. It's got up to 13 terabytes now and they're already whining that that's not enough. I think they're hosting 4K blu-ray rips in there.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Nah, it's probably a <1mb spreadsheet that's updated daily by multiple people that has never had version control settings enabled and it's taking up taking up 10tb.

    SharePoint: this is the way.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Oooh very accurate. There is some "mandatory" signing sheet for reading the monthly safety info but anyone can edit it and most people are incompetent with computers. Took only 2 months for my name to get deleted by somebody and I just...never signed it again. Nobody noticed.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I have no idea how IT is taught in schools these days, but there should be a lesson somewhere entitled Excel is not a database, don't use it as a database.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Uhh I think they strap an iPad to a kids head and say worship lord zucc and musky? Seems that way.

    I dont think kids learn real computer skills anymore. Pull one 14 year old out of school and have them partition a hard drive. Guarantee they can't.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I switched to Linux a few weeks ago on my work laptop. My colleagues are amazed at how fast my Gradle builds are finished. My mood also improved by a lot!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Thats great! I'm amazed at companies that would allow this. I cannot imagine ours doing it. Our IT dept hardly knows what Linux even is.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We allow people to have Linux devices or Macs if they want them but they are not our responsibility to fix if they break. If your laptop won't connect to the shared drive because it doesn't support FAT32 or something, that's your problem to fix.

    In the past it would have at least been best endeavours to try and get everything up and running again but the company's grown too much and the IT department hasn't so I haven't got time to do anything that isn't strictly speaking my job.

    People are always complaining about the IT department but generally the issue is that the IT department is under funded and understaffed.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Our office is slowly making the transition. Its been fantastic slowly getting rid of IIS, windows boxes, etc...

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What are they transitioning to? It seems difficult to fully escape MicroSlop in the office environment and get everyone onboard, especially when my IT group double checks everything they do with CoPilot first. 😡

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Gross.

    Thankfully our management is wary of slop bots (though they allow use of it in scenarios where you aren't inputting data. Which is like every scenario soo, its useless) This however upsets the Young's that think everything should be done with slopbots (spoiler, their work is shit)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    I keep seeing people say this and it's like have you actually ever used Linux in a production environment?

    Linux is great on single computers systems and of course on servers but trying to manage hundreds of desktops, laptops, iPhones, iPads, random Androids you have to support because C suit, and PoS till systems that run on modified Windows XP and you realise you can't just switch everything over to Linux.

    Because Linux doesn't have a clue how to support any of that. As much as Windows is trash and I hate it, there is no replacement for Active Directory or SCCM, even Apple don't have such a robust support system.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Half of the stuff you mentioned already doesn't use Windows.

    I've seen places able to include Linux dev machine in their fleet. Not doing it is either laziness, incompetence, or understaffing.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No it's not it's pragmatism. Is it worth putting in all the effort to support Linux in a corporate environment that mostly runs on office suite applications?

    If it was a 30 minute drop in solution then yeah by all means we can experiment with it and we can move over gradually but if it's going to require an extensive project it's not worth it. People complaining about this stuff don't work in the corporate IT world, they live in idealised fantasy land.

    If Linux was a sensible solution it would have been adopted years ago. No more licence fees, that gets the stuffed shirts happy.

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