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A windows dialogue saying "Select an app to open this ‘msteams’ link. The suggested apps are Microsoft teams, with a “new” subtext, and MicroSoft Teams, with the word new in its icon.

  • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
    23·
    17 hours ago

    I had a lady at work the other day that had 3 different versions of Outlook and she opened the 2 of the 3 that just don’t work. An update replaced the desktop shortcut and added a new worse version.

    • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
      132·
      12 hours ago

      And yet people think Linux (mint) is so hard to use and absolutely no replacement for windows.

      Linux: go to app store, click install. Done

      Windows: go to app store, click install done.

      Literally the same process, only Linux doesn’t randomly update your apps and make them crash. My windows installation at work literally had 3 outlook variants at some point (just like you mentioned) and none of them worked.

      I literally never was forced to use the terminal in Linux (well I did but not because I had to) and in windows I have to do shitty things in the register to get back functions (like that terrible decision to hide the “refresh” in the context menu).

      I genuinely think MS has gone down the enshittification route and I’m not just preaching to the choir. I have every day (sadly have to use it at work) annoyances with windows and Linux just works…