I’m a teacher and our division just “upgraded” to W11 with a new version of outlook that is basically a web app on desktop. Several times a day my laptop comes to a complete crawl while Teams decides to open itself. Can’t open or close programs, Firefox won’t register mouse clicks, nothing. Graphical glitches appear al the time with menu bars and task bars disappearing regularly, requiring force quitting the app or logging out of the desktop.

When I first switched to Linux I assumed my experience would be like this. But now it’s the other way around.

Rant over.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Software neutrality in the entire public sector should be a law. Leverage of proprietary software and media like professor published book scams are criminal extortion.

    • maxprime@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      Yeah they transferred all of our network files held on our own private servers over to Teams. I didn’t even know that teams did file storage. I guess through one drive.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It doesn’t do storage. It puts it in SharePoint somewhere. Where? Nobody knows. You may find it someday and bookmark it. It will also show up in OneDrive and maybe even Outlook! Because Microsoft doesn’t believe in your concepts of “location” man.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        Everything is through OneDrive. Even stuff that doesn’t need to be. Desktop shortcuts…really?

        Also - I hate Teams, refuse to use it. The one time I did use it for some irrelevant confirmation message, it stuck and now not only does it load every time I log on (to get closed immediately), it also has the history of that one message. That I’ve tried to delete, and it keeps coming back.

      • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        You can access basically everything O365 through Teams, this is one of the factors making Teams such a shitshow.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      People say shit like this, then move over to the thread about Russian maintainers, and lose their shit about it…

      These are one in the same. Sanctions have been imposed on Russia because working with Russian people/companies is a national security risk at the moment.

      And yes, I know that the Russian people are not the Russian government. But one thing many of you don’t seem to grasp (perhaps due to the massive holes in basic understanding that your STEM degree left you with?) is that, in an authoritarian country where numerous people have been thrown out of windows for less, you cannot trust that the government is not actively interfering. In fact, given recent history, it would be pretty surprising if they weren’t.

      Would you put in a backdoor if your government (very credibly) threatened to kill you and/or your family if you didn’t? I can’t say that I wouldn’t.