Sorry for a rant against Windows in a linux community, though this feels like best place to rant.

I recently started work on Windows, and I expected everything to just work well. After all, that’s the point of Windows! It is the first-class citizen, where things work out-of-the-box.

Yet my experience wasn’t so great.

  1. Printers, the bane of IT. HP has dedicated drivers to it, which they should support well. It should JUST work, right? Right?? No, it randomly fails to detect printers, says a printer is off, reports missing papers when it has enough, fails to print a normal document while being able to print test pages. It also seems like driver-OS communication is not quite great, as they often give different status.
  2. While in a zoom meeting, I plugged in my earphone. Then, zoom froze. Really, how can plugging an earphone cause a freeze? Even quitting zoom and re-entering did not work. In the end, I had to turn my computer off and on again, and couldn’t use my earphone. It has been quite embarrassing and enraging experience. What a disruption from something which should work out-of-the-box…
  3. PuTTY and WinSCP is way more clunky than ssh in terminal. I don’t like the GUI with decades old visual, with confusing settings here and there. Each app having separate terminal turns me off as well.
  4. Windows 10 does have multiple virtual desktop support. Yet funnily enough, clipboard contents are separate for each virtual desktop. Who thought this is a good idea??

Basically, hardware support is still hit-or-miss with Windows (I thought this was linux-only issue), and connection to linux server is not so stellar. How can people love these?

  • myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website
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    9 days ago

    I dislike Windows as much as the next guy, and recognize this is just a rant. However:

    1. Might be more HP’s fault than Windows
    2. Might be mire Zoom’s fault than Windows (though Windows audio is a gongshow)
    3. Just use OpenSSH from Command Prompt or Powershell. It should be preinstalled I think but if not can be installed through Programs and Features) in Windows 10 and above.
    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Ah HP printer drivers, my favorite form of self-inflicted malware.

      My favorite HP sucks story happened many a year ago. The boss’s shitty HP multi-function POS died, and we got him a nice Brother instead, and then went to uninstall the drivers.

      Somehow, and the reason for this is totally unknown to anyone other than HP engineers, the driver ‘uninstaller’ decided that today’s hilarity would be that it was going to uninstall… everything.

      After about 15 minutes of the drive churning away I got concerned, rebooted it, and found that nearly 75% of everything on it had been deleted by the uninstaller.

      No fucking idea, but that was a fun thing to explain and then fix.