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    Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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    1725 points taubek | 11 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source | bottom
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    oliwarner ◴[27 Mar 23 07:25 UTC] No.35323842[source]▶
    I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

    I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

    Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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    fxtentacle ◴[27 Mar 23 07:42 UTC] No.35323965[source]▶
    Thanks to Valve and the Steam Deck, all games that I care about now run on Linux.

    I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine. But apart from that, this year has finally been the year of the Linux Desktop for me. And 3 months later, I can say that it's been a bliss :)

    PopOS feels exceptionally responsive. Looking back, it's hard to justify why Windows was feeling so sluggish on a PCI5 NVME with 64GB RAM and high-end GPU...

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    1. miyuru ◴[27 Mar 23 07:56 UTC] No.35324049[source]▶
    > I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes

    Any reason for not using Google sheets or similar?

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    2. samtho ◴[27 Mar 23 08:13 UTC] No.35324154[source]▶
    Sometimes it’s not up to the user if the company they work/contract for requires it.
    3. dzink ◴[27 Mar 23 08:13 UTC] No.35324157[source]▶
    It is woefully behind if you have real number crunching to do.
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    4. YurgenJurgensen ◴[27 Mar 23 09:55 UTC] No.35324741[source]▶
    If you need to be doing 'real number crunching', you probably shouldn't be using any spreadsheet. Excel is not MySQL or Jupyter.
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    5. michaelt ◴[27 Mar 23 10:49 UTC] No.35325051{3}[source]▶
    I think the Google Sheets devs would agree with you that spreadsheets shouldn't be used for anything serious. That's why it's missing such basic features as an X/Y scatter plot with a line - which is trivial in any other spreadsheet program.

    Personally when I have a few dozen data points and I want an X/Y plot with a line, I find a spreadsheet is a better tool than MySQL.

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    6. Takennickname ◴[27 Mar 23 12:05 UTC] No.35325586{3}[source]▶
    MySQL and Jupyter don't have data visualization. Or are you saying the options are a) use google sheets, or b) learn to program
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    7. anthk ◴[27 Mar 23 12:37 UTC] No.35325876{4}[source]▶
    Gnuplot.
    8. empyrrhicist ◴[27 Mar 23 13:00 UTC] No.35326128{4}[source]▶
    Jupyter absolutely includes data visualization, or rather all the major languages it supports do. But honestly, yes. Complicated work in excel is programming, it's just completely undebuggable since the logic is spread out invisibly in multiple grid dimensions, sheets, and macros.

    Give me a Jupyter notebook written in a language I don't yet know any day before you give me a complicated excel monstrosity.

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    9. oneeyedpigeon ◴[27 Mar 23 15:19 UTC] No.35327837{4}[source]▶
    Yup, I pretty much guarantee that Google Sheets is not intended for people who need X/Y scatter plots. I would theorise that 99% of Excel users don't require that feature either.
    10. tracker1 ◴[27 Mar 23 15:40 UTC] No.35328111{5}[source]▶
    Not a Python guy at all, but a couple of my coworkers use Jupyter notebooks a lot, and it's definitely very cool.
    11. fxtentacle ◴[27 Mar 23 16:16 UTC] No.35328537[source]▶
    I need to send out Excel files to clients and they need to display 100% perfect when the client opens them with their Microsoft Excel. So using Google Sheets or LibreOffice is a risk, because while they work 99% of the time, they tend to break with power-user Excel features like integrated resource links.