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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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1725 points taubek | 1 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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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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sofixa ◴[27 Mar 23 08:19 UTC] No.35324200[source]▶
> I sadly still need to use Excel in a VM sometimes, because the text import crashes in Wine.

Wouldn't Excel Online be enough to do the trick? It's supposedly feature complete.

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1. dagw ◴[27 Mar 23 08:32 UTC] No.35324285[source]▶
It's supposedly feature complete.

It is not. For one thing it is missing macros, power pivot, many solvers and support for third-party add-ons. It also screws up some visual things like text placement and the like.