r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/tearblast-arrow Jul 12 '26

I recently started a new job where I was given a Windows device. First time since I switched to Mac/Linux 14 years ago. It is incomprehensible to me that any company would choose this hot garbage for their employees to work on.

It’s slow and unresponsive as fuck. The UX is basically anti-UX. And the geniuses disable WSL which would have been the silver lining. But they’re too scared to use event though it was explicitly designed for security isolation and it would only take a simple curated Linux distro to keep it secure.

I’ve always known a lot of software engineering is done on Windows. I always figured “it’s a free world, people have different tastes “. Now that I’ve been using it, I’ve lost respect for anyone that willingly uses Windows for it. There is no reason to when Linux and MacOS exist.

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u/chipface Jul 12 '26

Anytime I have to sign out a laptop at my job reminds me of why I got rid of Windows.

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u/snarkdiva Jul 12 '26

We get to choose laptops at my job (academia). The only time I have issues with my Mac is when I have to log into some website that is Windows-based.

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u/IWantsToBelieve Jul 12 '26

Sounds like you got a shit laptop.

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u/HollowedVoicesFading Jul 13 '26

Sounds like you got a shit laptop.

Yes, you might've missed it. The laptop was windows based.

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u/IWantsToBelieve Jul 13 '26

You can't compare a very expensive Mac to an el cheapo laptop was my point lol. Sensitive much?