• Sunkblake@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I got a survey question from windows feedbackhub on my work computer yesterday, asking if i would recommend windows. And i thought fine ill answer this seriously with real reasons why.

    I wrote a long explanation from my own experiences helping people and using it, half way through i shit you not, the feedbackhub froze and crashed.

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      2 days ago

      It probably detected a certain number of flagged words or phrases and knew it was gonna be really negative feedback and “crashed”

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        It wasn’t even that negative.

        Would you recommend windows to family and friends?

        No, 90% of those i help (ages 10-70) with computers and tech dont need a computer, they can use their phone for everything. A phone can pay bills, contact friends and family even print documents or pictures just fine and they have everything they need and want.

        The only reason someone even wants a PC today is to play games or they need it for work and in those cases i usually don’t need to recommend them an os because they probably don’t have any other options, because they are comfortable windows or mac.

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      You have learned the lesson. The lesson to Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C (select all and copy) your text into a separate document elsewhere before hitting send. In fact you should be doing that periodically anyway because browsers and browser-based apps are more likely than they should be to stop working unexpectedly.

      And if the form disallows this action you’ll have to get creative with the browser tools to modify the page that way instead.

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        22 hours ago

        You can install a clipboard manager tool like CopyQ or just enable the one built into windows and use that as temp storage for your text

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      I don’t usually leave feedback. I have done it maybe six times when I’ve been really pissed. In two of those times I’ve gotten “server error” or similar after writing a long rant and pressing “send”

      Seems to be a really important and respected part of any service.