kadu

These immutable distros always create a thousand little problems like that.

That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.

Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.

The thing with “just works” in monopolies is that it eventually stops working

This gets accelerated when the company starts changing the product just for the sake of having to change something to meet some OKR, or because they need to find a way to incorporate the newest marketing buzz (cloud, AI, etc).

The Office suite was simple to use and performant. Nowadays I watched a college professor struggle for 8 minutes trying to figure out how to save a file locally rather than saving it to OneDrive, because they redesigned everything around that. It also takes an obnoxiously long time to launch, it keeps popping up some Copilot button in inconvenient places too.

The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.

Then I remember there are adults in this world using Outlook to keep their agendas, paying for MSN news, people BOUGHT MEDIA AND SOFTWARE from the built in stores Microsoft created and abandoned. I can’t imagine it.