Linux people, *please* understand this. Sometimes people need to run Windows.
They’re allowed to complain about Windows ads, or tracking, or any other enshittification problems, without you saying “use Linux” every time.
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Update: I regret posting this.
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Update 2: I've addressed the most common comments below. I'm muting this thread now. Lesson learned!
@rubenerd why?
No, I mean, really. Why does someone "have" to use it.
@mirabilos @rubenerd Are you serious? Because of proprietary software that only runs under Windows (not WINE) that I have to use to get a paycheque.
MS Teams (the native client) comes to mind. Not running it could get me fired. MS Outlook (again, the native client with native COM plug-ins) comes a very close second. Web versions are not an option for either product, here, for sound technical/functional reasons.
I greatly enjoy what I do, so I choose to run UNIX on the servers and Windows on my laptop in order to continue getting paid to enjoy doing what I do.
@athompso @mirabilos @rubenerd
There probably is still a lot of proprietary software which is really not running on Linux, but MS Teams (at least for chat and video conference) is running quite OK in a web browser or as (unofficial) electron app: https://teamsforlinux.de
I use web outlook for mail and calendar, so I don't know if I miss any functionality in comparison to the official app 🤷
(I'm in the fortunate position that I haven't had to use Windows on my work computer for decades)
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