• make -j8@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    it makes me laugh me i see people complaining about “linux can’t even get their fonts straight !1!1”, brother what are smoking, windows can’t even show text it s all, it’s just smeared image that you can’t select, on top of inconsistent window styles accumulated since 1993 lol.

    macs are the only competitor to Linux

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I have some incompetent boomer ancient nepo hire for IT.

    We have to use Outlook Web, Desktop 365 Excel.

    But Outlook 365 is set to launch on startup. It’s not set up the company wants us to use Web for…idk why. 365 Outlook doesn’t connect to anything, yet it’s installed and registered.

    Kill me. I have to save PDF files to OneDrive so I can open them in Adobe Reader to select text because you can’t in their shitty fucking outlook web app that won’t let you download things any other way.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      Oof hell desk, yea I left that behind as fast as I could. It was nice and all being chill not worrying about budgets, policies, “IT business alignment” and such

      But god damn if I had to deal with Beatrice’s weekly hour+ password reset call one more time I was going to lose it lol

  • primemagnus@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    So I’ve been using Linux since 2006 after moving away from Windows during college. Since then, I’ve used every major Windows to keep up to date and because it’s a part of ,y job to stay current.

    What I’ve discovered is MS doesn’t actually iterate. They never abandon the old. Parts of Windows are from XP (and cant tap into dark mode UI). Then from 7. Then parts of 10. Then they added new stuff in 11, but everything else remains. Which is why they have 200 DX libraries.

    The most peculiar company on the planet that unmistakably generates shit upon shit because it just can’t stop hoarding.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The basic Mail app in Windows 10 is still the baseline I compare every other email client to, and I’ve yet to find anything I like as much. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, it only ever ran under Windows, and for stupid reasons, it was deprecated and now if you try to launch it, it exits and launches Outlook (New), which is a horrible email client.

    • Reygle@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Outlook (new) is not even a “mail client” at all. It’s an Edge “webview” web app. Adding an account to this “app” actually allows outlook.com the website to sync your entire mailbox, read its contents, and “share” all of that data with their (last checked, could have changed since) 798 “data partners”.

      Install Thunderbird.

      Before someone says “it’s not pretty enough, I don’t like it”, if the price for privacy is a shiny theme, I’ve got nothing dumb enough to say to you. You’re beyond helping and you’re not worth my time.

      Edit ^ that last bit wasn’t about you, person I responded to, just realized it sounded like it was.

      • panicnow@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        My 86 year old father-in-law has had the roughest time with the new outlook. It keeps losing his settings. I kept him on the (old) outlook as long as possible.

        I tried Thunderbird for him, but some parts of the UI don’t respect extremely large fonts. Sigh.

        My current solution is just straight up web mail to his provider which has other problems, but I have sorta-kinda mitigated them by installing a separate browser that is set to open that website. This has some other small problems, but it will have to do for now.

        I honestly wish Apple made a 20” iPad.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I mean, the same can be said for “new” teams.

        Though… “Teams classic” was an electron app, and I’m not sure that’s better.

        Outlook “classic”, as far as I’m concerned, is the last actual email client program that Microsoft will make. From here on out, it’s all webapps.

        Honestly, so much of their stuff runs in a web browser that you might as well just just google apps… It also negates any requirement to run their bloated shitware OS.

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My Outlook still has the yellow icon. Changed it back manually because I kept opening Outlook by mistake when I tried to open Word.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Yuck, I’m not waiting for it. If possible I’d like to run away from that thing. I only associate it with corporations and work.

  • NegativeNull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    What about the inevitable (based on years of development experience):
    Outlook (new) New - Final - 2025-04-17 - THIS IS THE ONE.lnk