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I’m a teacher and our division just “upgraded” to W11 with a new version of outlook that is basically a web app on desktop. Several times a day my laptop comes to a complete crawl while Teams decides to open itself. Can’t open or close programs, Firefox won’t register mouse clicks, nothing. Graphical glitches appear al the time with menu bars and task bars disappearing regularly, requiring force quitting the app or logging out of the desktop.

When I first switched to Linux I assumed my experience would be like this. But now it’s the other way around.

Rant over.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (12 children)

You can control what programs open on boot in the task manager. Teams was one of the first things I disabled.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 43 points 1 month ago (8 children)

That is, if the laptop isn't totally locked down by IT. But knowing school's IT budget that probably isn't the case.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

One of the first things I do while migrating user to a new PC (or just giving one for newly employed person) is that I disable all useless Microsoft shit automatically starting up in the task manager.

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