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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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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Microsoft is due a terrible release, 7, 8, & 10 were all above average.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What are you talking about, Windows 8 was a complete shitshow. It wasn't until 8.1 that it became respectable.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I stopped after 7 🤷

The last week 10 was an easy, free upgrade, I upgraded then gave the machine to a friend to do some very, very early LLM training to never see it again.

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