Just moved to Linux, can't stomach the upgrade to Win 11. I understand nothing, am totally confused, but I'm excited to learn.
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when I moved to Linux a couple years ago I felt the exact same way. I dont' know how old you are but maybe you remember that feeling logging into win 95 or 98 for the very first time and falling in love with computers and what they could do.
I hadn't felt that way in decades and when I switched to Linux it made me feel like I was a kid again in the late 90s with my very first PC. Switching to Linux made me fall in love with Computers again.
This! Exactly:]
It's alright - start off easy, do some browsing/text editing/etc, don't jump to complicated stuff. You'll get there!
If you come to Windows merely a few weeks after, you'll feel same discomfort that you feel now. Linux will become more familiar, easy, and predictable.
Just keep on going and enjoy your ride. Oh and - I hope you chose a simple, newbie-friendly distribution. Figuring out technicalities when you didn't yet have basics is no fun.
Microsoft ๐ Open Source
Well, yeah, but not like that!
Are there really people who know what open source means that would see this and actually believe it? Who is that even for?
OpenSource, not Free/Libre-software
I hope thatโs not where the libre code is hosted.
Itโs fun to assume this is Microsoft being petty but the most likely scenario is Microsoft has cut their operating costs to such extremes they no longer have usable services or products.
This always happens when business majors are allowed to make decisions.
Some real Hanlon's Razor shit.
Wasn't there recently a ban on Distrowatch and certain Linux topics on a bigger social network? And Who was the owner of that network again?
Looks like Big Tech fell out of love with FLOSS after it looked at the GNU manifest and found that their profit interests do not align well any more with a digital civil rights movement. All what they want is people's work for free, to sell it as theirs.
Aww, is the big, predominant, incontestable and great Microsoft suddenly afraid of some foolish, little competitor who of course isn't fit to hold a candle to them?
This is his blog article. https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/microsoft-anybody-home/
Looking at this, it looks more like Microsoft just screwed it's auth system in some way for him then intentionally banned him in particular.
I as an IT guy have seen this before SOHO office accounts as well and entirely agree that MS has entirely lost the ability to do IT infrastructure in any useful way. Even at an enterprise level, Exchange and outlook used to be convoluted to learn and administer before they became cloud based, as regedit was your friend and they always buried the settings. Now, it doesn't require a degree in IT, but rather a pointy hat and a reading of spell books to make things work... Sometimes. Sacrifices of interns might be necessary at the alter of Support, before they'll answer the phone and you realize they have no more knowledge then you to.
WAS your friend? Bitch, I'm still yo friend! ;)
And now the important question: Sir, exactly how many interns have YOU sacrificed to Micorosoft Khorne? how many skulls did you provide for his throne?
Heck Microsoft doesn't even allow me to use IMAP, and if I want to use a different client (and not the shitty web one), I have to get permission from my IT administrator.
Funnily enough, the same client (Thubderbid) doesn't need any confirmation on Mac or Windows, only Linux.
Microsoft and anticompetitiveness, an iconic duo
Ok, but why are you a dev of an open source tool but use an M$ service?
Naivity:
I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the โI hate proprietary software or IT giant corporationsโ types. I always saw the nice things that Microsoft offered to its users; I saw not only downsides in its products. And I also used (and continue to use) things created by it: Windows to start with (and I develop there, being able to debug and address issues specific to the platform that most of our users use); but also its email service for personal mail.
Well, hopefully heโs learned his lesson, but I doubt it.
I always saw the nice things that Microsoft offered to its users
I'd understand this perspective in 2005, but 2025?
I'm decidedly NOT a computer expert, but our newest computer, which is always trying to force us to save things to "One Drive," now no longer even lets me open Libre Office files. Is there any way I can fix that? I would think a bunch of people would be suing MS over that, except that in this current political climate, that's probably not even going to go anywhere.
Just to make sure I've understood you correctly: You are trying to open LibreOffice odt or ods files on a 'new' computer with MS Office (365?) installed. Or did you install LibreOffice on that one?
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It's incredibly difficult to get away from Microsoft in the corporate/business space.
Yes, but his private e-mail is affected.
True. In his scenario, it would definitely make sense to set up an email on a private domain (or at least self host one).
All the more reason to get LibreOffice ~~and OnlyOffice!~~
I ditched the latter
The connection between OnlyOffice and Russia has caused some controversy. The company has moved headquarters and attempted to hide its Russian ties through shell companies[21]. The company develops its product in Russia[22]ย and presents itself in the Russian market as a Russian company[23]. For this reason some Ukrainian businesses have moved away from OnlyOffice[24].
thx. i hate russia.
Is everything Russian bad? I understand Ukraine not using anything Russian but the rest of the world?
I didn't say that necessarily. The reason I dropped it is because I don't trust the developers to protect the software from the Russian government if they're based out of Russia.
If I would run a global company based in Russia, I'd also try to hide it, even if no malice is taking place.
This kind of reaction is exactly why.
As long as it's open source, it should be fine, though.
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this exact same thing happened to me a while ago. I really doubt some human blocked my account though. after hours of customer support call and emails (from another account) it finally got unblocked but neither yhe support agent nor me had any clue what happened.
I learned the lesson and gradually moved the dev accounts to a proton email instead.
Us OpenSouce/Free-Software fanatics don't seem so crazy now, dont we
Gosh, I canโt imagine why M$ would block competition!
Ah yes, the Trump approach to dealing with things you donโt like. I see.
Setting an example for the rest of the corporate assholes.
why work for evil corp microsoft when you can join the fsf without selling your soul to evil corp
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