Damage comments on MS Word opens twice as slow on Windows 11 PCs as on MacBooks, and Microsoft has no excuse

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean couldn’t you just use a virtual machine on Linux or MacOS if you needed to use it for work?

Most jobs require you to use a company-supplied machine. Where of course you can't swap operating systems.
People just put up with it even when they'd like alternatives, because it's just one of the unpleasant things we do to stay employed.

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[+] Syndication@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 point 3 months ago

Everyone above this comment was expressing frustration with using MS products. This doesn't go away with a VM and personal privacy has no bearing. I have a job that is computer-adjacent, and still use MS products enough to swear at them every day I work. As a former programmer, im not sure I'd want to get back to doing that full-time if I had to use other MS products more. I hear the coding stack is still exceptional.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

It's just not worth it to me to wait several minutes for things to properly boot, be nagged with updates and aggravating messages, and then have my system start thrashing halfway through my day. I don't care how good the pay is - I don't use tools that will aggravate me. They can hire someone else.