Fuckswearwords@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoI have to give a presentation in 15 minuteslemmy.worldimagemessage-square215fedilinkarrow-up1785arrow-down117
arrow-up1768arrow-down1imageI have to give a presentation in 15 minuteslemmy.worldFuckswearwords@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square215fedilink
minus-squareAndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up118arrow-down2·21 hours agoWindows isn’t ready for daily driving imo, it’s risky to use such an unstable OS for high importance tasks. It’s fine if you want to tinker and experiment with a different OS, but for day to day usage I think you should really be using something more stable.
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·19 hours ago…this has to be a BSD guy talking.
minus-squareMatt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down7·16 hours agoNo, where I work we use macs. Everyone has a Mac and our policys prohibit windows as a work os
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 hours agoInteresting. I’ve used Mac for years and for the last 2 or 3, macOS has really gone downhill. What line of work are you in that bans windows? The entire point of windows is enterprise management, which macOS is famously bad at.
minus-squareMatt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoWe work in health data, but we also done have enterprise management. When a review was done about 6 years ago, windows was a big risk in how we work
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoOh yea, windows is a huge risk, but convincing management and IT not to use it is a monumental task. I actually work with health data too and we upgraded to win11 micro PCs and it’s not going well.
minus-squareBorgDrone@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 hours agomacOS is practically a BSD though (XNU is a modified Mach microkernel with a BSD layer bolted on top of it)
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoModern macOS has diverged significantly from its bsd origins.
Windows isn’t ready for daily driving imo, it’s risky to use such an unstable OS for high importance tasks.
It’s fine if you want to tinker and experiment with a different OS, but for day to day usage I think you should really be using something more stable.
…this has to be a BSD guy talking.
No, where I work we use macs. Everyone has a Mac and our policys prohibit windows as a work os
Interesting. I’ve used Mac for years and for the last 2 or 3, macOS has really gone downhill. What line of work are you in that bans windows? The entire point of windows is enterprise management, which macOS is famously bad at.
We work in health data, but we also done have enterprise management.
When a review was done about 6 years ago, windows was a big risk in how we work
Oh yea, windows is a huge risk, but convincing management and IT not to use it is a monumental task.
I actually work with health data too and we upgraded to win11 micro PCs and it’s not going well.
macOS is practically a BSD though (XNU is a modified Mach microkernel with a BSD layer bolted on top of it)
Modern macOS has diverged significantly from its bsd origins.