Your assumptions are probably accurate. As an OS, I don’t want tracking, AI, fingerprinting, using my data, age verification blah blah blah. As a company, I don’t like much of what they stand for, also enabling and promoting many of the things I mentioned above to become industry standard.
Linux CAN be that for me, and it feels like I can make the swap at some point, but every time I try, and with multiple distros, I run into something that just drives me back.
I used to work for them. At one point they did have a really good work culture. You felt good about coming to work, paid very competitively and amazing benefits. The work culture also didn’t feel antagonistic to customers. There was a huge watershed moment when they started going after a massive DoD contract with the US govt. And pushing SaaS that seemed to indicate the shift to the Microslop of today.
They were never perfect, they were never unicorns and rainbows, but they sure as hell at one point didn’t act like the company of today.
May I ask why you want to get off Windows? I mean I can imagine a few reasons but I don’t like making assumptions
Your assumptions are probably accurate. As an OS, I don’t want tracking, AI, fingerprinting, using my data, age verification blah blah blah. As a company, I don’t like much of what they stand for, also enabling and promoting many of the things I mentioned above to become industry standard.
Linux CAN be that for me, and it feels like I can make the swap at some point, but every time I try, and with multiple distros, I run into something that just drives me back.
So what DO you like that they stand for? I don’t think anyone can really say a single thing positive about Microslop. Not even one.
I used to work for them. At one point they did have a really good work culture. You felt good about coming to work, paid very competitively and amazing benefits. The work culture also didn’t feel antagonistic to customers. There was a huge watershed moment when they started going after a massive DoD contract with the US govt. And pushing SaaS that seemed to indicate the shift to the Microslop of today.
They were never perfect, they were never unicorns and rainbows, but they sure as hell at one point didn’t act like the company of today.
Fair, but surely now there is nothing good to say.