• TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      252·
      2 hours ago

      Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.

      … You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn’t mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody’s had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.

        • KnoLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          22 minutes ago

          This is the only part I despise of forum culture like MDL or the likes.

          If you have a solution, or even better: if you have written software or a guide for this, please just publish it online.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 hour ago

        I have copied down and manually typed out numbers like that many times when using windows. I’m not sure it ever once helped me in the slightest.

    • Thorry@feddit.org
      3·
      36 minutes ago

      And if you look up tech support on this, it’s all unrelated nonsense tips. Even in the official sources it doesn’t go much beyond turn it off/on, reset the settings, reinstall the app or reinstall the OS. While this might “solve” stuff, it doesn’t fix the core issue and the issue might re-occur without a fix. Why go through all the trouble of wiping and reinstalling, if there is often a very focused and simple fix that truly solves the issue. But Microsoft has started making it harder for users to have ownership over their systems for years now. Keep your users dumb, then you can control them.

  • grandma@sh.itjust.worksOP
    592·
    2 hours ago

    Its a work device so I’m signed in like a good little corporate peon, still they manage to fuck it up.

    • mech@feddit.org
      485·
      2 hours ago

      Then your IT has blocked use of the terminal and store for your account.
      Which makes sense for regular users to reduce the chance of fuck-ups and rise of a shadow IT.
      This isn’t a Microsoft issue (except for the slightly unspecific error message).

  • E_coli42@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 hours ago

    99% of people just use their OS as a browser frontend. They don’t care about freedom, privacy, security, etc. They will just use whatever OS comes pre-installed. Thats why Linux’s greatest success on the desktop/laptop market as been ChromeOS. Not because it’s any better than Pop_OS!, Debian, etc. It’s literally just that ChromeOS comes preinstalled.

    • grandma@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Still, I’ve had so many “last straw” moments with Windows that would make me consider Linux even if I was not familiar with it at all. It baffles me that there are relatively few people who give it a shot.

      I suppose a lot of people just don’t want to or don’t have time to learn something new.

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        33 minutes ago

        I’ve hit my last straw moment today trying to remove the setting forcing my password to change on a laptop that I fucking own. Windows 11 has disabled pretty much all user management features of local accounts now unless you’re signed into Microsoft and link your accounts.

        Fucking bullshit.

        I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          8 minutes ago

          I just need a spare weekend or two to make the swap now and throw wine on it for the games I play that refuse to run on Linux.

          if your primary storefront is via steam, you likely won’t even need to manage wine, steam will do that for you as part of the install process. You can use something like protonup or something to get GE editions of proton but, honestly it mostly works right off the gate.

          Just be aware that proton can have conflicts if you try to use it on NTFS drives, you’ll need to manually specify UID and GID for the drive (via fstab or however you manage mounting drives) or you’ll get permission errors that won’t actually say what they are unless you ran steam via the terminal.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      1·
      2 hours ago

      It’s true that most people just want instant on functionality with no need for major changes beyond colors and backgrounds. Totally fine too, for many that’s all they need. But as a “power user”, which would mean anyone that needs more than a portable browser, I was very disappointed to find that’s all that ChromeOS is (twas a used one in the family). And then when I researched putting actual Linux on it so it could do more… good god they locked that shit down hard. Not even worth that rabbit hole. And that was the intent of Google.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 minutes ago

        Most chromebooks can be put into a dev mode(which requires factory reset…) in order to install a new OS on it. I have done it a few times.

        being said, with how low power they are, they can’t really do much but what chromeos can do.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Don’t worry. Your company will transition to VDIs and everything will always be perfect. /s

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
    1·
    52 minutes ago

    It’s been a while since I used Windows, but back then my company blocked the Store, so I couldn’t install the Terminal through that. But it was easy to install through the released msix package - maybe you can install that through Winget?

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Does this mean Terminal is installed but one can only use it when one is logged into the store?

    Or maybe I don’t understand Windows logic; it’s been over a decade for me.

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
      1·
      57 minutes ago

      Yeah, that’s correct, though this is the “terminal app” which just allow you to have more customization, and tabs, you can still search cmd.exe and make it run.