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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (www.theregister.com)

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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[–] krebssteven@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

What we REALLY need is to curb microsoft’s market dominance. If more alternatives for OS and usable replacements for MS office em would exist, this would not be a problem and would not need to hamper innovation for the sake of back porting (the main counter-argument as a dev).

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Linux and all its flavors?

What’s wrong with libreoffice or anyoffice? For a large percentage of users, Linux is fine, especially as many applications have an online option. For the stuff I do, in Linux, online Office is more than sufficient.

An org I work with provides me with a 365 license, but I I’m more comfortable in Libreoffice.

Office is used bythe majority, but majority doesn’t mean they are right, they are simply more.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The jank oh my god the jank

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Windows is far more jank than a lot of Linux distros/desktop environments.

Like...

Multiple different right click menus?
No consistent and cohesive design language even throughout system or first party apps?
Having to search online for an exe download page, download, open downloads folder, double click, click next through an installer? Then each app having to have its own update process, often that always runs in the background to check (or none at all)?
Updates that happen when you don't want them to, take forever, and break things?
Fucking ads everywhere?
Web results in your start menu before actual stuff on your system
Multiple settings apps?
Sleep that doesn't work?
Convoluted process for setting things as the default app?
Dark mode that's only functional for some apps?

It's actually incredible how much money Microsoft has, and how much more they spend than probably all Linux DEs combined, but they've still yet to fix so much low hanging fruit.

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