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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

They say while using gmail.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 45 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do, which is send and receive email.

The sender is not expressing privacy concerns, they’re expressing functionality / utility concerns.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago

Fair enough, still seems silly as hell to me. Windows is perfectly functional for corporate, and even software development use as long as the team managing the image and standard settings at your workplace is competent.

Yeah, being able to customize everything to meet your preferred workflow etc with Linux is preferable.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do

it is not. it can't even do such simple thing as sorting the inbox by the sender's name. it may seem functional to people who never used real mail client and were brainwashed into accepting this as the only available ui, but it is really not.

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 16 points 12 hours ago

It's tagged "Inbox", it looks like this is the recruiter's POV.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago

And preferring yet another proprietary OS.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I still use gmail as my spam catcher/throwaway account

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Odd to use it as part of job hunting though, which is the context in this image.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago

I use it at my "catch other people's emails" account, tho so far I haven't been quick enough on the draw to do cool stuff like slurping account creation tokens, goodie delivieries or stuff like that.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but kind of silly for someone who would take a stand against MS to the point of refusing a job to be happy with Google.

Then again, they also expressed they'd be happy with Apple/Mac

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Their basis seems to not be corporate actions, but the usability of software.
They would probably have been happy with Windows 7.