Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11?

Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by alex_lav on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @12:18PM (#37149367)

It's funny, "How do people get work done with <insert any OS>" type arguments are real and valid for literally every OS. The bar is on the ground in terms of ease of use and consistency.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by nullindividual on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @12:31PM (#37149567)

And outside of macOS or other hardware-bound OSes, drivers are going to be an issue when the driver manufacture doesn't do their job.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by grecy on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:27PM (#37151512)

I've done literally thousands of hours of work on computers since I left Windows in the win95 days. I have never spent a single second trying to make any part of those computers work.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by alex_lav on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:07PM (#37152063)

Sure, and I've spent hours and hours and hours working with various aspects of MacOS and Linux to get various commonly used pieces of technology to work. What do you think you're proving or disproving by this comment?

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by grecy on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:22PM (#37152269)

Honestly, I just didn't realize people in 2023 were still spending time just to get the basic built-in functionality of a consumer computer to work.

I thought that was all finished with at least a decade ago, and I'm shocked.

That's all, I just didn't know.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by alex_lav on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:28PM (#37152362)

> Honestly, I just didn't realize people in 2023 were still spending time just to get the basic built-in functionality of a consumer computer to work.

On every single OS, from every single vendor, both prebuilt and custom. And this will be true forever.

> I thought that was all finished with at least a decade ago, and I'm shocked.

This is a level of naivety that I am unused to for a person posting on a startup and tech oriented forum.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by grecy on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:43PM (#37152597)

> On every single OS, from every single vendor, both prebuilt and custom. And this will be true forever.

You're spending time on MacOS to make basic computer functionality work?

What? why? how?

> This is a level of naivety that I am unused to for a person posting on a startup and tech oriented forum.

I'm a Software Engineer with 7 years experience, but I've been out of the game for a while now. I also have not touched windows in 8 years, and only use Linux on a VPS, so the basic "computer" always works.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by alex_lav on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:07PM (#37152969)

> What? why? how?

Same stuff as everywhere. Mice, keyboards, printers, displays

> I'm a Software Engineer with 7 years experience, but I've been out of the game for a while now. I also have not touched windows in 8 years, and only use Linux on a VPS, so the basic "computer" always works.

I'm glad you've not suffered the way the rest of us suffer.

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Re:Ask HN: How do people get work done with Windows 11? by ankurdhama on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:44AM (#37160137)

> You're spending time on MacOS to make basic computer functionality work?

Try to do a search on discussions.apple.com and you will find so many cases of people having problems with basic computer functionality on macOS.

Just like you never had any problems with macOS, there are lots of people out there who didn't have any such issues using Windows or Linux.

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