Github CEO must be on HN, right? If so, any comments?
They have not even bothered to implement entra login when they have their competitors login for years, do they even know what their product is? Or are you just a middle man for slop?
What about bringing back old notepad and improving admin apps?
MMC snapins haven't been touched in years and still can't even sort those columns properly, search and filtering is terrible
Control panel is still not migrated over to settings after 12 years nor you can open two settings apps.
Error messages in modern apps are just the worst, how about printing valuable error messages than "something is wrong"?
Fixing dark patterns like taking over your screen with popups and taking over the application header so you can't close windows unless you go to the task manager. First time opening edge shows a really annoying splash screen + home page is filled with ads.
Also where are 5 second boot times on NVMe SSDs? Anything more is just sloppy.
Just to list a few pet peeves
But let's see if they can even fix things they've mentioned in the post, though that's like 1/4 of the issues that should be fixed.
It is reasonably feature complete, but not 100%, so some things are absurdly difficult to automate on Server Core, such as changing the ACL of the private key of a certificate (i.e.: to give a service account access).
It also takes a solid two seconds to launch even on a high-end PC with a fast SSD. It takes much longer on a small VM with overpriced cloud remote storage.
i've stopped administrating windows some time ago so hopefully my response is still accurate -
1. deprecated lol
2. i think it can't be run on things like AD, so for very small companies this is annoying
3. ... that's not really an admin app?
4. sure, but then i might as well switch to linux if i have to stick to cli (and i did)
5. last time i checked there were two versions, incompatible with one another, not great alternative to ansible
6. if you have hybrid and are in azure already, maybe? haven't used
I mean it's not like there are not 5 alternatives in azure/intune for every thing as well that are half baked. And 365 and azure is worse with terrible migration guides, ms graph with a combination of commands and json inputs and defaults from 2016.
It's really time for microsoft to fully commit to one thing, make it good, finish it and deprecate everything else.
I was just listing stuff that generally replaced the old MMC consoles. Things like regional options can be set through the Admin app, and is weirdly difficult with other mechanisms even on Windows Server. Some critical aspects are still MMC-only or require half a page of PowerShell scripts.
> 4. sure, but then i might as well switch to linux if i have to stick to cli (and i did)
Ironically, you're missing out on PowerShell, which is more UNIX than UNIX, and blows every legacy shell on Linux out of the water.
> 5. last time i checked there were two versions, incompatible with one another, not great alternative to ansible
> 6. if you have hybrid and are in azure already, maybe? haven't used [Azure Arc]
It's supposed to replace Group Policy, Windows Update, and bits and pieces of SCCM and SCOM.
It is incredibly, hilariously bad at all of those things.
It's a level of failure that simply boggles the mind, and I can only surmise that it was developed by a small army of junior outsourced Indian developers that had never seen any of the tools they were replacing and did everything "to the letter of the spec".
4. Pwsh - i tried to install powershell multiple times on linux, it was ubuntu 24 and debian 13, both about 6 months after release (so debian in january) and it always failed to install because of wrong dependencies. They can't even keep powershell up to date so it is far from great. Linux server support should be there from day 1 otherwise it is useless
5. U gotta be kidding, what a clusterfuck
6. Thanks for saving my time with testing, wouldn't expect anything else
One bit of cruft with this - I downloaded an alternative app that is simply notepad.exe and put it in my path in the first folder in the path.
I could not create a file association to any files to it - Explorer would throw an error about Store app. Even after uninstalling it, a notepad.exe still remains and supercedes my path which is a stub to launch the Microsoft Store.
This is the type of slop that needs desperately fixed but I doubt ever will.
I actually like the features on new notepad (like dark mode and markdown, not the Copilot garbage), but 300MB of memory for notepad.exe is fucking hilarious.
rule #1 is to always give your js devs only core 2 quad cpus + 16GB of RAM
they won't be able to complain about low memory but their experience will be terrible every time they try to shove something horrible into the codebase
Thanks, but just to confirm, there is a free tier of OpenProject as well as a paid tier with more features. This is often referred to as "open core."
I'm not complaining, as the free tier seems feature rich by itself. Just wanted others to know, especially if this has a chance of changing over time once people have committed to using it.
We've switched to Jetbrains Youtrack, it doesn't have as many features, but turns out nobody was using most of them anyway.
It's Jira + Confluence bundled together including SSO.
We (~200 devs) migrated from Jira to Youtrack 10 years ago, and its functionality has been more than enough. Honestly, I don't remember anyone ever seriously complaining about it, aside from maybe a few nitpicks. A very solid product.
Should've sent those 1600 people to fix their horrible performance of cloud apps, oh well I guess opening a jira ticket will now take not 5 but 10 seconds.
No 6.1? That's disappointing. Also I am surprised the previous decision wasn't reverted sooner. Linux foundation surely has enough resources to upkeep LTS kernels for longer.
I think the excess "resources" it has is cash. Human brains are a bit more constrained inside the LF, from what I gather.
From TFA:
> Kernel end-of-life dates mean very little for users, even at the enterprise level. Enterprise Linux distros have already been supporting official expired kernels for decades.
It's strange to think of LF "throwing it over the wall" on a timeline of years and decades, but the vendors really do assume the LTS responsibility as part of their value proposition, no?
I was using outlook for communicating with businesses as it is often what they use. Some of them just could not send a response back to me, so I am not using outlook anymore.
Just normal Microslop stuff
They have not even bothered to implement entra login when they have their competitors login for years, do they even know what their product is? Or are you just a middle man for slop?
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