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Linux comes for Windows at 40 — and gaming can't save it (www.makeuseof.com)

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To not much official fanfare on Thursday, the Windows operating system turned 40 years old, marking four decades since Windows 1.0 debuted in the United States on November 20, 1985. Its midlife milestone comes with a crisis, though. Diehard Windows users are switching to Linux for a variety of reasons.

For one, gaming is finally better on Linux machines, which makes the moat Windows dug for itself a little more passable. Add to that the end of support for Windows 10 in October, the growing frustration among power users about Microsoft Recall, and the growing number of polarizing features, and power users are finding plenty of reasons to make the switch to Linux.

It's unclear if the wave of Windows power users loudly moving to Linux has crested yet, or if this is just the beginning. That said, the past year has seen a flood of articles like this one, scores of posts on Reddit, and YouTube videos documenting and occasionally evangelizing the conversion to Linux.

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

An Outlook replacement. The new web Outlook is absolute garbage with zero addin api like the old one had

Make a replacement Outlook that connect to imap service or something that's close to feature matching (calendaring ect) and its game over for two huge revenue streams. it's a cornerstone of Enterprise 365 and they refuse to listen to clients.

Everything else is "good enough" in FOSS but nothing gets close to Outlook functionally.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's a very ignorant take.

There are plenty of Outlook replacements for Windows AND Linux.

What Linux doesn't have is IAM, MDM and DLP comparable to what Entra ID + Intune (or Active Directory + SCCM) gives you.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

That's a extremely ignorant take.

No alternatives come close at all, not even a little. I suggest you install outlook in an enterprise environment.

And yes Linux most certainly does for the latter. You're stuck thinking you need a "server" or service to get the same function of control. You dont, at all.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Mate, I MANAGE Outlook in my enterprise environment.

Sure, I guess if you have some very specific add-ons as a requirement, it might be difficult. But these things are dying out, 99% of the time Outlook is being used only for email and nothing else. In such scenarios Thunderbird is perfectly fine.

Now, without MDM/DLP/IAM it's literally illegal to introduce Linux in many environments. Any business handling finances MUST be compliant to regulatory standards, and those require these systems to be in place. Without those three you lose your license and literally just cannot do business anymore.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You must not be much of an enterprise admin if you don't know that there are MDM, DLP, and IAM solutions for Linux.

Source: I manage all of those for Linux in an enterprise environment.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

You must not be much of an enterprise admin if you don’t know that there are MDM, DLP, and IAM solutions for Linux.

I would really appreciate it if you stopped putting words in my mouth. I didn't say these tools don't exist, did I?

Source: I manage all of those for Linux in an enterprise environment.

Out of curiosity: which ones do you use?