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Having a job that requires Windows is not what I would call self-inflicted.

That is besides the point. In that case it is self-inflicted by the company choosing to depend on it.

Until recently (<10 years ago) Windows and native Windows apps (like Office) were the norm in most companies. Almost all employees knew how to use Windows. Re-training all was difficult. Now, with mostly web-apps for most non-IT employees it is a realistic change, but I am still not sure corporations will want to run without Active Directory and Crowdstrike.

True. It is a would inflicted by your employer in that case. Maybe you could find a different one that doesn’t inflict such wounds.

What a bubble you exist in. I'm self-employed and my entire suite of software is either windows or apple only and I have 'been a pc' for nearly thirty years and have pc hardware that fulfills all my requirements and can't run apple software.

I'm eyeing up a shift to apple when my current hardware fails me, but it's impossible for me to just go Linux.

You are a digital serf, dependent on the good will and love of a lord that gives you access in exchange for a tax.

I really wish free(libre) tools existed that allowed you to do your work. Hopefully they will in the future, I am sure someone has tried/is trying to build them.

I think in your situation I'd use a Mac just because they don't show you a bunch of advertising bullshit all the time, but I do understand the overall point: a lot of software simply doesn't exist on Linux.

Wine is getting better and better, but it's still not perfect yet. I am so wishing that they figure out a way to get modern MS Office working, and then I feel like a lot of people's only reasons for staying on Windows would suddenly disappear.

I don't get the advertising thing - I don't see any at all on Windows 10?

I don’t have a windows computer so I am going with I have seen in Youtube, but people have said that Windows 11 has been adding ads to explorer and start.

sounds like a bubble

Perhaps, but I'm not judging other people in theirs...

> I'm self-employed and my entire suite of software is either windows or apple only

Sounds like we're back to self-inflicted then? If you're self-employed supposedly that software suite was your decision.

I mean there are literally no good Linux alternatives, but sure?

The job should give you Windows Enterprise with the correct group policies that disable most of the enshittification. Otherwise it’s self-inflicted.

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