What bugs the heck out of you at work but doesn't seem to bother your coworkers?

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Any microsoft application. Constant bugs, crashes and a tendency to break everything if you accidentally use them in any other way than microsoft intended.
Also, ads in a fucking operation system? I don't see how anyone can find that acceptable.
- I think MIUI was its pioneer. Even the settings app had ads.
  
  At least they use that to sell you the hardware for cheap. Microsoft doesn't provide anything of value like that. In fact, they charge people for the OS and then have the audacity to add ads.
  
  Oh shit this makes me have flashbacks to the one - and only - time I got a phone with MIUI. I could not believe how bad that Android skin was. As in, even Samsung in their pre-One heyday could not even come close to this bullshit.
- Linux includes ads built into Firefox in a lot of the popular distros.
  
  I'd say firefox doesn't qualify as OS but I get your point, distros do ship it by default.
  The good thing is that those ads are just defaults, not permanently baked in. I can get rid of them in about 2 minutes. Mozilla doesn't sell your usage data so they need another way of funding themselves and I don't think there's a better way to do it.
  
  The same can be said about the Windows ads. It's just a checkbox to turn off tips. Tips are useful a lot of the time so people don't want to turn them off. The second a tip isn't useful it's seen as an ad.
  
  First of all, tips will automatically get enabled during some updates.
  Secondly, tips notifictions telling you to use microsoft crap are not the only ads. You get fullscreen ads for office after booting that are made to look exactly like an installer, you get edge literally spamming you with popups when you try downloading another browser (that's closer to malware than an ad but I'll let it count).
  You get ads in the settings menu as well and if you try to edit a video like you could on windows 7, you get the "fuck you, pay a subscription".
  You also get ads in your start menu and of course, don't forget the start menu search that will rather show you a bing page full of ads than actually search for your files.
  Please stop defending this bullshit, it benefits no one but microsoft and is actively making the world a worse place.
  
  I've literally not seen any of the ads you are talking about (besides an office 365 install prompt at the end of an install) but I run a windows debloater tool on every install since windows 7. I also never had an update mess with the debloater stuff or turn ads back on.

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