Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work

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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Definitely been there myself. I've slowly been removing Microsoft from my life since around 2010. At this point, I run Windows in a VM when I have to do so, for work... which sounds very similar to this guy. And like him, I will still occasionally end up having 45 minutes or so of my life robbed by Microsoft over some trivial task that should be extremely fast and easy.

[–]notafed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I do the same. I have windows 10 in a VM for anything that I need for school, like the VPN. (aside: why can't Palo Alto release a conversion tool so that I can get the certificates from the windows VPN client to use with the linux VPN client?)

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Conversion tool- like you have a .cer file but need a .pem file or something?

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The certificates are embedded in the installer which is prepared by the customer for their users. My school only provides the windows and mac installers.