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Shades:
Here is another viewpoint:
On systems I need to work on (from a different company) there are the same strict rules. Nothing but basic Windows and a minimal, heavily supervised, set of tools on them. So we started to use a portable version of Notepad++ on those machines (a lot of scripting is going on). I assume the admin(s) saw that this program was opened a lot by many different user at any given time and suddenly, without any notification, all of systems we work on now have a licensed copy on Notepad++ installed.

While I don't deny there is an adverse effect when people tell other people what to use, my example above shows it can help if you enlighten "the powers that be" there are often better tools than the standard tools Windows provides and which do not necessarily create a mess of software policies or cause administrative troubles either.

And if you can demonstrate that tasks can be finished faster by people who you have to pay by the hour, the offset of costs between license(s) and labor can be a very persuading argument too.

wraith808:
Your argument shows false equivalence.  In your example, it was based on trends, not someone telli g someone else what they should be using.  Theyre all tools, and all have their upsides and downsides, and their respective uses, but none of them are perfect, and to say thatnyou should be using so,ething smacks of condescension, imo.

Shades:
My post was not intended to be offending. And I honestly never thought showing someone more useful tools than Windows provides by default, could be interpreted as condescending. Never too old to learn.

And you are right, recently WikiLeaks showed that the CIA uses Notepad++ (specific .dll) as a way to gain access to Windows servers, so that could be seen as a big disadvantage. To clarify, the software I am involved in uses its own specific scripting language and comes with a 350 page manual that just describes the commands and their parameters. Notepad++ allows you to create your own script language file for command highlighting, filling out partial commands and such things. There is a lot of that scripting going on, so any tool that helps us get things done faster, is better for all parties involved. Notepad itself is inadequate for anything beside editing relatively small text files

Besides, I asked that same company 6 weeks ago for an email-address (on a mail server they own and manage themselves) to send automatic notifications to a certain group of people on their own mail server. The manager agreed I should have the mail address and thanked me for pro-active thinking in their benefit. Yet I still don't have it even after sending weekly reminders.

Wouldn't be too much of a stretch to consider this to be condescending as well.

I will finish with this:  when someone thinks they have all wisdom, that's the moment they should go back to the "trenches", as they clearly have spent too much time in their ivory tower. That was how I was thought by parents, family and (in a slightly lesser degree) at school. As I said earlier, never considered it to be condescending when pointing towards better software for mutual benefit. Till now, that is.

Deozaan:
I think wraith808 was saying that when someone unilaterally says "you should be using product X" or "you should not be using product Y" that is what is condescending. I don't think that he meant that what you said was condescending.

IainB:
... I assume the admin(s) saw that this program was opened a lot by many different user at any given time and suddenly, without any notification, all of systems we work on now have a licensed copy on Notepad++ installed. ...
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-Shades (March 11, 2017, 07:11 PM)
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Looks like you might have a useful, wide-awake IT support group there. Impressive.

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