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For all the negativity, I really like Windows 10. I had been using Windows 8.1 and consider it to be one of the worst desktop operating systems I've used in the
by jwcooper 11y ago
For all the negativity, I really like Windows 10. I had been using Windows 8.1 and consider it to be one of the worst desktop operating systems I've used in the last 10 years. That's partially why I like Windows 10 so much. They fixed so many of the backwards ideas that came with 8.1.
That being said, I mostly use it as an entertainment consumption device these days. I have a PC that I use solely to play games and watch shows. My every day computer for development is now a Macbook Pro with OS X and all the nice posix-like tools included.
I think that's one of the bigger long-term issues Microsoft might be facing. It seems in the last 5 years or so there has been a fairly large exodus of developers from Windows to Linux or OS X.
- pcurve 11y agoDo you find it superior than Windows 7 as well? In what ways?
- lewisl9029 11y agoThe improved multi-monitor window management (snapping to any corner of any monitor, variable width snapping, 1-click to snap another window to the other side, etc) is the best I've seen on any OS. Powershell and cmd are so much nicer to work with now with many of the features you'd expect from a modern terminal. Still lacking compared to some competitors, but much nicer than ever before. Some of the Universal apps are actually quite pleasant to use now that they can be rearranged freely like any other window. I've been using the Mail app as my main mail client and the Office apps instead of the Office desktop suite since the tech previews and haven't really found myself missing much. There are some genuinely great improvements in Windows 10. If only it also had sensible defaults and a better privacy policy...
- Zancarius 11y ago> The improved multi-monitor window management (snapping to any corner of any monitor, variable width snapping, 1-click to snap another window to the other side, etc) is the best I've seen on any OS. I'm mostly neutral on this because I don't really use window snapping, and I very rarely use Windows as it is (KDE's multi-monitor handling is OK, probably not the best, but it works well enough for me). That said, I do feel Windows 10 is a moderate improvement over 7, but I still wind up using DisplayFusion since I like its taskbar features better. The 6-pixel "snag" point between monitors (top and bottom) is infuriating to me, and I've yet to find a registry fix that actually works to get rid of that nonsense, neither can I find any obvious settings for it. Any suggestions?
- Zancarius 11y agoSo I just decided to do a bit more sleuthing, and it turns out this is a known issue that may not presently have a fix: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_personal/how-to-disable-sticky-corners-in-windows-10/cb077f2d-920f-4f51-8e61-28578ab31ec9?auth=1 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_win... Bummer.
- WalterGR 11y agoI had been using Windows 8.1 and consider it to be one of the worst desktop operating systems I've used in the last 10 years. Why? It's Windows 7 with a few improvements. I'm vaguely aware that there's this "Metro" stuff that people dislike, but aside from dismissing the 'start screen' when you reboot - and there may very well be a configuration setting to bypass it and go directly to the desktop - you otherwise literally never have to deal with it.
- jwcooper 11y agoMy biggest issue was the metro stuff; mostly the default apps that would open in full screen mode. Opening a PDF or an image in a new Windows 8 installation was always a frustrating surprise. The start menu was confusing, and anytime you'd go into a metro-type application it was jarring.
- WalterGR 11y agoAh. I guess my experience was different because I installed apps that I preferred over the built-in ones and found a start menu replacement.
- tbrock 11y agoWow. Sounds like Microsoft really nailed the experience on that one. Step 1: replace everything with something else.
- WalterGR 11y agoI don't know what you mean. There are pre-installed apps on OS X, Linux, and Windows. If you don't care for the pre-installed ones, you can install ones that you prefer. Same with the kind-of default 'controls' like the Start Menu, or the Dock, or what various Linux distros call their equivalents. Windows 8/8.1 is Windows 7 with a few improvements and some "Metro" stuff that you can almost entirely avoid.
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- fooey 11y agoFrom looking for front end jobs for the last few months, so far as I've seen, everyone not running C# is on a Mac I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment That's a very big long term problem for MS
- wslh 11y ago> I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment This is what we run in part of my company... I don't see any issue with developing in NodeJS in Windows (except compiling native bindings and Visual Studio issues with long paths). Microsoft is incorporating more and more plugins in Visual Studio to help web developers. It is just a matter of time.
- nerdwaller 11y agoTheir tooling is definitely pretty great, but the hard part is winning people back over if they somehow feel jaded. I think gaining loyalty once isn't as hard as trying to re-earn it. But people often love the underdog.
- wslh 11y agoWindows an underdog? Please tell me another joke.
- jdmichal 11y agoOwning the majority market share in general does not exclude it from being an underdog within a smaller subset of users. Now how that subset is defined is another issue altogether.
- wslh 11y agoObviously not but communities such the .NET one using React or Angular is underrepresented in HN.
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- tapirl 11y agoMy experience of Windows 8 is good, it is a little better than Windows 7. But my experience of Windows 10 is so bad. The Edge browser is full of bugs, crash often, slow. Windows 10 itself is also full of bugs, these bugs are reported in the two days after the releasing of Windows 10, but most of them are still not fixed yet now.
- WalterGR 11y agothese bugs are reported in the two days after the releasing of Windows 10, but most of them are still not fixed yet now. It was released a month ago. Does any operating system have that kind of turnaround?
- kakakiki 11y agoYes. You are right. But it was refreshing to see microsoft releasing patches for 10 within days of its initial release. I hope they maintain the momentum in future also.
- reacweb 11y agoI am on ubuntu (gnome ubuntu). Sometimes, I have a crash report. In general, the same day or the day after, I have an update of the component causing the crash.