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I don't like the Universal apps or whatever they're calling them this month. They are limited, slow, crashy and buggy. They regularly just disappear after a sle
by dingo_bat 10y ago
I don't like the Universal apps or whatever they're calling them this month. They are limited, slow, crashy and buggy. They regularly just disappear after a sleep and wake. I have been left questioning my sanity wondering if I closed Messenger.
Also, they are clunky and slow. For example, switch to a desktop with a universal app open and for the duration of the desktop slide animation, the app window will be completely blank. And then suddenly all the content will flash into sight after the slide ends.
The start menu itself is slow and will miss your first few keystrokes if you try to start a search too quickly. The notification bar is sometimes laggy to open, and so are the universal style notifications.
Sharing across universal apps sometimes works, other times it just opens the target app and sits there. I dunno if this is an app problem or universal platform problem.
I wonder if improving Windows Forms would have been a better strategy. Instead now Forms is seen by many as a dead platform, and UWP is so limited/slow that nobody is developing for it. When soundcloud is smoother/less buggy running on Chrome than as a standalone UWP app, what is even the point of having a software ecosystem, apart from a web browser?
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- mafuyu 10y agoAs a side note, I fixed the Start menu searching issue by disabling the slide animation for the menu: http://lifehacker.com/disable-this-animation-to-make-windows-10s-start-menu-o-1734223008 http://lifehacker.com/disable-this-animation-to-make-windows...
- dingo_bat 10y agoThank you! That really improves the situation!
- userbinator 10y agoThat dialog appears to have remained with little change since XP. I always use "adjust for best performance" (which clears all the boxes), then select only "show windows contents while dragging". Everything instantly becomes so much faster.
- StevePerkins 10y agoAgreed. I WANT to push back against the recent trend of using Electron to build desktop apps with HTML and JavaScript, as they "don't look and feel native". Then Microsoft goes and develops a native desktop framework that looks and feels like Electron apps.
- dvdcxn 10y agoI disagree with that, HTML/CSS/Js is by far the most widely understood paradigm for building user interfaces. There's nothing stopping apps built with these technologies looking native other than the stylistic choices of the designers.
- 0x6c6f6c 10y agoSomeone should have created a Windows.css framework for easy native design..
- T-A 10y agohttps://metroui.org.ua/ https://metroui.org.ua/
- SahAssar 10y agoThat's WinJS. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/develop/winjs https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/develop/winjs
- StevePerkins 10y agoThat's Windows 10 Universal look-and-feel, which kinda goes back to the original parent comment. You're basically using a web library to emulate a native library that emulates a web library! At that point, I'd rather just pull the eject handle and use Twitter Bootstrap or something.
- douche 10y agoWindows Forms is the ironborn of Microsoft APIs - What is dead may never die... But you do have to pray to a bizarre and Cthulhu-like old god (Win32).
- rasz_pl 10y agoI can crash/hang newest Windows 10 build by simply quickly clicking repeatedly on radio buttons (in privacy section of all places) in SETTINGS app (a joke of a half replacement for Control Panel). Feels like a race condition.