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Is there a list of apps that are missing from the Windows Store that cause friction for Windows S? I see it often called a chicken and egg problem. But I never
by JohnDeHope 9y ago
Is there a list of apps that are missing from the Windows Store that cause friction for Windows S? I see it often called a chicken and egg problem. But I never see anyone suggest a list of what they think the eggs are.
(I don't think the problem is missing apps. My guess is that most UWP apps in the Windows Store use a tablet-ey, metro, modern ui, and nobody seems to like it much.)
- r3bl 9y agoOh boy, where do I start! I have a two-in-one laptop/tablet (from Lenovo's Yoga series), and while I have really tried to use the Store apps so that they are comfortable in the tablet mode, I've yet to find a PDF reader that doesn't crash randomly (including Adobe Reader's Microsoft Store port) and have basically no decent epub reader (I can't find a single app in the store that will open two epub files without any weird formatting issues, let alone support things like highlighting and such). There are no clients to any Google products. Your cloud option is basically OneDrive and that's it. Heck, I've even struggled to find a text editor, so in the end, I've just used OneNote to write down some texts. Kindle reader? Nope. Decent browser? Nope. In fact, when I think about it, the only useful Store app I was able to find was the Slack client, which seems to me like UWP-bundled Electron app that simply works! Of course, not even that one comes with no issues, because font rendering in it is absolutely horrendous on a HiDPI screen. I could go on and on about this. At the end, I'm mostly using desktop apps in the tablet mode (things like Calibre, Chrome browser etc.) and that seems to work fine. But the Store apps (with that one sole exception where I'm actually using a Store app in the desktop mode as well) are just useless.
- JohnDeHope 9y agoThanks that was helpful for educating me.