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How did Windows 10 ship? The thing constantly overrides user-set preferences: fonts, colors, and worst of all - default apps. Reports usage data to Microsoft
by java-man 8y ago
How did Windows 10 ship?
The thing constantly overrides user-set preferences: fonts, colors, and worst of all - default apps. Reports usage data to Microsoft with no way to turn it off. An update mechanism that lives its own dominating life, interrupting user workflow whenever it wants.
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoTo be fair, it was replacing Windows 8.
- desiarnezjr 8y agoIn hindsight, Windows 8 wasn't that bad overall. The real disaster was the Metro UI, but the underlying OS was relatively unobtrusive and a bit more performant than Win7. Once something like Classic Shell was installed, it was pretty slick and reliable. My last Windows machine now runs 10 begrudgingly, and compared to my daily drivers MacOS and Ubuntu, it's a shockingly inconsistent operating system. I don't rely on it for "real work" thankfully.
- java-man 8y agoClassic Shell was great. Looking back, going from XP to 7 to 8 to 10, I can't think of any improvement, but the user experience got consistently worse. This might be the Second Law of Thermodynamics at work, but seriously, I don't understand how these things got shipped.
- justwalt 8y agoFWIW, I think the multiple desktops feature in 10 is a good quality of life change. Past that I’d probably agree. Give me any other modern OS before Windows.