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Windows 10 seems to be one huge example of this. It's a travesty of an OS. Below are some of the things which it does to make me want to chuck the entire comput

Windows 10 seems to be one huge example of this. It's a travesty of an OS. Below are some of the things which it does to make me want to chuck the entire computer out of a window: - Overlay the huge "you need some updates" panel, with no option to close the window. Every key input brings you to the update installer. - Windows Defender frequently ignores my exclude lists, which causes it to start scanning my VM's .vmem files, reading and writing several megs per second to disk, causing my VM to be unresponsive for 20+ minutes if I do not restart my entire system. - The new search options in the task bar seem to have gotten worse since Windows 7. Whenever I start typing something like 'not', it shows me Notepad++. When I then add the 'e', the options disappears. - Lately, my Windows 10 has decided whenever I boot up a system, it should restart all processes that were active when I shut it down before I have had time to even log in, which is kind of a fucking bother when I had loud music playing in the background when I shut it down. - All the goddamn bloatware on it. I know that when I buy a DELL or HP, I'll have to completely reinstall the system to get rid of the bloatware, but Win10 comes with its own set of it for some reason. - All the 'smooth' animations, which slow the UX just enough to be frustrating. Don't slowly slide up the start menu, just pop it into place!

pteraspidomorph 8y ago
Yes! Why the hell does windows defender have exclude lists if it's not going to respect them? Drives me nuts. I haven't seen the full screen update modal recently, though. I thought it had been removed. Maybe it was only removed in enterprise?
AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
It also has many outstanding unfixed bugs. For instance, occasionally and for no readily apparent reason the Start button will stop working. It simply won't do anything anymore. It may or may not be fixed by rebooting, reinstalling all store apps, or other various nonsensical steps, which almost never actually work. Ultimately, the only reliable solution is to reinstall the OS. If you search google for "Windows 10 start button doesn't work" you will see that this bug dates back nearly a decade now. Let that sink in for a minute. Microsoft has somehow managed to screw up a goddamned menu so badly that it can break in multiple ways they don't know how to fix, and rather than fix this bug they have devoted their resources to bringing us features we never asked for. That's today's Microsoft. Adding (broken) new things no one wants, changing things for the sake of change (see: new settings panels), and never fixing any bugs. It's as though they've embraced the worst qualities of open source developers, only they charge you for the privilege of using their OS and still have the gall to force ads on you.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Windows peaked in quality around Win7. Everything they've added after, with possible half-exception of Metro UI[0], seems to have made the user-facing experience much worse (I'm not claiming they didn't improve the inner workings of the system, though). -- [0] - half-exception, because while it made the desktop experience worse, it also enabled Windows to work well on mobile devices, and it turns out Windows is the only OS for tablets that's not a toy, but a tool for productive use.
- AllegedAlec 8y ago
  How the fuck do you break the start menu? I'm eagerly awaiting better gaming support for Linux system, so I can finally leave this POS OS behind for good.
  - 3131s 8y ago
    Recently I was troubleshooting someone's Windows 10 computer and initially I remember thinking that the start menu's blur-transparency background effect looked nicer than what I'm used to on MATE, but then when I actually clicked one of the options the menu had totally frozen! It remained that way until a restart.
- throwanem 8y ago
  "...this bug dates back nearly a decade now." A good trick, considering Windows 10 went RTM in 2015!
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
    You're right, I don't know how my Googlefoo failed me so badly, but I could have sworn I had results from 2010 for Windows 8. PS: Seems it was because of this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/start-menu-button-not-working/a4a94b13-1402-4f2d-aa7b-6c7547411826 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/start-... which appears to be a similar problem on Windows 7.
    - 8y ago

pteraspidomorph 8y ago

Yes! Why the hell does windows defender have exclude lists if it's not going to respect them? Drives me nuts. I haven't seen the full screen update modal recently, though. I thought it had been removed. Maybe it was only removed in enterprise?

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago

It also has many outstanding unfixed bugs. For instance, occasionally and for no readily apparent reason the Start button will stop working. It simply won't do anything anymore. It may or may not be fixed by rebooting, reinstalling all store apps, or other various nonsensical steps, which almost never actually work. Ultimately, the only reliable solution is to reinstall the OS. If you search google for "Windows 10 start button doesn't work" you will see that this bug dates back nearly a decade now. Let that sink in for a minute. Microsoft has somehow managed to screw up a goddamned menu so badly that it can break in multiple ways they don't know how to fix, and rather than fix this bug they have devoted their resources to bringing us features we never asked for. That's today's Microsoft. Adding (broken) new things no one wants, changing things for the sake of change (see: new settings panels), and never fixing any bugs. It's as though they've embraced the worst qualities of open source developers, only they charge you for the privilege of using their OS and still have the gall to force ads on you.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
Windows peaked in quality around Win7. Everything they've added after, with possible half-exception of Metro UI[0], seems to have made the user-facing experience much worse (I'm not claiming they didn't improve the inner workings of the system, though). -- [0] - half-exception, because while it made the desktop experience worse, it also enabled Windows to work well on mobile devices, and it turns out Windows is the only OS for tablets that's not a toy, but a tool for productive use.
AllegedAlec 8y ago
How the fuck do you break the start menu? I'm eagerly awaiting better gaming support for Linux system, so I can finally leave this POS OS behind for good.
- 3131s 8y ago
  Recently I was troubleshooting someone's Windows 10 computer and initially I remember thinking that the start menu's blur-transparency background effect looked nicer than what I'm used to on MATE, but then when I actually clicked one of the options the menu had totally frozen! It remained that way until a restart.
throwanem 8y ago
"...this bug dates back nearly a decade now." A good trick, considering Windows 10 went RTM in 2015!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  You're right, I don't know how my Googlefoo failed me so badly, but I could have sworn I had results from 2010 for Windows 8. PS: Seems it was because of this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/start-menu-button-not-working/a4a94b13-1402-4f2d-aa7b-6c7547411826 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/start-... which appears to be a similar problem on Windows 7.
  - 8y ago