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Update last night updated Outlook's UI, now the top bar is taking up way too much vertical space that I had to configure ribbon to autohide to not have 20% of v
by __s 5y ago
Update last night updated Outlook's UI, now the top bar is taking up way too much vertical space that I had to configure ribbon to autohide to not have 20% of vertical space eaten up. Just adds on to start bar being stuck at bottom as opposed to the left where I liked it. No respect for vertical space
- craftinator 5y agoI had to install windows to get access to some CAD programs, but comments like this really reinforce my decision to not use it as my main OS. There are so many things that are anti-user, and extremely difficult to modify. What are some of reasons to use windows, other than for niche applications that don't work under wine?
- neltnerb 5y agoI have not had great luck with speech recognition on Linux, but I suspect that will be solved before there's a compelling reason to use Windows other than having no other choice due to niche applications.
- ricardobayes 5y agoIf it wasn't for running AAA games natively, I would happily ditch windows. The day most AAA games come out on Metal API for mac, I'll gladly switch.
- kadoban 5y agoIf it's only AAA games, you should be able to get by on Linux _quite_ well these days, if that strikes your fancy better than Windows. I actually can't remember the last game I tried that didn't work. You may want to look up the compatability of the last few you played though just to make sure your genre(s) won't get a lot worse milage than what I play.
- ricardobayes 5y agoGenshin is a famous example these days, even though I don't play it.
- alserio 5y agoThat's something I never understood. Why do designers always do that thing? Do they not use the products they design?
- gambiting 5y agoI believe it's because designers in large corporations feel the need to continuously justify their own employment and their salaries. So things change not because users request them, but because someone somewhere has to justify being a lead UI designer and their $$$ salary - and nonsense like moving the start menu to the middle ends up being "their thing" purely because they had the mental strength to push it through endless meetings and reviews and someone finally said fine ok we'll do this. I see the same thing literally all the time with Google products, every revision of YouTube/Google photos/drive/android/Gmail just shuffles thing around without any obvious reasoning behind it, it's just "well, time for a new update, let's move things around again".
- xattt 5y agoThe sad part is that those hothead UX designers could be earning their keep if they figured out a way to have some radical UI while maintaining concurrency with a historic UI that could be switched by the user.
- bobthepanda 5y agoDesigners at the corporate level with the power of, say, Jony Ive at Apple are extremely rare. From working with designers and in frontend, it is probably management or executive level keeping up with the Joneses.
- bobthepanda 5y agothere is also a lot of bikeshedding around design at the management and executive level, and it is constant. ("Can we make it pop?", "It just doesn't feel right", "but the iPhone does it this way," etc.) At least looking at people I've worked with in design, fighting your client constantly is not a good idea if you want to have a roof over your head. They'll just find someone willing to say yes.
- comeonseriously 5y agoSo annoying because every monitor I have has more horizontal space than vertical.