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I feel similarly but with the Windows / Android ecosystem. In windows, since approximately 8, they have been changing the system, to the point of having two co

I feel similarly but with the Windows / Android ecosystem. In windows, since approximately 8, they have been changing the system, to the point of having two control panels. The new control panel is in an interface that doesn't look integrated with anything because the trend of modern UI has been ditched. The new changes on the taskbar etc... is something I can live with, but still I don't like it. I don't think I will change to Linux, because honestly. It doesn't have the stability that I got on windows. With android is the same, everytime I get a new phone, I have the feeling that I got less and less features. I can only pray that for 2025, that linux has improved eve more (it has done it a lot) and try to recover part of the freedom. As a technology enthusiast, I am less and less enthusiastic with the future things.

jug 4y ago
At least with Windows 11, I honestly think Microsoft feel like they have a winner on their hands in terms of a next gen interface that feels more fresh and able to be modernized than Win32 that ultimately is based on a fixed display resolution. There's just the air around it and the enthusiasm I feel from Microsoft. I think it's been received well. They're moving Office towards it and many other applications too, even Windows Terminal. Common taskbar complaints are addressed at ... well, let's just say a pace. Windows 11 22H2 now supports drag & drop again. Wow. Unfortunately it's taken them many years to get here due to the missteps starting with Windows 8, where they thought they could have both desktop and smartphones sharing the same design language. Then they didn't manage to penetrate the smartphone market and suddenly many design decisions no longer made sense, because choices on desktop were made due to choices on smartphone... In turn due to touch interfaces and limited screen space. They're slowly undoing it all over the OS. But it's taking them so damn long. Years and years to make a single Control Panel page obsolete. They're truly victims to their own mega success and idea of maintaining backwards compatibility causing them to move at the bare minimum speed forward for some sort of software development that a manager can still call "progress". And now they recently moved from the idea of two releases per year to one every third year with minor feature updates in between. I think they realized they are just moving too damn slow forward to make anything quicker marketable.

jug 4y ago

At least with Windows 11, I honestly think Microsoft feel like they have a winner on their hands in terms of a next gen interface that feels more fresh and able to be modernized than Win32 that ultimately is based on a fixed display resolution. There's just the air around it and the enthusiasm I feel from Microsoft. I think it's been received well. They're moving Office towards it and many other applications too, even Windows Terminal. Common taskbar complaints are addressed at ... well, let's just say a pace. Windows 11 22H2 now supports drag & drop again. Wow. Unfortunately it's taken them many years to get here due to the missteps starting with Windows 8, where they thought they could have both desktop and smartphones sharing the same design language. Then they didn't manage to penetrate the smartphone market and suddenly many design decisions no longer made sense, because choices on desktop were made due to choices on smartphone... In turn due to touch interfaces and limited screen space. They're slowly undoing it all over the OS. But it's taking them so damn long. Years and years to make a single Control Panel page obsolete. They're truly victims to their own mega success and idea of maintaining backwards compatibility causing them to move at the bare minimum speed forward for some sort of software development that a manager can still call "progress". And now they recently moved from the idea of two releases per year to one every third year with minor feature updates in between. I think they realized they are just moving too damn slow forward to make anything quicker marketable.