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Yah, I'm done with windows on personal hardware. I was late to 7, and refused to run 10, rather switching to KDE on a number of machines. MS didn't learn the l
by StillBored 4y ago
Yah, I'm done with windows on personal hardware. I was late to 7, and refused to run 10, rather switching to KDE on a number of machines.
MS didn't learn the lesson that apple taught them, about how a desktop interface doesn't work well on small screen devices without keyboard/mouse. Instead what they appear to have learned is that small screen UI's designed for touch should be used on desktop systems with screen real estate measured in 10's of square feet, and where the primary input device is a keyboard followed by a mouse.
And its terrible. People complain because it sucks. Not being able to figure out which window is active because they removed most of the visual active/inactive window hinting, not being able to find more than a couple dozen programs works great for a work computer where your day job involves sitting in one of a small number of applications all day long, but fails miserably for any other use case. Even android/iphone can group program/icons by function these days (and have you seen anyone under 20's phone screen? Those kids have 100's of applications installed).
And yet the past 10 years of MS "advancements" are largely things people either didn't ask for, or are reversions of things that were possible in older versions of the OS. Sure the task manager can now display network utilization, but you can't figure out if the window your typing in is active until you realize that you just typed your SSH key unlock pin, into slack. And don't get me started on the scroll bars, the new control panel UI has the same abominable f*ed up scroll bar situation as most web apps, and it still can only do about 1/2 of what the old win7 control panel could. You have to try and scroll it 1/2 the time before you can be sure there isn't more information below the bottom of the window. Its just one user hostile change after another, and they add up... over and over. until it feels like the entire point is just to screw around with people.