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Weirdly enough, that's one of the things that originally made me want to explore options outside windows. The mobile ecosystem kept changing and taking you int
by torben-friis 4y ago
Weirdly enough, that's one of the things that originally made me want to explore options outside windows.
The mobile ecosystem kept changing and taking you into new experiences (even before smartphones). Meanwhile, a Windows desktop never felt like something new. Just a layer of paint over the old creaky house.
I even remember a 'smartphone' of sorts I had before android was a thing, which run windows phone: They literally shoved the desktop version there, I remember not being able to click buttons even with a stylus because the ui was so small for the device. The most popular app was some weird dragon themed overlay that, lo and behold, gave it finger-sized buttons.
- TillE 4y agoIt's just some moldy old bits of UI, the actual Windows kernel itself has evolved substantially over the years.
- gumboza 4y agoThat's the sad thing. The core of windows is pretty good. It's just the mismanagement and shell that's a shit show.
- vel0city 4y agoIt wasn't "Windows Phone", it was Windows Mobile or Pocket PC 2000. All the releases of Windows Phone definitely didn't have a UI like the regular desktop version of Windows and only existed after the release of Android.
- torben-friis 4y agoYes, you’re right! Windows mobile, I totally forgot about the actual windows phone, that came later.
- vel0city 4y agoIt is definitely a common mixup. Microsoft really dropped the ball on having a consistent product and a consistent name in their mobile play.
- RajT88 4y ago> Meanwhile, a Windows desktop never felt like something new. Well. There was plenty of "new" UI enhancements over the years which I resisted as much as possible. Imagine a meme of Garth from Wayne's World, "We fear change..." I always hated the more smooth and colorful Windows XP theme. Computers back then were resource constrained enough that you'd notice the fact that it wasn't "free". It wasn't until Windows 10 that I stopped trying to make the shell look as much like Win2k as possible. The extra UI eye candy on modern systems is as near as matters "free" now, as long as you have plenty of RAM. Now I am just trying to make Windows 11 look as much like Windows 10 as possible.
- icelancer 4y ago> Now I am just trying to make Windows 11 look as much like Windows 10 as possible. Same. Start11 goes a long way, but still lots of annoying stuff in W11.
- userbinator 4y agoThe extra UI eye candy on modern systems is as near as matters "free" now, as long as you have plenty of RAM. I'm not sure there's much "eye candy" in modern UI anymore, given the regression to completely flat, sometimes even borderless UI elements starting in Win8.