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I took the bullet and completely Microsoft-ied my Windows experience, once. It wasn't great to say the least. 1. Onedrive - File management i.e. deleting / ren

I took the bullet and completely Microsoft-ied my Windows experience, once. It wasn't great to say the least. 1. Onedrive - File management i.e. deleting / renaming / moving a large number of files is awful. Things break all the time. Deleted files come back up. 2. Edge - What's up with the side panel? The browser gets in the way of web-browing. 3. Bing - shows tabloid news, ads and rewards. 4. Microsoft Store - UI feels like as if it was built for smartphones. Everything is expanded with lots of wasted space and the entire store seems like a scam. And laslty installing any app takes forever. 5. Settings App vs Control Panel - What takes precedence? 6. File Explorer - Windows XP's FE performed better than Windows 11's. These promotions would've been acceptable if there was a straight forward way to disable it and if the promoted products actually lived up to the copywrite. Now that I've bought a PlayStation & a Steam Deck, I no longer need a Windows machine. I hope Macbook Air M2 with 16GB wasn't so expensive.

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netsharc 3y ago
Switzerland has 3 languages, but they're quite region-specific. I live in the German region. The Windows Store always shows up for me in French. Geniuses. Hey Microsoft, you can probably geo-locate me, if not that, maybe you could at least honour the language I've chosen for the OS? Also, Windows 7 reliably shows you what your current keyboard language is. This has not worked reliably since the beginning of Windows 10, it would often show "Layout is US-English" but pressing the key between T and U would give me Z (because in the German layout it is Z, and there are other differences). Or the other way around. Even more fun if you have German (Germany) and German (Switzerland), and you can't even use iterate through the layouts to find the correct one, because many times the control panel would lose all your keyboard layouts and the layout is in some undefined state. Fucking joke of an OS.
- Tommstein 3y ago
  > Switzerland has 3 languages . . . . Y'all ditch Romansh?
tracker1 3y ago
Been using Linux (Ubuntu-Budgie) as my main desktop OS for well over a year now, with very few issues. On windows for work, most of my time is spent in WSL with Docker, VS Code and a Browser.
npteljes 3y ago
I have similar feelings. I'd even go for the products, if they weren't a shitshow. And as long as I'm doing shitshows - I'll choose one where I don't feel disrespected all the time.

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netsharc 3y ago

Switzerland has 3 languages, but they're quite region-specific. I live in the German region. The Windows Store always shows up for me in French. Geniuses. Hey Microsoft, you can probably geo-locate me, if not that, maybe you could at least honour the language I've chosen for the OS? Also, Windows 7 reliably shows you what your current keyboard language is. This has not worked reliably since the beginning of Windows 10, it would often show "Layout is US-English" but pressing the key between T and U would give me Z (because in the German layout it is Z, and there are other differences). Or the other way around. Even more fun if you have German (Germany) and German (Switzerland), and you can't even use iterate through the layouts to find the correct one, because many times the control panel would lose all your keyboard layouts and the layout is in some undefined state. Fucking joke of an OS.

Tommstein 3y ago
> Switzerland has 3 languages . . . . Y'all ditch Romansh?

tracker1 3y ago

Been using Linux (Ubuntu-Budgie) as my main desktop OS for well over a year now, with very few issues. On windows for work, most of my time is spent in WSL with Docker, VS Code and a Browser.

npteljes 3y ago

I have similar feelings. I'd even go for the products, if they weren't a shitshow. And as long as I'm doing shitshows - I'll choose one where I don't feel disrespected all the time.