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The START MENU? TEN YEARS? My friend, how about simple file management? They've been at that for DECADES and still can't get it right? "Oh, you dragged somethi
by movedx 3y ago
The START MENU? TEN YEARS? My friend, how about simple file management? They've been at that for DECADES and still can't get it right?
"Oh, you dragged something over the top of a network drive in Explorer, let me waste the next 3-5 minutes trying to connect to that drive for you". Or how about this: "Oh you plugged in a USB drive that was setup as a live CD? Let me crash for a second and mash your MBR to bits".
How is Windows still mostly garbage at this point?
- labster 3y agoI disabled OneDrive syncing on Edge, and the next time Windows refused to boot. I had to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition. Tracking: it’s mandatory!
- NavinF 3y agoSomehow it feels like there's more to this story
- smt88 3y agoI've been using Windows for 30 years and haven't encountered either issue you've described.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoThat kind of attitude leads to user blaming. I have fond memories of the workgroup network scan freezing my computer for extended durations in the xp days
- smashed 3y agoOr just download a large file, choose save as on a drive other than the C drive because it is too big, and watch IE proceed to fill up the temp dir on the C drive, completely ignoring the fact you asked to save on another drive. Or if you had enough space, still waste minutes copying the deleting the file...
- racedude 3y agoIE? We're in 2023 dude, don't think that is even usable anymore.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoA memory of XP was invoked, hence the comment about other XP anecdata.
- geraldhh 3y agohaha! can totally relate that 'save to temp-dir first and copy later' behavior is so frustrating because it's inconsistently applied and not easily avoided, yet somewhat incomprehensible to the average user.
- smt88 3y ago> in the xp days Those days ended in 2007. I don't know if that issue persisted after XP because I've never experienced it.
- EugeneOZ 3y agoI've been using Windows since 1998 and I can confirm all the issues described. The last time I enjoyed hanging Explorer was yesterday, and it was exactly because Explorer was trying to open a network link that I didn't ask to open.
- smashed 3y agoI don't use windows daily but was trying to add an additional keyboard layout (US English) to a family member's windows 10 PC today. Searching for such a simple thing in the control panel was infuriating to say the least. I finally found it, random clicking in every potential places and it was in the most unintuitive place you could think of. You would expect "keyboard layout" search to bring helpful results but it does not.
- geraldhh 3y agojust wait till windows randomly decides to add some other layouts and mess with the switching order
- philistine 3y agoWHY DOES IT DO THAT!!!?
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoIt doesn't? I'm multilingual and always had 3 keyboard languages in parallel and never had any of those issues happen in 15+ years and 6 versions of Windows. Most likely he was hitting alt+space by accident which cycles through them without him realizing. Hot take: I feel like a lot of Windows issues people raise are actually user errors/accidents, then blaming the OS for it.
- thfuran 3y agoSystemic user error is a software defect.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoHow the user mashing random keys a SW defect? The SW does what you tell it to do.
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- Ruq 3y agoI switched to Linux entirely (but may reinstall windows as a second OS for some games if I get the wild hair...), and while it can still be buggy at times here and there (Arch Linux, so go figure), it's usually my fault, and it can be remedied most of the time. Still a thousand times better of an experience than Windows.
- leeoniya 3y agoi threw in the towel as well after debloating the same win10 install for the millionth time. switched to Arch (EndeavourOS KDE/Plasma) and life is sane again; enjoyable, even! i do miss Affinity products, tho, which cannot even run in Wine/Proton :(
- uxcolumbo 3y agoSo what design tools do you use now? Browser based?
- leeoniya 3y agoi'm not a designer, but use Krita for very basic edit tasks and Inkscape on occasion. can't use GIMP well because it's GTK2 and the UI doesnt work well for pixel-scaled (HiDPI displays), and GTK3-based GIMP 3 dev builds often fail to compile: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gimp-devel https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gimp-devel
- stinos 3y agoThe funny thing is that I encountered the exact same issues OP complains about (network not available = let's stall forever, insert USB drive = let's crash hard) on various mainstream distros. Especially the first one is super common and on various levels and through various protocols.
- movedx 3y agoMe too. Ubuntu 22.04. It's come a long way since I last Linux in... 1999 and 2003! Haha! Now I'm even considering FreeBSD as I friggin' love that OS. It's rock solid, predictable, and fast. I just need to make sure a few things can be made to work, even if it's via the browser, like Zoom.
- eviks 3y agoWhat would the forces be that magically turn garbage into a diamond?
- zbendefy 3y agoAgreed but if talking about default file managers, its even worse on ubuntu. Nautilus is imo very bad compared to win file manager (hitting a key starts a global search in that folder, it crashes very often etc.). Does anyone know if they plan anything with it?
- bombolo 3y agouse dolphin