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> the redesign got rid of the menu bar This drives me batty, and it just feels like an insult. For decades, the argument for sticking with Windows was that it
by myself248 3y ago
> the redesign got rid of the menu bar
This drives me batty, and it just feels like an insult.
For decades, the argument for sticking with Windows was that it was a single stable UI/UX with lots of established conventions. The same menus in the same places, the same hotkeys worked everywhere, etc. Linux couldn't claim that, was the pitch.
Since human time is the expensive part, it didn't matter if the OS itself wasn't exactly performant, and we could afford to throw hardware at its ever-more-bloated footprint, because the investment in _human reflexes_ paid dividends whose value far exceeded some extra sticks of RAM or whatever.
Now that hardware is virtually free and it _should_ cost nothing to continue that legacy of consistency, they've fucked it all up! Teams is completely unusable by keyboard, the new UI skin got rid of all the menu bars, lately I've found GUI elements that're _hidden until you mouse over them_, like are they kidding?
I feel like I've been played for a fool. Every time I run into one of these insults, it pisses me off way more than the individual problem should, because it twists this 3-decade-old knife in my gut.
- wokkel 3y agoThats what you get when you let a an effective monopoly be run by baboons.
- vxNsr 3y agoI knew everything was going downhill when I saw the windows 8 back button. It looked like it’d been hastily drawn by me in MSPaint for a school assignment. Nothing was aligned, and the arrow was actually pixelated on my 720p laptop screen
- david422 3y agoGet rid of the menu bar to free up more space. Get giant 4k monitors. Pad all the UI elements with extra space. It just gets dumb.
- baq 3y agoI’ve started to browse the web on 80% by default because it’s preposterous and ridiculous. I don’t want fancy designs. I want boring predictable accessible UIs with maximum amount of information on one screen.
- wruza 3y agoFor decades, the argument for sticking with Windows was that it was a single stable UI/UX with lots of established conventions. The same menus in the same places, the same hotkeys worked everywhere, etc Except for windows 98 control panel, windows 2000 control panel, windows xp control panel, windows vista control panel and windows 10 control panel and system settings.
- vxNsr 3y ago> For decades, the argument for sticking with Windows was that it was a single stable UI/UX with lots of established conventions. The same menus in the same places, the same hotkeys worked everywhere, etc. Linux couldn't claim that, was the pitch. And then Microsoft let their employees use any machine/OS they wanted and all the designers promptly choose MacBooks, and now Windows is slowly morphing into macOSLite. Taking all the most annoying design concepts from macOS and trying to unsuccessfully merge or replace them with the very thoroughly designed and developed Windows conventions.