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> What's wrong with windows as of Windows 7? 1) The start menu is just terrible, 2012 and they haven't imposed a method to avoid it being a jumbled mess. Wors
by mbell 14y ago
> What's wrong with windows as of Windows 7?
1) The start menu is just terrible, 2012 and they haven't imposed a method to avoid it being a jumbled mess. Worst part, even if i reorganize it to be more gnome 2 like, next time an app updates it fubars it again. The only thing that makes it remotely usable is the search bar.
2) Explorer's file copy capabilities are really bad, get 3-4 transfers going to your NAS, a USB key, whatever and it crawls to a halt.
3) Explorer just completely goes to hell if you lose connection to a network drive. I have my home NAS mapped as a network drive, take the laptop somewhere else, tell it to resume, "oh no i have a folder on by NAS open when it went to sleep", now I have to wait 20 minutes while it decides it can't find the network drive, nor will explorer do anything while it waits. Also the using the "file upload" window in chrome is useless when the NAS drive isn't available, it literally crashes chrome on my laptop since chrome times out waiting for windows to decide the drive is unavailable, i have to use drag+drop to attach files to gmail.
4) Mouse scroll wheel only works on the window with focus, luckily there is an addon that fixes this called WizMouse
5) No virtual desktops.
6) No native mounting of iso files, seriously I have to install some third party program that installs a fake CD-ROM drive to access the file system of an iso?
I think that covers my major gripes, my only major gripe of linux, and why I stopped using it as my primary OS, is just terrible management of multiple displays, especially in multiple orientations.
- davidw 14y ago> 5) No virtual desktops. http://www.welton.it/articles/windows_for_linux_users http://www.welton.it/articles/windows_for_linux_users There used to be one you could install, which made Windows slightly more tolerable.
- reddit_clone 14y ago>> 5) No virtual desktops. I have used Dexpot with success in the past (in XP though. Haven't tried with Win7) http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home
- eigenvector 14y ago2) and 6) are fixed in Windows 8.
- lmm 14y agoEvery version of windows since 98 has claimed to fix 2)
- eigenvector 14y agoI agree, but for what it's worth I've seen much better performance with Win 8, both the Developer Preview and Consumer Preview. They file copy user experience is also about 15,000x better as you can see here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/23/improving-our-file-management-basics-copy-move-rename-and-delete.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/23/improving-our-...