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Makes sense, Windows looks more like slop every passing day.

by codr7 1y ago

thnetcoder 1y ago
I would love to know how the start button search has been so terrible and almost useless for more than a decade. Not to mention searching in a folder doesn't work half the time either. So many basic things are broken it blows my mind. And now we nueter the ui for no reason too with windows 11
- b3ing 1y ago
  It’s 2025 and windows can even show a preview of a png
andybak 1y ago
I've seen multiple overlapping cycles of sentiment towards Windows from within geek culture. Often contradictory and frequently shifting wildly in hindsight. To say it's "more like slop" would imply there was a generally acknowledged period where it wasn't slop and I struggle to think of a period where that kind of consensus existed. So - when did you have in mind when you wrote that?
- codr7 1y ago
  I had in mind everything since Vista. Its only saving grace is WSL2.
- orwin 1y ago
  Not OP, but I personally think the original Win10, despite Cortana, was good, thanks mostly to powerToys and later wsl2, but since the Skype/teams kerfuffle happened around the same time, it's hard for me to think they weren't mostly slop at the time. So I'd say windows XP? 2003-2007?
hnlmorg 1y ago
Windows has always been terrible. At this point, I honestly think the anomalously good Windows 2000 was an accident rather than anything deliberate. In fact I'd go further and say everything Microsoft touches turns to slop. Windows CE was garbage. 9x was garbage (as was everything that preceded it). Even Microsoft BASIC was garbage. I suspect the only reason people hold Windows 7 in such high regard is a combination of: - them being too young to have used Windows 2000. 7 might be terrible but it's the least worst Windows OS in over a 20-year time span. So younger professionals today wouldn't have had the luxury of using Windows 2000 - Stockholm syndrome, where they're forced into using Windows for work so don't know any better. The problem we have today is that there isn't anything particularly good around either. macOS is slop. Linux is probably the least worst of current desktop operating systems but Linux is still terrible for a plethora of reasons and a whole lot of use cases. It's no wonder the general populous find smartphone/tablet OSs more convenient than laptops for casual stuff. I think I would too if my options were Windows or Android/iOS.

Makes sense, Windows looks more like slop every passing day.

by codr7 1y ago

Makes sense, Windows looks more like slop every passing day.

I would love to know how the start button search has been so terrible and almost useless for more than a decade. Not to mention searching in a folder doesn't work half the time either. So many basic things are broken it blows my mind. And now we nueter the ui for no reason too with windows 11

b3ing 1y ago
It’s 2025 and windows can even show a preview of a png

andybak 1y ago

I've seen multiple overlapping cycles of sentiment towards Windows from within geek culture. Often contradictory and frequently shifting wildly in hindsight. To say it's "more like slop" would imply there was a generally acknowledged period where it wasn't slop and I struggle to think of a period where that kind of consensus existed. So - when did you have in mind when you wrote that?

codr7 1y ago
I had in mind everything since Vista. Its only saving grace is WSL2.
orwin 1y ago
Not OP, but I personally think the original Win10, despite Cortana, was good, thanks mostly to powerToys and later wsl2, but since the Skype/teams kerfuffle happened around the same time, it's hard for me to think they weren't mostly slop at the time. So I'd say windows XP? 2003-2007?

hnlmorg 1y ago

Windows has always been terrible. At this point, I honestly think the anomalously good Windows 2000 was an accident rather than anything deliberate. In fact I'd go further and say everything Microsoft touches turns to slop. Windows CE was garbage. 9x was garbage (as was everything that preceded it). Even Microsoft BASIC was garbage. I suspect the only reason people hold Windows 7 in such high regard is a combination of: - them being too young to have used Windows 2000. 7 might be terrible but it's the least worst Windows OS in over a 20-year time span. So younger professionals today wouldn't have had the luxury of using Windows 2000 - Stockholm syndrome, where they're forced into using Windows for work so don't know any better. The problem we have today is that there isn't anything particularly good around either. macOS is slop. Linux is probably the least worst of current desktop operating systems but Linux is still terrible for a plethora of reasons and a whole lot of use cases. It's no wonder the general populous find smartphone/tablet OSs more convenient than laptops for casual stuff. I think I would too if my options were Windows or Android/iOS.