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The Windows kernel and most of the stuff under the hood is great (most, not all). The userspace has been on a steady downwards trend ever since Windows XP. Wind
by wongarsu 1y ago
The Windows kernel and most of the stuff under the hood is great (most, not all). The userspace has been on a steady downwards trend ever since Windows XP. Windows 11 is a bit of a mixed bag in that regard. Some things clearly got worse, but in return, for seemingly the first time since Windows 2000, Microsoft remembered that it ships tools like Windows Explorer and Notepad and gave them some improvements
But not sure what the decent alternatives are. Yes, Windows Explorer is a slow piece of 90s tech, but it's still leagues ahead of Gnome's Nautilus. And I was never a friend of macOS's finder. Just as one example representative of the wider OS. I can get a decent command shell on any OS, but in terms of power-user GUIs Windows is still has little competition. Even if you have to fight against enshittification and need 3rd party tools to fix its deficiencies
- Expurple 1y ago> but in terms of power-user GUIs Windows is still has little competition Nowadays, KDE is stable and is way better at being Windows that Windows. It's a remarkable desktop
- toyg 1y ago> Windows Explorer is a slow piece of 90s tech, Somewhat ironically, in Win11 it has been substantiay modified. Now it crashes on basic stuff like creating an empty folder. Honestly, it's like Microsoft looked at the mess that is the Linux DE world and thought "yes, that's what we need!"
- aksss 1y ago> “crashed on basic stuff like creating an empty folder” Wut?
- toyg 1y agoYeah, on my work laptop after the upgrade it struggles on the most basic tasks, probably because of the crap integration with OneDrive getting even crappier. Or maybe it's the stupid extra-padded skin, reminiscent of 2005 KDE, who knows. I just know I now have a system with less functionality (no vertical taskbar, no start menu on the right...) and more crashes.