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Well, as much as I like to join in taking a dump on Microsoft, this sort of thing is inevitable, in any OS, any software, any product: The longer a product goe
by Razengan 1y ago
Well, as much as I like to join in taking a dump on Microsoft, this sort of thing is inevitable, in any OS, any software, any product:
The longer a product goes, the more features it gets (or loses) that some people want, some people don't.
It would be nice to have an easy to modify checklist of what stuff you want to keep/remove on a default installation.
I think the current state of iOS is pretty good in regards to that: You get a somewhat-sane default pack out of the box, and you can remove crap like Freeform and Journal (which should have been part of Notes to begin with) and install other Apple apps from the App Store if you need em.
- esafak 1y agoIt's not if old features get removed as others are added, or someone is there to put their foot down. I don't feel this problem in Apple products. But it is an easy trap to fall into.
- vrighter 1y agoAI in notepad is not something that should be in an OS. Any OS. The os is supposed to be there to sit between your applications and your hardware. It's supposed to offer some sort of interface for you to operate your machine. Having arbitrary features that connect to arbitrary web-services which could extremely easily be an optional application is not fine.
- Razengan 1y ago> The os is supposed to … That ship has long sailed my good sir/sirette.
- tremon 1y agoIt has only sailed because we lack competition in the OS space. Any competent competitor could eat MS' lunch by now, if not for the decades of entrenchment that Windows has had.
- Razengan 1y agoI mean operating systems are not just an interface between the user and the machine anymore. An OS is just as much of a "product" now as everything else.