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You can actually move the taskbar to the left, but you can no longer have it vertically :/ > The insistence on packaging programs as "app bundles". I don't th
by pjc50 1y ago
You can actually move the taskbar to the left, but you can no longer have it vertically :/
> The insistence on packaging programs as "app bundles".
I don't think appx is too bad on its own - the operating system should have a package manager, it provides a means of handling common dependencies (although this was for WinUI3, which is kind of dead), and both MSI and CAB are very old, weird file formats.
The UWP sandboxing .. I can see why they did it, protection against malicious apps, but it completely handicaps desktop apps.
> Then there's the slew of useless always-online garbage, which literally nobody asked for, and which basically amounts to user-hostile spyware.
Yes, this is Bad and the sort of thing the EU should start leaning on.
> MS needs to accept that user interface design mostly peaked about a decade or two ago
The original Windows era had plenty of work put into accessibility and making it clear what was clickable. The modern era swept that away in favor of "looks nice to minimalists", and I think it's a loss.
- bediger4000 1y agoFlat design is a travesty. You can't tell what you can click/tap delicately, so touching the screen at all becomes an adventure.
- ethbr1 1y ago>> MS needs to accept that user interface design mostly peaked about a decade or two ago > The original Windows era had plenty of work put into accessibility and making it clear what was clickable. It makes you wonder what would have happened if Microsoft had frozen Windows core UI features at 7 and instead invested the countless person-years of UI (re-)development elsewhere...