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Windows 7 is still the best version of Windows in terms of responding to keystrokes and being navigable using keyboard shortcuts. I don't know how they fumbled
by taneq 1y ago
Windows 7 is still the best version of Windows in terms of responding to keystrokes and being navigable using keyboard shortcuts. I don't know how they fumbled the design of both the logon screen and the start menu search box so hard in Win10/11 but apparently they forgot the concept of "buffering keystrokes".
I die a little inside every time I start to type my PIN on Win11, stop, wait for the lock screen to give way to the PIN screen, then type it again now that the keystrokes are going to the right place.
And I launch programs by hitting the windows key then typing eg. "putty" dozens of times a day. And mostly it's fine, and maybe 10% of the time it's like "what's that, boy? you wanna search the interweb for "putty" using bing on edge? YOU GOT IT!" No, friendo, I want to launch the same goddamn putty.exe that's in c:\bin\ and that I've run a bunch of times already in the past hour.
- ndiddy 1y agoI remember when 7 came out and people complained about how the UI was less responsive than XP! Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM I guess Windows UI responsiveness has just been steadily declining since the early 2000s.
- taneq 1y agoYeah, it lagged a bit when it first came out. It still (eventually, when it got around to it) responded to your keystrokes in the order you made them, though. Also the Spotlight-style search built into the start menu was far better than just clicking through nested menus.
- stetrain 1y agoThe PowerToys Run quick launcher is nice as just a simple app launcher. It really should just be built-in like Spotlight on MacOS but then you wouldn't see as many Bing ads.