LukasMathis

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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I did at one point plug a Logitech keyboard into the Surface, but I definitely did not intentionally install any Logitech drivers. It's something Windows put there by itself, only for it to become a problem later.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Yes, if you can pull that off, it's a huge win.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I've love to read your opinion on Linux.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
That's funny. Did you miss the part of the article where I write that Windows is "technically terrible" and that its "UX is erratic"? If Microsoft pays people to say things like these, they're doing something w
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Yep, availability of current games probably plays a role. Though the Mac App Store does show a pretty good selection of games.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I've used a Cintiq for years, and it has the exact same issue with tracking the pen near the edges. If anything, it's worse than the Surface. So it never occurred to me that there might be a solution. Thank you for the link!
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
The same mistake twice in a row. Another good one. Fixed, thank you!
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Interesting. I'll try that.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I'm sorry my article wasn't useful to you.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Another option would be to set the text caret inside the text box, but allow people to write anywhere, while the focus is on a text field. This is probably something where you'd have to do a ton of different prototypes, and see which o
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Dunno, they're extremely popular in Switzerland, where I live. I think among consumers, Mac market share is quite high. It's different in businesses, but businesses don't buy that many games :-)
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
It's important to keep in mind that the Metro apps work better on smaller screens than normal desktop apps. They hide a lot of the UI when you don't need it, so there's much more room for actual content. I wouldn't want
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
You're right, it only took me half a blog post to explain all of the new concepts Microsoft introduced in their completely novel approach to operating system user interfaces. I don't think that's evidence against its ease-of-
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I'm thinking the natural progression of the split-screen mode would be a system-level tiling window manager. An advanced, easy-to-use version of what most IDEs implement to show their various panes.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Same here. Even just the faster processor, and the responsiveness while drawing that comes with that, makes a big difference.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
This is pretty cool!
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I think it's fair to note that you might not be completely representative of the average Windows user. Glad to hear that you're happy with how the disk manager looks, though :-)
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I just tried, but it didn't find anything. Not sure if my handwriting is so terrible, or if there's something else going wrong here. [Update: maybe the Metro version of OneNote doesn't support all of the features of the deskt
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Not as good as pen on paper, but the closest I've ever seen. You should probably go to a store and play with one to see if it suits you. I bought my Surface after I did that.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Why?
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
I thought the article already covered a wide range of topics, so I wanted to focus on comparing the iPad and the Surface. You're right, though, Android solves many of these problems, too.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
You're right that Surfaces themselves are uncommon. However, people who use their devices for productivity are probably a lot more common among Surface owners than among iPad owners.
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Wow, probably the quickest I ever went from start of essay to first spelling mistake. Thanks for catching it!
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by LukasMathis 13y ago
Dunno, it's never been an issue for me. I'm used to edge-activated features from OS X, and slamming the mouse into the corner to call up the menu always seemed like a simple, efficient user interface to me. It's a bit weird w
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by LukasMathis 14y ago
You sound like you're unfamiliar with public transport? The way trains usually work nowadays is that you open a website, enter from where to where you want to go, and when you want to arrive, push the "pay" button, and print out the resulti
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by LukasMathis 14y ago
No. The point is that they don't have these things, so they probably need more than 128 GB of storage on their laptop.
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by LukasMathis 14y ago
Not everybody wants to be "educated" in the intricacies of modern PC hardware and OS design. And, in fact, not everybody should need to be. I don't know exactly how trains work; I just sit in one, and it gets me to where I want to go. A
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by LukasMathis 14y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I needed some kind of official entitlement to be allowed to write about this subject. Since you seem to know more, can you point me in the proper direction? Where do I get the entitlement that I require? By
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by LukasMathis 14y ago
Because (some) tablets actually are good computers. They achieve extremely high quality (speed, good UX) at the tasks they do by simply not doing most of the tasks a desktop PC does. If you only want to do email and some web browsing, a t
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Nope, don't have one of these, sorry.

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