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What you can't do, no matter what you try, is to make the Start Menu show all the programs you have installed. But attaching things there is nice. Even better than the KDE menu.
Google "Classic Shell". It's a freeware, allowing you to replace your start menu with either a XP or a 7 like start menu.
I must be in the huge minority. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 10 (if we disregard privacy). Literally everything has just worked. I will say thinking about it that my computer used for 99.99% gaming/internet/text documents. I keep anticipating that something is going to go horribly wrong but so far it's been great. I hate the menu and store that it shows so almost everything I tend to open has a shortcut…
So a good OS, great by M$ standards, with some annoying "features" baked in.
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Profit. How else is Microsoft (or any other company) going to make money off software no one needs or wants? Other than rehashing the same old product and pushing it onto users for more money, more surveillance, or both, they have nothing of value to sell on the software side. Even if they did have something of value to sell, over 90% of the people have already bought their product. Gotta keep the cash rolling in so…
I don't quite follow. You seem to be saying that Microsoft make changes just to justify the release of a new OS version. But they announced quite a while ago that they would never release a new major version. There will never be a Windows 11, you will never pay to upgrade Windows to the new version again. They adopted the macOS platform, where the OS sticks to a single version and gets an incremental annual update (m…
OSX/macOS promoted their point releases to be something between service packs and major version releases, keeping it at version "X" for marketing purposes. From what I can see, between Cheetah and Sierra the expected workflow of the system has changed strongly a few times.
Would be nice to get the free upgrade back.
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When is the last time you used Windows NT? I find new features are so ingrained in my workflow that I don't even realize they're new.
I use it in a VM now and then. The only thing from the later versions i'd want to see is adding thumbnails in the file browser, being able to right click in a start menu entry to show the file/folder properties without going through explorer , being able to search apps and recent documents with win+[text] and being able to drag the taskbar buttons to reorder them. Beyond that Windows NT's interface is just perfect. A…
User experience is important. Would be like a car switching the positions of the Gas/Brake pedal.
UI matters.
We've got a bunch of Win 8 computers at work, but we missed the free upgrade. So were stuck. Would be nice to get the free upgrade back.
You're not missing as much as you think :)
I'm someone who stuck with Windows 7. The history of Windows has been so shaky, and the general software quality of Microsoft is so low, that the only rational strategy with Windows is "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." I have both Windows and Mac hardware, and I prefer to update my Mac OS as soon as updates are available. On reflection, I suppose it's because the software quality is always high, and I know the core…
The current tirade against Windows 10 is not really that different to the period after Windows XP came out just because it is radically different to its predecessor, yet the latter eventually became the most long lived MS product ever. A similar torrent of FUD did kill Vista's reputation, but as we all know Windows 7 is just minor upgrade but this rebranding is enough to pacify the most vocal critics. Make me wonder if Jobs was right that users really have no idea whats the best for them.
I'm someone who stuck with Windows 7. The history of Windows has been so shaky, and the general software quality of Microsoft is so low, that the only rational strategy with Windows is "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." I have both Windows and Mac hardware, and I prefer to update my Mac OS as soon as updates are available. On reflection, I suppose it's because the software quality is always high, and I know the core…
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Absolute numbers are large. I'm more interested in the trend here. Still, there should be more push for Linux on the desktop. This sick situation exited for way too long.
That won't happen until desktop Linux is usable by non-tech people, and they have easy access to it (pre-installed, simple install, etc.). There's been a lot of progress, however there are still plenty of issues. Not to mention application support.
Having access to it pre-installed which you mentioned too is however the issue.