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The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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lph wrote: post #71
everyone wrote: post #22

Just letting ya'll know the best version of Windows 10 by miles is called 'LTSB'. It doesnt come with any shit on it (windows store, xboxlive, cortana etc etc.) MS have also promised It will not receive any updates that change its functionality but will receive security updates, for 10 years. You can only get it if u buy in bulk tho. Or, u can just get it from tpb.. Considering MS are intentionally not selling by far…

Serious question: How can you possibly trust pirated software in 2019? How do you know it’s not riddled with rootkits and backdoors?

How can you possibly trust open source software in 2019? Do you pore over all the code checking it? I'm gonna assume in most cases no, and that you trust the community who do actually do that. Same with pirated software. I'll trust a known group, because they have a history of clean releases, as opposed to a corp, who often have a history of shenanigans and spyware and whatnot.

Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Post by wlesieutre »

NeoBasilisk wrote: post #49
diminoten wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're changing the scroll direction, you're not moving, you're trying to recreate your MacOS experience on Windows, and it isn't surprising that didn't go well.

I was scared to ask what this was even referring to

Apple calls this setting "Scroll direction: Natural" and describes it as "Content tracks finger movement."

That's been their default since back in 2011, and although a lot of people disabled it at the time I definitely prefer this mode of scroll interaction. It's more direct and is consistent across all the gadgets I use.

It acts like you're grabbing the content and moving it around, rather than grabbing a scroll indicator at the side of the page and pushing that up or down. Especially when you factor in other gestures like pinch to zoom with multitouch trackpads, it now very weird to turn this off. For zoom, it feels like you're grabbing the content, but then when you pan suddenly you're grabbing the viewport instead? Next time you're on a Mac, open up Maps and try it both ways.

The fact that grabbing content this way feels natural may have a bit to do with Apple having large, smooth, and very responsive trackpads. YMMV on other hardware.

Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Post by spookybones »

rayiner wrote: post #61
pbreit wrote: post #9

I just switched from Mac to Windows and had to move back. I cannot believe how miserable the Windows experience is. I mistakenly thought that since so much is browser-based, it's not a big deal. But literally every single little thing is slightly-to-much worse on Windows. Even stupid things like changing scroll direction, saving the 5 second preference for notifications to disappear, finding a wifi password, arrangin…

Same thing here. Sold my 2013 MBP and bought a Thinkpad X1 carbon. After a year of frustration, bought a used 2013 MBP. Windows is somehow worse than it used to be. There's two control centers for some reason. Much more notifications and intrusiveness. Taskbar auto-hide doesn't work consistently. Updates install without permission. The big thing is the apps. Apps are getting much less functional (just like how the Se…

I’m happy to see someone els lament a good alternative to Preview on windows.

Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Post by glenneroo »

throw0101a wrote: post #70

Meta: I really wish that people would stick with writings things as "from SOURCE to DESTINATION" or "from INITIAL to FINAL". Perhaps it's just me, but I find it reduces mental drag if you describe things in temporal progression instead of having to go 'in reverse'.† It's not a big deal, but I find it irksome. † I am reminded of the bomb defusing joke: Cut the blue wire [snip] ...after cutting the red one. * https://t…

I absolutely agree - I wonder if the author uses good ol' functions such as strcpy(dest, src)?

Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Post by euroclydon »

mdorazio wrote: post #77
rayiner wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing here. Sold my 2013 MBP and bought a Thinkpad X1 carbon. After a year of frustration, bought a used 2013 MBP. Windows is somehow worse than it used to be. There's two control centers for some reason. Much more notifications and intrusiveness. Taskbar auto-hide doesn't work consistently. Updates install without permission. The big thing is the apps. Apps are getting much less functional (just like how the Se…

> Windows is somehow worse than it used to be. I have to agree. I use Windows probably 90% of the time, but I have to say it peaked with Windows 7 and started going downhill with 8. Now it's a game of "guess which config system has the option you need" + Microsoft forcing all kinds of things power users really should be able to disable.

I wonder if it’s because the older MS developers are retiring and the young blood don’t know how to keep the OS to the same quality.

Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Post by banachtarski »

glenneroo wrote: post #85
throw0101a wrote: post #70

Meta: I really wish that people would stick with writings things as "from SOURCE to DESTINATION" or "from INITIAL to FINAL". Perhaps it's just me, but I find it reduces mental drag if you describe things in temporal progression instead of having to go 'in reverse'.† It's not a big deal, but I find it irksome. † I am reminded of the bomb defusing joke: Cut the blue wire [snip] ...after cutting the red one. * https://t…

I absolutely agree - I wonder if the author uses good ol' functions such as strcpy(dest, src)?

Intel assembly notation users unite!

Re: The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019

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Post by shigawire »

School-Cotton wrote: post #12

When people refer to the entire suite of Unix-like tools as “bash” I don’t quite know what to make of it. Interpreted uncharitably, it would seem to imply that they think all those nice tools like grep, awk, etc. are all shell builtins, which would be a huge red flag as it would mean they have very little idea of how a typical Unix-like OS works. Interpreted charitably, maybe they do know that those are all separate…

What should it be called? Basic Unix utilities? What is correct?
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