windows 10 itself is useless. I miss Windows 7.
Useless Windows 10 Features
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a moment there I thought this post was written by Bryan Cantrill. About the camps and their goals, the open source one is to some extent present, obviously, but the ad one I don't really see because I run Pro. There is a third camp that unquestionably won, though: The "UX/UI designer" camp. I assume all the garbage running in the background behind obscure registry toggles (because real configurability is bad for…
Even they lost. You cannot customize the colors in light mode even. Only dark mode allows it, and there of course the color is darkened. The whole thing feels like a beta version. In fact, even Whistler betas were more polished than this. OS cannot afford to break things, which apparently is MS modus operandi now. It takes about 5 minutes of playing in settings to hit broken functionality. Bonus points if the breakag…
I like the help buttons which open a web browser with a page saying help is not available.
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#213> Windows 10 has more built-in advertisements than Google’s Android and Chrome OS do. It's still hard to believe that after paying a few hundreds of dollars for a new OS you will be treated with advertisements, as if it were freeware.. I'll never buy that shit.
It's increasingly common everywhere on-line (and off-line). Companies consider advertising an additional revenue stream, and see no reason to not add it regardless of whether the product is paid for or distributed for free.
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#214I honestly think that the new tab/news/spam page in IE/Edge is (and has been, forever) the single biggest factor driving people to Chrome and Firefox. Every time you open it you’re greeted with all this complete junk, making the whole experience stuttering and slowing down your flow. I dread having to open IE on systems with no alternative just because it’s always so bad. Edge might actually be pretty good, but I wil…
Absolutely. Microsoft products are horrendous for this. Every time I have to start up my windows VM to test an IE bug I get assaulted by advertising and "news" in the start menu with bright moving blocks and then I open IE and get hit with it even worse. I don't know why people put up with it tbh.
I kept on wondering why I hadn't seen any of this, and then remembered that I'd installed Classic Shell start menu, which provides a Windows 7 style menu. It doesn't disable the Windows 10 menu, just hides it. Makes for a much more pleasant experience though. (No affiliation)
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#215"All the Ads. So, So Many Ads" Seems odd to see complaints of many Ads in an OS--analogous to buying a car and having advertisements show up in the instrument cluster when stopped or not being able to exit the vehicle until watching an Ad. Haven't used Windows in recent memory (probably since these Ads appeared or I just didn't notice them). Is it as bad as the article describes?
At work, I have been using Windows 10 Pro for a couple of months now after sticking with Windows 7 for as long as I could. I cannot remember seeing any ads so far.
When switching default browser, it will ask you one more time if you really don't want to use Edge.
Gaming ads will be seen in the start menu.
Ads for Onedrive will be seen in file explorer.
If you ever start skype, don't be expected to be able to log off or even shut the app down unless you kill the process or uninstall it entirely.
With every update, it will ask you again to put tracking on, making the ads be more vigilant.
Just a few of the stuff I find incredible annoying with ads in Windows 10.
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#216How about all the ways windows goes out of its way to hide the home folder, and then is now generating multiple places it calls “Documents”, “Pictures”, etc so you’re never really sure where anything is?
I don't actually mind this, and it's been around for quite some time? It's certainly convenient to segregate "Downloads" from everything else.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's fine. Really. I can tolerate some bloatware (like games), but what about the telemetry? Are you OK with that or did you find a way to disable all telemetry?
Windows firewall will actually block the telemetry requests if you add all the telemetry hosts to it. Hosts file hacking doesn’t work because it bypasses that somehow.
Ugh, you know that the list of telemetry hosts is a moving target? How often do you update that list? How do you know your list is complete? How do you know that Windows firewall blocks all connections?
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#218> Windows 10 has more built-in advertisements than Google’s Android and Chrome OS do. It's still hard to believe that after paying a few hundreds of dollars for a new OS you will be treated with advertisements, as if it were freeware.. I'll never buy that shit.
It's increasingly common everywhere on-line (and off-line). Companies consider advertising an additional revenue stream, and see no reason to not add it regardless of whether the product is paid for or distributed for free.
That doesn't vindicate adding ads to an OS used for business. Apple is able not to do it so why not Microsoft?
Desktop OS != Mobile OS
Desktop OS != some f website
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#220Worst thing in Windows is still search, it doesnt work unless you type the exact letters in order.
Absolutely agree. How hard is it to find the closest match? On my OS of choice, I can type pretty much anything resembling Firefox in the search bar ("ffx", "fref", "ref", "fox"...) and it'll output a proper result — instantly.
Every Windows encounter feels dreadful in comparison. It can't get the simplest tasks right.