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Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #239
gurkendoktor wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> maybe the difference is that we install Windows 10 Pro whereas the author is a Windows 10 Home user No, every installation of Windows 10 Pro I've seen had a start menu that was mostly ads (links to Candy Crush, Spotify, Office etc.) - I've also had the OS nag me about giving Edge a second chance. This is in Germany, in case the region matters, and I always deny all spyware as far as possible using the GUI.

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage This is the first thing I run on any Windows box I am forced to interact with. Removes all the junk in the Start menu in one command.

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Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by cesarb »

input_sh wrote: post #224
pfranz wrote: post #118

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Oh, that's what that is supposed to be! The same thing is in CentOS. You literally click and drag the mouse upward to get the login screen. New users often think the computer is broken.

Any default GNOME environment does this. > You literally click and drag the mouse upward to get the login screen. Yeah, you can, but hitting a space bar before typing in your password is so much easier. I think any "normal" key (as in letters, numbers, space) would work, but I'm not near a system to check.

You can just start typing your password, it'll automatically unhide and put what you typed in the password field. Or you can press Esc to just unhide without starting to type your password.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by derekbaker783 »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #239
gurkendoktor wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> maybe the difference is that we install Windows 10 Pro whereas the author is a Windows 10 Home user No, every installation of Windows 10 Pro I've seen had a start menu that was mostly ads (links to Candy Crush, Spotify, Office etc.) - I've also had the OS nag me about giving Edge a second chance. This is in Germany, in case the region matters, and I always deny all spyware as far as possible using the GUI.

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage This is the first thing I run on any Windows box I am forced to interact with. Removes all the junk in the Start menu in one command.

Doesn't that also remove Calculator?

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by CathedralBorrow »

59nadir wrote: post #141
smacktoward wrote: post #94

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The fundamental problem is that there is no singular, unified Microsoft; there is instead a loose confederation of warring tribes that happen to share a headquarters and a ticker symbol. And Windows is the battlefield on which these tribes hash out their disputes. Tribe A thinks Windows should appeal to people who use and love open source software. Tribe B thinks Windows’ ubiquity makes it a great platform to run ads…

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…

If you want to blame this on some UX/UI designer boogeyman that's fine, but you're heavily misrepresenting UX principles here.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by wozniacki »

This might seem minor in the scheme of things that Windows 10 has regressed on (compared to even Windows 8.1) but has anyone found a cure for the atrocious way Win 10 does the "Show windows side by side", now.

Previously it would just evenly split the existing windows into equal sized ones spread across the width of the screen. It worked beautifully! If there were two windows they would neatly fit into each half of the screen, fully sized respectively.

Now it does this strange quarter-stacking of the said windows on top of each other, squeezed into ONE HALF of the screen and leaves the other HALF EMPTY (exposing the destop) !! This absolutely drives me nuts. There are Chrome extensions ("Tab resize") to cure this but its a pointless added series of steps where you individually tweak each open window to the size you want. Its bonkers.

I don't get who in the right mind would come up with this as an enhancement when the previous one worked just fine !!

Please reverse this.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by w1nst0nsm1th »

AnonymousPlanet wrote: post #202
Nextgrid wrote: post #4

It’s hard to believe how despite all the telemetry, Microsoft still manages to be so out of touch with their users’ actual needs. It’s almost like there’s a hidden agenda somewhere.

Speaking of telemetry: I'm surprised Windows 10 is even allowed to be used in government or big corporations outside the US. If people were as paranoid as the US administration is about Huawei, Windows 10 would be on a black list of never to be installed software. Yet here we are.

I could be wrong but I think it's already the case in french administrations. Or at least some of them.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by tasogare »

cm2187 wrote: post #240
input_sh wrote: post #199

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> It literally looks like the guys designing windows must be using a Mac themselves, or just aren’t computer guys. Or maybe they're trying to kill the Control Panel all together and switch everyone to the new Settings app, but are aware that doing so immediately would lead to a lot of complaints? So they have both, while slowly nudging you towards using the Settings app so you wouldn't be too angry when you wake up o…

Except that until the functionalities of the control panel have been replicated in the new settings, we still need a way to access the control panel. Hiding those functionalities from search in between just doesn't make sense at all.

And even when functionally fully replicated, the settings app UI is really questionable, and somewhat hard to use.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by CathedralBorrow »

locusm wrote: post #183

Worst thing in Windows is still search, it doesnt work unless you type the exact letters in order.

I still laugh whenever I can't remember the exact name of my bittorrent client and Windows has no clue what I'm looking for when I enter "torrent" or "bittorrent".

It's called qbittorrent.

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by magicalhippo »

ilaksh wrote: post #38

In case people are really ambitious or adventurous and want to avoid all of this stuff completely, what Linux distro (or other open source OS) is currently trendiest/most useful/relevant? Is it still Ubuntu?

I'm enjoying KDE Neon on my NUC. Ubuntu LTS with brand new KDE on top.

https://neon.kde.org/

Re: Useless Windows 10 Features

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Post by JulianMorrison »

This all feels to me like Microsoft is getting desperate - it's the usual experience when the money in a niche is drying up: aggressive upsell and every damn thing trying to squeeze another dime out of you.

Have their revenues been tanking?

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