shame on you windows team.
Please don't do this here.
Useless Windows 10 Features
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#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
And is that desirable? Why do we want users to know less about how their computer works? Is it really a problem to know that you have a user directory with a bunch of other directories inside that hold certain classes of information by default? When I open a command prompt (yes, I'm not the average user), I'm in my home directory, and if I create any files or folders, they'll be there by default. To access those file…
The modern developer mindset is that users are cattle. Explore pretty much anywhere developers hang out and ask them why things are the way they are and they'll tell you it's because users are morons. Developers used to want to actually help users make better use of their tools. Hell, computers used to boot into BASIC. Now developers just want to force carefully crafted single-purpose appliances on people so they hav…
As time has gone by, more and more people are starting to use computers. Before, only technically-minded people that were willing to invest in a learning curve would buy and use computers, but now even toddlers are users. People need computers, but they have other work to do, other things to learn. They don't want to have to invest time in learning how to use a computer, and I believe that's what's driving the dumbing-down of user interfaces. I don't think this was initiated by developers, and in that sense, they are forced to comply to market forces.
I still hate developing GUI apps on Web technology. Most of the stuff I program would best be used on a CLI. It would be simpler to program and would provide much more productivity benefits to an experienced user. However, it's not really an option, when most users don't even know how to make a bookmark or have little notion of what files are, much less how to use a terminal.
Re: Useless Windows 10 Features
#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a fairly new thing. https://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/how-to-maximize-a-windo... ("fairly new" in this case meaning over five years but still)
It doesn’t work in every app. It doesn’t even work in a lot of apples own apps... you hold shift and click in 1 app, it works, try it in another app and it only resize vertically and not horizontally.
I suppose I've never really felt the need to "maximise" a window as opposed to putting it in fullscreen.
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#354Worst 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.
Microsoft research is still perfecting the "substring search" technology.
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure it does: wine. Whether or not it works (and works performantly enough) for what any given person needs it for is another matter, of course.
Honestly I think it's sad how much the community still underestimates gaming. I tried using wine or even using Steam directly on Linux, but playing any game with 30-40% less performance is ridiculous. If you really like games, Linux is unusable for anything big. I've had to dual boot Windows for the last 10 years just to play a game without stuttering, lag, huge FPS drops, etc. Nothing would make me happier than bein…
Here is the 64 dollar question. What GPU driver?
Re: Useless Windows 10 Features
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's right. It is GNOME. KDE takes you right to recent logins and a login/password prompt (without a transition). I primarily work via VNC or ssh, but get questions constantly from new users. Wiggling the mouse is universally benign. ESC, Space, or even clicking can be "destructive" in the wrong context.
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#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone can buy LTSC for a few hundred dollars. I cobbled together a post last year on acquiring it: https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html However, it does require a willingness to enter into a VL agreement with Microsoft.
I recently found out that people are selling legitimate keys on eBay for a few bucks: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=windows+10+ltsc According to people who have purchased from there, they're VL keys that can be used many times (e.g. 2500 times), so they just sell the same key over and over to multiple people: > ...sellers on eBay are probably people that work for companies that get GVLK and MAK Product Keys fr…
> According to people who have purchased from there, they're VL keys that can be used many times (e.g. 2500 times), so they just sell the same key over and over to multiple people
Erm, no - that's not how Microsoft's volume licensing works. Volume keys are issued to enterprises that buy them, and only that organisation is licensed to use them.
Unscrupulous employees have been known to sell the keys.
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are pirating windows. They could be fined anywhere from hundreds of dollars to 150k per installation. They are also participating in a commercial piracy endeavor that the company who was issued the key AND Microsoft have an interest in shutting down. Ms because such endeavors attract customers who could otherwise trivially be converted into buyers. Companies because they could get audited and fined. This is as i…
Depends on the country. I think the EU declared the resale of Windows licenses legal a few years ago. Microsoft trying to fight that doesn't make it illegal.
Even if true, I rather doubt that extends to an employee selling access to their employer's volume licensing key (it seems clear that's what's happening here)
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are pirating windows. They could be fined anywhere from hundreds of dollars to 150k per installation. They are also participating in a commercial piracy endeavor that the company who was issued the key AND Microsoft have an interest in shutting down. Ms because such endeavors attract customers who could otherwise trivially be converted into buyers. Companies because they could get audited and fined. This is as i…
Depends on the country. I think the EU declared the resale of Windows licenses legal a few years ago. Microsoft trying to fight that doesn't make it illegal.
When you bought a physical item in a store you have a right to resell it be that a computer or a disk.
Even if you can resell a key as part of selling a copy of windows you paid for you can't sell your employers property, can't sell part of a contract, can't sell more than you actually paid for.
If the company purchased the right to have n machines at their company run windows and each key can be activated n * x times nobody sold you the right to sell n * x copies of windows to everyone on the internet.
Like it or not those agreements aren't sales and the keys aren't a physical item you have purchased they are just a technical measure to constrain users from sharing a single ISO file to their million closest friends.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
The modern developer mindset is that users are cattle. Explore pretty much anywhere developers hang out and ask them why things are the way they are and they'll tell you it's because users are morons. Developers used to want to actually help users make better use of their tools. Hell, computers used to boot into BASIC. Now developers just want to force carefully crafted single-purpose appliances on people so they hav…
As time has gone by, more and more people are starting to use computers. Before, only technically-minded people that were willing to invest in a learning curve would buy and use computers, but now even toddlers are users. People need computers, but they have other work to do, other things to learn. They don't want to have to invest time in learning how to use a computer, and I believe that's what's driving the dumbin…
There's a difference between making things easier to understand and turning them into a nigh-useless playschool-brand version of themselves. The original Macintosh is what the former looks like: coherent metaphors, expected behavior, simple design. Today's "apps" are what the latter looks like.