Wine however, is awesome. For UI apps on Linux, I think Wine is a better platform than Qt/GTK/etc.
Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
#32Missing from the list: Win 10 periodically resets the "default applications", completely ignoring previous user preferences. Starts opening PDF files with Edge (argh!) or TXT with Notepad (double argh!). Does anyone know how to prevent this?
In order to prevent malware from hijacking popular file extensions, anytime an application "improperly" tries to set itself as a default app, it will revert to the Windows 10 default instead. If you are having issues with this, it's probably bring caused by a legacy app or script doing something in a way that is no longer allowed.
Oh. That’s a bit subtle. Sounds like a good explanation though. Would be great if W10 logged this somewhere or in some other way gave the user a hint as to what is happening.
Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
#33One positive point as the article points out is compatibility. This is the single reason Windows remains the staple of industry software, across almost all industries. It's particularly relevant in light of recent Mac OS X dropping 32-bit support. There are a lot of professionals whose livelihood depends on these older apps that either will never be updated or will take a very long time to do so.
This doesn't matter for 99% of the population.
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#34I've started a list since getting my Win 10 machine at work:
1. Sometimes when I select the titlebar of a maximized window to move it to my second monitor it somehow selects the window under the one with focus.
2. For some applications (including MS Office ones) text is blurry when I move from laptop screen to external monitor.
4. Windows 10 ships with a python.exe in the path that opens the MS Store. Figuring out which part of the path to fix to disable it was non-obvious.
5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one.
MS somehow shipped an OS with problems I've never seen before in any OS...
The first time I did an upgrade from 7 to 10 and I saw the horrible anti-patterns in the "opt-in" screens, I shut it down and switched to Debian Buster. No looking back.
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#35Been using win7 since forever. Win10 is such a huge step back that I just install win7 even on new PCs. Even hidipi works almost as well on win7. Probably the only thing I miss that I care about is hdr and ble. The fact that ms wants you to use win10 so badly is a big hint that it's full of antifeatures.
IMHO that’s not such a great solution now that it’s only two weeks left until Windows 7 reaches end of life.
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#36>Truth to be told it's not a problem with HiDPI monitors but few people own them. It's almost 2020. Apple began shipping HiDPI in 2012. It's absolutely shameful that vendors are still shipping 1080p.
Lots of Windows apps don't support HiDPI correctly, and on many of them no matter what combination of workarounds you use you'll end up with some text being huge or some text being tiny.
Heck, even Perforce, a constantly updated app in use on millions of machines, just recently fixed this.
Where I have to use Windows, I always specify low dpi displays so I don't have to deal with all of that garbage.
Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
#37Missing from the list: Win 10 periodically resets the "default applications", completely ignoring previous user preferences. Starts opening PDF files with Edge (argh!) or TXT with Notepad (double argh!). Does anyone know how to prevent this?
I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone having this problem aside from that large server update a year or two ago and their "desktop experience". Can anyone tell me more?
Somehow it seems to do some braindead syncing when you set up a new device. When setting up a new laptop suddenly my desktop task bar switched sides to match the change on the laptop, and files stopped showing extensions (even though that wasn't touched yet on the laptop, the default is not to show them and that somehow seemed to carry over to my desktop).
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#38Apple hasn't done a great job of supporting MacOS over the past few years. Catalina in particular has been a bit rocky, but every time I look seriously at Windows as an alternative it falls short. It's quite sad to me that my choice of OS has essentially boiled down to "Sucks less, costs more". It's been a few years for me, but maybe time to start seriously looking at Linux on the desktop again.
I don't see how Apple hasn't done the best job in terms of operating systems. macOS hasn't changed significantly in the last decade; it's essentially the same interface, but less skeumorphism. The only bug I've experienced that's close to being serious is the touchbar freezing(seriously wtf).
Windows, on the other hand, has changed significantly. Sure, it runs 32-bit programs, but the interface difference between 7 and 10 is ginormous.
Linux, as much as I love it, is probably the worst offender. At one point we had GNOME and KDE as dominant desktop environments, and then we had Unity, GNOME 3, Cinnamon, MATE, etc. Now after years of forcing Unity on everyone, Ubuntu has switched to GNOME except now GNOME is in a worse state than it was back in GNOME 2. Most distros are still using X11, graphics card support is lousy, and horizontal display tearing is still a problem that every commercial OS has 100% solved.
macOS has at least remained fairly consistent compared to all the other competition.
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#39Anyone have experience with the LTSC?
Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
#40I actually really like Windows 10, a huge portion of this list could easily apply to any modern operating system that isn't Linux, and even there some of it applies. So OSX, Android, iOS, etc.
The section "Now the second kind of issues is intrinsic to Windows 10 only" is full of things that are literally applicable to all the OSes I listed above. I had some laugh out loud moments reading it. Are people just blinded by rage against Microsoft? I don't see how anyone could type that section in particular out with a straight face while knowing about all the other major modern OSes.