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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

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Post by ragequitta »

npo9 wrote: post #24

I remember a time in 2012. I was installing Windows on my computer to play a video game. It was the first time I used windows in about 2-3 years. I started installing some utilities. A web browser, steam, a music player, etc. One of them asked me to install the Ask Jeeves toolbar. I became very angry. Of course I didn’t want to install the Ask Jeeves toolbar. No one wants the Ask Jeeves toolbar. What a dark pattern t…

Wouldn't you be able to say the same about literally any OS that doesn't have a completely walled garden? I'm positive I can find software on linux that bundles the askjeeves software as well. And probably MacOS. You blame the software developer for that and never use their product, you don't blame the OS.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

If at all possible, use Windows 10 LTSC/LTSB.

LTSC was exactly what I wanted from a Windows OS. No Windows Store, no Candy Crush, and—most importantly by far—only security updates.

It's the Debian model. Your OS stays secure, but the software will never change in a user visible way, unless/until you specifically choose to install a new LTSC release, which comes out around once every two years.

It's perfect.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by java-man »

pxeboot wrote: post #21
java-man wrote: post #4

Missing 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.

I might be wrong, of course, but the OS should respect the user preference.

The OS must not, under any condition, override the user preference - especially, as you say, in case of "malware hijacking popular file extension".

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by dotnetcore »

it's funny to read a rant from a ex-Microsoft and sad that he doesn't know why Microsoft still have a vast market share.

I've been in the IT game for 10+ years. small/mid companies doesn't have the budget or man powers to leave the MS's lala land and they can care less. IT is a money losing dept and they need to make money by focus on what they do best.

Windows is a platform where most of their software work and their employees know.

do you think small/mid or heck the giant corporation have the money, staff and time to move their employees and operation out of Windows.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by giancarlostoro »

intrepidhero wrote: post #34

I'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 wh…

> 5. VirtualBox is broken because of some Hyper-V settings. I still haven't figured out how to fix this one.

This has been the way I've resolved this for many years with Windows:

https://superuser.com/a/642027

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by Godel_unicode »

cpach wrote: post #22
pxeboot wrote: post #9

Very valid issues here. Although it has improved, Windows Update is still shockingly bad compared to any decent package manager used on Linux in the past 10+ years.

Is there anyone who can explain why Windows Update is so much slower than running »apt upgrade« and similar?

What is this comment supposed to mean? How are you comparing the performance of updates across OSs?

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by ohazi »

pxeboot wrote: post #9

Very valid issues here. Although it has improved, Windows Update is still shockingly bad compared to any decent package manager used on Linux in the past 10+ years.

I'm perpetually shocked by how slow many of the loading / progress-bar screens are in Windows. Random operations taking 1-5 minutes without any visible change is routine.

Honestly, what the unholy fuck is actually happening behind these screens? The only thing that takes anywhere near that long on Linux is compiling.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by gustavorg »

ksbakan wrote: post #30

Been 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.

Can you please, because I'm terrified, 2-3 reasons why win7 and no windows 10? I need to make a decision soon (1 week or sooner)

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by techntoke »

pxeboot wrote: post #9

Very valid issues here. Although it has improved, Windows Update is still shockingly bad compared to any decent package manager used on Linux in the past 10+ years.

I think this is inherently due to Windows registry and no enforced standards for Windows file system. In Linux, packages are generally reviewed to ensure they follow a set of practices to ensure that they use the appropriate directories. Then they simply have to extract the files/folders to install the application, and removing is as simple as deleting those directories/files. In Windows, you really never know what you're going to get when you run an install. You might get 1k registry keys created, and it is near impossible to monitor and replicate. They might install the App in Program Files, or if it is new Appx package it will be somewhere completely different. Some apps may install in AppData. It is completely unpredictable. Running an uninstall may call msiexec, or some other uninstaller.

In order for Windows to have a Linux like package manager, they would have to re-define the install process completely to act like Linux and probably move away from the Windows Registry completely.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Post by blackrock »

Plus, the confusing control panel.

Everything is flat, with no color distinction, that I must scan every single stupid grey icon, and memorize or guess, what the icons mean. Before, some of the icons would have colors, like the defrag program, where I can quickly identify the program, because the icon has a touch of red in it. This slows me down, and it increases my cognitive overhead to look for things in Windows. And often times, the icons no longer have names on it, so it's a total guessing game what this flat abstract icon even means!

The on and off buttons look alike! Often times, I can't figure out which it is. Light switches in the real world, is up and down, so this is easy to remember. But side switches, left or right, are confusing. Was it left to turn on, or the other way. I can't figure it out.

Also, this problem plagues the stupid new iPhone designs too. I miss the skeuomorphisms.

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