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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 stinos »

_bxg1 wrote: post #54

I've come to accept that there is no good OS (maybe iOS, but not really). You're just picking your poison. Want to be spied on and have your system slowly accumulate cruft and grind to a halt over the course of a few years? Use Windows. Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running on a day to day basis? Use Linux. Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android. Want to…

This is fairly spot on though a bit overly generalizing perhaps (e.g. might be me, but 8 years of Win7 on work machine and it's still running completely ok and depending on what exactly you use Linux for there's only moderate amounts of fiddling, though fiddling there is :) I've used and still use all the major OS. There's no silver bullet and there's bugs everywhere, one more annoying than the other. Learning to use them properly (yes that sometimes means finding ways around annoyances) goes a very long way though.

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

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Post by gnomewascool »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #46
cpach wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The relatively common (?) experience that:

1. Running `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` is much, much faster than explicitly going to the windows update screen, checking for updates and then updating.

2. Linux OSs are usually stuck "updating" while shutting down and restarting, far less frequently and for a far shorter time (if at all), than Windows.

Obviously the comparison isn't entirely fair (though in some ways the comparison is biased against Linux, since its update also usually includes the vast majority of user-space programs), but comparing the percentage of "updating time" of two OSs (whatever the technical reasons) seems to be reasonable, to me.

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

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Post by LoSboccacc »

ragequitta wrote: post #68
LoSboccacc wrote: post #17

> Disable all apps from the Windows Store. damn I hate this. did the mistake to try Skype from the app, in a period where Skype for desktop had issues with for transfers, only to discover it's worse in every way, and now I'm stuck, unable to remove it out prevent it from start

Strange I was able to right click -> uninstall the skype store app from the start menu no problem.

did that and also tried from the power shell and as soon as I reboot is back

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

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Post by brianpgordon »

I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims in TFA:

1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and internet-assisted start menu search completion. I assume that's what they mean by "keyboard scanning and voice recording" because I don't think there's anything else like that in the OS. It is possible to disable telemetry. In general Windows 10 does come with a ton of cruft but it can be disabled with e.g. https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

2. Disk fragmentation hasn't been an issue for awhile. Defrag runs as a scheduled task in all versions of Windows 10.

3. I like UAC. The article claims that giving users a dialog box to permit admin access is good for malware, but the alternative is taking admin away from users altogether on their own computers. I don't think this is an acceptable tradeoff.

4. Windows has arguably the best plug-and-play driver support of any operating system. It's not hard to find drivers as the article claims.

5. The article claims that it's difficult to figure out why your startup is so slow, but task manager has a "Startup" tab now which tells you which startup items are consuming a lot of CPU at login.

6. The article claims that you can't disable Windows Store apps, Windows tips, and ads in the start menu. That's untrue. I don't even have Windows Store installed as a Windows component, I have no idea what "Windows tips" even is, and my start menu is devoid of ads https://i.imgur.com/xy69BWe.png

I think Windows is pretty bad and most users would probably be better off running Lubuntu or something, but there's no need to resort to exaggeration to make that case.

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

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Post by NathanKP »

Scramblejams wrote: post #36
zionic wrote: post #6

>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.

It's honestly not that bad in my opinion. Most apps work fine, and those that don't are usually old games or something like that.

I've found an easy fix for them: Right click the executable and click "Properties" then go to the "Compatibility" tab you click the checkbox next to "Override high DPI scaling behavior". Then select the "System" option.

This way Windows 10 does the scaling itself. The app will just look a little less sharp because it will use a larger virtual pixel instead of the real display pixel size but the app will work normally and all text and interface elements will be a reasonable size.

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

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Post by intrepidhero »

zamadatix wrote: post #64
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…

How on earth are you avoiding things like #2 on Debian? The only OS I've found that properly handles arbitrary DPI since day 1 has been Android. Also you skipped #3 in your list

I used to have anti-aliasing issues with linux. But since Debian/jessie it hasn't been a problem.

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

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Post by zamadatix »

intrepidhero wrote: post #56
giancarlostoro wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

Thanks. I looked into disabling Hyper-V but I think there is some IT installed spyware on this machine that squawked when I tried.

Windows 10 has virtualization based security which requires Hyper-V to function, sounds like that is being leveraged.

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

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Post by intrepidhero »

zamadatix wrote: post #64
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…

How on earth are you avoiding things like #2 on Debian? The only OS I've found that properly handles arbitrary DPI since day 1 has been Android. Also you skipped #3 in your list

:-) #3 is me complaining about the Ribbon and I figured that discussion has been done to death so I left it out and forgot to renumber.
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