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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 viraptor »

_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…

> Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android.

Most of the spying is done by phone apps. This affects iOS and Android in the same way in recent versions. The extra bit that gets sent to Google directly seems like a small part of it.

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

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Post by m463 »

_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…

With all the promise of computers being erased over the last few years I've always thought: this is a market opportunity.

But nobody has stepped up to the plate.

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

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Post by throwaway2048 »

spicymaki wrote: post #145
itvision wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a fanboy of any OS in existence but 1. Most tech-illiterate people are afraid of using regedit and/or GPO to disable Cortana so the point is valid. 2. Disk fragmentation has become an even bigger issue since Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSD disks. 3. It's not an argument. 4. The article talks about laptops specifically and the issue is still there and it's huge even for Windows 10 which often installs Micros…

There is no out of order seek penalty for SSD drives like traditional hard drives. In fact you cannot guarantee what the SSD does to your logical blocks underneath the hood (they are mapped in indirect tables). You do not want to do defrag an SSD due to adding necessary erase cycles, that is why Windows has it disabled.

That's only partly true, fragmentation can and does massively effect SSD performance both on read and write, can effect write latency, but not read latency.

(think of it in terms of an SSD being a huge pile of 4MB blocks where each block needs to be completely erased to clear out old content to get a clearer picture)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

itvision wrote: post #125
_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…

MacOS looks like the best poison.

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

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Post by m463 »

itvision wrote: post #125
_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…

MacOS looks like the best poison.

Actually, even with apple's proclamation that "privacy is a right", macos phones home all the time too. ios compounds this by removing any real insight or control over your device or apps.

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

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Post by Buge »

brianpgordon wrote: post #84

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…

1. Forcing people to use registry edit hacks is not an acceptable UI. There's no guarantee that those registry hacks won't stop working tomorrow. There needs to a real documented way to do it.

I have Windows 10 Pro. I used to disable Windows search doing web search with the Policy Editor (forcing me to do that was already boarderline unacceptable). Now that has stopped working, and even though I enable/disable many things in the Policy Editor, web search still happens. I will be switching to Linux.

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

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Post by m463 »

Silhouette wrote: post #128
itvision wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MacOS doesn't have 95% of the listed issues. And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.

And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time. People keep saying that, but how often is it really true these days? As a professional software developer, the tools available on UNIXy platforms are already much better in many cases than the Windows ports. For a typical home user who is mostly interested in things like email and social networking, and maybe needs to write up some notes or do a…

Think about putting a non-tech person on linux and that whole thing just grinds to a halt. There is a lot of fiddling.

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

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Post by java-man »

jodrellblank wrote: post #157
java-man wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally today it opened a PDF file with Edge for me. And, of course, file association page does not have a searh box to help find .txt among hundreds of useless and unassigned extensions.

See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96... for an explanation. " A customer reported that each time they restart their Windows 10 PC, the file association for PDF documents keeps getting reset to the default, which is Microsoft Edge. [..]"

This is not a case of Program X messing with registry. This is the user explicitly setting Program X to be the default application.

I guess there is no way (given the current registry design) to differentiate between the user modifying the registry and a program modifying the registry.

Again, coming back to the original message - the case scenario is not that some program is changing the preferences. It the user changing the setting, and Win10 silently discarding the user input (after a reboot or some automated update).

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

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Post by _asummers »

ravenstine wrote: post #38
ogre_codes wrote: post #11

Apple 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 a…

> touchbar freezing(seriously wtf).

Had mine taking 1.5GB RAM the other day. That was amusing.

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

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Post by drankula3 »

ninkendo wrote: post #180
drankula3 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a systems administrator for a small MSP. I've used Linux as my primary OS for 9 years, despise using Windows, and I can tell you with 100% confidence that nothing but Windows is ready for prime time, and for one major reason: _ease of administration_. Think of the growth cycle of the vast majority of businesses. Almost all businesses are started and run by non-IT people. They buy Windows machines because they're…

Why do your employee's systems need to be "Administrated" in the first place? Why do you need Active Directory or LDAP? Why do you need group policy or anything else? Why are your endpoints not as close to vanilla simple desktop/laptops as possible? Is it that employees can't handle using a computer? I've worked in one of the largest businesses in the world for many years now, and I don't think we even have an IT dep…

> Why do you need Active Directory or LDAP?

Primarily authentication, authorization, and accounting[0]. Setting up a new user account on every single computer that an employee may at some point sit at gets very expensive. Many businesses (if not immediately then eventually) have security concerns that require Administrators have the ability to immediately lock users out of the system or be able to audit recent activity. AD/LDAP facilitates this. It can also automate standard settings like network drives, screen lockout settings, homepages, and all sorts of other settings.

> You either figure out how to use the computer they give you, or you don't

Standardization of processes and training can reduce training time considerably. For industries with high turnover, this can make a difference. You've gotta remember, not everyone is a knowledge worker. Tons of people are more like cogs in the machine of the company, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[0] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24130/authentication-a...

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