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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 pier25 »

itvision wrote: post #121
partiallypro wrote: post #40

I 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 b…

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

Stop it with the drama. There are millions of people (billions?) using Windows to do stuff every day.

Just an example: do you know who Hans Zimmer is? You have most lilely heard his music in countless films. Yeah, he uses Windows.

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

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Post by mikestew »

partiallypro wrote: post #40

I 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 b…

Are people just blinded by rage against Microsoft?

The first person quoted abbreviated Microsoft as “M$”, and AFAICT, within the past few years. We’ve seen that Penny Arcade cartoon from, what was it, ten years ago? That was a page-closer for me, I don’t think I was going to find useful commentary in there. And I loathe having to use Windows 10 at work. And I worked at MS a lot longer than the person quoted.

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

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Post by Scramblejams »

NathanKP wrote: post #85
Scramblejams wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Tried that, found the result gross to look at.

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

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Post by suby »

mehrdadn wrote: post #143
suby wrote: post #69

It's worth a mention just how buggy win10 has been for me. I don't spend much time working in windows, but every time I do I encounter one issue or another. File explorer freezes / crashes. There is that one empty folder on my desktop that I cannot delete because it is in use, but there is nothing in the folder and no program is conceivably using it. There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a…

> File explorer freezes / crashes. It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any shell extensions? > There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a git repo somewhere because it said the folder already existed. No such folder existed. Changing the destination name did nothing. Restarting fixed it. That's mind-boggling. We…

I don't think I have any shell extensions installed. I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension?

I do have WSL installed, but only for curiosities sake. I messed around with it for a few hours and have not used it since.

I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I think it's called git with bash? It could have been some type of issue there rather than Microsoft being at fault. But that terminal editor is (or at least was) the recommended option presented to you in the git installer, so shrugs

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

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Post by exikyut »

sterlind wrote: post #144
partiallypro wrote: post #40

I 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 b…

I use Windows for work. My setup is a bit unusual, since I run Windows inside a hyper-V VM (itself running on Windows), but the performance gets abysmal between logins. Whenever I unlock, everything grinds to a halt, applications shudder, even the start menu takes a couple minutes to activate. It spastically doesn't register window events and then suddenly 50 Alt+Tabs and click events burst through. After about 15 mi…

I understand that @randomascii is responsive, perhaps he could help with analysis. I see an email address on his site's About page.

Also, I got curious about the perf collection process, and stumbled on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/yongrhee/2017/10/11/usin... - unsure if this will be useful.

Also found https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/etw-central/, for completeness

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

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Post by Silhouette »

vips7L wrote: post #174
Silhouette wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> As a professional software developer, the tools available on UNIXy platforms are already much better in many cases than the Windows ports. This is because everyone keeps trying to make windows unix/gnu. Embrace powershell it has everything GNU binutils does, but built in. As a professional software developer I NEVER have problems developing except when unixy devs don't test for windows or don't use cross platform t…

This isn't just about a convenient shell, though, is it? The state-of-the-art in compiler and other tool development in a lot of languages is hosted on UNIXy platforms. Many of the developers are there. Much of the attention and research and new work is focused there. Many of the tools for hosting online applications as a server are there. Windows simply isn't the dominant platform for most of this kind of work, and using Windows for software development sometimes feels like using Linux for gaming, for much the same reasons.

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

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Post by toxican »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #106
zamadatix wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If that's an issue, I would see about making VirtualBox use Hyper-V for the hypervisor.

Heads up for anyone that uses Vagrant, don't do this because not all vagrantboxes support Hyper-V.

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

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Post by samdixon »

ninkendo wrote: post #197
drankula3 wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 activi…

> 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 Why are people using more than one machine? > 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 act…

Man you're practically one step away from saying "Why even have a business? It just creates more problems."

edit: I mean are you really asking why not have network shares or screen saver timeouts for your environment? It's a bit hard to take you seriously saying things like that.

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

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Post by mehrdadn »

suby wrote: post #205
mehrdadn wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> File explorer freezes / crashes. It's been happening to me too, but it's unclear to me if it's one of my shell extensions or Windows itself. Do you run any shell extensions? > There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a git repo somewhere because it said the folder already existed. No such folder existed. Changing the destination name did nothing. Restarting fixed it. That's mind-boggling. We…

I don't think I have any shell extensions installed. I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension? I do have WSL installed, but only for curiosities sake. I messed around with it for a few hours and have not used it since. I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I th…

> I did allow git, 7zip, and clion to add themselves to the right click context menu, but I don't think that counts as a shell extension?

They do count, but whether or not they're relevant depends on whether they're triggered. e.g. if you never right-clicked, then 7-zip probably doesn't count. Although 7-zip also installs drag-drop handlers, so it's not just right-clicking, and I'm not sure when the others get triggered.

> I'm using git with the terminal editor that they recommend to you in the git for Windows installation, I think it's called git with bash? It could have been some type of issue there rather than Microsoft being at fault. But that terminal editor is (or at least was) the recommended option presented to you in the git installer, so shrugs.

Hm, somehow I feel neither of them is related. How likely is it that the name wasn't unique after your rename? Did you type in gibberish or something that could plausibly exist?

Note that if you were ever trying to remove e.g. a directory that was the current working directory of any running program (like your terminal or anything else), that'd fail. It's possible that there's some bug that makes you think it's succeeding, and therefore making you think that the folder no longer exists. But hard to say with the current info.

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