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

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Post by lallysingh » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 4:43 PM UTC

elteto wrote: post #159

lallysingh wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#1 true. #2 yes but slowly moving to the web. #3 Linux is way ahead. #4 There are quite a few distributions, I think you should look around. I use KDE happily. I frankly find Windows rather bare bones in what you get. It seems everything needs another app, and they're all a pain in the ass.

I don't know about moving to the web on #2. From what I have seen the web alternatives of those products, if they even exist, are tailored to the hobbyist, semi-professional market. Things like Siemens NX _can't_ move to the web, since we are talking about entire development platforms, not just applications.

I was thinking about OnShape cad, Mathematica, and Matlab. Pretty major ones.

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

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Post by stallmanite » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

_wldu wrote: post #154

When Win10 came out, we had several meetings about privacy concerns. I did not understand the concern. Smart phones spy on their users all the time, and no one really cares. Why, all of a sudden, is it an issue when desktops/laptops do the same thing that phones have done for almost a decade now? No one gave me a good answer to that question.

When smartphones came out and were locked down those of us who objected were told that we should be quiet about it because we still have general purpose pcs. Now the BS comes for those of us running general purpose pcs and it’s ok because it was accepted for phones?

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

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Post by filchermcurr » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

softwaredoug wrote: post #14

Something small I like about Windows: when I plug in Ethernet, it actually shows an Ethernet connection in the system tray. OSX seems to have a special icon for tethering to iPhone, but not Ethernet of all things. It just show the wifi icon, even when Ethernet is connected. Grr.

It's also weird... it will use wifi (if connected) for some things and ethernet for others. It doesn't seem to matter which has priority in the network settings. I still haven't decided if this is a bug or a feature... So now when I get home I just disable wifi unless I need to use AirDrop. Bye bye unlock with Apple Watch! (Although the sheer range that it works at makes me not use it. That's a whole other thread I guess!)

I agree though. It would be nice to know which network was actually active in a dock/dongle situation.

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

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Post by AtlasBarfed » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #211

mikestew wrote: post #203

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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.

> what was it, ten years ago? Double that and you’re closer ;) https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22

Microsoft has been an oppressive troll since the 80s. Forty years.

The fact there are terms of phrase to encapsulate frustration and anger with that isn't some disqualifying marker to someone's opinion.

Unless of course you are partisan in opposition to those views.

Which means you are the ones with the invalid arguments

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

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Post by walshemj » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

suby wrote: post #233

walshemj wrote: post #161

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I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those problems - all these problems people mention here I haven't see any real problems. Where you using the windows git client that plus atom with the right plugins is great The only annoying one is the way Dell messed up its recent sound drivers - sound is one are which Microsoft needs good hard kick up the ass.

I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those sound driver problems. I haven't seen any real problems with sound.

Brought dell -; relatek audio is shite

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

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Post by mixmastamyk » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

Fjolsvith wrote: post #290

mixmastamyk wrote: post #276

Windows had the best GUI and kernel in the 2000/XP/Classic timeframe. God it sucked hard in many little areas though. BUT, they've been knocking things out in the last few years. Windows is getting tolerable again: - Better security - Windows Terminal - ExFat specs - Dark theme Too bad I'll never use it with telemetry and cortana etc. :-/

> - Dark theme Worst thing to happen was their elimination of color customization of the user interface in Windows 10. I don't know why Microsoft had to eliminate the viewing ease of their ENTIRE user base.

Totally agree, yet they weren’t the only one. Think it happened as early as Win 7.

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

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Post by thelazydogsback » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

> You may probably want to know why Windows 10 feels so buggy

I'm not sure why all the hate -- I have had zero stability issues, it boots amazingly fast, and if you get rid of all the default crap on the start menu it looks ok and search finally works like a charm.

> In certain cases it's extremely difficult to find or update drivers for your hardware devices (

Except that it's more difficult everywhere else - if you can even find a driver...

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

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Post by ertecturing » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

thelazydogsback wrote: post #297

> You may probably want to know why Windows 10 feels so buggy I'm not sure why all the hate -- I have had zero stability issues, it boots amazingly fast, and if you get rid of all the default crap on the start menu it looks ok and search finally works like a charm. > In certain cases it's extremely difficult to find or update drivers for your hardware devices ( Except that it's more difficult everywhere else - if you…

I like to have themes installed & windows update (which 99% of people will not be able to figure out how to fully stop) always breaks my computer requiring me to roll back to the previous update until I get another update notification which force-ably breaks my computer again. I now use Sledgehammer 2.6.0 to absolutely crush windows' update attempts every time I boot up. Microsoft deserves hate for not giving users simple permissions over their own systems.

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

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Post by thelazydogsback » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #158

TwoNineFive wrote: post #138

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> It's not hard to disable Cortana Wrong. For people who disabled Cortana, it kept re-enabling itself automatically after updates. I think that problem is mostly gone now, but it was definitely an issue all the way up till earlier this year. > Disk fragmentation hasn't been an issue The article has one tiny line-item about fragmentation and it was about architecture. I agree that it's not an issue for most people, bu…

> To the best of my knowledge, it's impossible to get a start menu without all the tips and ads without using a 3rd party Windows-10-decrapifyer/debloater kind of thing. I wonder how I did that. I never install regcleaners or similar tools. I disabled some setting and manually right-clicked and deleted a handful of tiles in the start menu. That was many Windows 10 updates ago. I have never seen anything in my Start m…

Just right-click and unpin each item, and there start menu won't even show the panel

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

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Post by mixmastamyk » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 7:26 PM UTC

_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…

Yes, though I don't fiddle with things much day to day with Linux any more.

But I'll tell you what does happen: CADT and shit just randomly breaking from release to release. Fewer things work than did ten years ago as well.

Right now I have gargantuan indicator icons in my Ubuntu Mate panels. They worked fine for the last ten years previously. But here we go on 19.10. Has something to do with my 4k monitors but as mentioned, worked fine until this release.