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Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro. Cheers
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Does the file chooser show thumbnails yet?
Yep, shows thumbnails for pictures, videos, pdfs etc. More formats than Windows in fact. Windows has been standing still, the rest of the world hasn't. EDIT: I used "Files", not the file picker.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233
This is not about thumbnails in the file manager but about the file chooser (open/save dialog).
I believe the following post is still relevant:
https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
At least KDE does this properly:
https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/04/comparison-of-file-choose...
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Probably he is not. I use Windows 7 myself. I hated Windows 10, the telemetry, ads, candy crush, random reboots, updates that erase settings and so on are just crazy, and then seemly it often goes out of it's way to break important software.
> I use Windows 7 myself. I hated Windows 10, the telemetry https://betanews.com/2019/07/11/microsoft-adds-telemetry-win...
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The only thing I really notice is the settings ... app, box, thing, (not sure what to call it even) is wonky. Seems to get wonky-er all the time. But I'm hardly ever in there. That's really the major change I notice. The little UI changes in menu or task bar I find easy enough to just adjust and so forth whenever I need to do so. Mostly I just turn them off and doing so doesn't really bother me.
That reminds me there are two control panels. One with the trendy web page style (the pretty one) and the other using the old Windows 7 style (the useful control panel). And I suspect they know its terrible. What other reason would they reserve the the good stuff like the LTSC version to premium enterprise contracts? People who purchase and run Windows Pro and Windows Home are literally paying to feed the monstrous M…
1. First, there's "Windows 7 style" applets like "File History", "Power Options", and "Programs and Features". I'm not sure how to summarize these beyond that they have a resizable window and usually have some options in a sidebar on the left, but they all have a visually consistent look (which was a lot more obvious before Windows 10).
2. Next, some Windows 7 era applets use a different interface which displays in a (mock) file browser, like "Devices and Printers" or "Fonts".
3. Then there's some older applets which use a Windows XP-era interface in a small, fixed-size window with tabs at the top, like "Date and Time" or "Mouse".
4. Finally, there are a few applets which have a completely unique interface, like "Indexing Options" or "Device Manager".
5. Oh, and I forgot to mention: some of the applets in the Control Panel open up a Settings applet when clicked, like "System" and "Taskbar". But even this isn't consistent; some applets in Settings, like "Mouse" have a "additional settings" link on the right which opens the Control Panel applet when clicked.
Confused yet? Don't worry, the next version of Windows will assuredly find a way to make it worse.
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It’s really not. So far this week for me Windows Hello has just totally broken, my thunderbolt dock has decided to no longer recognise the keyboard, I’ve had a problem where the graphics driver just shats itself every hour, the taskbar disappeared and wouldn’t come back and during last weeks update cycle it got stuck and had to roll back to a restore point. Oh and docker for windows completely broke and I still can’t…
Yes and Docker for Mac is terrible, I'm sitting with a quarter of my RAM in kernel_task with no idea what it's doing and my system stutters every few minutes while who knows what pages off of the SSD, I've had MacOS releases get stuck in a half-upgraded state which required a reinstall, I have monitor connectivity problems, and I've had MacOS get stuck at the login prompt. And don't get me started on the issues with…
As for Docker on the Mac I agree. I don’t use it. I use a Linux VM which is where I’m currently heading on windows at the moment, unpicking all the garbage.
The least troubled combination I can suggest is: use macOS on an M1 machine and keep it close to default as possible and do all your dev on a Ubuntu LTS box via SSH. And just avoid windows entirely.
Mac makes a good cloud terminal. Linux makes a good cloud server. Windows makes…err no idea.
I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go. Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent. I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my…
Personally I don't think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse. Right out of the bat there is a page where you need to uncheck all the spyware crap and there are so many it scrolls. They also make it so a normal local user is presented like a somewhat inferior experience than their web login. Then you have to fill in obligatory 3 recovery questions even if you are confident in your…
I lived through Micro$oft but I was too inexperienced to understand the hate directed towards Microsoft. It's ironic that I only started to feel it now that they've changed their tune on the open source/dev stuff.
To add insult to injury, shortly after, I got an email with this subject line from google:
*> akiselev, take the next step on your Linux by confirming your Google Account settings
I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go. Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent. I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my…
Personally I don't think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse. Right out of the bat there is a page where you need to uncheck all the spyware crap and there are so many it scrolls. They also make it so a normal local user is presented like a somewhat inferior experience than their web login. Then you have to fill in obligatory 3 recovery questions even if you are confident in your…
Ha! My favorite one is: "Leave everything to us".
You get it splattered across the screen before the desktop loads for the firs time. It always gets me thinking, is it not enough for you guys to track me around, force send diagnostics data, foist updates upon me, now you want me to leave everything you!?
Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...
It happened with a lot of other software (Firefox vs Chrome is just one example).
Version number envy?
Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that? Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
Was probably true until macOS "went to 11," a la Spinal Tap.
"Windows Stonehenge"