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Ux is snake oil nonsense and has no place in software design. They create change for the sake of change and dumb everything down as if complexity were a sin.
Needless complexity is a sin. But easy/difficult is an orthogonal axis to simple/complex.
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My favorite is when I see the result I want flash by and then I accidentally type the next character -- correctly -- due to momentum, and the result disappears. Then I delete the last character in an attempt to bring back the result, and then I try retyping the whole thing, but the correct result never reappears. It is gone. Only useless web results remain.
Yeah Windows Search is useless. I'd recommend Everything[0]. Though, it's more for general file searching than searching for programs. Can't remember if it learns your habits and pushes them to the top or not. Regardless it's instantaneous and I almost never use the Windows search since I discovered it https://www.voidtools.com
Has saved my neck many, many times.
Windows 11 is half-baked. But it isn't just half-baked because it was rushed out while ignoring all the feedback (although it absolutely was). It is also half-baked because Microsoft's management has no particular strategy or plan for what they want Windows to be. So Windows 11 just feels like an "and kitchen sink" where someone picked up an iPad, noted down a bunch of random features without rhyme or reason and then…
If WSL2 is your killer Windows application, then upgrade to Windows 11 whenever you can. WSL2 on Windows 10 suffers from some FS corruption bug [1]. The bug is currently fixed only in Windows 11 Insider Builds. It is uncertain if/when the fix will be backported to WSL2 for Windows 10. But other than that, Windows 11 is mostly Windows 10 with a different shell. So it's not like it will disrupt your workflow or somethi…
For me, the lack of a "Never combine" option for the taskbar has made win11 unusable for me. I have already reverted back to 10 and will not be updating again till this option is made available again. Its a huge productivity hit for people who are used to multitaking between dozens of open windows
Hopefully, RaMMicHaeL will be able to fix that: https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-and-a-first-look-at...
The auto-hide functionality is actually a smidgeon better now, not reserving space anymore (on Windows 10 I have to use ButteryTaskbar), but I want to disable the useless 2-pixel (or whatever it is, haven't measure it) border and the mouse hover to activate it. I'd also prefer to have it oriented vertically since I use super ultrawide monitors (49"), but can live without it, even though it's a regression since Windows 95 (or 98?).
Also, you really have to disable animations because the animations are sooooooo sluggish. I always disable those OS-wide anyway though.
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There are often reasons to change, and sometimes reasons to keep things. A lot of it is subjective.
Since when “subjective” became “irrelevant”? You love how your home is built and you’ve done much to make its rooms and areas comfortable and useful. You know it from the roof to the basement. “Nah, a lot of it is subjective”, says the Home Redesign Standarten Führer and rebuilds it from scratch every few years, throwing out “this unnecessary, that obsolete” furniture and appliances. “There are often reasons to chang…
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That is why consulting and outsourcing exist, you only pay for developers while you actually need them. There are even companies outside software business, that pay contractors per tickets, basically a budget is assigned and the contractor does as much tickets as they are capable of for the given budget. Now the quality of the code is not for the faint of heart.
This ignores the changing nature of consumer demand and competitive pressure. Often time, implementations should be treated as a product that needs nurturing rather than a one off project where you get to the finish line and you're done.
Windows 11 is half-baked. But it isn't just half-baked because it was rushed out while ignoring all the feedback (although it absolutely was). It is also half-baked because Microsoft's management has no particular strategy or plan for what they want Windows to be. So Windows 11 just feels like an "and kitchen sink" where someone picked up an iPad, noted down a bunch of random features without rhyme or reason and then…
Do they, though? No one's buying Windows because they think it's swell. They're buying it because it's the default choice that comes with a computer, and because it's the default platform for commercial software. To most consumers, Windows is just what "computers" run, along with a vague notion that "Macs" might be a bit different.
As long as Microsoft continues to enjoy its monopoly position in the desktop OS space, they couldn't give a crap if Windows is "something" or not. All they have to do is not screw it up by breaking compatibility too badly, and fart out some sort of named release every few years so people don't think Windows is "old" (the nuances of rolling release being beyond the ken of the average consumer).
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No commenting on the React thing, but yes I do think that VSCode has much higher performance requirements than Xbox dashboard or Office plugins. VSCode has a very technical user base that will complain a lot if there is any kind of sluggish performance when doing live debugging. It's not just to work on small JS projects anymore. I use it to debug CUDA kernels on several processes at the same time and a lot of people…
If the user base was that technical, with performance requirements, they wouldn't be using an Electron based product to start with, when there are plenty of other native alternatives, including for CUDA debugging from Nvidia themselves.
I work on very large and complex projects ... the current one I'm working with is a massive Angular 12 project.
The fact that it's Electron doesn't matter to me. I am not concerned with it "using much more memory than native" because that has no effect on me.
All I care about that it works, and that is is performant. It is both.
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2000 was pretty good really, more solid than 3.51 even
I hear the era of GDI being run in kernel mode was...not good for stability or security, but I rarely used 2000 and never used NT 4.0 so perhaps there are better mouthpieces than myself.