Windows needs a change in priorities

Post by gytdev » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:17 PM UTC

spaniard89277 wrote: post #582

segphault wrote: post #22

Like every Windows user, I have had a lot of frustrating experiences with the abusive behavior and dark patterns that have taken over the platform. Like when they started having Skype silently run in the background logged in with the user's Microsoft account without any notice or human intervention, and removed the setting to disable it from launching at startup so that it couldn't be prevented. I had to completely u…

From my POV it has come to a time where the tradeoffs you make switching to Linux (xubuntu in my case) are worth it. A few days ago I had to do some helpdesk for a friend with windows 10. We suspected that one of his three drives failed, and windows just refused to start up, so I wanted to jump into recovery/safe mode and take a look. But for doing so you need to go through a ridiculous lenght rebooting the PC multip…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 10:00 PM UTC

goosedragons wrote: post #814

mulmen wrote: post #564

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Double click the window header. It will fill the space below the menu bar. Double click again and it will return to the previous size. Agreed snapping would be nice. Windows does this well out of the box. MacOS leaves way too much quality of life to third party apps.

It won't necessarily. Double clicking the window header is the green button of yore where apps maximize to the space they feel they need which may or may not be the space below the menu bar. Chrome will fill the space but Safari will just do website width + length.

Post by hnthrowaway0315 » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 1:54 AM UTC

kingcharles wrote: post #243

hnthrowaway0315 wrote: post #152

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Just checked VS subscription page and didn't find it, maybe it's kinda hidden? I'm chatting with a sales representative regarding this.

The Visual Studio web site is impossible to decode. I think this is the page: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/#software-a... Basically they give you every version of Windows so you can test your code. So 10 LTSC is in there. I run it in my VMs because it uses so little memory and CPU compared to the regular one. I don't know which flavor of subscription you need to get it. I got my sub free as an MVP…

Post by CursedUrn » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 4:03 AM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #251

I don't see any mention of Cortana or how hard that is to rip out of the OS, but I think it's worth mentioning. The tool called "Everything" by https://www.voidtools.com/ is so insanely better than Cortana and blazingly fast that I'm not sure why they're still trying to push Cortana. https://www.getblackbird.net/ helps a lot and it's one of the first things I do to Windows installs when I need to use them, but it can…

Post by Shalomboy » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 3:49 PM UTC

RgueNkeScientst wrote: post #849

sharno wrote: post #775

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Try Pop!_OS with Gnome. Pop!_OS is way better than Debian; Gnome is way better than i3.

I would like to see this thread continue ad infinitum