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Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by noio »

binarycrusader wrote: post #352
yason wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

However, I have learned over the years as a developer investigating update issues that the constraints placed upon the update process to ensure compatibility and resiliency are complex. I have learned over the years that constraints and complexity are often abused to force one's way. Not necessarily even consciously but if the collective train of thought in a company predominantly wants to prefer one outcome (i.e. ma…

I appreciate that when unexpected outcomes occur it's tempting to vent frustrations and say things in a way intended to influence the feelings of others to validate our own frustrations and feelings. However, as a former colleague of mine (Bryan Cantrill) frequently reminds everyone, empathy is a core engineering value : https://tritondatacenter.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun I completed the second decade of my soft…

It's crazy what difference a single human voice can make to one's perception of a topic.

Thanks for chiming in :)

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by Mistletoe »

the_third_wave wrote: post #276
Mistletoe wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'll just sell it and get a used Macbook Air, they go for like $99 on Ebay now. Every time in my life I have installed Linux with such high hopes and get annoyed by all the crap that doesn't work.

Can you give some examples of "things which do not work"? Seeing how as I've been using Linux for close to 30 years and have it running on loads of different types of hardware with more or less everything working - yes even Bluetooth - I'm always somewhat surprised by these problems which fail to haunt me.

Wi-Fi is usually wonky and just various other things like video drivers etc.

Here is the laptop you wanted me to try to install Linux on lol. Who has time for this shit? I just want to use the computer not futz around with it constantly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/eku5tv/replacing_...

Like I said, spend $99 on MacBook Air, receive it, turn it on, it works. That’s all I care about. I don’t even like apple products really but I just want something I know will work.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by matkoniecz »

FredPret wrote: post #331
progman32 wrote: post #197

Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you. There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marke…

Absolutely spot on. If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing that.

At this point printers and wifi work more reliably on Linux, at least in my experience.

And wifi troubleshooting at Windows is basically impossible.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by JadeNB »

a2tech wrote: post #195
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Firefox was no longer my default browser, it was changed to Edge I'm wondering how does this happen? I have Chrome as the default browser on my Win11 machine for a year now, and after all the updates, Chrome is still the default. The default apps for PDF, music and video play-back were also kept between updates. Updates never did anything funky for me, just added improvements and new features, which kept me contempt…

You're extremely lucky then. On our (very large, very strictly managed Windows 10 fleet) Edge is CONSTANTLY becoming the default PDF handler. Its a real PITA and MS has failed to give admins the tools to manage this correctly. These anti customer dark patterns are going to drive a wedge into the golden goose of corporate sales. At the same place as in my first statement, Macs are slowly showing up in places you'd nev…

> At the same place as in my first statement, Macs are slowly showing up in places you'd never have guessed before.

I switched to Macs in 2004, and have loved the experience most of the time, but fear that it's not so much that Apple is above this sort of thing as that they're a little bit behind Microsoft in doing it. Already, do you want to use iCloud? Are you sure you don't want to use iCloud? Maybe now you want to use iCloud? And it's relatively easy to ignore, but of countless small such choices is Microsoft-style user hostility made.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by phendrenad2 »

rolph wrote: post #106
dahart wrote: post #35

What really kills me about the ad-spam being added to menus everywhere is that eventually they start having problems and drag my computer to its knees. I end up with behaviors where the Start Menu takes several seconds to appear, or a search will stall, and when navigating folders in the File Explorer have very serious and noticeable drag, taking one or two seconds. So far I’ve eventually been able to figure out how…

a lot of windows people i know, dont bother with a proper shut down anymore, they let it run 24-7, or they just hit the power switch and nuke it all instead of waiting.

The idea of shutting off a desktop computer is baffling to me. I guess it's an OCD thing some people have.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by fortyseven »

PostOnce wrote: post #324

Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…

Windows-free Ubuntu guy here, for over a year now. I even kept my old Windows box hooked up to a KVM "just in case". So far it only gets turned on if I accidentally bump my foot on the power switch.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by drekipus »

FredPret wrote: post #331
progman32 wrote: post #197

Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you. There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marke…

Absolutely spot on. If only there was a way to pay money and then get printers / scanners / Bluetooth / wifi working properly on Linux, I'd definitely be doing that.

I also use Ubuntu and have no problems with printers and scanners and bluetooth. As annoying as Ubuntu is it does work out of the box for everything I've thrown at it

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by phendrenad2 »

civopsec wrote: post #380

Lots of people have told me (not to me specifically of course) that paying for software was the magic thing that would rid software of ads. But isn’t Windows a payed-for product? It seems more likely that such organizations will do whatever they can get away with. Another example is Spotify with their podcasts suggestions (that you can’t get rid of). Why would I, who is not from America, want to listen to the wife of…

"Paid" is a spectrum. Hulu has paid (with ads) and paid (pay more to remove ads). Windows is probably being sold at a loss, and ads make up the difference. So no, it isn't enough to stuff a dollar in Microsoft's shirt pocket and expect to not see ads.

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by phendrenad2 »

JohnFen wrote: post #45

It's truly amazing how Microsoft insists on making Windows worse with each release. It makes me miss the old odd/even releases where at least half of them weren't bad.

Perhaps they're making it worse for people on HN, but better for the average user?

Re: Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

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Post by civopsec »

binarycrusader wrote: post #352
yason wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

However, I have learned over the years as a developer investigating update issues that the constraints placed upon the update process to ensure compatibility and resiliency are complex. I have learned over the years that constraints and complexity are often abused to force one's way. Not necessarily even consciously but if the collective train of thought in a company predominantly wants to prefer one outcome (i.e. ma…

I appreciate that when unexpected outcomes occur it's tempting to vent frustrations and say things in a way intended to influence the feelings of others to validate our own frustrations and feelings. However, as a former colleague of mine (Bryan Cantrill) frequently reminds everyone, empathy is a core engineering value : https://tritondatacenter.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun I completed the second decade of my soft…

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