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I was promised 10 would be the final version and I will make sure to keep it that way, one way or another.
Funny thing is this was absolutely never said by Microsoft. If you dig deep enough you reach a single throwaway quote by some employee that said something along the lines of "Windows 10 is the last version released and we're focusing all attention to it, not 8.1".
And even at the places they do, arguments can be made about if their UX/UI are actually better; but that's kinda subjective, to be totally fair to MS.
As a long-time Linux user with habit of throwing everything into the mix, I got quite used to number of inconsistencies that I have, so I don't think that MS deserves criticism for having them too (although article is not very critical, it just counts the inconsisitencies). I have GTK2/3/4 apps, KDE apps, Qt apps, Electron apps, AND Windows apps running under wine. So the only consistency on my desktop is an inconsis…
Take Fedora, Manjaro or Ubuntu with any major flavour like Gnome or KDE and you get a very consistent way of how your OS works and responds to common tasks. It's kinda easy for non experienced user to find the right settings with no UI change on a modern Linux Desktop.
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This was my impression after moving to macOS after years of using Windows and Gnome as well. The "document-oriented" window management and the fact that you can Cmd+X selected text, but not selected files is deeply bizarre.
No cut for files is not bizarre in a macOS world of course, just from your expectations.
>The ability to choose icons that are more than 30 years old is still here, with the inclusion of the very important and absolutely critical to the good function of the OS moricons.dll I will happily bet there are programs out there that would crash and burn horrifically without moricons.dll.
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- calendar of task bar became useless - swipe from the left is unchangeably wasted for trash news - touch interaction (especially in Edge) is worse than Windows 8: I am dependant on a virtual touch pad to do certain stuff (e.g. selecting text and copying it via context menu) - start menu customization possibilities are ridiculously low
Swipe from left can't be disabled? I haven't found it anywhere. Awful on a tablet (surface go 3) with local account - W10 gives me Win+Tab overview. Start menu suggestions cannot be removed. The start menu settings allows you to make it use less space. Disabling it in group policies reserves the space for a message that it has been disabled.
winget uninstall "windows web experience pack"
There's no way to remove the trash news from the widget thing, so blowing it away is the only option. Clearly there's someone at MSFT that keeps pushing MSN garbage (wtf is Rewards??) into the OS
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> have to click multiple times. Huh? It’s hover and 1 click?
Hovering and clicking does not take less time than clicking twice. Back in the golden days you could actually see what you were doing without having to move the mouse at all.
I started using a windows XP theme for windows 10. it's been bliss. what are people thinking these days with the huge waste of screen real estate everywhere?
I really thought windows 8 could go I the right direction. A metro like approach where applications can take up as screen as possible, with proper tiling and a unobtrusive way ala Mac finder to access everything that is not already open from a single place.
However that is exactly what gnome Shell is. Max screen estate, snappy getting to everywhere and everything.
As a long-time Linux user with habit of throwing everything into the mix, I got quite used to number of inconsistencies that I have, so I don't think that MS deserves criticism for having them too (although article is not very critical, it just counts the inconsisitencies). I have GTK2/3/4 apps, KDE apps, Qt apps, Electron apps, AND Windows apps running under wine. So the only consistency on my desktop is an inconsis…
But KDE apps all look consistent. I don't really use it, but it seems to me that Gnome apps also are consistent. Ditto for XFCE.
Whereas Windows, even among out-of-the-box and "system" applications, there's a variety in the look & feel. Until 7 it was more or less the same. But starting with 10, it all went downhill, and 11 didn't really fix anything in that department.