Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons

Post by psd1 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 9:29 AM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #126

bornfreddy wrote: post #75

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> - at the same time, desktop Linux distributions and macOS keep iterating and innovating without having that burden. Linux userland generally doesn't care a bit about backwards compatibility,... Well yeah, and we still don't see Linux on every corner (android excluded). Linux desktop is a joke. You can either pick DE whick breaks compatibility every now and then (Gnome, KDE, ...) or which has more or less stopped de…

The thing is, the Linux space at least has something nice and shiny to offer every now and then (although I'd say GTK and Gnome could go off and vanish and I wouldn't care). And it's not just UI where Linux keeps evolving. Just look at systemd - a fucking breeze to work with, whereas on macOS you're stuck working with plist's (annoying but OK), and on Windows it's literally the same crap from 30 years ago in the NT e…

Post by mschuster91 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 10:04 AM UTC

psd1 wrote: post #151

mschuster91 wrote: post #126

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The thing is, the Linux space at least has something nice and shiny to offer every now and then (although I'd say GTK and Gnome could go off and vanish and I wouldn't care). And it's not just UI where Linux keeps evolving. Just look at systemd - a fucking breeze to work with, whereas on macOS you're stuck working with plist's (annoying but OK), and on Windows it's literally the same crap from 30 years ago in the NT e…

Where do you get "five to ten minutes"? I have a win11 VM that boots from cold to login screen in 10-20 seconds. Windows services can be configured with dependency order and with delayed start. There are startup profilers. I've seen and resolved slow boot times in misconfigured domains and with features such as roaming profiles. It's probably DNS ;-)

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 12:14 PM UTC

wruza wrote: post #135

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Or just have two Desktop Environments. One for the hoi polloi where the designers can go wild and the bean counters can push MSN "news", and one for Enterprise/Professionals that is more or less "Classic".

Only very rich corporations like FOSS community can simultaneously support two DEs (especially when one of them never changes too much). Microsoft has neither budget nor enough staff for that.

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 12:19 PM UTC

crispyambulance wrote: post #33

mangecoeur wrote: post #2

Amazing, only 2 years to implement a feature you had already. What was so problematic about the Windows 10 taskbar that they had to completely scrap it and start from zero??

Slow clap for windows 11 taskbar! Now…. When will they bring back the ability to park your taskbar vertically on the left hand side? Another 2 years?

Post by kevviiinn » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

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And how ubiquitous is MacOS compared to Windows? It isn't even close

Over the past decade, the U.S. MacOS market share has doubled from 15% to 30%, whereas Windows has dropped from 80% to 60% (according to statcounter)