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Windows 11 in Svelte

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Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by oaiey »

There is something with this idea: recreate a desktop environment in the browser. I have done it in the late 90s (obviously in PHP), and until today they show up regularly. Once MacOS, once windows, in svelte, in react, whatever. I thought it/I was brilliant then but nowadays I cannot even grasp the idea on why I did that.

Never seen any in production for anything, and the only remnants like movable panels of properties always feel misplaced on web pages/apps.

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by eviks »

movedx wrote: post #32
altano wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still can't believe how buggy the start menu has been since Windows 8, released TEN YEARS ago.

The START MENU? TEN YEARS? My friend, how about simple file management? They've been at that for DECADES and still can't get it right? "Oh, you dragged something over the top of a network drive in Explorer, let me waste the next 3-5 minutes trying to connect to that drive for you". Or how about this: "Oh you plugged in a USB drive that was setup as a live CD? Let me crash for a second and mash your MBR to bits". How…

What would the forces be that magically turn garbage into a diamond?

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by racedude »

smashed wrote: post #58
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #49

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That kind of attitude leads to user blaming. I have fond memories of the workgroup network scan freezing my computer for extended durations in the xp days

Or just download a large file, choose save as on a drive other than the C drive because it is too big, and watch IE proceed to fill up the temp dir on the C drive, completely ignoring the fact you asked to save on another drive. Or if you had enough space, still waste minutes copying the deleting the file...

IE? We're in 2023 dude, don't think that is even usable anymore.

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by hammyhavoc »

hu3 wrote: post #44
splittydev wrote: post #2

Looks great, but not very realistic. The real Win11 start menu doesn't open immediately, it glitches in various ways for 3-4 times before actually working. Realism 7/10

I use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix start menu and taskbar. Can't imagine using Windows without it.

Fuck me, this sounds good. What's the downside?

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by tuanm »

splittydev wrote: post #2

Looks great, but not very realistic. The real Win11 start menu doesn't open immediately, it glitches in various ways for 3-4 times before actually working. Realism 7/10

Sometimes, a little bit slower is better. =))

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by hammyhavoc »

racedude wrote: post #64
smashed wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just download a large file, choose save as on a drive other than the C drive because it is too big, and watch IE proceed to fill up the temp dir on the C drive, completely ignoring the fact you asked to save on another drive. Or if you had enough space, still waste minutes copying the deleting the file...

IE? We're in 2023 dude, don't think that is even usable anymore.

A memory of XP was invoked, hence the comment about other XP anecdata.

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by hu3 »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #65
hu3 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix start menu and taskbar. Can't imagine using Windows without it.

Fuck me, this sounds good. What's the downside?

For me, once a day it crashes Explorer.exe which promptly restarts by itself and life carries on without harm. Takes one or two seconds to rebuild the taskbar when it happens and it's fun to watch.

No data is lost. No program closes. It just restarts the taskbar process.

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