Windows 11 Design Mistakes
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Windows 11 Design Mistakes
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#2I'm telling you, installing Ubuntu is the way to go for ~70+ yr old parents. Put firefox and chrome on there, throw some bookmarks in the bookmark toolbar (local weather, some news, facebook, amazon, whatever else they like), connect thunderbird to their ISP email address that they've had for 25 years, install zoom, and life is great! I've had roughly zero problems in the past ~5 years with non-techy parents going this route.
If there is a problem or question (usually just operating some website) I can hop on via remmina remote desktop and help out easily.
Brother laser printer/sacnner also recommended for good reliability without drying out ink.
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#4There are so many stupid decisions that were made with Windows 11 that it's probably good that most people can't use it without creating tons of ewaste replacing perfectly functional HW.
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#5There are so many stupid decisions that were made with Windows 11 that it's probably good that most people can't use it without creating tons of ewaste replacing perfectly functional HW.
I'm still amused that my CPU is new enough to have 16 physical and 32 virtual codes, but too old for W11
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#6The rant is fine right up until the conclusion to install a much less user friendlier OS, especially for seniors who are not used to it
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#7Last time I installed Windows 11, I found that I could not skip the 'use a Microsoft account as your local account' that Microsoft really encourages. In anger I spammed the back and forward button ~5 times.
Suddenly, the option to setup Windows 11 with a local account appeared.
Microsoft has lost whatever initial magic helped them make a good OS, it's all corporatism now.
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#8I'm telling you, installing Ubuntu is the way to go for ~70+ yr old parents. Put firefox and chrome on there, throw some bookmarks in the bookmark toolbar (local weather, some news, facebook, amazon, whatever else they like), connect thunderbird to their ISP email address that they've had for 25 years, install zoom, and life is great! I've had roughly zero problems in the past ~5 years with non-techy parents going th…
Seconded (sort of). I setup my 85 year old mom with a desktop and Pop OS, and my support headaches disappeared.
I didn't get remote desktop working, but I have it running tailscale, so I can at least ssh in whenever there's a non-network problem.
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#9I bought an expensive PC just to play my stupid my 3D Steam games. Windows 11 is barely even fit for that now. Even installing it wants my email. Why?? Can’t get a vertical task bar like I used to (have they even seen monitor screen dimensions since 2000?)
Then that dude from Microsoft comes out on HN and says they don’t even care to improve it/can’t improve it because of project manager career aspirations. Makes total sense. I guess they’re gonna profit from Teams or some shit instead of windows.
I suspect it’s just a matter of time before they just rebase on top of Linux. Never thought it’d see that.
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#10I bought an expensive PC just to play my stupid my 3D Steam games. Windows 11 is barely even fit for that now. Even installing it wants my email. Why?? Can’t get a vertical task bar like I used to (have they even seen monitor screen dimensions since 2000?) Then that dude from Microsoft comes out on HN and says they don’t even care to improve it/can’t improve it because of project manager career aspirations. Makes tot…
> Then that dude from Microsoft comes out on HN and says they don’t even care to improve it/can’t improve it because of project manager career aspirations.
Can you share a link? Very curious to read.